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John Stossel Exposes Global Warming Myths
NewsMax ^ | 10/17/07

Posted on 10/18/2007 6:57:32 AM PDT by ZGuy

"20/20” co-anchor John Stossel is going on the attack against “experts” who warn about manmade global warming – along the way berating Al Gore for saying the debate over climate change is over.

In a release from ABC previewing Stossel’s report on Friday’s “20/20,” the veteran newsman and Newsmax pundit – who won 19 Emmys exposing scammers and con artists – says:

“This week on ‘20/20’ (in our new 8 p.m. Eastern time slot) I say ‘Give Me a Break!’ to our Nobel Prize-winning Vice President.

“Mr. Gore says ‘The debate is over,’ and those who disagree with his take on global warming have been ‘purchased’ in order to create ‘the illusion of a debate.’ Nonsense. It's as if the Vice President and his allies in the environmental movement plan to win the debate through intimidation. I interview some scientists who won't be intimidated, even though one has had his life threatened for speaking up.

“The Vice President's much-applauded movie, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ claims warming is man’s fault and a coming crisis! While the earth has certainly warmed over the last century, plenty of independent scientists say scientists cannot be sure that man caused the warming or that warming will be a crisis.

“They say the computer models that are used to predict the disasters don’t include important variables because scientists don’t fully understand them. For example, warming may cause cloud formations that reflect sun and cool the earth. The computer models cannot know. These scientists call global warming activism more of a religious movement than science.”

Gore's film is filled with “misleading messages,” says Stossel.

“It suggests polar bears are disappearing and that ‘sea levels worldwide would go up 20 feet.’ I interview children who are scared. They believe the polar bears are already going extinct and that the oceans will soon rise even higher than 20 feet, drowning them and their parents.

“But polar bear populations appear to be steady or increasing, and a 20-foot rise is a theoretical possibility that wouldn't happen for millennia. The IPCC, the group that shared last week’s Nobel Prize with the Vice President, says in 100 years the oceans might rise 7 to 24 inches, not 20 feet. Now a British judge has ruled that British schools must disclose to students nine inaccuracies in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ if they play the movie in class.”

Stossel said it’s “nonsense” for Gore to suggest that we can stop global warming by doing things like changing light bulbs and driving less.

“The only practical thing we can do today that would make a difference in CO2 output is to launch a major shift toward nuclear energy. But the environmental movement rarely utters the word nuclear.

“I suspect that next year's government boondoggle will be massive spending on carbon-reducing technology.

“It reminds me of George Mason University Economics Department Chairman Don Boudreax's suggestion that such schemes really mean ‘government seizing enormous amounts of additional power in order to embark upon schemes of social engineering - schemes whose pursuit gratifies the abstract fantasies of the theory class and, simultaneously, lines the very real pockets of politically powerful corporations, organizations, and “experts."’

“He is so right. The abstract fantasies of the theory class will soon send huge chunks of your money to politicians, friends, activist scientists, and politically savvy corporations.

“The debate is over? That makes me say GIVE ME A BREAK!”


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; doomage; globalcooling; globalwarming; junkscience; killmenow; ohno; runforyourlife; stossel; wearedoomed; woeisme
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To: ZGuy

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41 posted on 10/18/2007 11:46:23 AM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: George - the Other
I have a friend who live’s along the Ocean in south Florida who is absolutely terrified that her home and town are going to be flooded by the “twenty foot” rise in seas level Gore predicts.

A major hurricane will very likely hit first, and though that localized rise in sea level won't last very long, it will be significant.

42 posted on 10/18/2007 11:47:30 AM PDT by cogitator
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To: Grampa Dave
Update on the nine alleged errors in An Inconvenient Truth

"In fact the judgement systematically refers to "errors" (using inverted commas, which the media have generally ignored), and has some wise words to say on the distinction between presenting and promoting partisan views, and the balanced presentation of controversial issues (which he decides does not require equal "air-time" for views which are held only by small minorities). However, in his analysis of the "errors"the judge has also expressed unwarranted confidence on several issues which are still the subject of considerable uncertainty among the scientific community. It would be fair to say that Al Gore presents the more extreme (concerned) end of the range of scientific opinion on several issues, and implies stronger evidence than is fair on several others. However, overall the film still achieves an exceptionally high standard of scientific accuracy, and it is regrettable that the judge has triggered a media storm by the injudicious use of the term "errors". "

43 posted on 10/18/2007 11:50:00 AM PDT by cogitator
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To: ZGuy

We need more “deniers” to stand up and expose this hoax for what it is.


44 posted on 10/18/2007 11:50:20 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ("life is dangerous")
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To: BlazingArizona

45 posted on 10/18/2007 11:55:51 AM PDT by RightWhale (50 years later we're still sitting on the ground)
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To: ZGuy

Stossel tells the truth, and the leftists hate him for it. I’m suprised ABC hasn’t canned him for not spouting the RAT party line. TV reporters who step out of lockstep are reviled by their former comrades; look at Bernie Goldberg.


46 posted on 10/18/2007 11:59:36 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: RightWhale

Thank God. I’m hoping that Fat Albert winning the NPP is the equivalent of pulling the thread that unravels the NPP foolishness and the global warming hysteria. (with apologies in advance for the mixed metaphors)


47 posted on 10/18/2007 12:02:43 PM PDT by starlifter
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To: cogitator
You're wrong. Erik the Red named it Greenland as a propaganda ploy to get other Vikings to follow him there. It was just about as snowy and icy then as it is now. Look it up.

So I looked it up, and not in a Wikipedeia reference "edited" by liberals. Enjoy!

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/greenland/

The failure of the Viking colony had to do with Church politics and poor agricultural management, but especially the Little Ice Age. Scandinavians were already old hands at dealing with cold weather, but in those days they couldn't respond to a worldwide cooling of the climate by building nuclear reactors. They had to move south.

48 posted on 10/18/2007 12:18:58 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: SlowBoat407
we could have the same kind of technological advancement that SDI brought us in the 80s, and we could move into an era of more stable energy sources.

Not as long as liberals remain able to block the path.

49 posted on 10/18/2007 12:40:37 PM PDT by capt. norm (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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To: ZGuy

Don thy Asbestos Underwear Stossel.


50 posted on 10/18/2007 1:30:00 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrat Happens!)
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To: BlazingArizona
Your information, while correct, does not refute the origin of the name.

Shouldn't Greenland be known as Iceland and vice versa?

On the trail of Erik the Red

And directly from the source material: Erik the Red's Saga: Chapter 2

"In the summer Eirik went to live in the land which he had discovered, and which he called Greenland, "Because," said he, "men will desire much the more to go there if the land has a good name."

Buyer beware.

51 posted on 10/18/2007 2:10:12 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: ZGuy

George Mason University has a series of fantastic podcasts for the layman. They are here:

http://www.econtalk.org


52 posted on 10/18/2007 2:59:41 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: sourcery
I’m getting the “infamous red X” for the link of your second graphic - which throws a considerable amount of confusion into the mix since the graph that is visible uses red for increasing ice/decreasing cold; and blue for rising temperature/decreasing ice.

The label for the invisible graph reverses both colors: red = bad, blue = good.

So the result of the missing graph + reversed color schemes implies Antarctica is getting much, much worse!

53 posted on 10/18/2007 6:12:37 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: George - the Other
Tell her this:

“The UN’s IPCC - assuming you think they are accurate, but they ARE absolutely biased in “favor” of AGW theories and economic/socialist domination - predicts a 20 INCH rise in ocean levels over a period of 200-300 years.

Assuming the land itself doesn’t continue rising, as much of the northeast and Canada are actually doing as a rebound from the last Ice Age.”

54 posted on 10/18/2007 6:17:24 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Tulane
Ok, I admit it. I have a man-crush on Stossel.

Get in line, buddy!

55 posted on 10/18/2007 6:19:24 PM PDT by TankerKC (32570 21R)
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To: xcamel

Thanks for the ping!


56 posted on 10/18/2007 6:21:29 PM PDT by alwaysconservative (The Nobel Peace Prize used to mean something; now it has become a joke.)
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To: SlowBoat407
"getting free of dependence on oil, since most of it is in the hands of nutjobs."

So then we go to biofuels which will mostly be from palm plantations in Indonesia.

The islamofacists in Iraq and Afghanistan are models of sanity compared to the nutjobs in Indonesia!

57 posted on 10/18/2007 6:23:53 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Happy Rain

BTTT


58 posted on 10/18/2007 6:29:52 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: Happy Rain

http://staff.ulsu.ru/bazhanov/russian/shad_sci2.pdf


59 posted on 10/18/2007 6:45:50 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

OOf. Thanks for noticing that. Apparently, the original images are no longer available.

Hmmmm.... I wonder why that might be....


60 posted on 10/18/2007 7:44:15 PM PDT by sourcery (Referring a "social conservative" to the Ninth Amendment is like showing the Cross to Dracula.)
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