IT'S CURTAINS FOR GLOBAL WARMING

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 28 June 2002 | BRET STEPHENS

[Schatze]

Hillary is a dragon!

[hammerdown]

Global warming is a silly controversy that should have faded long ago. But gullible youth, a corrupt bureaucracy and biased media may keep it alive for years to come.

[Lady Jag]

Thanks for the Ping Ernest. There are so many reasons why the "issue of" global warming is an idiot's delight, they almost equal the reasons why we earthlings have nothing to do with it. All this hysteria is is evidence that most people simply cannot manage complex concepts so revert to "the sky is falling".

[Uncle George]

Every time the Social weather prophets get all their ducks in a neat row, some dumb butterfly in Africa flaps his wings and causes a tornado in Oklahoma. "What fools we mortals be".

[Publius6961]

Making the situation all the more deplorable, and giving it political edge, is the belief that changing climate patterns are largely the result of increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from man-made sources - cars, planes, factories and so on.

This is the crux of the issue.
The extrapolations and inferences of global disasters may be right on, but it takes a huge leap in junk science faith to assert this conclusion is fact.

Did we have a global mobilization to prevent Mt. St Helens from exploding? Makes as much sense.
And Mt. St Helens was a pinprick in comparison to the energy involved in "managing" global climate.
The arrogance of the people involved in protecting the world's population from natural processes which have had infinite variability for millions of years (with no help whatsoever from humans) is beyond belief.

Can you cay controlling twits?

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." -- C. S. Lewis

[Eustace]

I've always seen the global warming lie the same as the ESA lies.

The weatherman can hardly get todays weather right and these guys want you to believe they can predict the weather years away.

I believe there are problems that are man made. But it's due more to an elite having whole forests destroyed for quick profit,or dumping their hazradous waste in the ocean, or destructive mining, then it is a guy grilling in his back yard.

But it's the guy cooking in the back yard that gets stuck with the bill and the blame.

With education most all of the worlds problems could be solved, but we are not allowed to control that either.

[headsonpikes]

"...Scientific Socialism" bttt!

It's all about power; always was, always will be.

Heads on pikes! ;^)

[KC_for_Freedom]

Have you noticed that every issue with the dumbocrats is a "crisis"?

Thomas Sowell, in "The Vision of the Anoited" points out several situations where the left manufactured a "crisis" out of thin air to drum up support for their cause. For example, before the "war on poverty" the poor people were actually acheiving gradual improvement in their situation year over year. The democrats made this a crisis when left alone, the problem was solving itself.

[Free the USA]

thanks for the ping

[DoctorMichael]

Good article. Thanks! Bump.

[alaskanfan]

When that happens, don't be surprised to find the Opecker Princes funding these enviral organizations world wide to prevent drilling for natural gas and oil in places like Alaska to increase the dependence on Opecker oil.

Good point. I'd never even considered that possibility. I would be interested to see where these enviro-organizations funding comes from.

[Grampa Dave]

After we boot a lot of Rat senators out of office, a nice 2003 bill would be to ban any non profit from political contributions without a look back at past contributions, present and future contributions if they have contributed or plan to contribute to any political campaign. If they contribute even a $ to any future political campaign, they would have to open up their books for 20 years and future years re who is contributing to their cause.

When Da$$hole et al stopped any drilling in ANWR, Alaska, who were the winners when we did nothing to decrease our dependence on Opecker Oil? Do the elite super rich rats of the senate ever do anything without getting paid. So would the likely suspects be, if they block drilling for new oil in Alaska to lower our dependence on Opecker Oil?

Since the days of Jimmy Carter, the envirals have worked 24/7/365 to decrease our own oil productions, which has increased our dependence on Opecker Oil. Who or what group has benefited from the increased dependence on Opecker Oil?

[alaskanfan]

And they file frivilous lawsuits for the price of a postge stamp.

[Grampa Dave]

They actually raise a lot of their money with those so called frivolous law suits. Just part of their charm and tie in with the Federal Card Carrying Druids.

[Mike Darancette]

...but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences....

I love it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thomas Sowell, in "The Vision of the Anoited"

That is a great book!

[Angelique]

Over the past several years, I have read several SCIENTIFIC, such as yours, and global warming is just a lie hoisted on us by libs. Next it will be the "sky is falling."

[Mike Darancette]

Next it will be the "sky is falling."

Actually, there is probably a higher risk of large numbers of people being killed by things falling from the sky than by the increase of man made CO2.

[William Terrell]

Aerodynamic drag causes water droplets to decelerate, transferring energy to the air and creating air currents akin to a tiny hurricane. Low pressure in the eye of that hurricane then tugs on the lower end of the shower curtain. Voila! It sucks in.

Possibly. I'd opt for a simplier explanation myself. The water rushing out of the shower head pushes the air down and under the shower curtain. Most people hang the curtain inside the tub to channel drippage. The air pushes the curtain in instead of sucks it in.

If that's true curtainsuck shouldn't be noticable with the curtain out side the tub. My curtain's too thick, but I notice a tiny bit of inward movement. When I hang it outside the tub I see none at all.

But, with a thick curtain, it's hard to tell. Maybe some out here with a thin nylon curtain would try it?

[RightWhale]

I don't know about the Hadley Center, but when I worked at Lamont on theoretical meteorology many years ago the problem, if there was one to single out, was that of a data shortage. These days, with satellites taking remote sensing readings in every way imaginable and then some, there is still a shortage of data. The planet can be modeled, but it is only a model. A Cray or mini-Cray can process an astounding amount of data compared to the old racks of computer hardware in the 60s, but the problem is still there. While meteorology isn't sexy like some other branches of physics, it has always attracted some funding. With this "crisis" approach, it is getting more funding, which is sexy, but it's neither fair nor scientific to favor a branch of physics in this way.