Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/30/2008 7:56:35 AM PST by SmithL
Here's another reason why people don't trust newspapers. When science reporters write about, say, hormone therapy or drinking red wine, they report on studies that find that hormones or red wine can be good for you, as well as studies that suggest otherwise. Any science involving complex organisms is rarely black and white.
When it comes to global warming, newspapers play up stories that reinforce the prevalent the-sky-is-falling belief that global warming is human-caused and catastrophic. But if a study or scientist does not portend the end of the world as we know it, it rarely rates as news.
In that spirit, many papers (including The Chronicle) have reported on a UC San Diego science historian who reviewed 928 abstracts of peer-reviewed articles on global warming published between 1993 and 2003, and concluded, "Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position."
Over 10 years, not one study challenged the orthodoxy - does that sound right to you? If that were true, it would strongly suggest that, despite conflicting evidence in this wide and changing world, no scientist dares challenge the politically correct position on the issue.
No wonder David Bellamy - an Australian botanist who was involved in some 400 TV productions, only to see his TV career go south after he questioned global warming orthodoxy - wrote in the Australian last week, "It's not even science any more; it's anti-science." Bellamy notes that official data show that "in every year since 1998, world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002, Arctic ice actually increased." Exhibit B: MIT Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Richard S. Lindzen recently wrote, "There has been no warming since 1997 and no statistically significant warming since 1995."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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They have found something better in the current so-called “financial crisis”.
Good article. Really odd that the SF Chronicle even printed it, as it appears to actually contain some facts about “global warming.”
A major “big lie” being foist on the public is the claim that global warming is “settled science.” We may have reached the point where the data cooking of the algoreamuses exceeds that of the anti-gun movement.
Alas, it is hard to see Goddard as objective when its director, James Hansen, testified in a London court in September in support of six eco-vandals. A jury then acquitted the six Greenpeace activists on charges of vandalizing a British coal-fired power plant based on the "lawful excuse" defense that their use of force would prevent greater damage to the environment after Hansen predicted the one Kingsnorth plant could push 400 species into extinction.
Buried deep...
Yeah, but I think Debra Saunders is their token sane person. ;-)
We have been taking ‘accurage’ weather and temperature readings for something along the lines of 150 years. The earth, by many ‘scientific’ guesses is approximately 4.5 Billion years.
So, if we take a sample size of 150 years and divide by 4.5 Billion years; we have a sample size of about 0.000003%
So, if I told you I had monitored ANY process, with a sample size of 0.000003% and from this not only could I tell you why something happened in the past; but what would happen in the future - would you take me seriously?
THANK YOU!!
I watch these prehistoric shows on Science, Discovery and National Geographic and think “Why hasn’t anyone on the left noticed all the discussion of climate changes and how it effected the world millions of years ago? Who told these people that once we hit ‘civilization’ that the Earth would remain exactly the same?
Confusing to me. 150 years in billions. And no one sees any illogic to that.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Add to that the improvement in the accuracy of the measuring devices over those years and any change in the placement of those devices in relation to buildings, concrete and asphalt and you start to get some pretty shaking support for a change in the temperature of the earth of less than 1 degree either direction.
Studies of environmental conditions, climate, and their interactions have produced important new information relevant to Norse extinction in Greenland. Most revealing is the detailed evidence of climatic changes that occurred in the northwestern Atlantic beginning in the early 1300s. Changes in atmospheric temperature are recorded in such diverse materials as glacier ice derived from snow falling on the Greenland Ice Cap, fossil vegetation and pollen deposited annually in lake sediments, chemical signatures in isotopic composition of sea sediments, animal and human bones, and even the species of insect pests that accompanied Vikings and their animals as they settled new lands. These indicators clearly suggest that the climate was cooling in the 14th century, and that the Greenlandic environment had been depleted of its "natural capital"--its previously untapped grasslands and animal resources-over 500 years of farming practices in this delicate arctic climate.
Whoa!
The “emergency of global warming” combined with the “emergency of the economy” will be tools used to destroy the foundations of our country, our constitution, our freedoms, and our way of life.
It will begin with socialized medicine, and proceed with confiscation of our pension funds, “for the greater good”.
Nice little package of an article, good read,thanks.
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