From the world of AGW, Even left now laughing at global warming
So-called “global warming” has shrunk from problem to punch line. And now, Leftists are laughing, too. It’s hard not to chuckle at the idea of Earth boiling in a carbon cauldron when the news won’t cooperate:
- Nearly four inches of snow blanketed the United Arab Emirates’ Jebel Jais region for just the second time in recorded history on Jan. 24. Citizens were speechless. The local dialect has no word for snowfall. Â
- Dutchmen on ice skates sped past windmills as canals in Holland froze in mid-January for the first time since 1997. Defense Minister Eimert van Middelkoop, who inhabits a renovated 17th Century windmill, stumbled on the ice and fractured his wrist. Â
- January saw northern Minnesota’s temperatures plunge to 38 below zero, forcing ski-resort closures. A Frazee, Minnesota dog-sled race was cancelled, due to excessive snow. Snow whitened Surf City, North Carolina’s beaches. Days ago, ice glazed Florida’s citrus groves.
Oh, wait, that’s weather, I forgot. When it gets slightly warmer, it is climate. And, again, I do not disagree that the climate had warmed, with a big spike from the early 80’s through 1997. What I do disagree with is that Man was the primary or sole cause. If that was the case, wouldn’t the temps have continued to go up since 1998, rather then staying the same if not decreasing? Why do people like James Hansen have to falsify data?
“Not only is it false that human activity has any significant effect on global warming or the weather in general, but for the record, global warming is over,” retired Navy meteorologist Dr. Martin Hertzberg wrote on carbon-sense.com. The physical chemist and self-described “scientist and life-long liberal Democrat” added: “The average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere has declined over the last 10 years. From the El Nino Year of 1998 until Jan. 2007, it dropped a quarter of a degree Celsius (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit). From Jan 2007 to the spring of 2008, it dropped a whopping three-quarters of a degree Celsius (1.35 degrees Fahrenheit). Those data further prove that the fear-mongering hysteria about human-caused global warming is completely unjustified and is totally counterproductive to our Nation’s essential needs and security.”
“It is a tribute to the scientific ignorance of politicians and journalists that they keep regurgitating the nonsense about human-caused global warming,” veteran Left-wing commentator and Nation magazine columnist Alexander Cockburn wrote. “The greenhouse fear mongers rely on unverified, crudely oversimplified models to finger mankind’s sinful contribution — and carbon trafficking, just like the old indulgences, is powered by guilt, credulity, cynicism, and greed.”
Here’s the punch line
“The so-called ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is not holding up,” Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., told his colleagues Jan. 8. “It is becoming increasingly clear that skepticism about man-made global warming fear is not a partisan left vs. right issue.”
So-called “global warming” has accomplished the impossible: It has united liberals and conservatives in laughter.
But, like a kid refusing to give up their ratty old bankie or teddie bear, the Disciples Of Gore will not give up their beliefs, and while they may profess to believe in science, it is more like faith, since the science doesn’t hold up. Besides, if AGW was so bad, don’t you think the Believers would actually practice what they preach?
In related stories, which I would love to excerpt, but, this post is getting long
Global warming is really a hoaxÂ
Global Warming Fairy Tales: Screwing Over The Taxpayer
U.S. global warming satellite seeks missing carbon
NOAA: Global warming is irreversible for next 1,000 years
And one that should be required reading: John Coleman: The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam (hat tip Duncan)
