By Michael Schaus
Friday, January 10, 2014
The Climate Change alarmists are clamoring to blame the
recent cold snap on anthropogenic global warming. And, really, what choice do
they have? When record cold temperatures are freezing Niagara Falls, and
plunging the American Midwest into an ice age, jokes about Al-Gore sycophants
are hard to avoid. In righteous defiance to reality based observations
regarding the environment, the far left has unveiled a theory that America’s
recent brush with winter weather is actually an experience of anthropogenic
global warming.
Or, as Ezra Klein put it:
Saying global warming isn't real because it's cold out is like saying the sun isn't real because it's dark out
Well… I guess to an extent, the Washington Post’s
in-house manbearpig alarmist is kinda right. One worldwide cold spell does not
unequivocally disprove the existence of man-made global warming. But it
certainly does call into question the credibility of the experts who suggested
such cold was a fading thing of the past.
No. The “polar vortex” does not disprove climate change.
(Of course, it doesn’t need to. Global warming theories have mostly disproven
themselves.) But it does prove how wrong the “experts” have been on global
warming science. Despite the alarmists’ waxing poetic about climatological
Armageddon, almost 98 percent of their predictions have proven to be false.
Remember when alarmists were predicting the end of winter
as we know it? There was even talk about global cooling in the 1970’s. In the
late 1990’s, Al Gore predicted we had roughly ten years left before global
temperatures melted ice caps, and submerged major coastal communities. The UN
even predicted in 2005 that there would be over 50 million “refugees” from
communities deemed “uninhabitable” by global climate change. Back in 2012 the
New York Times predicted the demise of the ski industry as global warming
eradicated the sport from the face of the (increasingly hot) planet. And in
2013 a global warming research crew found themselves stuck in the Antarctic ice
they set out to prove had been melting.
And now, according to the very same UN that predicted
doom by the year 2010, we have been in a 15 year “holding pattern” that has
seen no significant increase in global temperatures. (Despite the fact that
“greenhouse gases” have continued to increase.)
But, when global warming becomes difficult to sell
(because the average person sees a snow-plow clearing the streets on a
below-zero evening) the leftists do what they do best… They begin to spin.
“This weather is unprecedented!” they scream. Of course a
little bit of research, again, puts a muzzle on their alarmism. While left-wing
bloggers might be prepared to showcase a frozen Niagara Falls as proof of
“extreme” weather patterns, similar photos from the 1890’s, 1910’s and 1930’s
dull their argument of extremism.
In the end, the largest problem Al Gore cheerleaders have
is their devotion to politics over science. The science that has perpetuated
the global warming myth is little more than a “junk” science. And that’s not an
editorial on the content, theories, hypothesis, or politically corrupt culture
of the grant-gobbling academic hacks who call themselves scientists. (Although,
it could be.) That statement is an unbiased and scientific view of
Global-warming-science methodology.
Remember those science books in the 9th grade that taught
students about the scientific model? Remember the process: Form a hypothesis.
Test the hypothesis. Draft a conclusion.
Global-warming-science is working backward. They wrote up
a hypothesis, which was immediately proven wrong… (In the 1970’s they predicted
an ice age. In the 1980’s they predicted clean air shortages, and “peak oil”.
In the 1990’s they hitched their politically driven wagons to the theory of
global warming.) So rather than alter their hypothesis (which is what
scientists are supposed to do when their theories are proven wrong through fact
gathering) they decided to begin working in reverse.
The conclusion, that anthropogenic global warming exists
and is causing imminent climatological doom, has been drafted. And all facts,
experiences, and studies are therefore proof of an unprovable declarative
theory. Anyone who disagrees with them is a “denier.” Belief in anthropogenic
global warming is, apparently, more of a religion than a science.
And like a Mayan Priest that claims the sudden drought is
the wrath of a god, climate alarmists claim the sudden cold is the result of
your non-hybrid SUV. Sacrifice a few trillion dollars (rather than a virgin)
and the angry climate gods will soon return normalcy to your seasonal weather
schedule…
The fact is, skeptics of global warming are not
“deniers”. At least, I’m not. I’m a thinker. And I tend to think someone has no
idea what they’re talking about when they sail their ship into an ice-locked
portion of the arctic while looking for signs that the polar icecaps are
melting… Such moves just don’t scream out for confidence.
Oh, and I have my doubts about manbearpig as well.
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