The Abiding Faith Of Warm-ongers

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Climate: Nothing makes fools of more people than trying to predict the weather. Whether in Los Angeles or London, recent predictions have gone crazily awry. Global warming? How about mini ice age?

The sight of confused and angry travelers stuck in airports across Europe because of an arctic freeze that has settled across the continent isn't funny. Sadly, they've been told for more than a decade now that such a thing was an impossibility — that global warming was inevitable, and couldn't be reversed.

This is a big problem for those who see human-caused global warming as an irreversible result of the Industrial Revolution's reliance on carbon-based fuels. Based on global warming theory — and according to official weather forecasts made earlier in the year — this winter should be warm and dry. It's anything but. Ice and snow cover vast parts of both Europe and North America, in one of the coldest Decembers in history.

A cautionary tale? You bet. Prognosticators who wrote the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, global warming report in 2007 predicted an inevitable, century-long rise in global temperatures of two degrees or more. Only higher temperatures were foreseen. Moderate or even lower temperatures, as we're experiencing now, weren't even listed as a possibility.

Since at least 1998, however, no significant warming trend has been noticeable. Unfortunately, none of the 24 models used by the IPCC views that as possible. They are at odds with reality.

Karl Popper, the late, great philosopher of science, noted that for something to be called scientific, it must be, as he put it, "falsifiable." That is, for something to be scientifically true, you must be able to test it to see if it's false. That's what scientific experimentation and observation do. That's the essence of the scientific method.

Unfortunately, the prophets of climate doom violate this idea. No matter what happens, it always confirms their basic premise that the world is getting hotter. The weather turns cold and wet? It's global warming, they say. Weather turns hot? Global warming. No change? Global warming. More hurricanes? Global warming. No hurricanes? You guessed it.

Nothing can disprove their thesis. Not even the extraordinarily frigid weather now creating havoc across most of the Northern Hemisphere. The Los Angeles Times, in a piece on the region's strangely wet and cold weather, paraphrases Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist Bill Patzert as saying, "In general, as the globe warms, weather conditions tend to be more extreme and volatile."

Got that? No matter what the weather, it's all due to warming. This isn't science; it's a kind of faith. Scientists go along and even stifle dissent because, frankly, hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants are at stake. But for the believers, global warming is the god that failed.

Why do we continue to listen to warmists when they're so wrong? Maybe it's because their real agenda has nothing to do with climate change at all. Earlier this month, attendees of a global warming summit in Cancun, Mexico, concluded, with virtually no economic or real scientific support, that by 2020 rich nations need to transfer $100 billion a year to poor nations to help them "mitigate" the adverse impacts of warming.

This is what global warming is really about — wealth redistribution by people whose beliefs are basically socialist. It has little or nothing to do with climate. If it did, we might pay more attention to Piers Corbyn, a little-known British meteorologist and astrophysicist who has a knack for correctly predicting weather changes. Indeed, as London's Mayor Boris Johnson recently noted, "He seems to get it right about 85% of the time."

How does he do it? Unlike the U.N. and government forecasters, Corbyn pays close attention to solar cycles that, as it turns out, correlate very closely to changes in climate. Not only are we not headed for global warming, Corbyn says, we may be entering a "mini ice age" similar to the one that took place from 1450 A.D. to 1850 A.D.

We don't know if Corbyn's right or not. But given his record, he deserves as much attention as the warm-mongers whose goal is not to arrive at the truth but to reorganize society in a radical way.

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[Hilarious Clinton 452]

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Climate: Nothing makes fools of more people than trying to predict the weather. Whether in Los Angeles or London, recent predictions have gone crazily awry. Global warming? How about mini ice age?

The sight of confused and angry travelers stuck in airports across Europe because of an arctic freeze that has settled across the continent isn't funny. Sadly, they've been told for more than a decade now that such a thing was an impossibility — that global warming was inevitable, and couldn't be reversed.

This is a big problem for those who see human-caused global warming as an irreversible result of the Industrial Revolution's reliance on carbon-based fuels. Based on global warming theory — and according to official weather forecasts made earlier in the year — this winter should be warm and dry. It's anything but. Ice and snow cover vast parts of both Europe and North America, in one of the coldest Decembers in history.

A cautionary tale? You bet. Prognosticators who wrote the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, global warming report in 2007 predicted an inevitable, century-long rise in global temperatures of two degrees or more. Only higher temperatures were foreseen. Moderate or even lower temperatures, as we're experiencing now, weren't even listed as a possibility.

Since at least 1998, however, no significant warming trend has been noticeable. Unfortunately, none of the 24 models used by the IPCC views that as possible. They are at odds with reality.

Karl Popper, the late, great philosopher of science, noted that for something to be called scientific, it must be, as he put it, "falsifiable." That is, for something to be scientifically true, you must be able to test it to see if it's false. That's what scientific experimentation and observation do. That's the essence of the scientific method.

Unfortunately, the prophets of climate doom violate this idea. No matter what happens, it always confirms their basic premise that the world is getting hotter. The weather turns cold and wet? It's global warming, they say. Weather turns hot? Global warming. No change? Global warming. More hurricanes? Global warming. No hurricanes? You guessed it.

Nothing can disprove their thesis. Not even the extraordinarily frigid weather now creating havoc across most of the Northern Hemisphere. The Los Angeles Times, in a piece on the region's strangely wet and cold weather, paraphrases Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist Bill Patzert as saying, "In general, as the globe warms, weather conditions tend to be more extreme and volatile."

Got that? No matter what the weather, it's all due to warming. This isn't science; it's a kind of faith. Scientists go along and even stifle dissent because, frankly, hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants are at stake. But for the believers, global warming is the god that failed.

Why do we continue to listen to warmists when they're so wrong? Maybe it's because their real agenda has nothing to do with climate change at all. Earlier this month, attendees of a global warming summit in Cancun, Mexico, concluded, with virtually no economic or real scientific support, that by 2020 rich nations need to transfer $100 billion a year to poor nations to help them "mitigate" the adverse impacts of warming.

This is what global warming is really about — wealth redistribution by people whose beliefs are basically socialist. It has little or nothing to do with climate. If it did, we might pay more attention to Piers Corbyn, a little-known British meteorologist and astrophysicist who has a knack for correctly predicting weather changes. Indeed, as London's Mayor Boris Johnson recently noted, "He seems to get it right about 85% of the time."

How does he do it? Unlike the U.N. and government forecasters, Corbyn pays close attention to solar cycles that, as it turns out, correlate very closely to changes in climate. Not only are we not headed for global warming, Corbyn says, we may be entering a "mini ice age" similar to the one that took place from 1450 A.D. to 1850 A.D.

We don't know if Corbyn's right or not. But given his record, he deserves as much attention as the warm-mongers whose goal is not to arrive at the truth but to reorganize society in a radical way.

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Wow, no bias there. Take a story about some guy on the periphery of science and morph the story into a crazy political rant. Atlas shrugged because it doesn't make any sense but it is terribly entertaining.

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this stuff belongs in politics, not off-topic

moving...

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

One would THINK all the global armers would be HAPPY at the news, but one would be wrong. Why? Because it was never about climate, it was about money and control. Now that they lost the congress, they lost the money and control and by the time they get it back it will be plainly obvious it was never a crisis to begin with. Maybe some other country's taxpayers will save the planet?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

One would THINK all the global armers would be HAPPY at the news, but one would be wrong. Why? Because it was never about climate, it was about money and control. Now that they lost the congress, they lost the money and control and by the time they get it back it will be plainly obvious it was never a crisis to begin with. Maybe some other country's taxpayers will save the planet?

Australia's?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Australia's?

OK. It would seem to me that if the problem can be solved by taxing someone, that one country's taxpayers are as good as another's. Why not Australia? We will give them all the credit.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

OK. It would seem to me that if the problem can be solved by taxing someone, that one country's taxpayers are as good as another's. Why not Australia? We will give them all the credit.

And they are so wealthy they can afford the higher taxes. A kid working the drive thru at McDonald's makes close to $100K per year. That's why they are better than everyone else and have so little patience for the rest of us. It's lonely at the top.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

And they are so wealthy they can afford the higher taxes. A kid working the drive thru at McDonald's makes close to $100K per year. That's why they are better than everyone else and have so little patience for the rest of us. It's lonely at the top.

And rich people should pay more. Besides, Australia will take credit for anything good anyway, so they may as well tax a few kids working at McDonald's (McDonald's is originally from Australia) to save the planet.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

And rich people should pay more. Besides, Australia will take credit for anything good anyway, so they may as well tax a few kids working at McDonald's (McDonald's is originally from Australia) to save the planet.

I think they invented Kentucky Fried Chicken too.

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this stuff belongs in politics, not off-topic

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You are awesome, dude!

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

this stuff belongs in politics, not off-topic

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it's more religious than political

[웃 910]

And rich people should pay more. Besides, Australia will take credit for anything good anyway, so they may as well tax a few kids working at McDonald's (McDonald's is originally from Australia) to save the planet.

I think they invented Kentucky Fried Chicken too.

I heard they invented French Fries

[Peikko 1,575]

Weather is not climate.

Only in the US is there a denier movement that is this obsessive. Elsewhere people are trying to find solutions to the problems caused by releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which is the inevitable result of the use of fossil fuels. Americans hate polar bears and arctic ice and all because they believe this is party political and a Gore initiate. Crazy.

BTW you do know there is flooding in Australia that covers an area the size of Germany and France put together? I am sure they find the jokes hilarious.