Today's New York Times features a piece by John Tierney predicts you'll see even more hysterical news reports in 2008 about how global warming is about to burn our planet to a cinder...even as the growing body of science is pointing away from the conclusion that man has anything to do with any warming.
Tierney points out the double-standard in the media when it comes to examining the evidence:
Tierney recalls that last year British meteorologists made headlines predicting that the buildup of greenhouse gases would help make 2007 the hottest year on record. At year’s end, however, he writes that "even though the British scientists reported the global temperature average was not a new record — it was actually lower than any year since 2001 — the BBC confidently proclaimed, '2007 Data Confirms Warming Trend.'
"When the Arctic sea ice last year hit the lowest level ever recorded by satellites, it was big news and heralded as a sign that the whole planet was warming. When the Antarctic sea ice last year reached the highest level ever recorded by satellites, it was pretty much ignored. A large part of Antarctica has been cooling recently, but most coverage of that continent has focused on one small part that has warmed."
He cites claims by Global warming theory promoters that 2005's Hurricane Katrina was supposed to be "a harbinger of the stormier world predicted by some climate modelers." To the contrary, he recalls "when the next two hurricane seasons were fairly calm — by some measures, last season in the Northern Hemisphere was the calmest in three decades — the availability entrepreneurs changed the subject. Droughts in California and Australia became the new harbingers of climate change (never mind that a warmer planet is projected to have more, not less, precipitation over all)."
Al Gore's earth-worship religion is full of holes even as his disciples refuse to believe that star in the middle of our solar system might have anything to do with any warming on the planet, or that it might be cyclic, as the evidence indicates.
HT to NewsMax.
1 comments:
This is what those of us in the fossil fuel industry have been saying for years.
It's completely irresponsible to blame a particular weather event on something as intangible as climate change. It would be like blaming my *one* automobile accident on the *few* drinks I had at the party before the accident. The "inconvenient truth" is that people have accidents when they haven't drunk alcohol, so how can you blame my one accident on drinking?!
We've always had storms and droughts. Therefore, you can't blame CO2 emissions, just because we're having a lot more extreme weather events than usual.
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