Predictions of Global Warming Hysterics are All Wet
Dr. Walter E. Williams has three great quotes from “scientists” who have been pushing environmental extremism for years, and continue to push the hoax of anthropogenic global warming on society.
Ehrlich also predicted the earth’s then-3.5 billion population would starve back to 2 billion people by 2025. In 1969, Dr. Ehrlich warned Britain’s Institute of Biology, “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
Despite these asinine predictions, Ehrlich has won no less than 16 awards, including the 1980 Crafoord Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ highest award.
Stanford University professor and environmentalist activist Stephen H. Schneider is another scientist involved in the warmer retaliation. In a 1989 Discover Magazine interview, Professor Schneider said, “We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”
Former Colorado Sen. Tim Wirth, now president of the United Nations Foundation, in 1990 said, “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we’ll be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”
More and more people are waking up to the fact that these people are radicals who do not have the freedom and welfare of average people in mind when they peddle their silly theories. People are also realizing in greater and greater numbers that the actual science–not the “fudged” computer models and the wild-eyed conjecture that forms 90% of global warming theory–presents overwhelming evidence that climate change is natural and cyclic, and has been going on in even greater extremes than today for thousands of years.
We’ve been drunk on their fake Koolaid for far too long. Make sure you tell all your friends what a joke the hypothesis of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is, and let’s get back to guarding our freedom and prosperity from kooks like these.
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[...] Predictions of Global Warming Hysterics are All Wet [...]
Global warming is real, guys. Get over it.
All satellite measurements agree, the earth has warmed over the last 30 years.
The basic science— that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere— is as undisputable as gravity.
So is the fact that we are pouring billions of tons of it into the sky every year. (Mostly from easily replaceable coal power plants and low-mileage cars, mind you— not cow farts).
Oh, so Ehrlich was wrong on a population study 40 years ago? Well, he probably wasn't 100% on his NCAA brackets either— nor were you. Being wrong once before doesn't mean he's wrong on global warming— and it certainly doesn't mean the other 99.9% of qualified, professional physicists are also wrong!
Guys, you all just gotta get over it… back in the day a lot of people insisted the Earth was flat, too. What did it do for them! Just took them out of the running for looking for new trade routes… lost them a lot of money to be made doing things the new way… just like China will eat us for lunch at clean power while we keep sending $$$ to terrorists for more dirty oil, as long as you all have your way.
Time to get your heads out of the sand (and that's putting it generously!)
It's interesting that you would mention flat earthers, Fredo, because if you continue to believe in this silly hypothesis, you'll join their ranks in a few years. I highly, highly encourage you to read the information available under the links in this piece.
You will find that the satellite data does't paint nearly the picture you've been led to believe, and that the ground-based measurements don't, either. It might interest you to know also that the amount of gases human activity contributes to the atmosphere of the earth is incredibly small.
It takes a small mind, indeed, to dismiss the role of the sun (you know, that hot star in the middle of our solar system burning at 11,000 degrees), the oceans, volcanic activity, and a host of other natural factors.
I would also like to point you to the tens of thousands of scientists who simply aren't buying the Koolaid Al Gore and his disciples are selling. His claims of “consensus” are a feeble attempt to appeal to the herd instinct many people feel, the desire to be with the crowd, to respond to peer pressure. It still wouldn't make this flimsy conjecture “science” even if it were true…and it's a long way from true.
Finally, perhaps the most important lesson you should consider and hopefully take away from here (if you have the courage to start looking beyond the fudged computer models and conjecture to some actual hard scientific data) is that the evidence which points to natural and cyclic climate change going back thousands of years is overwhelming.
All of us were wrong about something at some point, but the wise man looks at new evidence and when he realizes he has been wrong, he admits it and adjusts his thinking. I hope you're open minded enough to do that.
Linked to your post from Boxer, For the record Cap and Trade would not eliminate Hurricanes
If I realize I'm wrong, believe me, I will be the first to admit it. As, I hope, will you.
You are wrong, however, about Al Gore and the “herd instinct.” When you cite “tens of thousands” of scientists who would disagree with the basic theory that the Earth is warming and it is, at least in significant part, because of human-caused releases of CO2 — well, you are simply wrong. You can get to “tens of thousands” for such a claim only by counting economists, political scientists, policy researchers, various other social scientists, TV meteorologists, and so forth. Sure, if you count those folks you can get a lot of “scientists” to say they don't believe in global warming.
The problem is, none of those folks study the atmosphere.
What you cannot get is “tens of thousands” of PhD level (i.e., properly trained, professional, full-time) atmospheric physicists, chemists, and geologists to say the same thing. I absolutely guarantee you that among those professional hard scientists — who are the only QUALIFIED people to opine on atmospheric science, because they are the only ones who study it directly — you will not find 10% (probably not even 1 or 2%) who disagree with the basic tenets of the global warming theory.
If you disagree, it is because you have been told wrong. How many such people do you know? Take a hard look at the qualifications of the people on all the lists of supposed anti-global-warming “scientists” out there. Very often such lists are circulated with people signing on to them who have never studied the atmosphere directly. Why should you believe them over someone who has?
Again, I may be wrong, we will find out in a decade or two, no doubt. If I am wrong, I will be the first to admit it. Frankly, I hope I am wrong. The sad thing is that the only way we will know— if you people have your way— is when the sea ACTUALLY rises 6 feet, doing billions of dollars of damage to coastal property and vital port infrastructure. Or when the weather ACTUALLY gets so unpredictable (be it hot/dry/cold/wet — and remember, global warming theory predicts, for USA at least, mostly EXTREME weather, more that steady warming — that's why the blizzards are perfectly consistent) — when it ACTUALLY gets so unpredictable that people start to lose their farms, to lose their water supplies, to not be able to grow enough food, to hunt and fish for the species they are used to, because those species have changed their ranges or even become endangered or extinct.
It will be sad, when those things happen, that all I will be able to say is, “I was right and you were wrong.” That I did my best to try to stop them, and to convince people like you that we should try. But the damage will have been done.
And if I am right and you are wrong? And we stop cutting the tops off entire mountains to find coal to burn, and stop shipping money by the pallet full to Iran and Iraq and Venezuela for our oil, and replace it with cheap, clean wind power and solar power? Then what? What will we have lost then?
Again, if I'm wrong on global warming in 20 years, I'll be the first to admit it. But if you're wrong, we have a whole hell of a lot more to lose. Think about it. And I hope you will also admit when you realize you are wrong.
PS Just re-read the last line of your original post. “Guarding our freedom and prosperity!” Well at least we can agree on that goal. Too bad we have such opposite ways to go about it. Seriously, I don't know how getting off of foreign oil … while buying a little insurance, in case global warming is right, to (even just maybe) avoid drowning and disrupting so much of our vital infrastructure … I don't know how that can work AGAINST “guarding our freedom and prosperity”!
I see you're still drunk from the Koolaid.
There are scientists from the Polish Academy of Sciences, MIT, and various other respected scientific and institutions of learning who realize there is no compelling evidence for AGW. Even many of the scientists who have and still do work with the IPCC realize this; unfortunately, the politicians (the IPCC is a political body) ensure they get little if any say in the final reports.
One collection of scientists can be found here: http://www.petitionproject.org/ This petition lists over 30,000 scientists from various fields ranging from atmospheric sciences, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy and more–ALL these disciplines and more are relevant to the field of climate research.
I do appreciate that I finally see you starting to admit the same old “we can't wait until I'm proven wrong beyond the remotest doubt to act” excuse that always comes from global warming hysterics as they begin on some level to realize how thin their evidence is. You may be willing to surrender your freedom, your property, and our very civilization on the alter of some wacky idea that doesn't even pass the smell test of credibility, but I have to tell you, I am not, and no sane person is.
Please, take the time to examine the huge amount of REAL scientific data which points to solar activity and other natural factors for climate change, AND the large body of historical evidence which shows that climate has gone up and down–in far greater spikes than today–for thousands of years.
If environmental extremists would put a sock in it and stop trying to interfere with domestic drilling, we wouldn't need so much foreign oil. If you can encourage your environmentalist friends and colleagues to stop impeding our domestic energy production, maybe we can work together to protect America's precious freedom and prosperity
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