Posted on 04/07/2007 11:27:17 AM PDT by Graybeard58
The banning of DDT is probably the one of the most glaring examples but..
BARF ALERT
“The Medieval Warm Period or Medieval Climate Optimum was from approx. 800ad -1300ad. “
I love to use the MWP as a tool to stuff a cork into the
pie hole of pompous Goreons.
I remember reading about some grant funded moron stating that “We have to get rid of the MWP” as in the history books. It just does not fit their template.
What happened to the ice age that these same “scholars” and “scientists” predicted and provided evidence of in the 1980’s?
Also, based on the assumption that solar cycles are implicated in any temperature rise, is there a prediction of when any recent warming might turn to cooling? Is there a 22 year cycle that could be involved?
The UN issued a report a couple of months ago saying that the worst places in the world to raise children are the United States and the UK. The international collectivist and socialist morons no doubt think kids do better in Sudan, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Siberia, Lesotho, etc.
Anything and everything coming from the UN is total rubbish.
"...Imagine that there is a new scientific theory that warns of an impending crisis, and points to a way out. This theory quickly draws support from leading scientists, politicians and celebrities around the world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropies, and carried out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms.
I don't mean global warming. I'm talking about another theory, which rose to prominence a century ago.
Its supporters included Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. It was approved by Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis, who ruled in its favor. The famous names who supported it included Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; activist Margaret Sanger; botanist Luther Burbank; Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University; the novelist H. G. Wells; the playwright George Bernard Shaw; and hundreds of others. Nobel Prize winners gave support. Research was backed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. The Cold Springs Harbor Institute was built to carry out this research, but important work was also done at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Johns Hopkins. Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California.
These efforts had the support of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association, and the National Research Council. It was said that if Jesus were alive, he would have supported this effort.
All in all, the research, legislation and molding of public opinion surrounding the theory went on for almost half a century. Those who opposed the theory were shouted down and called reactionary, blind to reality, or just plain ignorant. But in hindsight, what is surprising is that so few people objected.
Today, we know that this famous theory that gained so much support was actually pseudoscience. The crisis it claimed was nonexistent. And the actions taken in the name of theory were morally and criminally wrong. Ultimately, they led to the deaths of millions of people.
The theory was eugenics, and its history is so dreadful --- and, to those who were caught up in it, so embarrassing --- that it is now rarely discussed. But it is a story that should be well know to every citizen, so that its horrors are not repeated.
The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The best human beings were not breeding as rapidly as the inferior ones --- the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the "feeble minded." Francis Galton, a respected British scientist, first speculated about this area, but his ideas were taken far beyond anything he intended. They were adopted by science-minded Americans, as well as those who had no interest in science but who were worried about the immigration of inferior races early in the twentieth century --- "dangerous human pests" who represented "the rising tide of imbeciles" and who were polluting the best of the human race..."
That last statement is the craziest of the lot. Weathermen where I live base their forecasts on weather models and they miss that about half the time or more. So how are these idiots determine what is going to happen in 50-100 years based on their models when, as he said, they don’t use data. Must be using a crystal ball or getting this from a vision of some sort.
Oh you mean The Inconvenient Error.
Remember the hole in the ozone layer?
“Global Warming” is the TULIP MANIA of the 21st century
Expect the rhetoric on the new liberal leftist buzzword global warming to ratchet up during the summer. Global Warming is just a buzzword that encompasses everything without definitively explaining anything just like the scare which drove govt to outlaw aerosol cans or how about Y2K scare that had people stocking up on water and basic essentials because the computers were “going to crash”. Let’s not make albore rich and a so-called expert because “he blew the whistle on nothing.”
Excerpt.
"... Imagine that there is a new scientific theory that warns of an impending crisis, and points to a way out.
This theory quickly draws support from leading scientists, politicians and celebrities around the world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropies, and carried out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms.
I don't mean global warming. I'm talking about another theory, which rose to prominence a century ago.
Its supporters included Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. It was approved by Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis, who ruled in its favor. The famous names who supported it included Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; activist Margaret Sanger; botanist Luther Burbank; Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University; the novelist H. G. Wells; the playwright George Bernard Shaw; and hundreds of others. Nobel Prize winners gave support. Research was backed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. The Cold Springs Harbor Institute was built to carry out this research, but important work was also done at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Johns Hopkins. Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California.
These efforts had the support of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association, and the National Research Council. It was said that if Jesus were alive, he would have supported this effort.
All in all, the research, legislation and molding of public opinion surrounding the theory went on for almost half a century. Those who opposed the theory were shouted down and called reactionary, blind to reality, or just plain ignorant. But in hindsight, what is surprising is that so few people objected.
Today, we know that this famous theory that gained so much support was actually pseudoscience. The crisis it claimed was nonexistent. And the actions taken in the name of theory were morally and criminally wrong. Ultimately, they led to the deaths of millions of people.
The theory was eugenics, and its history is so dreadful --- and, to those who were caught up in it, so embarrassing --- that it is now rarely discussed. But it is a story that should be well know to every citizen, so that its horrors are not repeated.
The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The best human beings were not breeding as rapidly as the inferior ones --- the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the "feeble minded." Francis Galton, a respected British scientist, first speculated about this area, but his ideas were taken far beyond anything he intended. They were adopted by science-minded Americans, as well as those who had no interest in science but who were worried about the immigration of inferior races early in the twentieth century --- "dangerous human pests" who represented "the rising tide of imbeciles" and who were polluting the best of the human race..."
One of the better comments I’ve recently heard about man-made global warming compares it to, of all things, the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings, where the leftists said:
“The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.”
But in the case of man-made global warming, what the left is now saying is:
“The validity of the science is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the consequences that matters.”
From this point of view man-made global warming is just proclaiming that a giant, invisible asteroid(*) is heading towards Earth and unless we give them power and money, then we shall all be destroyed.
(*) Or Cthulhu. Or the Daleks. Whatever.
Warning: Global warming is real! Minorities to be hardest hit! LOL
we’ll be singing the internationale in no time.
TRY John McCain
He sees the $$$$$$$$$
I’m in Alabama, freeze warnings, global warming?
Bring it on.
Global warming, global cooling...One way or another, critters go extinct.
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