It's summertime fool!
I'm too busy for your nonsense ...
Posted on 07/09/2010 7:29:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
It's odd how little we've heard lately from the skeptics who deny that climate change is real. What's the matter, people? Heat stroke?
The Venus-like heat that much of the country has been suffering this summer is almost enough to make anybody a believer in global warming. Almost, but not quite: Honesty compels me to acknowledge that a few weeks of record-setting temperatures do not constitute proof of anything. Climate scientists have to analyze data covering decades and centuries to discern what's really going on.
Of course, the unusually heavy snowstorms that buried Washington and other East Coast cities last winter didn't prove anything, either. But that didn't deter the climate skeptics from gloating. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and his family went so far as to build an igloo on Capitol Hill and label it "Al Gore's New Home." Care to apologize to the Nobel laureate, Senator?
No, that would be too much to hope for. A more realistic wish is that the punishing heat wave will convince those tempted to buy the skeptics' know-nothing line — "Global warming is a crock! The tree-hugging socialists are making it up! It's a conspiracy!" — to consider the scientific evidence with an open mind.
We now know that the e-mail correspondence filched from climate researchers' computers last year, which skeptics portrayed as some kind of smoking gun, in fact doesn't amount to a water pistol.
The messages reveal that scientists can be petty, envious and vindictive — but do not suggest any fudging of data, according to a report issued Wednesday by a blue-ribbon panel in Britain, where the e-mails were hacked. Two previous investigations similarly have exonerated the climate scientists of fraud and validated their methods.
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The bottom line is that neither heat waves or cold spells define climate.
However, those gloating about high temperatures had better take a long, hard look at how those “average” temperatures are collected and calculated.
The fact is that any anomalies so far are well within the margin of error, and the collection methodology right now leaves a lot to be desired. I give more credence to satellite methods, but those need to be closely examined as well before trillions of dollars are committed in the name of Gaea.
It's summertime fool!
I'm too busy for your nonsense ...
Delusional rantings of a True Believer.
Well, for starters we are not experiencing an historic heat wave on the west coast. Been a fairly cool summer so far. San Diego just set a record low. There is a good reason for this. The PDO has shifted to cold for the entire Eastern Pacific. Now use your open mind and look it up. Fortunately, the entire planet does not revolve around the Ivy League Schools.
Ahem.
Pretty hot ‘round these parts. Time for another shower.
It's odd how little we've heard lately from the skeptics who deny that climate change is real. What's the matter, people?
Mr. Robinson, I don't think there is any such thing as "skeptics" who deny climate change. Nobody but nobody denies climate change. Virtually all of us made it through the seventh grade. And in fact you are the bigot who needs to project such ignorance on others more reasoned than yourself.
There are many, including myself, who question that the Earth's climate variability has much or anything to do with human activity. A completely different thing that apparently is over your head.
IBD = fair & balanced.
Weather does not equal climate.
Robinson does not equal climatologist.
IPCC reports do not equal science.
We have global warming here in the Northern Hemisphere. It happens every year between 21 June to 21 September. Some people call it “Summer”.
Robinson lost his marbles over Rush this week...racist, la, la, la...failing paper, failing idelology.
Yeah, they lied.
But the lies make sense, so they should be considered.
It’s the intelligent thing to do. :)
I wish we’d get a nice heat wave in SoCal, clear out this July gloom.
The MSM all gloss over the leaked code - code that you could feed in phone book data and it would still generate a pretty hockey stick graph - that’s the lie. Night! ;-)
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