Global Warming Caused by Hysterical Leftists, New Study Finds.
Everyone from the Germans to the leftist editorials at the Boston Globe to the LA Times to the venerable Time magazine is screaming bloody murder that Katrina and future storms are a by product of the global warming bogeyman. The general consensus seems to be that a combination of not signing the Kyoto Protocols, a socialist nightmare if there ever was one, George Bush being an evil president, and capitalists and Americans in general being dismissive of Mother Nature has created this horrible catastrophe.
Leave it to a group with zero shame to blame the source of their hatred for what nature does. I suppose if it had been a comet strike for example, the same people would now be getting blamed. The fact is, it just isn't so. These Chicken Littles have been running around yelling that the Climate Sky is Falling for the better part of 40 years now. As Thomas Sowell notes in a recent editorial:
"Back in the 1970s, the hysteria was about global cooling and the prospect of a new ice age. A National Academy of Sciences report back then led Science magazine to conclude in its March 1, 1975, issue that a long 'ice age is a real possibility.'According to the April 28, 1975, issue of Newsweek, 'the earth's climate seems to be cooling down.' A note of urgency was part of the global cooling hysteria then as much as it is part of today's global warming hysteria. According to the February, 1973, issue of Science Digest, 'Once the freeze starts, it will be too late'."
All that seems to get accomplished when this is discussed is that the coffers of profit-based groups like the Sierra Club (yes they're now profit-based) swell with money from people who won't do their homework. Environmentalism is just as big a business as the corprorations involved in logging, energy production, and pharmaceuticals the left likes to assault and it's perhaps more greedy and disingenous. I can't recall the last time I saw a serious news piece in print in a mag like Time or on the Big Three networks where any facet of environmentalism or its economic goals were ever seriously questioned. I probably could give the hour and day of the last news quote I saw blaming one of the left's corporate or political enemies for some horrible crime against the Earth.
The reality is, once you get past everyone having an agenda and look at the facts involved, you'll find Katrina isn't any more special than any of its fellow hurricanes. See Glassman's quote:
"Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing. It has everything to do with the immense forces of nature that have been unleashed many, many times before and the inability of humans, even the most brilliant engineers, to tame these forces.
Giant hurricanes are rare, but they are not new. And they are not increasing. To the contrary. Just go to the website of the National Hurricane Center and check out a table that lists hurricanes by category and decade. The peak for major hurricanes (categories 3,4,5) came in the decades of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, when such storms averaged 9 per decade. In the 1960s, there were 6 such storms; in the 1970s, 4; in the 1980s, 5; in the 1990s, 5; and for 2001-04, there were 3. Category 4 and 5 storms were also more prevalent in the past than they are now. As for Category 5 storms, there have been only three since the 1850s: in the decades of the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s." -- James K. Glassman
The statistics don't lie in this case. Strip away the leftist socialist fantasy agenda and you're left with reality. Hurricanes are a real phenomen that have been around since long before we were here and they'll be around long after we're gone. It is sheer arrogance to believe we could seriously affect or alter how the climate model of this planet works. That's several years of geology education talking.
Katrina was horrible, but neither Exxon or Bush or the Keebler Elves were responsible for it. Amazingly enough, even the leftists aren't responsible for the hurricane. And consequently, they aren't responsible for global warming, although I'm not sure about the Keebler Elves. You can't tell me there isn't some ultra toxic world-destroying formula involved in making soft batch chocolate chip cookies. That's just unnatural.
Everyone from the Germans to the leftist editorials at the Boston Globe to the LA Times to the venerable Time magazine is screaming bloody murder that Katrina and future storms are a by product of the global warming bogeyman. The general consensus seems to be that a combination of not signing the Kyoto Protocols, a socialist nightmare if there ever was one, George Bush being an evil president, and capitalists and Americans in general being dismissive of Mother Nature has created this horrible catastrophe.
Leave it to a group with zero shame to blame the source of their hatred for what nature does. I suppose if it had been a comet strike for example, the same people would now be getting blamed. The fact is, it just isn't so. These Chicken Littles have been running around yelling that the Climate Sky is Falling for the better part of 40 years now. As Thomas Sowell notes in a recent editorial:
"Back in the 1970s, the hysteria was about global cooling and the prospect of a new ice age. A National Academy of Sciences report back then led Science magazine to conclude in its March 1, 1975, issue that a long 'ice age is a real possibility.'According to the April 28, 1975, issue of Newsweek, 'the earth's climate seems to be cooling down.' A note of urgency was part of the global cooling hysteria then as much as it is part of today's global warming hysteria. According to the February, 1973, issue of Science Digest, 'Once the freeze starts, it will be too late'."
All that seems to get accomplished when this is discussed is that the coffers of profit-based groups like the Sierra Club (yes they're now profit-based) swell with money from people who won't do their homework. Environmentalism is just as big a business as the corprorations involved in logging, energy production, and pharmaceuticals the left likes to assault and it's perhaps more greedy and disingenous. I can't recall the last time I saw a serious news piece in print in a mag like Time or on the Big Three networks where any facet of environmentalism or its economic goals were ever seriously questioned. I probably could give the hour and day of the last news quote I saw blaming one of the left's corporate or political enemies for some horrible crime against the Earth.
The reality is, once you get past everyone having an agenda and look at the facts involved, you'll find Katrina isn't any more special than any of its fellow hurricanes. See Glassman's quote:
"Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing. It has everything to do with the immense forces of nature that have been unleashed many, many times before and the inability of humans, even the most brilliant engineers, to tame these forces.
Giant hurricanes are rare, but they are not new. And they are not increasing. To the contrary. Just go to the website of the National Hurricane Center and check out a table that lists hurricanes by category and decade. The peak for major hurricanes (categories 3,4,5) came in the decades of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, when such storms averaged 9 per decade. In the 1960s, there were 6 such storms; in the 1970s, 4; in the 1980s, 5; in the 1990s, 5; and for 2001-04, there were 3. Category 4 and 5 storms were also more prevalent in the past than they are now. As for Category 5 storms, there have been only three since the 1850s: in the decades of the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s." -- James K. Glassman
The statistics don't lie in this case. Strip away the leftist socialist fantasy agenda and you're left with reality. Hurricanes are a real phenomen that have been around since long before we were here and they'll be around long after we're gone. It is sheer arrogance to believe we could seriously affect or alter how the climate model of this planet works. That's several years of geology education talking.
Katrina was horrible, but neither Exxon or Bush or the Keebler Elves were responsible for it. Amazingly enough, even the leftists aren't responsible for the hurricane. And consequently, they aren't responsible for global warming, although I'm not sure about the Keebler Elves. You can't tell me there isn't some ultra toxic world-destroying formula involved in making soft batch chocolate chip cookies. That's just unnatural.
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