I think MSNBC’s Chris Hayes captures how liberals think about so-called global warming: ”we are now on the frontier of climate disaster.” President Obama’s second inaugural address was more overt in combating this natural occurrence, but Hayes was adamant that we’re now at zero hour on this issue.
CHRIS HAYES: This is what I found the most interesting about that mention. The problem, politically, about climate change is the problem of getting people to act now for an abstraction in the future, and what has changed about the politics of it is that we are now on the frontier of climate disaster. We are seeing it now. It’s not an abstraction in the future. And for the president to invoke fires and disaster, the impact of fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms is to communicate that what we are seeing now is the front edge of climate disaster. The problem isn’t some future abstraction. And that to me is the only plausible political argument that will induce the kind of change we need policy wise on the issue.
So, is that why we’ve experience nearly 1000 record low temperatures compared to 17 record highs? Robert W. Felix of the Ice Age Now blog noted on November 29:
Records in the last 7 days:
205 snowfall records.
969 Low Max. 203 Low temps.
17 High Temp.
61 High minimum.
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Now, I’m not convinced of either theory. Scientists said an ice age was coming in the mid-1970s; they were wrong. And Felix could be wrong about the ice age now. Yet, what I do know is that the hypothesis that mankind is causing global temperatures to rise is incredibly shaky; global temperatures have stalled for the past 16 years. And this development only confirms my skepticism about so-called global warming.
After all, it’s gotten to the point where advocates of global warming are saying how rising temperatures, or something, could ruin Thanksgiving. I don’t know about you, but my Thanksgiving was great – and the turkey was delicious. It was almost as satisfying as watching the whole climate change narrative – and the Temple of Al Gore in which it resides – crumbles before our very eyes.
Lastly, there are over 1,000 scientists who doubt global climate changes as a man-made phenomena. Here are a few of them for your reference when you do come across someone who thinks this drivel is true.
“We’re not scientifically there yet. Despite what you may have heard in the media, there is nothing like a consensus of scientific opinion that this is a problem. Because there is natural variability in the weather, you cannot statistically know for another 150 years.” – UN IPCC’s Tom Tripp, a member of the UN IPCC since 2004 and listed as one of the lead authors and serves as the Director of Technical Services & Development for U.S. Magnesium.
“Any reasonable scientific analysis must conclude the basic theory wrong!!” – NASA Scientist Dr. Leonard Weinstein who worked 35 years at the NASA Langley Research Center and finished his career there as a Senior Research Scientist. Weinstein is presently a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Aerospace.
“Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself — Climate is beyond our power to control…Earth doesn’t care about governments or their legislation. You can’t find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone’s permission or explaining itself.” -- Nobel Prize-Winning Stanford University Physicist Dr. Robert B. Laughlin, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1998, and was formerly a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
“In essence, the jig is up. The whole thing is a fraud. And even the fraudsters that fudged data are admitting to temperature history that they used to say didn’t happen…Perhaps what has doomed the Climategate fraudsters the most was their brazenness in fudging the data” – Dr. Christopher J. Kobus, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University, specializes in alternative energy, thermal transport phenomena, two-phase flow and fluid and thermal energy systems.
“The energy mankind generates is so small compared to that overall energy budget that it simply cannot affect the climate…The planet’s climate is doing its own thing, but we cannot pinpoint significant trends in changes to it because it dates back millions of years while the study of it began only recently. We are children of the Sun; we simply lack data to draw the proper conclusions.” – Russian Scientist Dr. Anatoly Levitin, the head of geomagnetic variations laboratory at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“Hundreds of billion dollars have been wasted with the attempt of imposing a Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory that is not supported by physical world evidences…AGW has been forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination that begins in the elementary school textbooks.” – Brazilian Geologist Geraldo Luís Lino, who authored the 2009 book “The Global Warming Fraud: How a Natural Phenomenon Was Converted into a False World Emergency.”
“I am an environmentalist,” but “I must disagree with Mr. Gore” – Chemistry Professor Dr. Mary Mumper, the chair of the Chemistry Department at Frostburg State University in Maryland, during her presentation titled “Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming, the Skeptic’s View.”
“I am ashamed of what climate science has become today.” The science “community is relying on an inadequate model to blame CO2 and innocent citizens for global warming in order to generate funding and to gain attention. If this is what ‘science’ has become today, I, as a scientist, am ashamed.” – Research Chemist William C. Gilbert published a study in August 2010 in the journal Energy & Environment titled “The thermodynamic relationship between surface temperature and water vapor concentration in the troposphere” and he published a paper in August 2009 titled “Atmospheric Temperature Distribution in a Gravitational Field.” [Update December 9, 2010]
H/T Climate Depot.