Global Warming Kicked Your Dog And Mugged Your Nana
It's getting to the point where there's just about nothing that global warming can't do or can't be blamed for. A new report on glaciers in Pakistan by the BBC shows that growing glaciers, glaciers that are advancing, must also be the result of global warming!
Researchers at Newcastle University looked at temperature trends in the western Himalaya over the past century.
They found warmer winters and cooler summers, combined with more snow and rainfall, could be causing some mountain glaciers to increase in size.
One shudders at the implication. If global warming can make glaciers grow as well as recede, why, it can do anything? But then again, so can any false god you wish to worship. Global warming as a policy point for the left has transformed into a religious exercise, one fueled by a mix of ignorance, lack of understanding and in some cases plain, unadulterated greed. The lack of educated understanding and unquestioning devotion by many of this rather discredited theory's followers seems more like a classic cult than something we need to seriously debate anymore.
Amusingly, the almost same opinion is expressed by those "learned" talking heads everytime I turn on the nightly news. It seems a matter of course for both sides that the argument is fundamentally settled. I would argue that the Right doesn't hold that closely to it, just that the likelihood of the Left's far-off view of global warming is likely more farfetched than the standard cyclic climate change our planet has been demonstrably undergoing since the last major glaciation. The Left will not even offer that discussion, just that they have scientists to back up their "facts and that is all they need. Having come from a science background, I can guarantee you that little reaches the realm of "settled" science.
It is only those who have no decent counter-arguments or who are so wholly deluded that would continue to argue in the face of evidence like this that global warming is a man-made and already irreversable catastrophe that will destroy the world. It apparently is doing no such thing. We stand amongst a crowd of Chicken Littles and they're perfectly willing to harm us, our society and our economy to prove their "facts" with assinine plans like Kyoto, which wasn't even meant to do more than slightly so down the alleged human influence. At the same time, "developing" governments are never included in their arguments, just the big bad United States. Again, you can certainly reach into the hat of usual suspects to know just how dubious a position that leaves the Left's arguments.
Even the Left's latest propaganda piece authored by the man-who-would-be-president can't stand up to much in the way of scrutiny. As we watch Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, we are left with an even greater inconvenience. Much of what he purports cannot readily be backed up, chief amongst his very questionable evidence, man's affect on the long-term global climate. The real shame of this is that his expanded cult is hurting the scientific community. When science is made to serve politics, you fail both and Al Gore truly deserves the title of demagogue for his part in the EnviroCult.
Such evidence as this, though, evidence that works against the theory of global warming, being turned into some ridiculous "proof" of further damage is so far beyond the pale that I'm not sure how people can still take this movement seriously. Making even such blatant contrary evidence fit the dogmatic EnviroCult belief structure has taken us to a new level and I will not even give this movement the satisifaction of legitimate debate until they start examing the flaws in their own belief structure. You can't debate a zealot.
It's getting to the point where there's just about nothing that global warming can't do or can't be blamed for. A new report on glaciers in Pakistan by the BBC shows that growing glaciers, glaciers that are advancing, must also be the result of global warming!
Researchers at Newcastle University looked at temperature trends in the western Himalaya over the past century.
They found warmer winters and cooler summers, combined with more snow and rainfall, could be causing some mountain glaciers to increase in size.
One shudders at the implication. If global warming can make glaciers grow as well as recede, why, it can do anything? But then again, so can any false god you wish to worship. Global warming as a policy point for the left has transformed into a religious exercise, one fueled by a mix of ignorance, lack of understanding and in some cases plain, unadulterated greed. The lack of educated understanding and unquestioning devotion by many of this rather discredited theory's followers seems more like a classic cult than something we need to seriously debate anymore.
Amusingly, the almost same opinion is expressed by those "learned" talking heads everytime I turn on the nightly news. It seems a matter of course for both sides that the argument is fundamentally settled. I would argue that the Right doesn't hold that closely to it, just that the likelihood of the Left's far-off view of global warming is likely more farfetched than the standard cyclic climate change our planet has been demonstrably undergoing since the last major glaciation. The Left will not even offer that discussion, just that they have scientists to back up their "facts and that is all they need. Having come from a science background, I can guarantee you that little reaches the realm of "settled" science.
It is only those who have no decent counter-arguments or who are so wholly deluded that would continue to argue in the face of evidence like this that global warming is a man-made and already irreversable catastrophe that will destroy the world. It apparently is doing no such thing. We stand amongst a crowd of Chicken Littles and they're perfectly willing to harm us, our society and our economy to prove their "facts" with assinine plans like Kyoto, which wasn't even meant to do more than slightly so down the alleged human influence. At the same time, "developing" governments are never included in their arguments, just the big bad United States. Again, you can certainly reach into the hat of usual suspects to know just how dubious a position that leaves the Left's arguments.
Even the Left's latest propaganda piece authored by the man-who-would-be-president can't stand up to much in the way of scrutiny. As we watch Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, we are left with an even greater inconvenience. Much of what he purports cannot readily be backed up, chief amongst his very questionable evidence, man's affect on the long-term global climate. The real shame of this is that his expanded cult is hurting the scientific community. When science is made to serve politics, you fail both and Al Gore truly deserves the title of demagogue for his part in the EnviroCult.
Such evidence as this, though, evidence that works against the theory of global warming, being turned into some ridiculous "proof" of further damage is so far beyond the pale that I'm not sure how people can still take this movement seriously. Making even such blatant contrary evidence fit the dogmatic EnviroCult belief structure has taken us to a new level and I will not even give this movement the satisifaction of legitimate debate until they start examing the flaws in their own belief structure. You can't debate a zealot.
posted by Rob Beck | 10:20 PM
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