Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/10/2009 2:35:11 PM PDT by neverdem
With Tony Blair launching his own plan to save the world (groans), and the G8 leaders also unveiling their thoughts about global warming, this is a big week for environmental fanaticism.
Whatever he or they offer, it will not be enough to quell the warmists' semi-religious fervour.
They are like medieval preachers, proclaiming to baying crowds that the end of the world is nigh.
Well, is it? There are two separate climate issues - the extent of global warming and the role that humanity plays in it.
Some facts help. The famous 1996 report by the International Panel on Climate Change predicted serious global warming and blamed mankind.
But, since then, the world has disobligingly stopped warming. And two years of global cooling erased nearly 30 years of recorded temperature rises.
What was the worrying rise in temperature - so exciting for those whose computer models used the past to predict a grim future?
Given the margin of error associated with the old-style thermometers which were, until only recently, used to record temperatures, it should be stated thus: over the past 100 years, temperature has risen by 0.7C - plus or minus 1.3 degrees!
The only importance the serious scientists can attach to such a figure is that less serious people think it meaningful.
My own science teacher would have kept me in after school for saying this was a valuable figure...
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All I can figure, at least at this point, is that it is all about collecting new taxes that provides governments with a new revenue stream that they desperately want. They care little about actual environmentalism or the economic consequences. In short, follow the money...
Nancy Pelosi said she has a planet to save, but never said which planet.
it should be stated thus: over the past 100 years, temperature has risen by 0.7C
Pelosi is such a drama queen - .7C is it - in a hundred years - less than one degree (for dems who can't do math)
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