I Am A Climate Change Denier, But...

Doing a little catching up on the environmental posts. This story from the USA Today compares those who deny man-caused global warming exists to the birthers.

Late last week, the nation’s pre-eminent scientific advisory group, the National Research Council arm of the National Academy of Sciences, issued a report called “America’s Climate Choices.”  As scientific reports go, its key findings were straightforward and unequivocal” “Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused primarily by human activities, and poses significant risks to humans and the environment.”  Among those risks in the USA: more intense and frequent heat waves, threats to coastal communities from rising sea levels, and greater drying of the arid Southwest.

So Ok, let’s break this down a little. The article calls the National Research Council “the nation’s pre-eminent scientific advisory group”. Well, there might some truth to that, but what might be missing from this description are the ties to progressive agendas, especially those related to climate change. The chairman of the Council is Ralph Cicerone, who has been honored with several awards related to his study of climate change and his “leadership in protecting the global environment”. Furthermore, a key member, Barbara Schaal, has served on President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. I could mention even more, but you get the drift. This “pre-eminent scientific advisory board” is loaded with folks who most likely have a left leaning, global warming is occurring and man is the cause, viewpoint. It’s not like Obama is going to appoint a conservative climate change "denier" to any of his scientific councils.

“Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused primarily by human activities,…” Well, they got the first part correct. Climate change is definitely occurring. Climate has definitely occurred in the past, and will definitely occur in the future. All anyone has to do is look at the climate trend for the past few thousand years to see that the gosh darn climate changes and it has nothing to do with "human activities". The earth has warmed and the earth has cooled over time with no influence from man.

Concluding the paragraph, they list a series of calamities that are expected to befall us due to increased climate change. Again, as with a climate that always is changing so too does the ‘landscape” of the earth. Seas rise and fall, always have, always will. During the last great glacial period, Chesapeake Bay didn’t even exist except as a collection of rivers that flowed into the Atlantic and the North American and Asia were connected when the Bering Sea “dried” up. The Mediterranean Sea was once a huge, salty lake. The islands of Indonesia and Australia were mostly connected. The desert Southwest has gone through many periods of drought and wetter seasons. It is possible the Anasazi people, who lived in the “4-corners” region of the US, first settled the area because of the abundance of vegetation due to heavier rain and snowfall and departed the area centuries later because the rains stopped coming. And there is some speculation that the Bubonic Plague that killed millions in Europe in the 11th – 13th century may be tied to the medieval warming period. Since winters never really came to a good portion of Europe during this time, the fleas were not killed. Once the “normal” seasonal cycle returned, out breaks still occurred but they weren’t as severe or as long-lasting.

The USA Today article goes on to say:

Coincidently, USA Today’s Dan Vergano reported Monday, a statistics journal retracted a federally funded study that had become a touchstone among climate-change deniers. The retraction followed complaints of plagiarism and use of unreliable sources, such as Wikipedia.

Taken together, these developments ought to leave the deniers in the same position as the “birthers”, who continue to challenge President Obama’s American citizenship – a vocal minority that refuses to accept overwhelming evidence.

Well golly gee, it must be nice to be smarter than all of us climate change deniers. I mean, I guess I don’t do any of my own research and studying the available information. I need to be spoon fed by other climate change deniers. I guess all those years working as a weather forecaster were completely wasted. Good grief, what a putz! To call climate change deniers a vocal minority is not quite true. More and more people are seeing through OwlGore’s money making scheme and telling their representatives to back off climate change legislation or face the unemployment lines. Not a good prospect in these days of 9.1% unemployment.

I want you to notice something about that pulled study. In both the above paragraph and the full story (linked) there was hardly a mention of the actual data contained in the study. Yes, they do mention Wikipedia, but up to this moment Wikipedia has been fine for those on the left, but now that information from that source is used to support a conservative viewpoint it suddenly becomes unreliable. They mention plagiarism, which is not good thing, but don’t mention whether the information that was plagiarized was good or bad data. If you can’t attack the information, attack the source.

I really do think that the man-caused climate-changers are in their final death throes. They are soon to become that vocal minority, much like the birthers. Evidence is mounting that climate change is not the devastating event that it has been made out to be by the chicken littles calling for us to give up our cars and ride out bikes everywhere and for policies that would devastate our economy. Studies are now pointing to 4-5 inch sea level rise over the next 100 years, which, coincidently is the same amount that has occurred over the past 100 years. The “hockey stick” graph developed by Michael Mann has been proven to be patently wrong. Couple these few items (do your own research, there is more) with the fact that OwlGore has been making money hand over fist with this whole global warming/climate change shenanigans people naturally started to be skeptical. Deniers are no longer in the minority to be compared to the people that still believe that Obama is not a US citizen.

I am a climate change denier, but I am not a birther, so take it back.