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THE MAJOR MEDIA CAN’T MAKE UP ITS MIND ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE…...

Are you aware that their story has changed at least four times over the last 100 years? I wasn’t.

And that every time, the hype was much the same? I could have guessed that, of course…....

Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930’s the media peddled a coming ice age.

From the late 1920’s until the 1960’s they warned of global warming. From the 1950’s until the 1970’s they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the fourth estate’s fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years.

My skepticism has been strong since I learned that the “global warming” scenarios are the products of giant computer programs that attempt to model the earth’s atmosphere; and that they are unable to predict today’s weather or climate when given the relevant information for 1950 or 1960. Why should we trust their ability to predict the future, where we have no way to check up on their accuracy, when they can’t predict the present when they have the equivalent information for 50 years ago?

The latest roundup of the problems with the “we have sinned, and we will be punished” environmental scary story is Senator James Inhofe’s speech on the floor of the Senate. He’s the chair of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee - you can watch clips of the speech (and others) HERE

The entire speech is available—in AUDIO, HERE and in printed form (with links to supporting information, magazine covers, etc.) HERE . Finally, there is a pdf available, complete with charts - it’s RIGHT HERE .

This speech gives a lot of history, and is very strong at deconstructing Al Gore’s ridiculous “movie”, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH . Here are just a few of his points:

• He promoted the now debunked “hockey stick” temperature chart in an attempt to prove man’s overwhelming impact on the climate

•He attempted to minimize the significance of Medieval Warm period and the Little Ice Age

•He insisted on a link between increased hurricane activity and global warming that most sciences believe does not exist.

•He asserted that today’s Arctic is experiencing unprecedented warmth while ignoring that temperatures in the 1930’s were as warm or warmer

•He claimed the Antarctic was warming and losing ice but failed to note, that is only true of a small region and the vast bulk has been cooling and gaining ice.

•He hyped unfounded fears that Greenland’s ice is in danger of disappearing

•He erroneously claimed that ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro is disappearing due to global warming, even while the region cools and researchers blame the ice loss on local land-use practices

•He made assertions of massive future sea level rise that is way out side of any supposed scientific “consensus” and is not supported in even the most alarmist literature.

•He incorrectly implied that a Peruvian glacier’s retreat is due to global warming, while ignoring the fact that the region has been cooling since the 1930s and other glaciers in South America are advancing

•He blamed global warming for water loss in Africa’s Lake Chad, despite NASA scientists concluding that local population and grazing factors are the more likely culprits

•He inaccurately claimed polar bears are drowning in significant numbers due to melting ice when in fact they are thriving

•He completely failed to inform viewers that the 48 scientists who accused President Bush of distorting science were part of a political advocacy group set up to support Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004

Will it make a difference? I doubt it—the environmental movement has become a substitute for religion that provides meaning in many peoples’ lives. It is extremely resistant to logical argumentation. READ THE WHOLE THING

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