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The Meltdown of the Climate Campaign
Topic Started: Mar 15 2010, 08:13 PM (149 Views)
Red Rice
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From last week's Weekly Standard. Longer on opinion than science, but a good assessment of why the tide of public opinion is turning against global warming (though the article should have also mentioned that the recession has done a lot to kill public interest).

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/denial

Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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ivorythumper
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Oh darn.
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Kincaid
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My favorite quote (from page 3):

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The rout has opened up serious divisions within the formerly closed ranks of the climate campaign. Before Climategate, expressing skepticism about catastrophic global warming typically got the hefty IPCC report thrown in your face along with the mantra that “2,500 of the world’s top scientists all agree” about climate change. Now the IPCC is being disavowed like a Mission Impossible team with its cover blown.


Ah, maybe I'm getting wistful, a little tear in my eye, on how Quirt used to do this. Gee, those were good times.

I'm still hoping this article will speculate a bit on why the IPCC ran roughshod over science. I'm dying to know their true motivation. I really don't think it was the grant money or the feeling of importance they got or even the accolades and adulation. I really do think that the IPCC was headed by a bunch of true believers.

We have truthers and birthers. We need a name for these guys too. Warmers?
Edited by Kincaid, Mar 16 2010, 08:49 AM.
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Mikhailoh
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Gassers?
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Kincaid
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mikhailoh
Mar 16 2010, 08:49 AM
Gassers?
Oh that IS good!

Another choice nugget regarding the actual science:

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The puzzle deepens when more accurate satellite temperature records, available starting in 1979, are considered. There is a glaring anomaly: The satellite records, which measure temperatures in the middle and upper atmosphere, show very little warming since 1979 and do not match up with the ground-based measurements. Furthermore, the satellite readings of the middle- and upper-air temperatures fail to record any of the increases the climate models say should be happening in response to rising greenhouse gas concentrations. John Christy of the University of Alabama, a contributing author to the IPCC’s Working Group I chapter on surface and atmospheric climate change, tried to get the IPCC to acknowledge this anomaly in its 2007 report but was ignored. (Christy is responsible for helping to develop the satellite monitoring system that has tracked global temperatures since 1979. He received NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement for this work.) Bottom line: Expect some surprises to come out of the revisions of the surface temperature records that will take place over the next couple of years.
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Kincaid
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Whew! Long article of 9 pages. Unfortunately, the author did not speculate on what drives the IPCC and Algore to their fanaticism.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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George K
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Finally
Mikhailoh
Mar 16 2010, 08:49 AM
Gassers?
Hey, HEY, HEY!!!!
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Kincaid
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How about "gasbaggers"? Sort of a nice tip of the hat to the term "teabaggers" but it is less specific to the group as it kind of lumps in bloviators of any stripe.
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Kincaid
Mar 16 2010, 09:57 AM
How about "gasbaggers"? Sort of a nice tip of the hat to the term "teabaggers" but it is less specific to the group as it kind of lumps in bloviators of any stripe.
:spit: And as a bonus it subtly alludes to Al Gore's massive weight gain. FTW! :thumb:
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