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Peter Foster: The crumbling case for global warming
Nationalpost.com ^ | Mar. 10, 2009 | Peter Foster

Posted on 03/11/2009 6:25:02 AM PDT by PROCON

One young radical turned up at the Heartland Institute’s climate change skeptics’ conference in New York this week to declare that he had never witnessed so much hypocrisy. How, he asked the panelists of a session on European policy, could they sleep at night? Clearly puzzled, one of the panelists asked him with which parts of their presentations he disagreed. “Oh,” he said “I didn’t come here to listen to the presentations.”

The conference — titled “Global Warming: Was it ever really a crisis?” — attracted close to 700 participants. Most of those I met displayed almost joy at being among people who dared to stand up to the mindless climate “consensus” and the refusal to debate, or even look at, the facts, as typified by that righteous young radical.

President Obama is considering a cap-and-trade system with which Canada would be forced to co-ordinate its own policies. The conference made clear how damaging and pointless such a policy would be.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming

1 posted on 03/11/2009 6:25:02 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: xcamel; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping!


2 posted on 03/11/2009 6:25:34 AM PDT by PROCON (Ronald Regan governed with optimism, Barack Obama governs with fear!)
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To: PROCON

I like to ask the “warmers” how do we know when we’ve won the war on warming and what if we over-correct?

I never get an answer.


3 posted on 03/11/2009 6:28:48 AM PDT by tractorman
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To: PROCON

bump


4 posted on 03/11/2009 6:29:09 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: PROCON; CygnusXI; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; ...
Thanx !

 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

5 posted on 03/11/2009 6:29:39 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Yo, Washingtonians, the American people called. They DEMAND their country back.)
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To: PROCON

Note: In 2001 the method for calculating wind chill warmed temps by 10 degrees.

6 posted on 03/11/2009 6:30:30 AM PDT by maggief
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To: tractorman
I'm going to shamelessly steal your question for the warmers I have to deal with.

I used to just ask them where the glaciers went, and how did they get here in the first place?, and why do they call Greenland "Greenland"?

7 posted on 03/11/2009 6:38:26 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Good questions all. I try to get them to tell me “what is the normal temperature for the earth?”.
8 posted on 03/11/2009 6:43:32 AM PDT by Ditter
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9 posted on 03/11/2009 6:45:49 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Ditter
Here's what I say to them:

So, I'll set up my Climate Change Adjustment Machine, and if you'll be so kind as to let me know when we need a tweak one way or the other, I'll just flip the switch to heat or cool, depending on where we're at. It'll have a combination dirty coal furnace / internal combustion diesel engine for global warming, and a quarter-acre greenhouse with a removable top which will release oxygen into the atmosphere when cooling is needed. Since you know when each is needed, just let me know and I'll do my part.

10 posted on 03/11/2009 6:46:33 AM PDT by brewcrew
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To: PROCON

Calling algore! I live 12 miles from Helena, Mt. in the plains and the temperature is now -12F. Thank goodness there is no wind.


11 posted on 03/11/2009 7:14:22 AM PDT by jesseam (Been there and done that!)
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To: PROCON
Clearly puzzled, one of the panelists asked him with which parts of their presentations he disagreed. “Oh,” he said “I didn’t come here to listen to the presentations.”

You just met a genuine moron. The young man is clearly a Neo Marxist Democrat because he has a disordered mind. It is a little shocking to see how many college age children are brainwashed and unable to think for themselves.

This situation poses an overwhelming challenge to abstract thinking because many of these activists have no science background and no ability to understand scientific arguments.

12 posted on 03/11/2009 7:26:23 AM PDT by olezip
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To: PROCON

“that he had never witnessed so much hypocrisy.”

The head “warmer”, the Prince of Wales, is on his private jet globe trotting and he says a panel discussing the issue is hypocrisy.

You can’t stop being stuck on stupid.


13 posted on 03/11/2009 7:49:18 AM PDT by edcoil (Slave owners could justify themselves too. Think about it Arnold.)
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To: PROCON

Crap and trade == junk science


14 posted on 03/11/2009 7:55:18 AM PDT by dennisw (0bomo the subprime president)
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To: PROCON

Dr. David Evans

Read this and send it out before spending a trillion on C&T....
Article here:
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8383&page=0

AGW: Anthropogenic Global Warming

“....There are two central lies in the political promotion of AGW.

The first appears in Gore’s movie. He gave the old ice core data as the sole reason for believing AGW (the rest of the movie presents evidence that global warming occurred, a separate issue). He said that increases in carbon caused increases in temperature in the past warming events. But Gore made his movie in 2005, two years after the new ice core data had established the opposite! Gore’s weasel words when he introduced that segment show he knew what he was about to say was false. Who would have believed his pitch if he added “and each temperature rise occurred 800 years before the corresponding rise in carbon that caused it”? [8]

The second lie is the hockey stick graph, which presented the last thousand years of global temperature as the flat handle of a hockey stick and the next hundred as the sharply rising blade [9]. The hockey stick graph was heavily promoted by the IPCC in 2001, and the IPCC even adopted it as its logo before it got discredited. It is significant because most non-scientist AGW supporters seem to believe some version of the hockey stick. When the IPCC “scientists” who produced the graph were asked to show their data for past temperatures, they refused (true scientists share data). But one of those scientists was a British academic and subject to the British Freedom of Information Act, and after two years of stonewalling all was revealed. It showed they had grossly skewed the data (even omitting inconvenient data to a folder labeled “Censored”), and that the computer program used to process the data had the hockey stick shape built into it - you could feed it stock market data instead of tree ring data and you would still get a hockey stick! In reality it was warmer in the Middle Ages than today, and there was a mini ice age around 1700 from which we have since been warming ever since. [10] Finally, the sharply rising blade of the hockey stick is contradicted so far by actual temperatures, which from 2001 to 2008 have been flat - something all of the climate models got wrong.”


15 posted on 03/11/2009 9:25:53 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Socialism doesn't work because eventually you will run out of other people's money...)
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To: xcamel

Good read; thanks for the all the pings!


16 posted on 03/12/2009 11:49:33 AM PDT by alwaysconservative (I would apologize for this presidency, except that I'm not responsible for its stupidity.)
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