Cold Means Warm!
AP’s article on the environmental emergency
…2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it’s thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming…
How fucking stupid do you have to be to believe this shit?
When it’s warm it’s because of global warming. But when it’s cold it’s because global warming is worse!
Ya know, I’ve got a bunch of aunts and uncles with whom I spent decades arguing about theology. When push came to shove and layer after layer of rhetoric was peeled away they said “because I have faith.”
I used to think that was the be all and end all of willful stupidity. And there are a few reasons I no longer do (subject of another post.)
But this! This is worse. This is worse because the adherents to this hogwash pretend to believe that they have more grounding in fact and information than my Biblically inclined relatives. At least they declare “this is where reason ends and feeling begins” and they can draw that line as clear as day, regardless of what I think about what may or may not lay on the other side of it.
But the cultural deconstructionist climate worshipers lack any such discrimination. Instead they kick back words like “consensus” because they were told about a consensus. They don’t know “the science” itself but they’ll tell you all about how it’s fact.
I’ve even heard, from more than one person, the following statement: “Well… I may not know the facts, but I know I’m right.”
No. You don’t. You don’t have the faintest fucking idea whether or not you (read: the people you’ve entrusted to tell you what to think) are right.
There are enough good simple reasons to reduce our environmental impact, look for alternative energies, reduce, reuse and recycle.
Don’t start believing in magic because you just look like a goddamn fool. And a group of people believing the same thing doesn’t make it any closer to being right. Just look at the last election you didn’t agree with.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
The reason we’re getting colder weather due to global warming is because as the polar ice caps melt, they cool the air around them through conduction. That colder air is sent around the globe by different weather systems, and cools the rest of the globe (causing excessive rain, strange cold snaps followed by warm spells–like today in NYC–and hurricanes and tornadoes).
December 17th, 2008 at 1:46 am
I’ve seen nothing to make me believe that man has had anything to do with this.
The hand waving of computer modeling of the Goracle’s climatologists bank on the fact that most people have no bloody idea how complex the computational tasks they claim to have performed are.
They can’t do it. The data isn’t there. There isn’t enough computational power available to map the climate of the world, much less the climate changes.
Are there climate changes? You betcha. Are they normal? We have no idea.
It’s snake oil.
I’ve got a bridge outside my bedroom window you might be interested in.