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Bundle Up, It’s Global Warming
NY Times ^ | 12/25/10 | Judah Cohen

Posted on 12/26/2010 2:45:01 PM PST by FormerACLUmember

THE earth continues to get warmer, yet it’s feeling a lot colder outside. Over the past few weeks, subzero temperatures in Poland claimed 66 lives; snow arrived in Seattle well before the winter solstice, and fell heavily enough in Minneapolis to make the roof of the Metrodome collapse; and last week blizzards closed Europe’s busiest airports in London and Frankfurt for days, stranding holiday travelers. The snow and record cold have invaded the Eastern United States, with more bad weather predicted.

(blah, blah, blah... its all caused by global warming you ignorant fools)

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: duplicate; globalwarming; hoax; manbearpig; warming
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To: FormerACLUmember
From Wikipedia:
[Leon] Festinger stated that five conditions must be present, if someone is to become a more fervent believer after a failure or disconfirmation:

Makes for a useful checklist. The late Dr. Festinger died at about the same time political correctness got rolling. (Source.)

41 posted on 12/26/2010 4:31:56 PM PST by danielmryan
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To: VeniVidiVici

What puts flesh to the lie, is that the climate-left have been screaming about children never seeing snow again - due, of course to the wicked ways of capitalism. We would get rainy warm winters and long summers but when that did not materialize they easily adjusted their science to fit the facts. It is all a crock.

A brilliant man once said that the scientists are yet to be born, the software yet to be written, the computers yet to be designed, the sensing equipment yet to be built and the engineers yet to be trained that will create an interplanetary climate model that can predict Earth’s climate with the accuracy that the climate-left purports to have currently. They are fools with no provable nor possible measure of accuracy - just a constant refitting of their theory to the ever changing facts. The answer is global warming and it will always be global warming to whatever climate you happen to be experiencing.


42 posted on 12/26/2010 4:41:00 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Liberals lie. If they dont’ lie, they create nonsense out of thin air.


43 posted on 12/26/2010 4:51:25 PM PST by max americana
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To: danielmryan
The belief must be sufficiently specific and sufficiently concerned with the real world so that events may unequivocally refute the belief.

The beauty, the genius of Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory is that it irrefutable. It is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level. It predicts all things and all things confirm it.

44 posted on 12/26/2010 4:55:41 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I’m freezing in Los Angeles due to global warming...if anyone believes this nonsense, i have a bridge to sell to you, cheap!


45 posted on 12/26/2010 4:58:59 PM PST by max americana
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To: FormerACLUmember
Physicist Richard Feynman on cargo cult science:

http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm

...So we really ought to look into theories that don't work, and science that isn't science.

I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call cargo cult science. In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas--he's the controller--and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land.


46 posted on 12/26/2010 5:00:48 PM PST by TChad
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To: catnipman
Climate epicycles?!? Sounds like a marketing campaign... wait, I can hear it now...

Dude, my buddy Al twittered me just now with the this current news flash: after a tiring day at a conference, I suggested using some Climactic Epicycle to my outcall masseuse at the hotel, and-- well, just let me assure you that the results were sizzlingly warm, and earth-shatteringly global!!

/sarc

47 posted on 12/26/2010 5:03:50 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The beauty, the genius of Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory is that it irrefutable. It is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level. It predicts all things and all things confirm it.

In other words, some of their prophesies had already failed. I note that they couldn't come up with the same excuse as that UFO cult because 'society' didn't bend enough to their will for it to be credible. Not even Al Gore can claim with a straight face that the demons of Anthropogenic Global Warming have been banished because the guv'ment has done something about it.

48 posted on 12/26/2010 5:14:02 PM PST by danielmryan
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To: FormerACLUmember
THE earth continues to get warmer, yet it’s feeling a lot colder outside.

That's weird.

Not as weird as The New York Times, but weird nonetheless.

49 posted on 12/26/2010 5:15:32 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: FormerACLUmember

It’s 21F outside and snowing.

Al Gore promised us palm trees!!!!!


50 posted on 12/26/2010 5:17:49 PM PST by Aglooka ("I was out numbered 5-to-1, I got 4.")
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To: FormerACLUmember
Judah is exposing a phenomena that I've noticed over the 50 or so years I've been on this earth.

Notably, the faster I drive, the longer it takes me to get to my destination.

The more money I spend, the fatter my bank account gets.

The more food I eat, the skinnier I get.

The more I drink, the soberer I get.

I can't tell you what a relief it is to know that there's someone else out there that I can relate with.

Oops. Gotta go. My one hour of recreation for the week is over. Back to my cell I go. Back into my Snuggie. Which reminds me of something else I've been wondering about. Does every Snuggie come with arms that cross over the chest and fasten in the back? It doesn't look like it from the commercials.

51 posted on 12/26/2010 5:21:53 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: danielmryan

Try this on a global warming enthusiast: What observations would make you lose faith in AGWT? Most likely they won’t even understand the questions. If they do, most likely they will claim strong confirmation will not be available for decades, by which time it will be too late to do anything about it.


52 posted on 12/26/2010 5:27:51 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

53 posted on 12/26/2010 5:55:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: DaveTesla

Am I reading this right? Eight percent of the temperature reading stations are located next to or above an artificial heating source (CRN5). With roughly another 61% of the temperature reading stations are within 10 meters of an artificial heating source (CRN4). With another 22% with an artificial heating source over 10 meters away...maybe 10.5 meters but less then 30 meters (CRN3). This would mean that roughly 69% of the stations are located with a heat source within 10 meters and 91% are located within 30 meters of a heat source....

Global warming...it is all in the placement...

Thanks for the info.


54 posted on 12/26/2010 6:51:44 PM PST by WorldviewDad (following God instead of culture)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Thanks for the advice, but I tangled with one of them before and now I avoid them. "Insufferable" is the word that comes to mind. I do believe you; I just lack the finesse needed to do a good job of it.

As a wise person once said, "You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."

55 posted on 12/26/2010 7:20:29 PM PST by danielmryan
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To: torchthemummy

Let’s search around.

For starters, Judah Cohen is at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.

See here:

http://www.aer.com/aboutUs/leadership.html

From the bio there, among other things he prepares seasonal weather/climate forecasts for commercial clients.

I’d love to see an analysis of the accuracy of those forecasts.


56 posted on 12/26/2010 8:14:23 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

LOL! The NY Slimes wants to get ahead of the inevitable blowback against global “warming.”

Yet here’s a fact: the oceans haven’t warmed.

And another fact: the warmest year was 1998. We’ve had a dozen years of global cooling, with no end (e.g. legions of sunspots) in sight.


57 posted on 12/26/2010 8:18:30 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: torchthemummy

Miac. grants to AER

a $933K grant in 1999. See here:

http://www.aer.com/news/pr/1998/1998-02-16-doe_grant.html

Three grants totaling almost $900K from Recovery.gov are here:
http://www.recovery.gov/pages/TextViewProjSummary.aspx?data=recipientAwardsList&State=MA&AwardType=CGL&RecipName=ATMOSPHERIC%20AND%20ENVIRONMENTAL%20RESEARCH,%20INC.

Millions in gov’t grants here:

http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/afSearch.do?SearchType=afSearch&page=4&QueryText=&PIFirstName=&PILastName=&PIInstitution=Atmospheric+and+Environmental+Research+Inc&PIState=&PIZip=&PICountry=&ProgOrganization=&ProgOfficer=&ProgEleCode=&BooleanElement=false&ProgRefCode=&BooleanRef=false&ProgProgram=&ProgFoaCode=&OriginalAwardDateOperator=&OriginalAwardDateFrom=&OriginalAwardDateTo=&StartDateOperator=&StartDateFrom=&StartDateTo=&ExpDateOperator=&ExpDateFrom=&ExpDateTo=&AwardNumberOperator=&AwardNumberFrom=&AwardNumberTo=&AwardAmount=&AwardInstrument=&Restriction=0&Search=Search#results

If you take a nickel from private industry, you are tainted forever according to many involved in this “debate”. But millions in gov’t grants somehow don’t make you more likely to toe the gov’t bureaucrat’s and politician’s lines?


58 posted on 12/26/2010 8:31:31 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
At the zenith of the next ice age, when 1000 feet of ice covers most of Iowa, leftie bureaucrats will still be shoveling global warming funds to their friends, family and associates...
59 posted on 12/26/2010 8:58:41 PM PST by Onelifetogive (I tweet, too...)
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To: Minn

“As global temperatures have warmed and as Arctic sea ice has melted over the past two and a half decades, more moisture has become available to fall as snow over the continents....”

Even if the theory of higher humidity is true, the effects should be of more rain, not more snow - if global warming is actually the cause.


60 posted on 12/26/2010 9:40:56 PM PST by Gumdrop (2 YEARS OLD,)
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