Zombie Climate Theory
Timothy Birdnow
Wesley J. Smith has a blogpost at Second Hand Smoke pointing out that the world's ice has failed to cooperate with global warming alarmism.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/05/26/global-warming-hysteria-polar-ice-still-here/comment-page-1/#comment-29815
From the essay:
"The problem is that some of the predictions hysterics have made that could be judged in our own times, have not come to pass, such as the one that UK children by now would barely know what snow is. Another is that the arctic ice will have melted by now."
[...]
"The snows are even returning to Kilimanjaro, which Al Gore wrongly claimed was losing its famous snow due to warming. Some Himilayan glaciers–you know, the ones that the IPCC once said would be gone by 2035–are actually growing. Oh, and the polar bear population is stable despite the ridiculous listing of them by our GHW bureaucrats as “threatened.”
In the face of these and other miscues, GWH’s now desperately seize at any severe weather event as proof of global warming. No snow? Warming! A lot of snow? WARMING! Flood? WARMING! Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes–WARMING! WARMING! WARMING! WARMING! And the ever compliant media dance to the tune, as in this Toles cartoon."
End excerpts.
I left the following comment:
"Arctic ice melt is not unusual; it happened in 1922, well before the great increase in anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/03/16/you-ask-i-provide-november-2nd-1922-arctic-ocean-getting-warm-seals-vanish-and-icebergs-melt/
There are other explanations for ice melt, and the way the ice is melting does not fit with AGW theory.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/rumors-of-the-death-of-arctic-sea-ice-greatly-exaggerated/
End comment.
Sorry about tooting my own horn here, but I didn't want to rewrite something that was already written. The point is, if a theory does not fit reality it does not work.
When the Michaelson-Morley experiment failed to find a direction for the "ether" Einstein simply discarded that concept; it did not match reality. Anthropogenic Global Warming fails to explain reality; it's time it was discarded.
But AGW is like a zombie in a George Romero movie; it rises from the grave every night. It feeds on brains, too; many otherwise bright people fall for it. And the decaying corpse sure does have a bad smell...
Perhaps that should be the next movie in the "Night of the Living Dead" franchise?
Wesley J. Smith has a blogpost at Second Hand Smoke pointing out that the world's ice has failed to cooperate with global warming alarmism.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/05/26/global-warming-hysteria-polar-ice-still-here/comment-page-1/#comment-29815
From the essay:
"The problem is that some of the predictions hysterics have made that could be judged in our own times, have not come to pass, such as the one that UK children by now would barely know what snow is. Another is that the arctic ice will have melted by now."
[...]
"The snows are even returning to Kilimanjaro, which Al Gore wrongly claimed was losing its famous snow due to warming. Some Himilayan glaciers–you know, the ones that the IPCC once said would be gone by 2035–are actually growing. Oh, and the polar bear population is stable despite the ridiculous listing of them by our GHW bureaucrats as “threatened.”
In the face of these and other miscues, GWH’s now desperately seize at any severe weather event as proof of global warming. No snow? Warming! A lot of snow? WARMING! Flood? WARMING! Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes–WARMING! WARMING! WARMING! WARMING! And the ever compliant media dance to the tune, as in this Toles cartoon."
End excerpts.
I left the following comment:
"Arctic ice melt is not unusual; it happened in 1922, well before the great increase in anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/03/16/you-ask-i-provide-november-2nd-1922-arctic-ocean-getting-warm-seals-vanish-and-icebergs-melt/
There are other explanations for ice melt, and the way the ice is melting does not fit with AGW theory.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/rumors-of-the-death-of-arctic-sea-ice-greatly-exaggerated/
End comment.
Sorry about tooting my own horn here, but I didn't want to rewrite something that was already written. The point is, if a theory does not fit reality it does not work.
When the Michaelson-Morley experiment failed to find a direction for the "ether" Einstein simply discarded that concept; it did not match reality. Anthropogenic Global Warming fails to explain reality; it's time it was discarded.
But AGW is like a zombie in a George Romero movie; it rises from the grave every night. It feeds on brains, too; many otherwise bright people fall for it. And the decaying corpse sure does have a bad smell...
Perhaps that should be the next movie in the "Night of the Living Dead" franchise?
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 6:49 AM
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