Global Warming: The Left’s Religion
The Left’s obsession with propping up the IPCC report is predictable because the global warming debate is the Left’s religion. This Ellen Goodman column is proof of their obsession with the global warming religion:
By every measure, the U N ’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the level of alarm. The fact of global warming is “unequivocal.” The certainty of the human role is now somewhere over 90 percent. Which is about as certain as scientists ever get.
I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
Ms. Goodman would be wise to understand that we aren’t disputing the fact that temperatures are rising. We’re simply arguing that there’s proof of warm periods and mini ice ages and that these temperature fluctuations are cyclical, not manmade. I’m also disputing the IPCC’s report because there isn’t any critical review of their findings, which means that they’re asking us to trust them. It isn’t only that I don’t trust the UN, it’s that I think Reagan’s old “trust but verify” policy is the right policy to follow.
Michael Crichton stated that the models that the global warming crowd use have been discredited. Crichton cited the Hockey Stick graph as an example of the inaccuracy of their work. Here’s my post on Crichton discrediting the Hockey Stick graph:
To summarize it briefly: in 1998-99 the American climate researcher Michael Mann and his co-workers published an estimate of global temperatures from the year 1000 to 1980. Mann’s results appeared to show a spike in recent temperatures that was unprecedented in the last thousand years. His alarming report formed the centerpiece of the U.N.’s Third Assessment Report, in 2001.
Mann’s work was immediately criticized because it didn’t show the well-known Medieval Warm Period, when temperatures were warmer than they are today, or the Little Ice Age that began around 1500, when the climate was colder than today. But real fireworks began when two Canadian researchers, McIntyre and McKitrick, attempted to replicate Mann’s study. They found grave errors in the work, which they detailed in 2003: calculation errors, data used twice, data filled in, and a computer program that generated a hockeystick out of any data fed to it-even random data. Mann’s work has since been dismissed by scientists around the world who subscribe to global warning.
Why did the UN accept Mann’s report so uncritically? Why didn’t they catch the errors? Because the IPCC doesn’t do independent verification. And perhaps because Mann himself was in charge of the section of the report that included his work.
I wonder if Ms. Goodman has bothered talking with a knowledgeable critic of the manmade global warming theory like Michael Crichton. I suspect she hasn’t. If she had, she might have come to a completely different set of conclusions. Ms. Goodman’s opinions aren’t based on critical thinking but rather on a faith basis. Ergo my contention that the environment in general and global warming in particular are the radical Left’s religion.
One final thought on Ms. Goodman’s article: It’s silly for her to compare people who disagree with the causes of global warming with Holocaust deniers. Holocaust deniers are doing their thing as part of their spin. Conservatives who disagree with the source of global warming are doing so because of the scarcity of verifiable evidence on the causes of it.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
February 9th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
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February 9th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
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February 9th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Give us more power because there are too many poor,
Give us more power because we need to make peace with our enemies,
Give us more power because you need better health care,
Give us more power because there is too much fat in your diet,
Give us more power because the earth is dying of too much CO2, and its your fault.
Its the same damned time after time after time; give us more power, because we want to control your lives.
These people are hysterics and hypocrits, and they are destroying the country.
February 9th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Al gore still had not spoken up on the middle age warming, when the artic oceans were melted in the 9-12th centuries. Will he blame it on Cars? Yes, he is that ignorant to believe cars caused it in the 11th century. These lefties only want control, not the truth. Global warming is part of a sun cycle we still have no control over.
Do you know that Al Gore is a gadzillionaier and doesn’t proactive conservation. He is a hypocrite
February 9th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
What’s with the wood for Crichton this week? This is like the third or fourth time you’ve cited him. Either he’s the only critic of global warming out there, or you’ve got some strange fascination with this guy who is best known for works of fiction, thinks that he’s had paranormal experiences, and uses characters in his books to mock his critics. Nevermind that his rationale for criticizing global warming is based on an assumption that he is the Gallileo of our era.
What he fails to address (and by extension, you too) is a very basic question: whom does our current use of fossil fuels benefit, and who does it harm? Do we want to send our dollars to Iran and Venezuela, or do we want to put our resources behind developing alternative, clean fuel that can be grown or made right here in the USA? And what about the potential for our enemies to do it first? Talk about homeland insecurity!
Imagine if the Middle East didn’t matter to us. Let ‘em fight amongst themselves. Imagine if Hugo Chavez’s funding dried up, and he no longer had a world stage to stand upon and castigate us. Imagine the money to be made if the US developed a fuel that could be sold to the rest of the world, making our trade deficit disappear and ensuring American dominance for the next hundred years.
February 10th, 2007 at 6:14 am
Cooler Heads Wil Prevail…
As we head into our third week of freezing temperatures here in the Northeast, with some parts of upstate New York buried under eight feet of snow, the global warming/climate change hysteria continues unabated, as the idiotic Al Gore wanders the plan…..
February 10th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Thats fine, you want a create an alternative energy source; just DO IT!
We dont need an hypocritical arrogant jackass and a “news media” creating a false science among all the other nightly crises for a stupid population to do that!
February 10th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
All lefty moonbats do is postulate, fantasize and take vital oxygen from the earth.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
T.A.Gray: is this the same ’stupid population’ that you hailed as geniuses when they voted the Republicans into office???
February 13th, 2007 at 11:38 am
When did you hear me say that???
Anybody that still takes the alphabet news media as devoted to truth IS stupid, I dont care how he votes.
Course even a dimbulb manages to get things right once in a while, and your right the earth’s climate probably is warming; but don’t expect me to wring my hands about it and vote for some wussy liberal.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Nothing but fraud from the party of Criminals. Global Warming is a democrat farce because they have nothing else to offer. Why are the Dims moving up the Campaign for ? They don’t plan on fixing Social Security or entitlements . They just want to hurry up and try to weasel their way into the White House riding on their sunami of lies and their smearing tactics before before they are all exposed. Democrats don’t deserve to call themselves Americans. Traitorous Bastards.`
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
It’s funny, the same folks who believe global warming is a “crazy myth” are very often the same people who believe such “realistic” things as: a virgin can give birth, a person can rise from the dead, a man in the sky hears and answers prayers, the Earth is 6,000 years old, etc., etc.
Let’s not beat around the bush. Religious people fear, if not loath, science because it continually debunks the fairy tales they believe.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:37 pm
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