When Facts Get In The Way
Facts! We don’t need no stinking facts! When it comes to “global” warming you must first understand that everything you know is wrong.
That seems to be the premise on which most of the scientific reports are based. With volumes of data from points all over the globe, the manmade global warming factions are picking and choosing which tomes of information are important and which are not. Naturally anything that shows even the slightest rise in temperature is deemed as invaluable and any data that shows otherwise is excluded.
A perfect example of this came out of Argentina this past week. It seems that the glaciers in Argentina are actually growing in size. This obviously has the global warming bloc scrambling for answers, as it does not fit their neat little global impact model. The response from scientists at the Center for Scientific Study in Chile is that “not all glaciers respond equally to climate change”.
Now I don’t mean to sound stupid (probably too late for that), but if a glacier is made of ice (which it is) then these scientists are saying that not all ice is affected by rising temperatures. So if that’s the case, perhaps the problem is not with global warming but with wimpy ice. If we actually have ice that isn’t affected by globally warming temperatures why don’t we just put that temperature resistant ice on the supposedly melting polar ice caps and just use the wimpy, melting kind of ice for our beer coolers? It makes sense to me, but I’m not a highly subsidized scientific researcher.
The United Nations released their gloom and doom report of the number of people that will die because of raising temperatures. The report said these learned men of science feel the best solution for this oncoming heat wave holocaust is increased funding, to the tune of a hundred billion dollars. Surprise!
Bloomberg and Reuters carried a story out of the UK that stated “Climate Change May Kill Thousands in UK by 2017”. This is based on a study showing the impact of the theoretic increase in heat waves. What they didn’t include in their piece was a report carried by the BBC which said even more lives would be saved by an increase in temperature due to a decrease in cold weather related deaths. The BBC has always been a strong supporter of the global warming team so their editorial decision to carry this report was surprisingly admirable.
A similar pro and con debate is beginning in the US Congress with Midwestern politicians citing the damage that would be done to farmers in America’s rural Farm Belt communities by the cap and trade regulations proposed by the President and Representatives from both coasts.
In what appears to be a growing rift within the Democrat Party regarding the presidents cap and trade policy, Democrat Representative Collin Peterson of Minnesota said “It looks to us they made a deal on the two coasts with the big guys and didn’t think about us…the farms, the Midwest.” He went on to explain that Midwestern farmers depend heavily on the energy produced by cheap coal burning power plants. Cap and trade would dramatically increase their costs and impede their ability to remain solvent. If the ethanol fiasco taught us anything it is that any impact on the food grown in the Midwest will have dramatic and certainly deadly consequences around the world.
On Tuesday, the White House released a report based on the work of government scientists that said climate change will cause more frequent and intense heat waves. Rep. Peterson responded by saying “We’ve just had the biggest floods and coldest winters we’ve ever had. They’re saying to us [that climate change is] going to be a big problem because it’s going to be warmer than it usually is; my farmers are going to say that’s a good thing…”
Willie Soon an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has compiled data showing the earth is warming but that the affects of man-made greenhouse gasses is negligible. Rather the variation in climate is due to variable solar output. He has proof that the documentable changes in energy put out by the sun, the source of all the earth’s heat, corresponds exactly to the historical changes in climate.
The UN has attempted to suppress Dr. Soon’s report and Greenpeace has placed him on their ominous “deniers” list.
Then Dr. Anastasios Tsonis, a scientist and mathematician at the University of Wisconsin published his findings that the earth is actually cooling and has been since 2001 and will continue to do so for the next 10 to 20 years. He says climate is heavily affected by a few well known oscillating systems, El Nino in the Pacific for one, and that from time to time four major oscillating systems synchronize. He has data showing the impact of this from 1943, the 1970’s and currently.
So what are we to take from all this?
Well first, not all ice melts over 32 degrees. Second, everything is relative. And third, if the UN can snag another hundred billion from man-made global warming you can bet your ass they are going find some.
