Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Global warming freeze?


I just think it is comical for liberals to state global warming as fact and not want to have any other talks about it. Well, since I am open minded and have a scientific brain, I could smell something funny with this whole global warming thing from a mile away. The data sets were flawed, the results were statistically insignificant, and it just seemed like a new religion to the Left. Well, the Earth is once again cooling, going through a natural cycle that has nothing to do with man. It would just be funny to watch liberals get all emotional about it, but now people like Obama want to severely harm our economy and change our whole way of life for something completely made up and inaccurate. I'll let a professional break it down for you:

President-elect Barack Obama recently declared his intention to mitigate global warming by enacting a cap-and-trade policy that would reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by the year 2050.
But the last two years of global cooling have nearly erased 30 years of temperature increases. To the extent that global warming ever existed, it is now officially over.
This year began with a severe spell of winter weather in China. Observers characterized it as the largest natural disaster to hit China in decades. By the end of January, blizzards and cold temperatures had killed 60 people and caused millions to lose electric service. Nearly a million buildings were damaged and airports had to close. Hong Kong had the second-longest cold spell since 1885. A temperature of 33.6 degrees Fahrenheit was barely higher than the record low of 32 degrees F set in 1893.
Other countries in Asia also experienced record cold. In February, cold in the northern half of Vietnam wiped out 40 percent of the rice crop and killed 33,000 head of livestock. In India, the city of Mumbai recorded the lowest temperatures of the last 40 years. Across India, there was more frost damage to crops than at any other time in the last 30 years.
In the United States, the weather also was frigid. The city of International Falls, Minn,, whose official nickname is the "icebox of the nation," set a new record low temperature of minus 40 degrees F, breaking the old record of minus 37 F established in 1967.
Alaska experienced an unusually cold and wet summer. For the first time since the 18th century, Alaskan glaciers grew instead of retreating. In Fairbanks, October was the fourth coldest in 104 years of record. Last month in Reading, Pa., the temperature stayed below 40 degrees F for six consecutive days - the longest November cold spell there since 1903.
These cold weather events were not abnormal or isolated incidents. Global measures of climatic conditions indicate significant cooling.
A preliminary estimate by the British Met Office says 2008 will be the coldest year of the last 10. The extent of global sea ice is at the same level it was in 1980. The mean planetary temperature, as monitored by satellite, also is the same as in 1980.
Last March, NASA reported the oceans have been cooling for the last five years. Sea level has stopped rising, and Northern Hemisphere cyclone and hurricane activity is at a 24-year low.
Environmental extremists and global warming alarmists are in denial and running for cover. Their rationale for continuing a lost cause is that weather events in the short term are not necessarily related to long-term climatic trends. But these are the same people who screamed at us each year that ordinary weather events such as high temperatures or hurricanes were undeniable evidence of imminent doom.
Now that global warming is over, politicians are finally ready to enact dubious solutions to a non-existent problem. In Britain, Parliament is intrepidly forging ahead with a bold new plan to cool the climate, even as London experienced its first October snowfall since 1934 and Ireland went through the coldest October in the last 70 years.
This is an absurd spectacle. Our advanced civilization is being systematically mismanaged by technologically illiterate lawyers responding to political pressures from irrational fanatics. Would someone please tell these people it is impossible to overturn the laws of thermodynamics?
We cannot improve our economy by artificially forcing people to use expensive, unreliable and inefficient energy sources.
Let the politicians take note. People will not like what you have in mind. California is arguably the most liberal state. Yet last month they defeated, by nearly a 2-to-1 margin, a law that would have forced California utilities to obtain half their electric power from renewable sources. What the Obama administration proposes is much more radical. Their cap-and-trade proposal will dramatically increase the energy costs of the average consumer and likely drive our crippled economy into a severe depression.
To the extent global warming was ever valid, it is now officially over. It is time to file this theory in the dustbin of history, next to Aristotelean physics, Neptunism, the geocentric universe, phlogiston, and a plethora of other incorrect scientific theories, all of which had vocal and dogmatic supporters who cited incontrovertible evidence.
Weather and climate change are natural processes beyond human control. To argue otherwise is to deny the factual evidence.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

And to ignore the fact that only in the last 200 years has man pumped billions of tons of C02 into the atmosphere is to argue an incomplete set of facts.

And to ignore that previous ice ages occurred when the global population was, oh, about 1/1000th of what it is today also flies in the face of factual evidence.

Does the earth have recurring, cyclical episodes of warming and cooling. Yes, science is clear on that. But to insist that humans are innocent bystanders and carbon emissions are good for photosynthesis is letting ideology get in the way of facts.

TerryN said...

There is no coorelation between carbon dioxide levels in the earth's atmosphere and global temprature.

Find one credible study that refutes this.

Anonymous said...

Again - Let sceintists and facts decide what's right and what's wrong. Turning this into a Liberal Vs Conservatives shows the lack of 'fair and balanced' mind.

Political agenda can blind your judgement. I know how some people were in denial about when it came to our economy and recession. They kept denying it pointing at record profits of corporations and lowest level of unemployment.

The same thing with Iraq war, insurgency and need for a surge.

As it turned out, after all, it wasn't a false alarm. Some people/groups just didn't get it!!!

So, please, let's not turn to our politicians or radio talkshow hosts to form our opinions on these subjects. I'm sure there are more qualified people out there!

Anonymous said...

"So, please, let's not turn to our politicians or radio talkshow hosts to form our opinions on these subjects. I'm sure there are more qualified people out there!"

problem is, the politicians and the few giant media corporations have gotten to them first

The Game said...

American is trying to paint me as the loony partisan who gets this info from Rush, when it is I who have been clear headed and looked at the facts when making my decision...anon gets all emotional and makes statements that "feel" good and maybe even "sound" good when no scientific facts are brought into the debate...I do get tired of being so correct on this issue and having to re-explain it...read my archives where I show over and over and over how this whole "theory" is crap...
And it is not ME who makes this right vs left, I"m just reporting it...

Anonymous said...

i do think it's a little loony to draw on individual, day-to-day events to try to either prove or disprove the global warming hype, though

iirc, the warming itself has actually ceased for now, do we attribute that to americans driving less??

i don't know, seems a bit farfetched

Ron said...

Polluting the planet and getting off oil are things not beyond our control. This is what I care about. I could care less about the global warming debate one way or the other.

The Game said...

I was waiting for that from Ron, and that is fine...it actually makes a lot more sense than the stupid global warming religion...
And hash, if we can't use a few years to disprove global warmning..we can't use a small data set to prove it either...I agree and that is my point...

Anonymous said...

yes, and ron has a point as well, there's nothing wrong with placing the whole global warming debate on the side, and working to reduce pollution levels and dependence on foreign oil, as virtues in their own right

i actually believe that americans have NOT forgotten the price spikes, and want more alternatives, but are concerned as to how we get there from here, and that new agendas and sources of illicit revenue are not being set up, in the name of "green"

Anonymous said...

Americans also would like to see more mass transit. The voters have made that clear.

Anonymous said...

there are portions of america where more mass transit is called for, and even more where it is obviously inappropriate

but, when thugs run rimshod through our public buses and trains, rendering them unsuitable for use by decent americans, can you blame other voters their skepticism?

we have one subculture of the population ruining america for the rest of us, and there is zero reason to believe the incoming administration will place law enforcement on them a priority, and every reason to believe they will ENABLE the thugs, in so many different ways

The Game said...

where have people voted to have more mass transit? In most cities the public "votes" to not care about mass transit when they don't use it.

Anonymous said...

game, obviously, here in new york, where our transportation network is not just integral to the financial viability of the region, but is an essential aspect of national security, mass transit budgets are as central to your safety and future as they are to mine