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Title: PRUDEN: The red-hot scam unravels
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The Washington Times
URL Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news ... ed-hot-scam-begins-to-unravel/
Published: Feb 16, 2010
Author: Wes Pruden
Post Date: 2010-02-16 10:50:45 by Badeye
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Comments: 32
PRUDEN: The red-hot scam unravels By Wesley Pruden You can fool some of the people some of the time, as Abraham Lincoln observed, and you even can fool all the people some of the time. But you can't fool all the people all the time. Al Gore and his friends got so excited about points one and especially point two that they forgot point three. Not everybody is on to the global-warming scam, not yet, but all the people — or enough of them — are getting there. "Global warming," or even "climate change" as Al's marketing men now insist that it be called, is becoming the stuff of jests and jokes. Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, a Republican, built an igloo of that hot stuff that buried Washington last week on the Capitol lawn and dubbed it "Al Gore's new home." Across the Potomac, the Republicans in Virginia filmed a television commercial called "12 inches of global warming" and invited two Virginia congressmen, both Democrats who voted for the infamous cap-and-trade legislation, to help with the shovel that will become the official state tool before the streets thaw. One day this week, there was measurable snow on the ground in 50 states. (No report yet from the other seven of the "57 states" President Obama once said he was campaigning to be the president of.) Even Hawaii reported snow on some of its mountain peaks, and several towns in northwestern Florida were lightly dusted, like the powdered sugar on a cop's doughnut. A few snowflakes, or even a lot of snowflakes, is hardly proof that the great global-warming scare is a fraud and a swindle, but the collapse of the "science" of global warming is transforming even the sheep into skeptics. Jeff Masters of the Weather Underground — an Internet blog and not to be confused with the violent underground Weathermen of the sordid '60s — observes that characteristics of climate must be measured carefully over the decades and even centuries, not by occasional blizzards and storms. But political fraud and scientific swindle can be measured by collapsing "science." The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in Britain was regarded as the leader in climate research and the fount of raw data on which the science was based until leaked e-mails between researchers revealed evidence of doctoring of data and manipulation of evidence. The director of the research unit, professor Phil Jones, was regarded as an archbishop in the Church of Global Warming. He was pressured to resign in the wake of the scandal. Now he has conceded to an interviewer from the BBC that based on the evidence in his findings, the globe might have been warmer in medieval times. If so, the notion that fluctuations in earthly temperatures are man-made is rendered just that, a man-made notion. The learned professor told his interviewer that for the past 15 years there has been no "statistically significant" warming. He conceded that he has lost track of many of the relevant papers — that his office was overwhelmed by the clutter of paper. Some of the crucial data to back up scare stories might be lying under other stuff, but he's not sure. An environmental analyst for the BBC said the professor told him that his "strengths" include "integrity" and "doggedness" but not record-keeping and "office tidying." He's just not dogged about keeping things straight. This was good enough in the early years of the scam, but not any longer. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and once a ranking member of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says the temperature records have been compromised and cannot be relied on. The findings of weather stations that collected temperature data were distorted by location. Several were located near air-conditioning units and on waste-treatment plants; one was next to a waste incinerator. Still another was built at Rome's international airport and catches the hot exhaust of taxiing jetliners. Terry Mills, a professor of applied statistics at Britain's Loughborough University, looks at the U.N. panel's data and applies a little skepticism. "The earth," he told London's Daily Mail, "has gone through warming spells like these at least twice before in the last thousand years." The global-warming hysteria, on which the Obama administration wants to base enormous new tax burdens, is just about as reliable as the weather hysteria presented nightly on your favorite television channel. Man is driven by his ego and finds it impossible to think even the weather is not all about him. • Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Liberals of both genders have this in spades. The simple fact is when you replace science or math with liberal social theory, you get scams like Global Warming, or massive deficits. There has never been an hysterical enviromental prediction thats EVER come true. In 1975, these idiots told us we were all gonna die due to GLOBAL COOLING. They also said Nuclear Power would kill the planet, btw.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
ROFLMAO...this is hilarious...put aside the issue that Pruden is an editorial writer and paid shill...his argument AGAINST climate change through warming is...wait for it...pointing out how the climate has changed as a result of warming... Tooo funny...
It was tough finding work in 81 and 82. I was working two jobs, putting my way through the police academy back then. Badeye posted on 2010-01-22 16:18:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply A study of North American snowfalls over the last 100 years showed a direct correlation between winter warmth and snowfall, that is, warmer winters tended to produce more snowfall. Several other studies have showed that global warming would lead to increasing snowfall in many parts of the country. So how then does this year's snow somehow contradict global warming?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
Because an editorial writer says so...
It was tough finding work in 81 and 82. I was working two jobs, putting my way through the police academy back then. Badeye posted on 2010-01-22 16:18:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply rotflmao! Stick to this discredited liberal theory, GO65. Its so 'you' lmao.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
So you can't answer the question? OK.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
Pretty sad isn't it?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
I don't feel the need to do so, GO65. Name a enviromental whacko prediction thats ever come to pass...then I'll consider it. Til then, the simple fact is the global temperature hasn't gone up in well over a decade, debunking the Global Warming theory completely and totally. Which is why I want YOU to keep promoting this discredited bullshit.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Your side lied about available data, remember? as for war...poor fraud of Long Island...does he still think LI is NYC? (laughing)
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
More snow in winter due to increased atmospheric moisture caused by warming... Game Set Match (laughing)
It was tough finding work in 81 and 82. I was working two jobs, putting my way through the police academy back then. Badeye posted on 2010-01-22 16:18:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply So what was causing the lack of snow that you moonbats were whining about several years ago? Breitbart TV looks back on Byrd, Boxer, Klobuchar blaming lack of snow on AGW http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/10/breitbart-tv-looks-back-on-byrd-boxer-klobuchar-blaming-lack-of-snow-on-agw/?print=1 And anybody who has been living in the Eastern US this year knows damn well that this has not been a "warmer than normal" winter.
So you ARE too stupid to understand what was posted to you in simple language. Ten bucks please...
It was tough finding work in 81 and 82. I was working two jobs, putting my way through the police academy back then. Badeye posted on 2010-01-22 16:18:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply [crickets]
It was tough finding work in 81 and 82. I was working two jobs, putting my way through the police academy back then. Badeye posted on 2010-01-22 16:18:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Their belief is based on 'faith' not 'fact'...hence the religious zealotry we are seeing on this thread. Its blind faith, not based on any scientific evidence. Fun to watch em get hysterical though...and very satisfying.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
YEa...our side could USE a Wes Pruden...(laughing)
It was tough finding work in 81 and 82. I was working two jobs, putting my way through the police academy back then. Badeye posted on 2010-01-22 16:18:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply I wasn't whining about lack of snow, so I can't respond.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
Uh no. I've provided links to studies of actual data. You have decided to bob and weave.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
That's easy: Source: www.wunderground.com/blog...omment.html?entrynum=1427
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
Yes it has. Line plot of global mean land-ocean temperature index, 1880 to present, with the base period 1951-1980. The dotted black line is the annual mean and the solid red line is the five-year mean. The green bars show uncertainty estimates. [This is an update of Fig. 1A in Hansen et al. (2006)]
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
Sorry, the hoax is over. You liberals are acting live 9 year olds just told the Easter Bunny isn't real. Its amusing...if its a 9 year old.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
When you counter facts with insults, you've lost the argument.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
No insult offered, just noting the similiarity between liberals this week and 9 year olds told the Easter Bunny isn't real. The difference is the 9 year old eventually realizes the truth.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
I would think that the 9 year old would dismiss facts and make arguments based on faith. But that's just me.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
Your whole argument is based on 'faith' not science, so the response is amusing as hell.....(chuckle)
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Not a credible source or report: IPCC Forced to Retract Alarming 2007 Warming Report http://insidetech.monster.com/news/articles/7212-ipcc-forced-to-retract-alarming-2007-warming-report
I was going to let him dig that hole a bit deeper before posting that one.... (chuckle)
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
They didn't retract the report. They retracted a date.
It was tough finding work in 81 and 82. I was working two jobs, putting my way through the police academy back then. Badeye posted on 2010-01-22 16:18:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply This was a lot more than just "getting a date wrong." It was publishing an outright fabrication as some sort of scientific fact, but then again, that pretty much 99% of what they do anyway.
Nope. They retracted a date that was not a fabrication but a speculation.
It was tough finding work in 81 and 82. I was working two jobs, putting my way through the police academy back then. Badeye posted on 2010-01-22 16:18:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply It doesn't matter to my anti groupie. AFter a dozen years you realize he's just a knee jerk liberal thats embarrassed just enough he denies being a 'liberal'. He'll defend ANY leftwing kook, or leftwing kook theory forever, no matter how much evidence you show him. Hell, he still believes Bush 'stole' the 2004 election cycle...(laughing)
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
You say Po-TAY-to... I say Po-Tah-to...
I'm not anything of yours, asstroll, and no one but you knows what that means which is a comforting thought to the rest of us.... Stay silent...you come off smarter... Quick: Ask me if I know where Long Island is...
It was tough finding work in 81 and 82. I was working two jobs, putting my way through the police academy back then. Badeye posted on 2010-01-22 16:18:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Man is driven by his ego and finds it impossible to think even the weather is not all about him.
#2. To: Badeye (#0)
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#3. To: Badeye (#0)
For the contiguous U.S. between 1900 - 2001, the authors found that 61% - 80% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters with above normal temperatures. In other words, the old adage, "it's too cold to snow", has some truth to it. The authors also found that 61% - 85% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters that were wetter than average. The authors conclude, "a future with wetter and warmer winters, which is one outcome expected (National Assessment Synthesis Team 2001), will bring more heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches than in 1901 - 2000. The authors found that over the U.S. as a whole, there had been a slight but significant increase in heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches between 1901 - 2000.
http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1558-8432/45/8/pdf/i1558-8432-45-8-1141.pdf
#4. To: go65 (#3)
(Edited)
So how then does this year's snow somehow contradict global warming?
#5. To: go65 (#3)
#6. To: Badeye (#5)
Stick to this discredited liberal theory, GO65. Its so 'you' lmao.
#7. To: war (#4)
Because an editorial writer says so...
#8. To: go65 (#6)
#9. To: go65 (#7)
#10. To: Badeye, go65 (#8)
Name a enviromental whacko prediction thats ever come to pass...then I'll consider it.
#11. To: go65 (#3)
#12. To: Badeye (#8)
Til then, the simple fact is the global temperature hasn't gone up in well over a decade
#13. To: Badeye (#9)
as for war...poor fraud of Long Island...does he still think LI is NYC? (laughing)
#14. To: dont eat that (#11)
#15. To: Badeye (#14)
(Edited)
...not based on any scientific evidence.
#16. To: dont eat that (#11)
So what was causing the lack of snow that you moonbats were whining about several years ago?
#17. To: Badeye (#14)
Their belief is based on 'faith' not 'fact'...hence the religious zealotry we are seeing on this thread. Its blind faith, not based on any scientific evidence.
#18. To: Badeye (#8)
Name a enviromental whacko prediction thats ever come to pass...then I'll consider it.
According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, water vapor in the global atmosphere has increased by about 5% over the 20th century, and 4% since 1970. This extra moisture in the air will tend to produce heavier snowstorms, assuming it is cold enough to snow. Groisman et al. (2004) found a 14% increase in heavy (top 5%) and 20% increase in very heavy (top 1%) precipitation events in the U.S. over the past 100 years, though mainly in spring and summer. However, the authors did find a significant increase in winter heavy precipitation events have occurred in the Northeast U.S. This was echoed by Changnon et al. (2006), who found, "The temporal distribution of snowstorms exhibited wide fluctuations during 1901-2000, with downward 100-yr trends in the lower Midwest, South, and West Coast. Upward trends occurred in the upper Midwest, East, and Northeast, and the national trend for 1901-2000 was upward, corresponding to trends in strong cyclonic activity."
#19. To: Badeye (#8)
Til then, the simple fact is the global temperature hasn't gone up in well over a decade.
#20. To: go65 (#17)
#21. To: Badeye (#20)
Sorry, the hoax is over. You liberals are acting live 9 year olds just told the Easter Bunny isn't real. Its amusing...if its a 9 year old.
#22. To: go65 (#21)
#23. To: Badeye (#22)
No insult offered, just noting the similiarity between liberals this week and 9 year olds told the Easter Bunny isn't real.
#24. To: go65 (#23)
#25. To: go65 (#18)
According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report
#26. To: dont eat that (#25)
#27. To: dont eat that (#25)
#28. To: war (#27)
#29. To: dont eat that (#28)
#30. To: dont eat that (#28)
#31. To: war (#29)
not a fabrication but a speculation.
#32. To: Badeye (#30)
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