As we’ve noted before, the legacy media very publicly jettisoned objectivity on global warming long before they very publicly jettisoned objectivity at election time, but even so, watch Reuters tie themselves up in knots with this lede:
Smoke belching from Asia’s rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur’s cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.
It’s sort of the equivalent of Al Gore’s 2007 Live Earth concert: the only way we can fight the effects of global warming is by having as much of it as possible. Which may have inspired John Holdren’s Dr. Strangelove-esque scheme he floated past AP in 2009 to launch rockets full of pollution into the upper atmosphere.The AP reporter who interviewed was apparently far too in the tank not to burst into laughter on camera. Fortunately though, Jim Treacher had the appropriate response: that whole “‘Obama is a megalomaniac’ thing is such a ridiculous right-wing smear. By the way, now he wants to take over the weather.”
No wonder, as Steve Hayward writes at Power Line, “Climate Change Has Become the ‘Dead Parrot Sketch’ of American Politics.”
But when will Washington’s Joke Warfare against the American public finally come to an end?
Fun piece, Ed. Steve Outing’s “Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity” is a hoot. Actually, the approach he proposes has been rattling around in reporters’ brains for at least 20 years:
Soylent Green revisited
http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2009/11/soylent-green-revisited.html
The joke making ability of Congress has not diminished in 80 years.
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The thing about my jokes is that they don’t hurt anybody. You can say they’re not funny, or they’re terrible, or they’re good, or whatever it is, but they don’t do no harm.
But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it’s a law. And every time they make a law, it’s a joke.
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On this scale, Obamacare is hilarious.
Readers of Charlie Martin’s iTatler/i posts already know that scientific appreciation of aerosol-forced cooling extends back to 1992 (and earlier).
Thanks go out to scientist Jim Hansen and his colleagues for giving a 19-year head start on appreciating this … to everyone who has “ears to hear and eyes to see”.
bClimate forcing by anthropogenic aerosols/b
iScience/i 1992
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17842894
Dead Parrot Sketch indeed. As Walter Russell Mead and others have pointed out, Al Gore and his AGW cultists preach one way and act the opposite way. When Al Gore moves out of his mansions into a small tract house and starts flying commercial, when Prince Chuckles cuts down his carbon footprint from that of a small country to that of a small village, I’ll start to worry. Until then, they can talk to the hand. Or should I say, the finger.
It was 90 degrees today here in slopehead country. I was just thinking about having some ice cream, but this sulphur they speak of sounds pretty cool and refreshing too.
Those Ben & Jerry guys should get to work on that flavor and save the world. I just hope it’s not too late!