Beam me to Planet Gore !
So true. Every time some loser lefty on any website mocks Christians over Camping, I simply remind them of their own “religious” zealots.
How ironic! Newsweek is a myth too!
I actually saw what I assume was a variant of the original “hockey stick” graph last night on NatGeo HD (pretty pictures, awful science). They were doing “Extreme Ice”, showing “researchers” on the Greenland ice sheet mapping some glacier which has allegedly sped up significantly just in the last 10 years. The graph purported to show CO2 concentration over the last 400,000 years, along with temp. There were 4 peaks, the last at 125,000 years ago, and then the most recent “peak” (now) was shown as being twice as high as the other 3. Temp was also shown as lagging behind CO2. They also interviewed a bunch of longhairs posing as scientists, including one from Penn State (first thing through my mind: they couldn’t get Michael Mann?) fretting about how the apparent collapse of these ice sheets was going to displace millions due to the 1+ meter sea level increase. They dragged out the whole “if the Antarctic and Greenland sheets melted completely the sea would go up 60 meters” chestnut, too. The capper was that a lot of the “interviews” were with NatGeo photographers, not actual scientists, the last being some loon who tethered himself to a rock and was photographing chunks of icebergs in the surfline on Iceland’s south coast. He talked about looking at these eroding chunks of ice, and seeing “extinction” (this was the last line in the program, the thing they wanted to leave the audience with).
Talk about drama.
Somebody was listening to Rush yesterday. The Globe editors will never know.
So who is it that is “panicking?” Some people are waving their arms and yelling but they are pushing ideology. They are not panicking. Some people are worried that it all might be true but don’t see the ocean rising in their yards so are not panicking. Some people understand that it is a Communist drive for universal control and are actively fighting it, trying to profit from it, or are just resigned to the thought that their children will live or be killed in a green Communist Utopia. But there does not seem to be any panic outside of the fabrication shops in the media.
All the alarmists have to do is mask the current cooling trend with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of biased government studies and propaganda from their friends in the media for another 20 years or so... at that time there is fairly good statistical chance that another cyclic warming trend will begin again.
They do have a few loose ends to cover up like the fact that sea levels have been dropping uncharacterisically since approximately 2008. Since sea water loses volume when temperatures decline this may be a proxy for global sea temperature. The oceans hold vastly more heat than the atmosphere and are a much better indicator as to whether the earth is actually warming or cooling. The Argo Bouy Array innitially confirmed this cooling trend, but miraculously this government funded study began cherry picking the data released to once again “hide the decline”.
With record cold data climate currently being recorded all over the world; I think the alarmists are going to have a big challenge ahead of them.
This however is a fight on two fronts for the Alarmists and the bigger threat for them at this time is actually the perfection of fracking for the retrievel of natural gas and crude oil reserves, not to mention the promising new technologies being perfected for recovering natural gas from Methane Hydrates from the Sea Floors. Suddenly the world finds itself with several times the energy reserves previously assumed.
Global Warming Alarmism never really had much to do with the climate. It was really about controlling and taxing the worlds energy resources and redistributing the wealth. Now with new energy resources threatening to come online just as it looked like real shortages were looming... the entire plan is threatened. Look for massive amounts of propaganda to attack fracking and recovering natural gas from methane hydrates. They knew that the climate was cyclic, but I don’t think they counted on vast new energy reserves beign discovered. It’s a disaster.