Global Warming Alarmists in Hibernation

The main goal of this hype, to institute a tax that the everyday worker will have to pay rather than the energy companies taking the bill upon themselves to develop the alternative energy. I believe that we should develop alternative fuels, but you or I should not have to pay for the development. Why doesn't one of those energy companies that just profited by $45 billion take $2 billion and develop that fuel. I'm gonna have to pay for it at the pump, why should I pay for it (through taxes) to be developed? mike1978

Dave, I don't know if you saw the two part video by Steve Hayward on Global Warming that was on Powerline yesterday. Here is a link to the first part http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017378.php and the second part http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017380.php jerry

“Some might ask why pro-darwinism, global-warming-dogmatism, leftwing marxism, and atheism, seem to go together.” Mike—you said it all! Rude

You want to know what this manmade global warming business is really about? "For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of GLOBAL GOVERNANCE [emp.mine], one that should find a place within the World Environmental Organisation which France and the European Union would like to see established." (Jacques Chirac to the U.N.) See full text at: http://www.sovereignty.net/center/chirac.html mike1962

"What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. --Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)" mike1962

I’d guess and say that the religious crowd are worried that if global warming is correct, that by the time of the second coming there will no humans left alive to witness it.

You must not understand the religious fundamentalist very well. If something is predicted in scripture to happen, it will happen. Therefore, there MUST be humans around when the "Second Coming" occurs, or else such events wouldn't have been predicted in the first place. To a fundamentalist, nothing can stop the predetermined will of G-d. Therefore your guess that fundamentalist types fear the untimely end of man are fundamentally incorrect. Atom

“Why is it that anti-Evolution, Global-warming-scepticism, Political-conservatism, religiosity always go together?” I guess another answer may be that many Christians hear the continual beating of the anti-Christian drums from the media et al. leading Christians to distrust them. Along comes climate change, blown up by the same media et al. so Christians again reply with skepticism. I suspect many scientists are following the pack, just as they do re evolution. And they suffer the same scorn if they dare move against the pack. Robo

Oilboy, Why is it that anti-Evolution, Global-warming-scepticism, Political-conservatism, religiosity always go together ? Jebus, what a package.'' The thing I see running through a lot of this is truth. I understand that truth is hard for a lot of people to take but you have to call it as you see it. jerry

True science means giving votes to the most obscure of all knowledge, the archived record. It is the democracy of the data. True science refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy of models that merely happen to be seeking funding. Rampant, consensus science OTOH, turns true science inside-out. Should consensus science fail, judicial science will succeed. Consensus science cons the senses. Post normal science stretches truth until taught. eebrom

After the crazy-warm Dec-Jan we had (here in the NE at least) we were bound to have a cold spring or summer. The weather always seems to balance itself out somehow. I've heard a "La Nina" is projected to form in the Pacific, which would give most of the US below-normal temps for a good deal of time. It would also likely mean more hurricanes though, which the warming alarmists will be thrilled about. shaner74

Why is it that anti-Evolution, Global-warming-scepticism, Political-conservatism, religiosity always go together ?

I'd guess and say that the religious crowd are worried that if global warming is correct, that by the time of the second coming there will no humans left alive to witness it. An armageddon of sorts, although perhaps not exactly what the religious crowd had in mind. Acquiesce

And in a related matter Quake lifts Solomons island out of the sea. Global warming was supposedly going to cause seas to rise and make the Pacific islands disappear tribune7

"Why is it that anti-Evolution, Global-warming-scepticism, Political-conservatism, religiosity always go together?" Some might ask why pro-darwinism, global-warming-dogmatism, leftwing marxism, and atheism, seem to go together. Make one wonder. mike1962

To OilBoy- 1) ID is not anti-evolution 2) It isn't global warming, per se, rather many people question the cause. 3) I have yet to hear why a warmer Earth is a bad thing- a thought echoed by DaveScot and many others. Joseph

"Why is it that anti-Evolution, Global-warming-scepticism, Political-conservatism, religiosity always go together ? Jebus, what a package." http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote04.html I got this link off this site, can't remember who posted it. But OilBoy I think it would go a long way to answering your question. Crash

I know plenty of folks to the left of center politically who have their doubts about global warming. I think that the link you suggest is largly a construct of the media. The Scubaredneck

Why is it that anti-Evolution, Global-warming-scepticism, Political-conservatism, religiosity always go together ? Jebus, what a package. OilBoy

WinglesS is exactly right. The global warming alarmists show their ignorance when they say that the "global cooling" argument is just a canard. Through a well understood mechanism, the melting of the arctic ice cap would indeed cause NW europe to become significantly cooler. And we wonder why most of the support for Kyoto comes from the EU. ;-) The Scubaredneck

I was just wondering this morning while walking to my car after church why it should be so unseasonably cold when the global climate is supposed to be getting warmer. Strange indeed. crandaddy

The typical response from the Global Warming Crowd is that global warming causes abnormal weather, not just warm weather. Of course, there are a couple of problems with this: 1. There have been years in the past (before industrialization) in which there has been abnormal weather, and there have been years after idustrialization in which weather has been normal. Abnormal weather is...well, normal. 2. If global warming can explain all events and their opposite, then it can explain everything, and as the saying goes, if something can explain everything, then it explains nothing. Ryan

Dave, clearly you are bring your religious motivations to this debate. This is just a matter of timing. Be assured that during summer the global warming alarmists will be all over the place. Anyway, won't people comment on this? Find raises doubts on key theory of human evolution http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=511592007 Mats

Of course, you can't use a few days of local temperatures to conclude anything about global climate change. But local weather (warming only) has been used to influence public opinion and fan the hysteria. A few months ago, one of the broadcast networks' website had a page where you could send in personal anecdotes about global warming, as if a couple of days of record temps in East Buffalo Chip Arkansas had any relevance to global climate change. I guess the important thing is to get some content---any content---to fill in the global warming news template. russ

I don't think that global warming always results in all places on earth getting warmer. Some areas could in fact become cooler as ocean currents change. However I do think that at least some news sources should have given asked for a reason reason why the local cooling was an expected effect of global warming. WinglesS

Dave, Is the following the headline you were looking for?: "Global Warming Leads to Easter Cooling" ;) Joseph