What if global-warming fears are overblown?
In a Fortune interview, noted climatologist John Christy contends the green crusade to fight climate change is “all cost and no benefit.”
NEW YORK (Fortune) — With Congress about to take up sweeping climate-change legislation, expect to hear more in coming weeks from John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at University of Alabama-Huntsville.
A veteran climatologist who refuses to accept any research funding from the oil or auto industries, Christy was a lead author of the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as well as one of the three authors of the American Geophysical Union’s landmark 2003 statement on climate change.
Yet despite those green-sounding credentials, Christy is not calling for draconian cuts in carbon emissions. Quite the contrary. Christy is actually the environmental lobby’s worst nightmare – an accomplished climate scientist with no ties to Big Oil who has produced reams and reams of data that undermine arguments that the earth’s atmosphere is warming at an unusual rate and question whether the remedies being talked about in Congress will actually do any good. ~money.cnn.com
This needs to be filed under, “WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!”
The Prince of Wales is preparing to tell the world we have “less than 100 months to act” before the damage caused by global warming becomes irreversible. ~news.sky.com
A worldwind tour campaigning for Global Climate change. Hopping on the Royal 747 no doubt jetting from country to country sounding the alarm about how we need to cut corbon emissions or WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!! Yes, that’s the way it’s done. Hypocrisy intact.
Only 100 months to act!
This is rich. It’s as if Al Gore doesn’t realize that he is describing his exact method of fearmongering.
Our systematic exposure to fear and other arousal stimuli on television can be exploited by the clever public relations specialist, advertiser, or politician. Barry Glassner, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, argues that there are three techniques that together make up “fearmongering”: repetition, making the irregular seem regular, and misdirection. By using these narrative tools, anyone with a loud platform can ratchet up public anxieties and fears, distorting public discourse and reason. ~npr.org
Seems like Gore is admitting that he knows he is “distorting public discourse and reason.”
Al Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a ‘Consequence’ of Global Warming
Using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a strategy for many global warming activists, and it was just a matter of time before someone found a way to tie the recent Myanmar cyclone to global warming.
Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR’s May 6 “Fresh Air” broadcast did just that. He was interviewed by “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross about the release of his book, “The Assault on Reason,” in paperback.
“And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,” Gore said. “And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”
Incredible.
Gallup poll: “Little Increase in Americans’ Global Warming Worries, Public just can’t seem to get worked up about it”
Hey, the public is smarter than the social engineers think we are!
PRINCETON, NJ — While 61% of Americans say the effects of global warming have already begun, just a little more than a third say they worry about it a great deal, a percentage that is roughly the same as the one Gallup measured 19 years ago. ~gallup.com
This is a statistic that worries Al Gore. Despite the all out propaganda effort to convince people that global warming is more of a threat than the Nazi war machine and kamakazi Japanese empire put together only 40%, slightly more than the overall democrat demographic, think that it is an immediate threat.
Threat?
There has also been an uptick in the percentage of Americans who say global warming will pose a serious threat to them in their lifetimes, from 25% in 1997 to 40% today.
Even with this increase over the last 11 years, the fact remains that still less than a majority of Americans, at this point, believe global warming will pose a serious threat to them in their lifetimes. ~gallup.com
What does Al Gore and the social engineers have to do? Plant more evidence? Stage 911-style global warming attacks?
During an interview with Britain’s Sun, the former vice president seemed to offer a down-and-out update on his efforts since the release of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary that won an Oscar as well as the wrath of many critics.
“The situation has not improved since I made the movie in 2006,” he told the paper, neglecting to mention that he also shared a Nobel prize during that time. “You have to ask what would it take to set off the alarm bells to make this a top-of-mind priority in the body politic.” Not melting ice at the North Pole, he added. ~thelede.blogs.nytimes.com
Political demographics have been holding fairly steady at one third Republican, one third democrat and one third other. Recent Pew Research numbers put these exact figures at 29, 33, and 38. Assuming that most Democrats have a political bias toward supporting the Global Warming hoax in order to further the liberal agenda that’s 33 percent to start- with another seven to ten percent of either Republicans or ‘others’ being duped into believing the Global Warming lies.
This will no doubt lead to more breathless, over-the-top, wild-eyed coverage hyping the immediacy of the threat and seeking to whip the gullible masses into a state of hysteria where they will rubber stamp anything done in order to counter the threat. Karl (Marx not Rove) would be proud.
After Veterans objected to Time trivializing WWII as an analogy to fighting Global Warming the Editor plainly stated his goal was not objective news but out and out propagandizing!
Richard Stengel, the managing editor of Time magazine, defended his decision by echoing Mr. Gore. “There needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War Two to combat global warming and climate change,” he said. ~thelede.blogs.nytimes.com
The faith based science of global warming is set to take a fall. Via Flopping Aces post…
Duffy asked Marohasy: “Is the Earth stillwarming?”
She replied: “No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.”Duffy: “Is this a matter of any controversy?”
Marohasy: “Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued … This is not what you’d expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you’d expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up … So (it’s) very unexpected, not something that’s being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it’s very significant.”
Duffy: “It’s not only that it’s not discussed. We never hear it, do we? Whenever there’s any sort of weather event that can be linked into the global warming orthodoxy, it’s put on the front page. But a fact like that, which is that global warming stopped a decade ago, is virtually never reported, which is extraordinary.” ~theaustralian.news.com.au
The left has a definite fascination with killing their political enemies. The latest twist is a fantasy about Global Warming killing all the conservatives.
Global Warming Will Save America from the Right…Eventually
by Dave LindorffThe future political map of America is likely to look a lot different, with much of the so-called “red” state region either gone or depopulated. ~baltimorechronicle.com
How morose progressivism is.
Headline: Humans face extinction claims star
It appears that serving the environmental movement’s radical agenda is not voluntary. It’s mandatory.
The heartthrob has made a film, the 11th Hour, warning that human beings face extinction as a result of the environmental crisis.
At a press conference in the South of France following the screening, The Blood Diamond actor, 32, attacked US President George Bush, saying: “It’s very simple. He’s done very little for the environmental movement.” ~thelondonpaper.com