Posted on 03/29/2013 11:16:30 PM PDT by neverdem
Emily Litella was the Saturday Night Live character who would spin out lengthy theories based on her misunderstanding of a word or phrase and, when her error was pointed out, would respond crisply, “Never mind.”
The Economist, which I read and revere and for which I have on occasion written (they assign reviews of books by Economist writers to outsiders), has long been convinced that we on earth face a crisis caused by man-made global warming. Now the newspaper (as it refers to itself) seems to have reached an Emily Litella moment.
“Global warming slows down,” reads a line on the cover. It references a long story in the science and technology section headlined, “A sensitive matter.”
The writer begins by noting something global warming “skeptics” and “deniers” have been pointing to for some time: “Over the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar.”
In other words, the regnant global warming alarmist theory has not accurately predicted the last 15 years of climate.
The Economist thinks that there is still reason to be worried about global warming, but a whole lot less worried than it used to think. I have been arguing that we just don’t know nearly as much as we need to know to have the confidence in predictions justifying measures that drastically reduce economic growth – and that a lot of people in the global warming industry have been hyping the dangers.
In its penultimate sentence the Economist writer seems to agree with the first of these propositions: “Despite all the work on climate sensitivity, no one really knows how the climate would react if temperatures rose by as much as 4 degrees Celsius.”
That’s at least reminiscent of Emily Litella.
See #40.
Sorry. I see you got there.
Which is a log function...
Thanks neverdem.
Yeah. I knew the right number... I just failed the switch from hundredths to thousandths.
*hangs head*
Yes,that’s what I was trying to say originally.
In honor of the global Warming hoax, I have written this little ditty! (Have you noticed that the biggest decriers of AGW PREFER warm weather!)
Where do all the liberals go
Long time passin’
Where do all the liberals go
When it’s cold up north?
Where do all the Liberals go
To Miami’s Fountainbleau
When will the ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where are the New Yorkers now?
Long Time Passin’
Where are the New Yorkers now?
Long, time ago
Where are the New Yorkers now?
When the snow’s too deep to plow?
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever Learn?
Global warming is a curse,
Long time passin’
Global warming is a curse
Long time ago
Global warming is a curse
A new Ice Age is much worse!
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the snowbirds gone?
Long time passin’
Where have all the snowbirds gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the snowbirds gone?
They prefer Boca Raton!
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn”
(stolen from Pete Seger, who stole it from the Cossacks of the Ukraine!)
LOL!
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