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Title: We've Been Had
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URL Source: http://townhall.com/columnists/Walt ... liams/2009/12/09/weve_been_had
Published: Dec 9, 2009
Author: Walter E. Williams
Post Date: 2009-12-09 09:29:59 by Eric Stratton
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Views: 317
Comments: 28
We've Been Had Last year, my column "Global Warming Rope-A-Dope" (12/24/08) started out: "Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil." New evidence proves that climatologists and environmental policy advocates have not only fed us lies, engaged in scientific and academic fraud but committed criminal acts as well. Last month, Russian computer hackers obtained thousands of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. CRU has the world's largest temperature data set. In collaboration with scientists around the world, including the U.S., its research and mathematical models form the basis of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2007 global warming report. The e-mails involved communication among climate researchers and policy advocates around the world who brazenly discuss both the destruction and hiding of data that does not support their global-warming claims. They discuss criminally deleting data rather than comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. There's also discussion of faking data for journals such as Nature, conspiring to keep opposing science out of peer-reviewed journals (which they controlled the editorial boards), and using statistical "tricks" to hide the cooling period of the last 10 years. One e-mail said, "The fact is we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." Another said, "it would be nice to try to 'contain' the putative 'MWP,' even if we don't yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back." MWP refers to the Medieval Warm Period (800 A.D. to 1300 A.D.) when the Earth was much warmer than it is now. This bothers the global warmers because they can't blame the temperature increase a thousand years ago on SUVs, coal-burning power plants, incandescent bulbs and 60-inch TV screens. Editors of professional journals, who were willing to publish articles that disagreed with the warmers, were forced to resign -- as was in the cases of editors at Climate Research and Geophysical Research Letters. A flagrant example of suppression is found in CRU director Phil Jones', letter to Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann that questions whether the work of academics who question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the IPCC report, which represents the environmental extremist's view on climate science. Jones writes, "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" The fact of the matter is an increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling. Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University, says, "Recent solar changes suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle. A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if that is likely." Geologist Dr. David Gee, chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress, currently at Uppsala University in Sweden asks, "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?" Last year's column closed with my speculation that if ever "the permafrost returns to northern U.S., as far south as New Jersey as it once did, it's not inconceivable that Congress, caught in the grip of global warming zealots, would keep all the laws on the books they wrote in the name of fighting global warming. Personally, I would not put it past them to write more." This is confirmed by the Obama administration's climate czar, Carol Browner, who, despite dishonesty, fraud and criminality, says she considers the science on global warming settled. Poster Comment: We get "had" by our FedGov on a daily basis!
Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
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#1. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
I love when they say that. It's an automatic indicator, a giant red blaring signal, that the speaker in question has ZERO CLUE about what science is, let alone what one may derive from the scientific method.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
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The solution is obvious, the timing is now...we're pretty close now.
But...BUT...How can that be /sarcasm I remember when I was a child, hearing all the rhetoric about the coming ice age. Scared the crap out of me. I hate the cold
The bottom line is, people really are going to go broke in attempts not to become giant meat Popsicles - assuming there's any heating fuel available to them. Myself, I'd burn Traitors to heat the house, etc. Would never run out either...
I'm not entirely certain why "global warming" would be a bad thing (speaking of course in the realm that the AGW freaks go on about, a 1 or 2 degree rise). Extended growing season(s), nicer winters, hot summers (we don't have swimming pools?). Gosh, it sure would suck if we didn't get down to -20F this year and only got down to -18F. That said, we're clearly not warming. Even if we were there would be zero point zero facts to back up mankind as the cause. This scam is absolutely unbelievable. Even as the truth is flowing right now on this though, the same people that were duped and grudgingly admit they might have been wrong will, tomorrow, be latching onto the next big government power play.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
Never thought of that LOL
It's non-compliant grass eaters like you who forced the giant brained politicians and their toady scientists to re-package their public warnings as "climate change" rather than "global warming."
Your not suppose to look at it that way ;-) Good point. I cant wait to poke my Aunt in the eye over this during Christmas.
Every time I see something about this I visualize this lttle damn chicken running around the barnyard saying something about the sky. Ahhh, maybe just one of those flashbacks they've been promising.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
That fuel supply would most likely last quite a long time.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
Golly! I sure hope that didn't upset them. I don't like upsetting the big brained super genius types like them with my silly and meek questions. I do hope I can be forgiven, redeemed if you will?
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
That is certainly a polite way of describing repeated gang rape.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
I love when they say that. It's an automatic indicator, a giant red blaring signal, that the speaker in question has ZERO CLUE about what science is, let alone what one may derive from the scientific method. Precisely. The Scientific Method demands that every datum be accounted for in the theory or that the theory be revised to accommodate the data, or totally thrown out and a new theory written which accounts for ALL of the data. What we have going on in the Glowbull Warming "debate" is not Science. It is political machinations which are adopting the color of science to mask another agenda i.e., control. That the "scientists" at the CRU are finding it necessary to alter and/or obfuscate the actual data shows that they are not practicing SCIENCE. Science has long left the room at the CRU. Carol Browner's comment simply illustrates clearly, to anyone with the wit to look and the intellectual honesty to see what is there, that the Glowbull Warming issue is NOT a matter of Science but a matter of hidden agenda Politics.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
I wonder if ya gotta dry em in the sun like peat moss to get the best heat out of em ;-)
Good point you bring up actually. The best way to prepare them is via a decent wood chipper, then letting the results dry out in the open. Keep the pigs in the pen or they'll tend to munch a bit and that would deplete the fuel.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
During the Cretaceous we had a higher CO2 level - which provided for more luxuriant plant growth - giant Fern Trees etc., ... Despite the apocalyptic warnings of imminent doom Glowbull Warming would likely be a net positive - although people living near and on the coast might not be pleased with rising sea levels. However, in the end the data does not support Glowbull Warming as a theory. We do have environmental problems though that are real and are much more in need of address. For Example: Growing "Dead Zones" in the ocean. This has an impact on food supply and atmosphere both. Man Made Radiation Level increases through the use of "Depleted" Uranium munitions. DU dust is in the atmosphere and is circling the planet. The prevailing winds are carrying enough away and around the planet to increase global cancer rates and reduce fertility. The places where it has been used extensively (Iraq, Kosovo, etc., ...) are likey to be, at best, marginally habitable for several thousand years (DU has a half life of 4.5 BILLION years). Cancer rates and birth defects are already increasing in Iraq, and it will likely shorten lifespan as well (it is too soon to measure that). (Anecdotally there seems to be an increase in birth defects among Vets who have served in the regions where DU has been most profligately used. However, the Military Medical System is not forthcoming with data.) Atmospheric dumping of Mercury Vapor from Coal Fired Power Plants, along with Sulfur Dioxide, are creating health problems for those living near them. The dumping of toxic waste into water systems e.g., heavy metals, phosphates, Cyanoids, pharmaceutical waste from humans, etc., ... There are others, but that is enough to make my point: We have environmental problems but Glowbull Warming is among the least of them. (Edited to correct typo.)
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
Yes, that does seem to be the way to go
You want I should send you one of my company's 2010 Winter catalogs? The new Auschwitz Jr. jew-burning stove is a real honey. Energy Star rated too.
Outstanding post.
Does your company by chance sell adult winter coats with diamonds sewn into the lining??
_________________________________________________________________________ No, but if you use one of our stoves you should end up with a good supply of those. You might be interested in our line of rectal diamond extractors though.
Thank you for the kind words. "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
LOL. yeah, burnin them green gives off too much smoke.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
You are welcome.
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Wisdom is conservationism. It's not the same thing as what the watermelons amongst us advocate for.
This is confirmed by the Obama administration's climate czar, Carol Browner, who, despite dishonesty, fraud and criminality, says she considers the science on global warming settled.
#2. To: SonOfLiberty (#1)
#3. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
The e-mails involved communication among climate researchers and policy advocates around the world who brazenly discuss both the destruction and hiding of data that does not support their global-warming claims. They discuss criminally deleting data rather than comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. There's also discussion of faking data for journals such as Nature, conspiring to keep opposing science out of peer-reviewed journals (which they controlled the editorial boards), and using statistical "tricks" to hide the cooling period of the last 10 years. One e-mail said, "The fact is we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't."
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#4. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age
#5. To: Pepper (#4)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#6. To: Pepper (#4)
#7. To: Rotara (#5)
Myself, I'd burn Traitors to heat the house, etc. Would never run out either...
#8. To: SonOfLiberty (#6)
I'm not entirely certain why "global warming" would be a bad thing (speaking of course in the realm that the AGW freaks go on about, a 1 or 2 degree rise).
#9. To: SonOfLiberty (#6)
Gosh, it sure would suck if we didn't get down to -20F this year and only got down to -18F.
Even as the truth is flowing right now on this though, the same people that were duped and grudgingly admit they might have been wrong will, tomorrow, be latching onto the next big government power play.
#10. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
#11. To: Pepper, Rotara (#7)
Myself, I'd burn Traitors to heat the house, etc. Would never run out either... Never thought of that LOL
#12. To: scrapper2 (#8)
It's non-compliant grass eaters like you who forced the giant brained politicians and their toady scientists to re-package their public warnings as "climate change" rather than "global warming."
#13. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
We get "had" by our FedGov on a daily basis!
#14. To: SonOfLiberty, Eric Stratton, all (#1)
This is confirmed by the Obama administration's climate czar, Carol Browner, who, despite dishonesty, fraud and criminality, says she considers the science on global warming settled.
#15. To: phantom patriot (#11)
That fuel supply would most likely last quite a long time.
#16. To: Pepper (#15)
#17. To: SonOfLiberty, Pepper, all (#6)
(Edited)
I'm not entirely certain why "global warming" would be a bad thing (speaking of course in the realm that the AGW freaks go on about, a 1 or 2 degree rise). Extended growing season(s), nicer winters, hot summers (we don't have swimming pools?). Gosh, it sure would suck if we didn't get down to -20F this year and only got down to -18F.
#18. To: SonOfLiberty (#16)
The best way to prepare them is via a decent wood chipper, then letting the results dry out in the open.
#19. To: Rotara (#5)
Myself, I'd burn Traitors to heat the house, etc. Would never run out either...
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#20. To: Original_Intent (#17)
#21. To: Esso (#19)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#22. To: X-15 (#21)
Does your company by chance sell adult winter coats with diamonds sewn into the lining??
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#23. To: Pepper (#20)
#24. To: Pepper (#15)
I wonder if ya gotta dry em in the sun like peat moss to get the best heat out of em ;-)
#25. To: Original_Intent (#23)
#26. To: Original_Intent (#13)
#27. To: Original_Intent (#13)
#28. To: Original_Intent (#17)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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