From the brilliant Robert Moon -
…there is a flurry of new data pouring in further confirming how utterly baseless this invented Green Scare really is, now even from Obama’s own people. Much like the Swine Flu and about a gazillion other contrived alarmist fantasies from decades past (breast implants, Alar, the Millenium bug, DDT, etc.), public faith in the environmentalist religion is consequently fading, and fast. As Investor’s Business Daily put it:
Nearly half (48%) believe the cause is naturally occurring planetary trends. Just a year ago, only 34% said warming was a natural phenomenon, while 47% said human activity was placing the planet at risk of disastrous climate change. That’s a huge shift.
Interestingly, a growing number of Americans (58%) say we need to build more nuclear power plants, with 63% saying that finding additional sources of energy is more important than reducing the amount of energy Americans currently consume. They recognize that a growing economy requires more energy, not less, and that nukes are a pollution-free way of getting it.
Even countries utterly saturated with the left’s absurd scare-mongering on this, like Australia, are producing loud voices of reason in an ocean of bogus, hysterical environmental propaganda.
As Andrew Bolt, of The Herald Sun put it (on 4/29/09):
Global warming alarmists must be feeling a chill as new facts overwhelm their fiction. It’s snowing in April. Ice is spreading in Antarctica. The Great Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever. And that’s just the news of the past week.
Bolt then issued a challenge…
Here’s a test: Name just three clear signs the planet is warming…Just three. Chances are your “proofs” are in fact on my list of 10 Top Myths about global warming. And if your “proofs” indeed turn out to be false, don’t get angry with me.
Just ask yourself: Why do you still believe that man is heating the planet to hell? What evidence do you have? So let’s see if facts matter more to you than faith, and observations more than predictions.
The List…
MYTH 1: THE WORLD IS WARMING
Wrong. It is true the world did warm between 1975 and 1998, but even Professor David Karoly, one of our leading alarmists, admitted this week “temperatures have dropped…both in surface temperatures and in atmospheric temperatures measured from satellites.” In fact, the fall in temperatures from just 2002 has already wiped out half the warming our planet experienced last century. (Check data from Britain’s Hadley Centre, NASA’s Aqua satellite and the US National Climatic Data Centre.)
Some experts, such as Karoly, claim this proves nothing and the world will soon start warming again. Others, such as Professor Ian Plimer of Adelaide University, point out that so many years of cooling already contradict the theory that man’s rapidly increasing gases must drive up temperatures ever faster.
But that’s all theory. The question I’ve asked is: What signs can you actually see of the man-made warming that the alarmists predicted?
MYTH 2: THE POLAR CAPS ARE MELTING
Wrong. The British Antarctic Survey, working with NASA, last week confirmed ice around Antarctica has grown 100,000 sq km each decade for the past 30 years. Long-term monitoring by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports the same: southern hemisphere ice has been expanding for decades.
As for the Arctic, wrong again. The Arctic ice cap shrank badly two summers ago after years of steady decline, but has since largely recovered. Satellite data from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre this week shows the Arctic hasn’t had this much April ice for at least seven years.
Norway’s Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre says the ice is now within the standard deviation range for 1979 to 2007.
MYTH 3: [AUSTRALIA HAS] NEVER HAD SUCH A BAD DROUGHT
Wrong. A study released this month by the University of NSW Climate Change Research Centre confirms not only that we’ve had worse droughts, but this Big Dry is not caused by “global warming,” whether man-made or not.
As the university’s press release says: “The causes of southeastern Australia’s longest, most severe and damaging droughts have been discovered, with the surprise finding that they originate far away in the Indian Ocean…A team of Australian scientists has detailed for the first time how a phenomenon known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (a variable and irregular cycle of warming and cooling of ocean water), dictates whether moisture-bearing winds are carried across the southern half of Australia.”
MYTH 4: [AUSTRALIA'S] CITIES HAVE NEVER BEEN HOTTER
Wrong. The alleged “record” temperature Melbourne set in January (46.4 degrees) was in fact topped by the 47.2 degrees the city recorded in 1851. (See the Argus newspaper of February 8, 1851.)
And here’s another curious thing: Despite all this warming we’re alleged to have caused, Victoria’s highest temperature on record remains the 50.7 degrees that hit Mildura 103 years ago. South Australia’s hottest day is still the 50.7 degrees Oodnadatta suffered 37 years ago. NSW’s high is still the 50 degrees recorded 70 years ago. What’s more, not one of the world’s seven continents has set a record high temperature since 1974. Europe’s high remains the 50 degrees measured in Spain 128 years ago, before the invention of the first true car.
MYTH 5: THE SEAS ARE GETTING HOTTER
Wrong. If anything, the seas are getting colder. For five years, a network of 3175 automated bathythermographs has been deployed in the oceans by the Argo program, a collaboration between 50 agencies from 26 countries. Warming believer Josh Willis, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, reluctantly concluded: “There has been a very slight cooling…”
MYTH 6: THE SEAS ARE RISING
Wrong. For almost three years, the seas have stopped rising, according to the Jason-1 satellite mission monitored by the University of Colorado. That said, the seas have risen steadily and slowly for the past 10,000 years through natural warming, and will almost certainly resume soon. But there is little sign of any accelerated rises, even off Tuvalu or the Maldives, islands often said to be most threatened with drowning.
Professor Nils-Axel Moerner, one of the world’s most famous experts on sea levels, has studied the Maldives in particular and concluded there has been no net rise there for 1250 years. Venice is still above water.
MYTH 7: [HURRICANES] ARE GETTING WORSE
Wrong. Ryan Maue of Florida State University recently measured the frequency, intensity and duration of all hurricanes and cyclones to compile an Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index. His findings? The energy index is at its lowest level for more than 30 years.
The World Meteorological Organization, in its latest statement on [hurricanes], said it was impossible to say if they were affected by man’s gases: “Though there is evidence both for and against the existence of a detectable anthropogenic signal in the tropical cyclone climate record to date, no firm conclusion can be made on this point.”
MYTH 8: THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IS DYING
Wrong. Yes, in 1999, Professor Ove Hoegh-Gulberg, our leading reef alarmist and administrator of more than $30 million in warming grants, did claim the reef was threatened by warming, and much had turned white. But he then had to admit it had made a “surprising” recovery.
Yes, in 2006 he again warned high temperatures meant “between 30 and 40% of coral on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef could die within a month.” But he later admitted this bleaching had “minimal impact”.
Yes, in 2007 he again warned that temperature changes of the kind caused by global warming were bleaching the reef. But this month fellow Queensland University researchers admitted in a study that reef coral had once more made a “spectacular recovery,” with “abundant corals re-established in a single year.” The reef is blooming.
MYTH 9: OUR SNOW SEASONS ARE SHORTER
Wrong. Poor snow falls in 2003 set off a rash of headlines predicting warming doom. The CSIRO typically fed the hysteria by claiming global warming would strip resorts of up to a quarter of their snow by 2018. Yet the past two years have been bumper seasons for Victoria’s snow resorts, and this year could be just as good, with snow already falling in NSW and Victoria this past week.
MYTH 10: TSUNAMIS AND OTHER DISASTERS ARE GETTING WORSE
Are you insane? Tsunamis are in fact caused by earthquakes. Yet there [were the alarmists] last week, claiming that Asia was a “region, thanks to climate change, that has far more cyclones, tsunamis, droughts.” Wrong, wrong and wrong…
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The evidence is overwhelming. Astrologers are more scientific than liberals. This anti-science crusade is about nothing more than Democrat power and control, as with everything the left does.
Consider:
- The “Fairness” Doctrine (or, localized ownership, as they re-packaged it)…silencing the opposition despite everything they claim to stand for on the 1st Amendment (as long as there is a terrorist, pedophile, or flag-burner to defend)
- “Card Check”…stripping workers of basic voting rights to get more forced union dues (i.e., campaign contributions).
- Blocking any and all reforms against the frivolous lawsuits driving doctors out of business across the country to protect their trial lawyer base.
- The bogus partisan scandals they incessantly invent (Tom Delay, Lewis Libby, Alberto Gonzales, the Bush-coke “scandal,” the Bush-National Guard “scandal” Dennis Hastert, etc.)
- The deliberate corrupting of the Census Bureau for partisan gain, despite everything the “post-partisan” candidate for “change” told us he would do to create “transparency” and end corruption.
- Democrats regularly shouting down and assaulting conservative speakers on campus.
- Democrats fighting to protect and reward rampant voter fraud.
- Democrats blacklisting any news media outlet that actually bothered to question them and threatened the licenses of others.
- Democrats threatening the broadcasting license of a Pennsylvania station for considering airing a campaign commercial documenting their extreme anti-gun record.
- Democrats going out of their way to publicly pick ugly, divisive fights with conservative talk radio personalities like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh while telling Americans to stop listening to conservative talk radio.
- Democrats enlisting law enforcement officials to “target” anyone who ran campaign ads against them that they didn’t like.
It goes on, and on…and on. These people stand for nothing other than Democrat power. Nothing.
It is why Nancy Pelosi offered no objections and kept voting for more CIA funding when she was briefed on al Qaida terrorists being water-boarded, only to turn around and pretend to be appalled and outraged years later, when her America-hating liberal base began hyperventilating over it.
It is why Obama promised his baby-killing base that he would immediately open up the flood gates for any and all attacks on the unborn, no questions asked, removing every kind of restriction, only to turn around and declare that it wasn’t a priority at all once elected (apparently that un-checked genocide part of “the change we need” had to be put off until next year).
It is why Obama reversed positions during the campaign on the 25 years of total energy independence we would enjoy if Democrats would simply stop denying us access to American energy supplies, and then returned to his economy-crippling anti-energy extremism immediately upon getting elected (just like an abusive spouse, liberals can’t control the economy until they first tear it down).
It is why Obama now pretends to support enforcement-first border policies…to pacify resistance against him importing 15 million new Democrat voters.
It is why Obama crucified John McCain for suggesting that the fundamentals of the economy were sound … only to turn around and claim the very same thing …
It is why Obama hilariously claims to oppose big government while expanding it on an unprecedented scale, and why he claims that there are zero earmarks in bills that contain nearly 9,000.
…Again, Democrats stand for nothing. They say anything they feel like with no accountability whatsoever and do whatever makes Democrats more powerful. Period.
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May 19, 2009 at 10:51 am
No, you cannot get an Amen…you can get an
A-Freaking-Men
Over and over again!