http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126226938&ft=1&f=1007
I can just see the LIEberal morning meeting. Let’s see, we were found out about our lies so let’s bring up something else to try to explain global warming.
-Mr. Knowledge
Tag: global warming
It’s getting hot for Climate Warming Buffs!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999051.ece
Sometimes, a small lie snowballs into an avalanche and the theory of climate warming is a perfect example. Despite a myriad of scientists disputing the theory, the media relied upon groups like the U.N. who are known to be politically driven.
Scientists who disagreed were suppressed, denigrated, and generally driven out of the conversation. The multitude of mistakes in Al Gore’s movie were glossed over. The media raised Michael Moore, the epitome of Hollywood arrogance and sheer ignorance, to expert status on global warming. It was suggested that we common folk who questioned the theory based on our own experience and living conditions were either right wing nuts, or just too stupid to talk to!
Well, just like any avalanche that clears away debris, the flood of revelations about suppression of evidence, and the fact that the theory about the Himalayan glaciers melting was based on one man’s report — and this man has denied saying this — is clearing the landscape of global warming. It ‘s going to be uncomfortable for those who refused to scientifically weigh the evidence. Oh, yes, it’s getting hot for Climate Warming buffs!
The IPCC’s 2007 report, which won it the Nobel Peace Prize, said that the probability of Himalayan glaciers “disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high”.
But it emerged last week that the forecast was based not on a consensus among climate change experts, but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999.
The IPCC admitted on Thursday that the prediction was “poorly substantiated” in the latest of a series of blows to the panel’s credibility.
Muckrakers
When I was young, we were told that muckrakers were journalists who scraped up muck on people and institutions in order to right wrongs. If a politician was dirty, the muckraker would expose his faults. If a business wasn’t following the law, the muckraker would explain exactly what was wrong with their business’ practices. Muckrakers did a lot of good work in correcting what ailed society.
Today’s muckrakers have a new name and, it isn’t much prettier than muckraker. It is computer hacker. Few people use it in a complimentary fashion. But, the good news is that, many times, hackers have exposed a politician’s lies or fraud in government. And isn’t it a good thing for all of us when corruption is laid bare and then corrected?
Well, maybe it is good for us, but risky for the hackers. The latest expose is alleged global warming. Hackers managed to reveal the skulduggery of scientists who promoted the concept of global warming even though they knew their “facts” were unfounded! The scare tactics of these pseudo scientists included omitting data, fudging numbers, and even suppressing contrary voices… actually, much like Congress is doing in their attempt to foist health care measures upon an unwilling American public.
So now, even knowing that the hackers discovered corruption in the global warming theory community, some want to punish them. Whether you agree with what the hackers did or not, there is absolutely no way you can deny what the hackers discovered. And, aren’t we glad that these false prophets of global warming have been shown to be liars? Well, it depends. If you’re on the losing side of the argument, as Barbara Boxer is, you want to punish those who made you look foolish. It’s the old, “Kill the messenger” attitude that has worked top well for the democrats in the past. Hence, she chooses to ignore the importance of the hackers’ revelations in favor of trying to punish them for exposing the untruths of global warming.
It sounds as though we should sic’ the hackers on good old Barbara! Let the muckraking begin.
What’s hiding under the rug?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/nov/25/monbiot-climate-leak-crisis-response
Well, if you’re a global warming advocate, like Al Gore, you hope that no more emails showing how his fans hid data that contradicted the global warming theory and even suppressed those who disagreed with it will be discovered.
Unfortunately, the liberal media will undoubtedly just sweep the contradictory information under the rug!
If you want the real facts, go to FOX NEWS.
I’ll tell you what’s heating up…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125686509223717691.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
The models are imperfect.
“There is a lot of room for improvement” in the models.
So you’re telling me that these models are imperfect? I love how these so called experts blatantly lambaste us with evidence of global warming and how the future is bleak, when they can’t even predict the near future correctly. This just shows you how a few nut jobs purveying their ideas in the media can get the mindless lemmings of lieberals believing anything.
Am I glad that people take interest at least in the future? Yes. Am I glad that people ride bike instead of drive, recycle, use CFL’s and other green technologies? Yes. But what I don’t like is when people argue their points when their so called evidence is based on opinion and guess-work models vs cold hard facts.
And, if you ever have to argue with these nutcases, it’s quite comical. They’ll say that you don’t care about the environment or that you don’t care about mother earth. Psssh, that’s total hogwash. I myself pay extra so that the electricity into my home comes from renewable energy*.
There needs to come a time when these lieberals and wacko tree huggers stop using fear, lies and models of the future that appear to be flawed. Why is the UK government using tax money to inform the population about global warming? I think it’s time that the voter decides for himself instead of being led on by our governments. To quote a the movie MIB, “A person is smart, people are stupid.”
-Mr. Knowledge
*Technically the energy isn’t directly into my home. It’s just that WPS has to match to the grid the amount of energy I use.
Mr. Knowledge’s Rants…
I’ve seen this Citi credit card ad for a few weeks now that mentions in this tough economic time, people are looking for ways to save money. Shouldn’t we, in good and bad times, look for ways to save money? These same people who over extended themselves thinking it will always be cherry, are now the ones who are looking for handouts. While others, who know that times won’t always be perfect, don’t over extend themselves and now have to pay for those who did.
Secondly, this whole Limbaugh thing is just crazy. All over in the papers and online they are ripping him left and right, and even using quotes that he never said as truths. It’s fine if you disagree with him, but when ”legit” sources are using false quotes, it just proves that they are against him for his politics, not his implied racism.
Thirdly, read this : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm. Where is Algore now?
Mr. Knowledge
What’s Al Gore’s telephone number?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=aIe9swvOqwIY
Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor
The following article illustrates why Al Gore’s kneejerk reaction to “global warming” contradicts the facts. In this case, a faulty sensor misread the ice levels. Either Mr. Gore can’t read and understand scientific data or, he is an idiot. I believe that he is a complete buffoon who, through his political position, promoted the Lieberal hatred for anything remotely human , especially if that person is an American! In their world view, every human activity creates problems for Mother Earth and Americans are the worst of the lot!
He beat the drums of global warming, disregarding respected scientists world wide who say that there is no way to discern if human activity is truly causing climate changes, despite his lack of any scientific credentials.
Oh, yes. He rode that hobby horse right into fame and fortune. What a surprise that a Democrat would use any possible issue in order to improve their own fortunes!
By Alex Morales
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.
The error, due to a problem called “sensor drift,” began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That’s when “puzzled readers” alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site.
“Sensor drift, although infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that we account for during quality- control measures prior to archiving the data,” the center said. “Although we believe that data prior to early January are reliable, we will conduct a full quality check.’’
The extent of Arctic sea ice is seen as a key measure of how rising temperatures are affecting the Earth. The cap retreated in 2007 to its lowest extent ever and last year posted its second- lowest annual minimum at the end of the yearly melt season. The recent error doesn’t change findings that Arctic ice is retreating, the NSIDC said.
The center said real-time data on sea ice is always less reliable than archived numbers because full checks haven’t yet been carried out. Historical data is checked across other sources, it said.
The NSIDC uses Department of Defense satellites to obtain its Arctic sea ice data rather than more accurate National Aeronautics and Space Administration equipment. That’s because the defense satellites have a longer period of historical data, enabling scientists to draw conclusions about long-term ice melt, the center said.
“There is a balance between being as accurate as possible at any given moment and being as consistent as possible through long time-periods,” NSIDC said. “Our main scientific focus is on the long-term changes in Arctic sea ice.”