Global Cooling? Another Media Fraud
My daily newspaper informs me that “winter blast leaves Britain shivering.” The poor country, apparently, is in “the grip of the worst winter in 40 years.” I hear on the news that Germany is running out of road salt as car accidents multiply exponentially. Other European countries appear to be in similar straits. Major cities in China have ground to a halt. Much of Canada is shoveling itself out of surf-like snowdrifts and portions of the United States are not much better off. Could this be global cooling? Is the scientific consensus concerning global warming wrong? Has the respected United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change been hoaxed by a cabal of unscrupulous meteorologists?
Not to worry, folks. We all know that global warming is an irrefutable fact and that our feeling of alarm for the planet is fully justified. We know that temperatures are skyrocketing, that anthropogenic CO2 is clogging the atmosphere, that ocean levels are rising as they did in the time of Noah, that South Pacific islands will soon be submerged and within a generation or two New York City will be under water — has not NASA scientist James Hansen assured of this dire probability? We know that polar bears are heading toward extinction as the ice floes dissolve beneath them, that the Antarctic is withering as we speak under the gaping ozone hole, that asthma sufferers are gasping their last by the stretcher-load, that the pavement is sizzling beneath our feet, and that the end of the world is nigh.
Let us not be deceived by what we think we are observing and thus relax our guard. Let us instead take comfort in knowledge. For we also know that we cannot trust the mainstream media, whose accounts are contaminated by a prior agenda. All these articles, reports, and broadcasts about plunging temperatures and unprecedented snowfalls, about entire countries unable to cope with wintry disasters or dig themselves out of subnivean mountain ranges, about thousands of cars stuck on highways and motorists needing to be rescued by emergency teams of army reservists — all this, as we should be aware, is the result of a conspiracy to delude the public about the truth of GGW, or galloping global warming.
The effect of this accumulating disinformation is so insidious that, even as I look out my window here in this little town in western Quebec, I could swear I see vast waves of snow cresting above the windowsill and icicles hanging from the eaves like stalactites. I stare at the thermometer nailed to the garage wall and note it reads -21 degrees centigrade and, dear lord, I can almost believe what I’m seeing. But I know deep down that I am the victim of a nefarious media campaign orchestrated by shadowy powers to trigger delusions and hallucinations, intended to convince me that snow storms are battering the countryside, that the mercury is plummeting, that traffic has come to a standstill, and that the power outage we have just undergone due to over-freighted tree branches falling on electric wires are all products of a media-infected imagination. Plainly, we must fight vigorously against the influence of such manufactured apparitions and cleverly induced mirages.
A is A no more.
In related news, Spain’s Meteorological Office released yesterday that despite Global Warmers claims there has been no measurable warming in Spain for the last 70 years.
Thank you so much. I was beginning to believe there was some significance in having snow that fell Christmas Eve still here in the yard in SW Oklahoma on Jan. 13. As if that’s never happened before. I’m sure the Comanches saw something like that in their buffalo pasture back around 1810 or so.
This is indeed the thinking process of Pelosi, Obama,Al Gore, and the rest of these schmucks!!!
You’ve forgotten, now it’s called “Climate change”. Heating, cooling, does not matter, everything fits.
Now Please take a moment to practice your AlGorian chants.
David – Spot-on. Anyway, don’t you know you shouldn’t confuse AGW with the weather when it gets frigid and frost. You should only do that when it gets torrid and toasty. After all, AGW is Mann-made.
Excellent!
However as David Solway’s interview in Front Page demonstrates, the independent mind with appendaged eyes, ears, nose, mouth and temperature sensitive skin is no match for the dogma of the left.
These people, especially within the herds they gather to ruminate on and then fulminate their politically correct views brook no opposition. They are right, always right and woe betide the Martin Luther’s who would pin the truth to their lie on the church doors of free thought and the sites which sow the seeds of opposition to the totalitarian nightmare these people gladly espouse.
One Day in the Life of an Ex-Leftie – by Jamie Glazov http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/13/one-day-in-the-life-of-an-exleftie-by-jamie-glazov/
I too was of the left. I too had friends by the handful. I too woke up gradually at first, then as my own convictions gained solidarity, in a kind of rush of an almost religious experience as the scales dropped and blessed enlightenment confirmed all those quietly contained nagging doubts of discontent and subversion.
There was a time when the left was the minority, the counterculture dwelling in Greenwich Village coffee houses, living on the basket money and raging against the ‘man’.
Those days are gone and just as the ‘scene’ has been plasticised for tourist consumption, so have the brains of the revolutionary’s as they, joined by millions of other non individual adoptees of the happy clappy, right on, look at my lifestyle cult morph into the mainstream.
Make no mistake, individuality is on the run. Free thought is in free-fall. Mass consumption has consumed what was the real left and turned it into a theme park of grotesque inverted values. And demagoguery.
Then figure whose pulling the strings? Why, it’s the new ‘man’. He may hide under the guise of liberality but he’s far from liberal and he’s still taking your money.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, I guess.
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
While humans were looking for extraterrestials with the SETI project, the plant forms of Earth were doing the same thing through telepathy. While humans are unsuccessful so far, the plants were able to make contact with extraterrestial intelligent plant forms (EIPF). Earth’s plants are fed up being co2 starved, being eaten by flatulent cows and unwashed liberal human vegans.
The EIPF have arrived in their cloaking-device equipped flying saucers and are responsible for the current cold snap, hoping to dissuade humans from cutting the co2 emissions. I know from good authority that some of the executives of Big Oil and Big Coal are really EIPF’s in disguise.
I can tell you more but the nurse is coming with a tray of medications.
Mr. Solway;
I have it on pretty good authority that we’ll be globally warming again by August or so.
(At least in the Northern Hemisphere).
Sadly. those who need to hear this haven’t the attention span to read it. Perhaps narrated in a Dr. Seus format?
Can’t remember in which Ayn Rand novel or which character said it but:
“In an arugment between two reasonable people, reality will be the final arbiter”
AGW proponents are not reasonable people.
It is so refreshing to see that someone has an accurate,,umm, spin on reality. I really feel you should have, er, a, let it ALL out instead of holding back so much. Holding back is constipating, while getting it all off your chest is liberating. Better be near a toilet when you feel that liberating moment.
This essay is a perfect example of Manmade Global Ridiculing. Gotta luv the dripping sarcasm!
For a good giggle on this topic, read “Fallen Angels” by Niven, Pournelle, and Flynn. Although this was written a while back, the topic is interestingly relevant: the greens take power in the US, cut down air pollution and CO2 emissions – and “surprise”, AGW turned out to be the only thing holding us back from the next ice age.
What the AGW climate modelers can’t seem to grasp is “when your model fails to reflect reality, it isn’t reality that’s wrong.”
Brilliant, and brilliantly funny.
And next sumer, when record heat wafts across your nose, you will forget your circumstantial evidence of immediacy and claim, “It’s summer, what do you expect?”
You have no standing.
My friend, you need to move to Southern Calif. where all is bliss, and the liberals are buying hybred cars to save the planet. What used to be,’Reagon Country’ is Goreland, Yes ignorance is bliss until you leave S. Calif and face reality !
For thos of you who would like to discuss Michael-Mann Made Global Warming with your Neighbors (That being people you live next to and work with, not the Trolls that inhabit forums.) who seem to learn all of their Climate Change information from the alphabet soup news, I offer the following link.
http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/sh1/the_skeptics_handbook_2-3_mq.pdf
Never forget; Climate Change is what you call Global Warming when your Global Warming summit/protest/conference is cancelled due to snow.
jd
I have a copy of a Newsweek article warning about ominous climate changes which could result in species extinction, starvation, food riots, etc. The article tells of NOAA scientists concerned that elected officials won’t take any positive action to compensate for this change in Earth’s climate. The last sentence in the article warns, “The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the grim results become reality.” This article was published April 28, 1975 and was warning about global cooling and an impending ice age.
Please, if you’re going to attack Global Warming at least do it without straw men.
Global Warming DOESN’T mean that everything gets hotter, everything depends on the jet streams and weather patterns. The ice caps warm yes, but the Northeastern US gets colder.
As much as I hate to quote Thomas Friedman, he said a better term would be “Global Weirding.”
This is a lot more difficult to critique, but it’s worth it for the sake of a legitimate argument.
Gosh AP,
That’s a different tune than they were singing back in 2000.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
If I might list the Money Quote from that article…
“According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.”
Funny how their story keeps changing to fit conditions.
jd
AP,
That-a-boy! Hold on tight; don’t let go! You can do it; fight it, fight it, don’t give that little voice of reason deep in the bowels of your fellow-travelling soul the time of day…Whew that was a close one, eh? You almost came to.
It’s the same old song & dance: We need Communism to rid us of __________________ (fill in the blank). 30 years ago it was Global Cooling then it switched to Global Warming (“Climate Change”) & now it’s back to Global Cooling. Same media frauds with the same message. Ignore them. They are fools.
“Let us take comfort that this allegedly cold winter is just a hoax.”
Another part of this hoax is the 25% increase in my home heating bill over the moving average of the last 18 years. Do the utility companies accept Algore off-set carbon credits?
skeeziks @ #18: Will next summer be warmer than normal?Well last summer seemed to be cooler than normal in my area (although I cannot tell whether it was outside of 2 standard deviations becuase I don’t know the standard deviation for this area); and so far this heating season seems to be about average (somewhat warmer than normal fall, somewhat cooler than normal winter) and just a tad warmer than last year. What will next summer bring? My best guess is that it will be about what it was last year. So, I highly doubt it will be warmer than normal and maybe cooler than normal (as last summer was). But even if there are some really hot days this next summer, so what? Happens all the time in a normal summer.
I hasten to add, if you think there is AGW do not trust what has been spewed forth by the fraudsters at U. of East Anglia’s CRU unit or by the fraudster at PSU, Michael Mann. They have an agenda other than science and economics. To determine if there is AGW, you will have to go elsewhere. I note that a good antidote to all the nonsense form CRU and PSU on AGW is Viscount Lord Monckton who writes with great clarity on the subject. He has pointed out that most of what the IPCC has published (which comes mostly from CRU and PSU) is rubbish. Moreover, he has pointed out, that even if it were accurate, reducing CO2 by ang significant amount comes at a great cost while yielding trivial benefits. What he has to say can be found at http://sppiblog.org/.
Finally, I note here, that twenty years of warming or cooling mean nothing in the scale of time for this planet. When you have a very long series that is chaotic, as is weather on earth, it is only a matter time before a seeming anomaly appears. For example, in a gazillion flips of a fair coin, you will get runs of heads (or tails). It does not mean the coin is biased, it is just means that you haven’t seen the entire set of flips. That is the nature of randomness. Correspondingly, in earth history, I am sure there have been runs of centuries of abnormally cold or hot spells because weather on this planet is random.
AP @ #22: What does global warming mean if it doesn’t mean the globe is getting warmer? If global warming can mean anything, then it has to mean nothing. (Old Hegelian theorem: everything = nothing.) BTW the ice caps are not warming, and the weather is always weird.
Stepping away from the various attempts at humor, the debate IS NOT about climate change, global warming or global cooling or anything else you want to call it. The Earth undergoes periodic changes in temperature, geography, atmospheric composition, magnetic field etc. There is no debate on that.
There are different terms used to describe the time period (t) of these cycles. That isn’t a valid debate either.
The debate is over the cause of the various changes in this planets physical condition. AGW nutters think that it is due to human causes. Those that are sceptical of that claim point to the fact that things on this planet were changing long before humans were here, among other problems with the AGW hypothesis.
None of this would be of any interest if the AGW nutters wern’t using their crackpot hypothesis to defraud the rest of us out of TRILLIONS of dollars.
As always, it’s about the money.
If the ‘cure’ for “global warming” cost $19.99 at Radio Shack, no one would care. Not even Radio Shack.
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Please note:
1) Albert Gore did NOT invent the Internet.
2) Albert Gore, however, DID invent Global Warming
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An amusing article, but not very enlightening. Don’t get me wrong, I am very much of a “denier,” but anecdotes are not a substitute for science. Yes, of course the other side does it all time, but that is all the more reason for us not to.
The basic problem with the AGW hypothesis is that the information that is most important to determining the its validity is also that which we now the least about. What is the feedback from water vapor and clouds in response to CO2? Most of what we know about such feedback points to it being negative, thus countering the effect of the trace greenhouse gas that is supposedly responsible for our impending doom. Until our knowledge of this feedback is well known, all the alarmism is simply political eyewash and worse.
“The poles of fear, the extremes of how the Earth might conceivably be doomed. Minor exercise in the care and feeding of a nightmare, respectfully submitted by all the thermometer-watchers in the Twilight Zone.”
Season 3, Episode 75: The Midnight Sun. A New York City painter and her landlady are some of the few people who have not fled north at the Earth moves closer to the Sun and temperatures increase unbearingly. The painter finally cracks; she has been hallucinating the heat when the Earth is actually moving away from the Sun and everybody is going to freeze.
Dee-dee-DEE-dee Dee-dee-DEE-dee …
Heat, cold, rain, drought . . it doesn’t matter. Whatever is happenning, you people are responsible and you are all in big trouble! But I can help you if you send me money. Al
I am 60 and had a 20 something lib in the office today. Last week it was snowy and cold today it was 40. She said she had never seen it get warm so fast, had I? I said yes many times. I always remember January because I was born that month. Anyway, the libbies have all the stupid children brainwashed.
Hungarian scientist fired for being skeptical:
From Miklos Zagoni, Physicist
Budapest, Hungary As a lead climate adviser, I was working for the Hungarian Government’s Ministry of Environment and Water.
Please leave a message for the Hungarian government that the world has seen what they did.
To: Mr. Gordon BAJNAI
Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary
lakossag@meh.gov.hu
Original story at:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-7715-Portland-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2010m1d12-Hungarian-Physicist-Dr-Ferenc-Miskolczi-proves-CO2-emissions-irrelevant-in-Earths-Climate