Posted for FlAttorney by TAB
What a great gift Idea! I hope this does well.
Unfortunately, this book will never see the inside of a public school library.
Anyone else have this?
I am tempted to get it.
Politics is a disease that has infected all levels of education from grade school on. It is a sickening state of affairs but George Orwell gave the warning but very few heeded it.
I would expect to see global warming zealots publicly burning this “heretical” book, except that the fire might add to global warming.
It doesn't take much education (or even smarts) to realize that the naked politicizing of science has already occured.
It doesn't take much curiosity or digging to realize that the politicizing took place fairly recently. Our earth has been a violent place since its creation. I remember a (60s?) documentary titled Our Violent Earth.
The Madrid Quake, Tambora, Santorini and Vesuvius come to mind.
Hundreds and thousands of years before "global warming" became a gleam in an ignorant huckster's mind...
Unfortunately, that is the "business as usual" model of indoctrination. The political part of IPCC is the driving force behind the scare-mongering for reasons that are entirely non-scientific. Many other similar examples abound...
Nonetheless, some of the most ardent global alarmists are starting to change their tune. In 2005, Chris Mooney wrote "The Republican War on Science," a thorough indictment of the GOP's attempt to discredit scientific work on climate change. When he started research for his latest book, "Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming," he assumed it would be more of the same. Then, after meeting with leading climatologists, he concluded, "There's a wide range of respectable positions here. In the end, I had to write a completely different book."
My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in. The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models. -Freeman Tyson, Many Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe
All this is part of the guerrilla warfare that is going on between proponents and skeptics of global warming. Dennis Deming, a climate scientist at the University of Oklahoma, recently told the Senate about his experience in the field:
“In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me.”
With the publication of the article in Science, I gained significant credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change. They thought I was one of them.... One of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."-- Nir J Shaviv
The truth is out there
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