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W.H. Science Czar: 'Global Warming' Is 'Dangerous Misnomer' (Prefers 'Global Climate Disruption')
American Thinker ^
| 09/17/2010
| James Lewis
Posted on 09/17/2010 7:18:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
John Holdren, our official fraudulent "Science Czar" for our equally mendacious president, has dumped "global warming" as a "dangerous misnomer." Ah, yes, that would be it, then. It's not the facts, but the words that are wrong, says America's official Doctor Science.
In scientific terms, this means John Holdren has run up the white flag and is begging for mercy. "Warming" is something we can measure scientifically. "Global warming" is a lot more speculative, but with satellites, weather balloons, and plenty of ocean buoys, we now know that it's just wrong. Global warming has been shot down in flames by scientific skeptics who resorted to an unfair tactic called "facts and observations."
The wild hypothesis of "catastrophic anthropogenic global warming a hundred years from now," is so obviously harebrained sci-fi that no sane person can believe in it.
Dr. Holdren's newest brainstorm? Forget all that warming stuff. No, we are now supposed to believe in something called "global climate disruption."
That way, some wildly overpaid, "internationally respected" climate modeler can predict that in a hundred years, things will get two degrees warmer, colder, or neither one nor the other and still predict the end of the earth. That'll be a couple of hundred million dollars for more life-saving "research," if you please.
The media are banging on "scientific" doors for another cataclysmic headline, right now, to feed their hunger for the Scare of the Day. Their whole business model depends on it. The New York Times is talking about giving up its paper edition entirely. ABC has fired its "News" chief. They desperately need another scary hobgoblin to goose the ignorant masses, or they might go belly-up tomorrow. Let's hope they do go down tomorrow, because it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. That's why free markets have losers, and boy, are these people ever losers.
I suppose that's why Dr. Holdren thinks that old and toxic phrase "global warming" is now "dangerous." But dangerous for whom? Not dangerous for the real world, that's for sure. Not dangerous for developing countries that build another coal-fired power plant every day to feed their billions of hungry people. They can see people dying on the streets in Calcutta, but they can't see two degrees warmer in a hundred years being such a big deal. Maybe Dr. Holdren thinks that "global warming" is now "dangerous" for the corrupt politicized faux scientists who have built their careers on ecological hobgoblins? That sounds more like it.
Climate modeling is now becoming perfectly theological in spinning new and fancier epicycles to save bad old scare campaign. How many angels can dance on the head of tomorrow's eco-fraud? How many weird goblins can populate Dr. Holdren's feverish imagination? It changes from day to day.
This is how dying political establishments behave. In real science, you don't have play those save-your-butt games, because you make really sure to keep out crazy and unsupported hypotheses from the very beginning. Really bad ideas never hit quality journal headlines, because you have honest reviewers who stop the corruption before it even starts.
This isn't science. It's "JournoLismo." It's supermarket checkout tabloid Martians meeting Russian cosmonauts fantasy-mongering. It is beneath contempt for anybody who cares about real science.
After the biggest fraud in the history of science, it will take years for scientists to recover their good names -- and that's assuming they cut out the cancer fast, before it spreads. Remember that the clergy once had the credibility we give to scientists today. Credibility can be lost, and credibility should be lost when it is abused. Global warming has been the worst money-grubbing scandal in the history of science. Let's make them keep that phrase "global warming" to remind them of their billion-dollar fraud. Don't let them deep-six it into the memory hole of Stalinist history.
In science, you are supposed to put your wild brainstorms at risk of empirical falsification. Global warming has been falsified very nicely after a decade of satellite observations that support a small cooling trend. For True Believers and their legions of addicted suckers, that's only a temporary deviation from those marvelous computer models they keep fiddling with. But scientists are not supposed to be True Believers in somebody's money-making brainstorm. Leave that to the swampland real estate salesmen.
John Holdren is the guy whose stellar career started with global cooling in the '70s and who has managed to surf the wild waves of ecological hysteria for decades, making a damned good living at it.
Should we believe him now?
In your dreams, John.
Science is nothing without truth-telling and honesty, and you're no scientist.
You're a fraud, and so are your buds in the White House.
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KEYWORDS: climatedisruption; globalwarming; scienceczar
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To: SeekAndFind
*That way, some wildly overpaid, “internationally respected” climate modeler can predict that in a hundred years, things will get two degrees warmer, colder, or neither one nor the other and still predict the end of the earth. That’ll be a couple of hundred million dollars for more life-saving “research,” if you please.*
I bet they can’t predict the weather for next week!
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:20:35 AM PDT
by
PATRIOT1876
(Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
To: SeekAndFind
...but as Dennis Prager has pointed out, the only “climate disruption” the Left is interested in is “global warming”.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:21:09 AM PDT
by
glennaro
To: SeekAndFind
When anybody representing the Obama Administration speaks I have to turn off my BS detector before it overloads.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:23:44 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: SeekAndFind
These clowns just don’t know when to quit. They actually believe that it is possible to fool all of the people, all of the time...
Their Global Climate Disruption scam gives me Gastro-Intestinal Disruption...
It’s time to take back the country. Pitching out the commies is a good place to start.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:23:54 AM PDT
by
PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
To: SeekAndFind
Based on what scientific evidence?
He should expand on the definition.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:28:38 AM PDT
by
AliVeritas
(Deus Vult)
To: PubliusMM
*These clowns just dont know when to quit. They actually believe that it is possible to fool all of the people, all of the time...
Their Global Climate Disruption scam gives me Gastro-Intestinal Disruption...
Its time to take back the country. Pitching out the commies is a good place to start.*
Before the election, I plan to look up everyone who voted for the cap n trade hoax and make sure that I don't vote for them.
It is a sure sign that politician is a liar, or easily influenced by liars and scammers.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:28:51 AM PDT
by
PATRIOT1876
(Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
To: SeekAndFind
How about a “Global Obama Disruption”......
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:32:03 AM PDT
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: SeekAndFind
Calling Holdren a Czar is a misnomer. He’s a libtard.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:32:03 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: SeekAndFind
How bout we call it “stuff that happens because of the big yellow thing in the sky”
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:33:08 AM PDT
by
conservonator
(How many times? 70 x 7!)
To: conservonator
Or they could be honest and call it a fear based tax levy
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:34:23 AM PDT
by
conservonator
(How many times? 70 x 7!)
To: SeekAndFind
and, quoting from the “Ask Dr. Science” mug that I’m drinking my morning brew from:
“I know more than you do!”
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:37:27 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: SeekAndFind
Same LIE... new improved name.
LLS
To: SeekAndFind
I’m so glad we no linger have Bush misusing science for political purposes.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:37:45 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: SeekAndFind
The man lacks imagination. The new buzz phrase is Global Temperature Uniformity Disequilibrium Response.
It's vague, it's meaningless, therefore it's perfect.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:38:59 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: SeekAndFind
Americans object to the idea, not the label.
What’s next after Climate Disruption becomes a term of derision? Climate Discombobulation?
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:39:25 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: SeekAndFind
And the hoax goes on, and the hoax goes on
Drum beats keep a rhythm to the brain and the beat goes on and the hoax goes on.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:39:31 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Man can do the most amazing things if they have the most amazing things to do.)
To: SeekAndFind
Hey, if they can’t bull$hit the public with the ‘Global Warming’ name, change it to something else and watch the sheep get their panties in a bunch...
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:40:39 AM PDT
by
Fedupwithit
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" -Albert Camus)
To: SeekAndFind
Good article. I intended to respond to the original report of Holder’s remarks but never got around to it.
The important thing to remember is that unless “global warming” is in fact the issue, there is no reason whatever for concern over CO2 emissions.
Truthfully there is no reason for concern even if there’s mild warming, the benefits far outweigh the consequences. Further, we’ve basically been in a warming trend since the last Ice Age, and that will only level off on a long-term basis as we start sliding into the next Ice Age. None of which has anything to do with human activities. Only fools would believe the climate (or the ecosystem for that matter) remains in a constant state for long, or that humans can somehow make that happen.
Finally, there are some actual, real, and very interesting scientific phenomena occurring with the Sun. All signs point to thirty or more years of solar-induced cooling. The Sun looks to be in a grand minimum at least as strong as the Dalton Minimum. That’s certainly been shouted from the rooftops, hasn’t it...? LOL
No wonder the warmists are panicking...
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:41:02 AM PDT
by
PreciousLiberty
(In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.)
To: count-your-change
Join Americans against GaTUDR today.
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posted on
09/17/2010 7:41:24 AM PDT
by
DManA
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