Will-ful Deception
Jim
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=917053
On Sunday, conservative pundit George Will used prime space in the
Washington Post and other major papers to suggest that not only is
global warming not the result of human activity, but that global
warming may not exist at all. There is no evidence to support Will's
claim, so he resorted to distortion, misdirection, and outright
deception. This morning, columnist Robert Novak used his regular space
in the Washington Post and elsewhere to suggest that global warming, if
it exists, will only have impacts "so far in the future that
technological advances surely will be available to cope with the
problem." Question: Given the lack of any factual grounding, is there a
point when printing mythology about global warming is incompatible with
responsible journalism?
WILL SUGGESTS GLOBAL WARMING MIGHT NOT EXIST: George Will notes that
global temperatures have risen about one degree over the last 100
years, but that "might be the margin of error when measuring the
planet's temperature." Embarrassingly, the only support Will provides
for this statement is a crude analogy. ("To take a person's
temperature, you put a thermometer in an orifice or under an arm.
Taking the temperature of our churning planet, with its tectonic plates
sliding around over a molten core, involves limited precision.") There
is not a shred of scientific evidence to support Will's position that
the earth is not warming. Science Magazine analyzed 928 peer-reviewed
scientific papers on global warming published between 1993 and 2003.
Not a single one challenged the scientific consensus that the earth's
temperature is rising due to human activity. The National Academy of
Sciences (which the Bush administration recently called "the gold
standard of independent scientific review") concluded in 2001,
"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of
human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean
temperatures to rise." In 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) concluded global warming is "real and has been particularly
strong within the past 20 years...due mostly to human activities."
The American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union,
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have also
"issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for
human modification of climate is compelling."
LIES, DAMN LIES, AND GEORGE WILL'S CITATIONS: The highlight of Will's
column is a list of citations from the 1970s of publications that
purportedly warn of "global cooling." (Nevermind that, even if it were
all true, it does not function as an analytic rebuttal to scientific
evidence of global warming caused by human activity.) The first such
citation is from a December 1976 edition of Science Magazine which
warned of "extensive Northern Hemispheric glaciation." The use of this
quote is outrageously dishonest. First, the article in question deals
with variations in the earth's climate based on variations in the
earth's orbit over periods of 20,000 years or longer. Second, the
article explicitly excludes the effect of humans on the climate. (The
article states its predictions apply "only to the natural component of
future climatic trends -- and not to such anthropogenic effects as
those due to the burning of fossil fuels.) George Will is clearly
counting on the fact that most of his readers will not have access to a
1976 edition of Science Magazine.
SCIENCE VS. NON-SCIENCE: There was, in fact, a temporary global cooling
trend from the 1940s to the 1970s. A few mainstream press outlets
(notably Newsweek) improperly extrpolated this temporary trend to make
long term predictions. Importantly, however, no scientific publication
predicted "global cooling." In fact, scientists were warning others not
to do that. So, today, there is an overwhelming scientific consensus
that global warming exists and is being caused by human activity.
Nevertheless, Will claims today that scientists say "they were so
spectacularly wrong" in the 1970s.
WILL SAYS THAT EVEN IF GLOBAL WARMING EXISTS, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING:
Will says that even if, hypothetically, the globe is warming, it might
be a good thing. Will asks: "Are we sure the consequences of climate
change -- remember, a thick sheet of ice once covered the Midwest --
must be bad?" Will doesn't mention any of the purported benefits of
global warming. Scientists, however, believe that global warming is
likely to cause severe hurricanes, flooding of coastal population
centers, and the spread of serious disease.
JUSTIFYING INTRANSIGENCE: As thin as Will's argument is, it's winning
out in the White House. As the world moves forward to address climate
change, the United States, "which is home to less than 5% of Earth's
population but produces 25% of CO2 emissions, remains intransigent."
President Bush abandoned the Kyoto protocols, broke his "campaign
pledge to control carbon output to the relaxation of emission
standards," and gave "recent rhetorical nods to America's oil
addiction." And his praise of alternative fuel sources such as
switchgrass have yet to be followed by real initiatives. The National
Academy of Sciences debunks Novak's contention that there is time to
wait. In 2005, it signed a joint statement with 10 other national
academies which said, "The scientific understanding of climate change
is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action."
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Jim McGinn
"Jim" <jimn4...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Will-ful Deception
>
> http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=917053
>
> On Sunday, conservative pundit George Will used prime space in the
> Washington Post and other major papers to suggest that not only is
> global warming not the result of human activity, but that global
> warming may not exist at all.
He's correct. GW has to do with mass hysteria. Not science.
> There is no evidence to support Will's
> claim, so he resorted to distortion, misdirection, and outright
> deception.
Your intentional evasion of his points indicate that you are the one being
deceptive.
> This morning, columnist Robert Novak used his regular space
> in the Washington Post and elsewhere to suggest that global warming, if
> it exists, will only have impacts "so far in the future that
> technological advances surely will be available to cope with the
> problem." Question: Given the lack of any factual grounding, is there a
> point when printing mythology about global warming is incompatible with
> responsible journalism?
The GW whackos have proven that no such point exists.
>
> WILL SUGGESTS GLOBAL WARMING MIGHT NOT EXIST: George Will notes that
> global temperatures have risen about one degree over the last 100
> years, but that "might be the margin of error when measuring the
> planet's temperature." Embarrassingly, the only support Will provides
> for this statement is a crude analogy.
We don't see you disputing it.
("To take a person's
> temperature, you put a thermometer in an orifice or under an arm.
> Taking the temperature of our churning planet, with its tectonic plates
> sliding around over a molten core, involves limited precision.") There
> is not a shred of scientific evidence to support Will's position that
> the earth is not warming.
He's not the one making the extraordinary claims. It's you GW whackos that
believe the sky is falling.
Science Magazine analyzed 928 peer-reviewed
> scientific papers on global warming published between 1993 and 2003.
> Not a single one challenged the scientific consensus that the earth's
> temperature is rising due to human activity.
What does that tell you.
The National Academy of
> Sciences (which the Bush administration recently called "the gold
> standard of independent scientific review") concluded in 2001,
> "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of
> human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean
> temperatures to rise."
You're quoting president Bush as a scientific source?
In 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency
> (EPA) concluded global warming is "real and has been particularly
> strong within the past 20 years...due mostly to human activities."
> The American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union,
> and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have also
> "issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for
> human modification of climate is compelling."
Yes, and thirty years ago they would have stated that evidence of climate
cooling is compelling.
Global warming is a religious belief.
Global Warming @ARMY.com
Jim McGinn wrote:
> "Jim" <jimn4...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > Will-ful Deception
> >
> > http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=917053
> >
> > On Sunday, conservative pundit George Will used prime space in the
> > Washington Post and other major papers to suggest that not only is
> > global warming not the result of human activity, but that global
> > warming may not exist at all.
>
> He's correct. GW has to do with mass hysteria. Not science.
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