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2/16/2010
Burri: So how’s that global warming stuff workin’ out for ya?
The best of friends make the worst of enemies. I read that somewhere once. Betrayal, see. We hate betrayal. It’s one thing for a stranger to lie, cheat, steal from us. When it's someone we love – that’s something else entirely.
Let’s have some examples.
Fiscal conservatives and George W. Bush: the former doesn't want to hear about the latter’s tax cuts, or the way he fought terrorism even when it sent his poll numbers crashing Earthward in a fiery ball. Bush signed TARP – the multi-billion dollar bank bailout – into law. For them, that blackened Bush’s name for all time.
Liberals and “progressives” are beginning to feel the same way about President Obama, whose policies on the war are starting to look…well, Bush-like. They elected him to end the war; to pass socialized medicine. Not to sit on his teleprompter playing “Let’s Get Re-elected.”
Brett Favre and Green Bay Packer fans. Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi. Betrayal – even when it’s only perceived – creates hard feelings and multiplies them. Exponentially. Because those closest to us – those we love – are supposed to have the most incentive not to betray us. The most incentive to nurture our trust, not to flush it away like last night’s chili.
That’s not to say that any tiny infraction will destroy a friendship. Not at all. But things add up. They make us wonder.
If there’s one group that should be wondering right now – if there’s one group that should feel betrayed right now, by those they trusted the most – it’s those who follow the Gospel of Global Warming.
Those who believe it. Those who preach it. Those who, because "the science is settled," have invested their time, their money, their trust in that science and the PhDs who peddle it.
Because that scientific “consensus” they so love to tout – it lies in tatters today.
The London Times reported last week about a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who now doubts the validity of IPCC data.
And, in fact, there’s doubt as to whether the data even exist. The director of Climatic Research at East Anglia – they of ClimateGate and “hide the decline” – Times recently said that they had lost data related to some of their more famous claims . He also admitted that there has been no “statistically significant” warming over the last 15 years.
Those are the latest problems. Not the first. Likely not the last.
Let’s be honest: none of the scandals surrounding climate change “science” prove that the world isn’t warming, or that humans aren’t affecting global temperatures. Of course not: negatives can't be proven.
But when the leading scientists are caught debating how to fudge their results; when they can’t reproduce their own data; when they appear to be more interested in pushing belief than exploring facts…
…that makes the whole issue look manufactured.
And let's be perfectly clear: these "leading scientists" weren't just wrong. Wrong can be forgiven. Wrong is part of science. Being wrong is one step closer to being right.
No: they were wrong, and they said they were right. They fudged numbers to make themselves look right. And they did whatever they could to hide what they were doing.
True, false, whatever. Doesn't matter now. The people claiming all this simply can’t be trusted.
So. If you believe in Global Warming…well, one might ask what you're basing that belief on these days. Still: if you believe it, you damn well ought to be furious. Livid. Seeing red. These so-called scientists have done more damage to the environmentalist agenda than any crowd of teabagging Palin drones ever could.
Lance Burri blogs regularly via his site, The TrogloPundit.
COMMENTS
First, it should be noted that Mr. Christy, quoted in your first link, has been a "denier" for some time. The greater significance is the second link "OOPS!! The dog at my homework," says Phil Jones, one of the most pre-eminent "Global Warmers" Seems to be catching, as here we have TDAMH II, or Kiwigate -climate data "lost."
If Martha Stewart can go to jail for a little white lie that hurt no one, these criminals need to be put away for life, after being deprived of all their ill-gotten gains. To that end, I started this facebook group, and will follow with an organization to work toward that end: Climategate is Real!!Who are the Deniers now???
Ken Van Doren (Tue Feb 16 08:52:04 2010)
I admit to not being a "Global Warmist" right from the beginning. Global warming just seemed to have been over-hyped and being pushed by Al Gore didn't drag me into the "Warmist" camp, either. It also seems to have developed into elitists chastising those of us who aren't as intelligent or rich as they. I don't need a finger wagged under my nose by someone whose lifestyle creates more carbon emissions in one year than I have in my whole life.
It amazes me that they can feel so righteous because they have plenty of money to pay for someone to plant trees to offset their carbon emissions.
This is the type of class warfare that makes my head want to explode.
The weeping and wailing about global warming rings not only hollow but rings the bells of socialism. The hoi polloi gets to muddle along without any hope of bettering their lives, while those at the top get to live in luxury.
If I wanted to live in a socialist/fascist oligarchy I'd have arranged to have been born in the USSR, China or Cuba (and now Venezuela). As it is, I was born in the USA and will do all I can to not allow the elitists to change the basic structure of this country.
http://petitionproject.com/
C. R. Stevenson (Tue Feb 16 10:42:17 2010)
I believe man-made global warming is absurd. What really got to me, however, was a comment during a Town Hall meeting. Here it is: Cap-and-Trade will transfer wealth from central (mostly Red) states to coastal (Blue) states. Yep. Cap-and-Trade legislation has been drawn up by politicians from California, Massachusetts, etc. Meanwhile, our energy wealth is in West Virginia, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, etc. All are connected by the "grid." Atlantic- and Pacific-coast states have energy sources, but environmental purists would rather "rape-and-tax" other geographic areas. Energy consumption is highest in densely-populated coastal areas.
Janice Taylor (Tue Feb 16 12:33:26 2010)
Lance, even in the article you reference the data in dispute simply looks at a few land stations and nowhere in the article is there any dispute regarding the overall increase in temperature. The end of the article even says so. Unfortunately the headline was designed to grab the attention of unsuspecting readers who never read the whole article. Did you read the whole article? Unprecedented rapid melting of ice caps, ocean warming and the vast land station data show the world is warming fast and the correlation between CO2 and its heat trapping ability is not only shown statistically but proven under laboratory situations. You and others seem to try to come up with the narrowest planks on which to walk. You dig in the nooks and crannies of data and papers to try to find one needle to pull out and say "ah ha, they're all lying".. You clearly have no deep background in how statistics are gathered, how they are interpreted and the nature of scientific inquiry. Maybe you should focus on really small issues that you can understand properly. If you believe global warming is such a myth why don't you spend all you money buying low lying ocean front property and don't come crying for a bailout when you're under water.
dave allen (Tue Feb 16 17:00:25 2010)
Dave, why don't you copy and paste the link I've provided at the bottom of my first post and read some "real" scientists concerning global warming?
P.S. I don't see anyone running away from buying seashore property. Check out the prices. And if you still have that land for sale, I'd like to make a bid on it.
Also I'd llke to point out to you that Conservatives don't come running for bailouts. We leave that for the liberals in California, the East Coast and New Orleans.
C.R. Stevenson (Wed Feb 17 04:49:48 2010)
Dean. I have a "laboratory" experiment for you. Open 2 cans of carbonated beverage, put one in the refrigerator, leave one at room temperature. Come back tomorrow morning and see which has the higher CO2 content. My guess is the refrigerated one. Which makes the point of John Christy, climatologist, that yes, there is a relationship between CO2 and temperature. FIRST temperatures of the water rise, THEN CO2 levels in the atmosphere rise, as the water releases CO2 to the air. A TRAILING, not a LEADING indicator. So Al Gore & Co. got it backwards.
One need not be a scientist to see the fallacies of Mann's hockey stick, although a bit of scientific background does not hurt. His graph obliterated both the Mideaval Warming and Little Ice Age periods, well known, well documented events during the past millenium or so. (See about 9:25 of video 1.) So OBVIOUSLY, Mann manipulated data. And recent events show that NASA, NOAA, and England's CRU also manipulated data. So how many lies are they to tell us, and still expect us to believe everything they say?
Doomsday called off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr5O1HsTVgA
This video series is a few years old, but recent events just verify the sound reasoning and research skills of Christy, Patrick Micheals, Willy Wong, Tim Ball, Sally Baliunas, and a bunch of other "deniers."
Half my life ago, I was forced by life to change many of my core beliefs, because reality did not support the lies I had been told, both when it came to social and "hard" sciences. YOu may decide otherwise, but I urge you to keep an open mind, and educate yourself by watching the above video series.
Ken Van Doren (Wed Feb 17 09:58:08 2010)
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