AGW Preachers Beware. The Skeptic Revival Approaches!
B0NZ0
Miguel A. Guanipa
January 17, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1438
The recent U.S. Senate committee report listing 400 scientists who last
year openly disputed Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming claims does
indeed appear to yield a consensus.
But their consensus is not based in the dubious assertion that a plenary
rise in the earth's temperature described as Global Warming is a settled
scientific theory. Neither is this consensus grounded in the bogus claim
that the polar bear population is at risk and should be declared an
endangered species due to the threat posed by Global Warming; or the
incorrect thesis that hurricanes and Global Warming are indisputably
linked.
It is also not based on the claim that due to Global Warming, the earth's
glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate, which - defying basic
laws of chemistry and physics - will eventually cause a massive deluge
of coastal sections of the United States, Canada and perhaps other
countries, the likes of which have not been heard of since biblical
times; or on the purported claim that the most advanced computer models,
which are famously incapable of duplicating the legion of natural and
artificial variables that regulate even local climate, are fully
adequate to forecast the impending global doom so ominously predicted by
Al Gore in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth".
And most emphatically, this consensus is not rooted in the infuriating
declaration that Global Warming skeptics comprise only a half a dozen or
so misguided sell outs to the oil industry, barely outnumbering the few
remaining members of the Flat Earth Society, as has been disdainfully
stated by the guru of Global Warming hysterics himself.
According to the collective assessment of this eminent group of
scientists, no such testimonials meet the most rudimentary standards of
good scientific inquiry, or have any basis on fact; therefore no
consensus is to be found among the 400 scientists that are listed on
this report , other than the nearly unanimous agreement that the claim
of Global Warming as a legitimate threat to humanity is more an
ideological juggernaut than a proven scientific certainty, fueled
predominantly by the politics of fear from the left, and amply lavished
with the continued financial support from unwitting governments and
moral support from the main stream media.
This diverse assembly of Anthropogenic Global Warming skeptics (or
Holocaust deniers as Ellen Goodman from the Boston Globe would call
them) include experts from the fields of paleontology, chemistry,
Chemical engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Agriculture, Astrophysics,
Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Geology, Meteorology, and Economics,
to name a few. Many of them are also recent converts who once called
themselves staunch believers in AGW
A good number of them are former draft reviewers of the United Nations
Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change report they have now happily
disowned as dangerously speculative, as it portends to mandate drastic
policy measures for signatories from world governments in order to stop
the impending catastrophe presumably looming in the horizon.
Their collective body of work on the science of Global Climate consists
of thousands of research studies and peer reviewed papers in myriad
reputable scientific publications and academic institutions.
Their consensus is based in the scientifically verifiable notion that -
stop the presses - periodic Hemispheric warming (and cooling) of the
earth are natural cyclical phenomena, caused primarily by fluctuations
in the sun's electro-magnetic radiation, water vapor, and a host of
other culprits meaner than the rise in carbon dioxide levels, which is
actually an effect rather than a cause of warming. This natural cycle
has taken place - and will continue to take place - over millennia. This
means that the net impact that man - in all his industrial fury - has
over any significant climate variations, is no more distinguishable - as
a contributing former meteorologist puts it - than a "fart in a
hurricane".
The scientists have also expressed concern over how their voices are
being suppressed, by a media that routinely ridicules them for having
contrarian views. They also contend that stripped of its thin veneer of
scientific legitimacy, the theory of AGW is nothing more than an
ideological doctrine, and a dangerous one at that, for it tries to set
itself as authoritative, arbitrarily excluding other dissenting views,
by questioning the motives and belittling the academic credentials of
those who express any suspicion of its tenets, and generously rewarding
those who espouse them, while healthy debate is summarily stifled on an
issue that could have serious and lasting global economic and social
repercussions.
Much to their regret, it appears that vast sums of money will continue
to be misspent by ill-informed bureaucracies intent on funding quixotic
attempts to solve a problem that never existed and alleviate an
apocalyptic crisis that will never transpire, the prophetic summons of
which - to their astonishment - earned Al Gore an appendix in the pages
of history as a proud recipient of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
Additionally, these scientists affirm that most of their colleagues
concur with them but will simply not speak out because they fear their
livelihoods will be affected by the withdrawal of research grants, as it
has already happened to some who have expressed skepticism on the issue.
But primarily, and justifiably so, these scientists are most concerned
with the damage that is being done to the credibility and reputation of
the scientific endeavor by many of their profit and public recognition
driven colleagues and questionable sources of wisdom like Al Gore, who
use their political platform, celebrity status, and the media to promote
a theory which, curiously enough, is so fiercely guarded from exposure
to legitimate scientific scrutiny.
Thus they hope that as the science of Global Climate evolves, and as the
dire prediction of Global Warming alarmists fail to come to pass,
perhaps they will again be granted a better forum, and healthy debate
will resume - as it should in all the sciences.
As for Al Gore, other than taking the opportunity to admit he has some
serious explaining to do to the scientific community, not to mention his
adoring liberal fans and the rest of the world, he should probably
return to doing whatever it is he does when he is not combing his hair
or polishing his many ill-gotten accolades so decoratively arrayed on
his fire place mantel.
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Bonzo
"If the atmosphere was a 100 story building, our annual anthropogenic
CO2
contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first
floor"
D'Aleo
"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for
anything except for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree
panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
"What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the
only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes"
Dr. Richard Lindzen
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately
forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen
Vote out Brendan Nelson
Ouroboros_Rex
"B0NZ0" <boo...@optusnt.com.au> wrote in message
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> The Coming Skeptic Revival
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> Miguel A. Guanipa
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> January 17, 2008
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> http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1438
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> The recent U.S. Senate committee report listing 400 scientists who last
> year openly disputed Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming claims does
> indeed appear to yield a consensus.
Too bad they're not all scientists and the list is from a fraud
organization. lol
There is no scientific organization of any real size that disputes AGW.
Harley
"Ouroboros_Rex" <i...@casual.com> wrote in message
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> Too bad they're not all scientists and the list is from a fraud
> organization. lol >
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