On The Lies The Media Tell, Global Warming Edition
I'm an out and proud skeptic when it comes to global warming alarmism. This horrifies some of my more liberal friends who are convinced that each of these 882 (frequently contradictory) items on the hilarious Warm List are caused by global warming.
But check out this Associated Press story that admits no science was used for an entire story about how the recent heat wave, while not actually due to global warming, could have been caused by global warming:
If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.
Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho.
These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change, although it's far too early to say that is the cause. Nor will they say global warming is the reason 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the month of June.
And it goes on and on and on to describe all the things that could happen from global warming. As someone on Twitter put it: "Shorter AP: No evidence that global warming is the cause of recent heat wave. That said, global warming is the cause."
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Sep '10
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We had the coolest day on record in June in Charleston, SC this month and also more days under 90 degrees in June EVER!
Edited on July 3, 2012 at 4:21pmMay '12
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Andrew: We had the coolest day on record in June in Charleston, SC this month and also more days under 90 degrees in June EVER! · 0 minutes ago
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Sorry Andrew, that won't do. Local cooling cannot refute global warmening. In fact, it reinforces it. The science is settled, now sit down.
Sep '11
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Two thoughts:
1. How is it that scientists/reporters seem to focus exclusively on temperatures and natural disasters in the US? What is going on in the rest of the world?
2. Why do they always include wildfires? The enormous wildfires in Colorado this year and in Texas last year have less to do with drought conditions than the overzealous fire prevention that is the policy of many state and federal government agencies. Because small fires are never allowed to happen, fuel builds up in the undergrowth. In years before Smokey the Bear, with normal small fires, this fuel would burn off, leaving the large mature trees relatively unscathed. Under current policy, fuel is allowed to build up, and when it catches fire, as it is likely to in a particularly dry year, it burns much hotter for much longer, which leads to tree fire, crowning, line jumping and conflagration.
Thanks again government!
Jun '10
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I used to ask my 9th grade geography students a simple question. Explain to me the difference between weather and climate. The answer reveals the folly behind the entire global warming fraud.
Me: Why are there marine fossils in New Mexico at 7,000 feet?
Class: Because New Mexico was underwater at one time.
Me: That's climate change you can believe in. Now tell me why we find fossilized palm trees in New Mexico?
Class: Because New Mexico was once covered in rain forest.
Me: Yep, that's climate change you can believe in. Tell me why we find mammoth bones in New Mexico.
Class: Because New Mexico was once a frozen steppe.
Me: Correct again. More climate change you can believe in. Now does anyone expect to wake up one morning and find an inland ocean, rain forest, or frozen steppe outside his window?
So easily debunked a child could do it.
Jun '10
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The way we live, far from grandparents and older relatives, makes it easier to believe the climate hype. Kids have no sense of what happened 80 years ago.
May '12
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When I saw the headline and clicked on the link to show the rest of your post I was afraid I was going to need a 72" monitor to fit all of them on one screen.
Jul '11
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Over in Europe we've had the coolest summers in memory, one where you rarely see the sun. I haven't packed my sweatshirts, because it's so cold and rainy. Hot on one side of the globe; cold on the other.
Jul '11
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~Paules:
So easily debunked a child could do it. · 20 minutes ago
There was an article I read recently that said that Antarctica actually wasn't all that bad a few million years ago. Actually, it made it sound like Estonia on its good days. Not the ice sheet Antarctica is today.
Actually, though, Estonia was covered in an ice sheet not long ago; I've got the glacier remains as a reminder everywhere.
MOAR WARMING!
Jun '10
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The MSM, when it's being subtle, loves to put two statements beside each other:
Then they let the reader provide the third, false leg of the syllogism: "Global warming is causing the current heat wave. All is lost. Tax Carbon."
They do that, of course, is when they're being subtle: quite often they just come out and say it.
Jun '10
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~Paules:
So easily debunked a child could do it. · 33 minutes ago
And just how did all that oil get under Saudi Arabia? Doesn't it require lots of plants to make oil? More climate change you can believe in.
Mar '12
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We've gone from global warming to climate change and now back to global warming. Who told us this? Chicken Little and his trained talking seals, including Hilary Clinton who gave $2.0B of our money to the UN to support efforts at "climate change" for third-world countries.
Does this ever end?
Aug '11
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Aw, this AP article was posted with the typical alarmism on an enemy message board this morning. (Sorry, I know I frequently reference this enemy message board, but it's how I learn what leftists are thinking.)
Anyway, yesterday I was checking record high temps across the U.S., and noticed just how many were set in 1936. And then in checking record cold temps, quite a few of them were set in 1977. I seem to recall that 1977 was the year that the media was freaking out about global cooling. Can you imagine the freak-out if we had the same sort of media in the 30s dust-bowl years? And yet, things "changed" since the 30s, didn't they?
Edited on July 3, 2012 at 5:21pmFeb '12
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~Paules: I used to ask my 9th grade geography students a simple question. Explain to me the difference between weather and climate. The answer reveals the folly behind the entire global warming fraud.
Me: Why are there marine fossils in New Mexico at 7,000 feet?
Class: Because New Mexico was underwater at one time.
Me: That's climate change you can believe in. Now tell me why we find fossilized palm trees in New Mexico?
Class: Because New Mexico was once covered in rain forest.
Me: Yep, that's climate change you can believe in. Tell me why we find mammoth bones in New Mexico.
Class: Because New Mexico was once a frozen steppe.
Me: Correct again. More climate change you can believe in. Now does anyone expect to wake up one morning and find an inland ocean, rain forest, or frozen steppe outside his window?
So easily debunked a child could do it. · 1 hour ago
Not only quotable, Paules - publishable. The next book critiquing global warming should include this passage.
Apr '12
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The Left, I've realized, is based on fear mongering. They cast conservatives as Nazis, business as inhumane, and life as something the government must protect you from.
Yet, in the long and storied history of fear mongering, nothing comes close to the awesome beauty of global warming. They're not just saving themselves or their families or communities or nations ... they're saving all life on the planet ... hey - they're saving the planet itself! And it's no coincidence that the enemies of the planet, our wonderful Mother Gaia, just happen to be conservatives and businesses ... not surprising as we knew all along they're up to no good. The danger these people pose to all life on the planet is reasonable justification to remove them from the equation.
Believing the hysteria is the perfect existential solution to the masses of inept, insipid, intellectually inbred, narcissistic, Peter Pans who only ever dream of the return to Never Never Land. Their leaders have contempt for them, dupes of dupes that they are, because they with this cheap existential validation they no longer ask any questions and happily adopt even the most ridiculous positions with an attitude of self-righteousness.
May '11
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The so-called consensus on global warming exists only among those "scientists" (I use scare quotes there because computer modellers are not really scientists, per se) who write in peer reviewed journals that refuse to accept articles from anyone who questions the global warming orthodoxy and that do not accept as peer reviewers anyone who is not already publishing in those same journals. Among meteorologists as a whole, and among scientifically literate people as a whole, the overwhleming consensus is that catastrophic global warming is about as likely as an alien invasion from space.
May '12
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It's downright eerie!
Mar '12
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Highlama: "Yet, in the long and storied history of fear mongering, nothing comes close to the awesome beauty of global warming." Indeed, the recent rebranding of the theory as "climate change" pretty much covers all the bases. Talk about a completely unfalsifiable hypothesis. Whatever the weather does, short of stop changing completely, proves their case.
Apr '12
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While this is a good point, it should also be noted that since there is no global climate model, any predictions are nothing more than guesses. Freeman Dyson, despite sporting an "Obama" bumper sticker, believes it to be bad science.
Edited on July 3, 2012 at 6:53pmJun '12
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Highlama
Freeman Dyson, desptie sporting an "Obama" bumper sticker, believes it to be bad science. · 2 minutes ago
It's not science at all. There's no repeatable experiments.
Jun '12
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A simple question (Pat. Pend.): What is the climate we should be trying to achieve?