Stormy Weather….
Lynn Davidson, writing at Newsbusters points out the latest global warming hypocrisy. The sudden increase in the ice sheet between western Greenland and Canada – a substantial increase – is only weather according to the true believers. While, of course, any melting is a sign of global warming.
Well, isn't that what some “skeptics” have been saying about the recent temperature spikes? That climate changes over time, and it has been warming since the Little Ice Age?
Interestingly, Sermitsiak published an article the same day, reporting scientists are “almost certain,” based on satellite data, Greenland is “sweating” and has “lost twice as much ice last year as it did three years ago.” Of course, there are no admonitions that this decrease in overall Greenland ice could just be part of weather's “phenomenon which changes from year to year” and “next year the situation can look completely different.”
There was no mention of the increasing Western Greenland ice in this second piece, even though it was updated the day after both articles were published. But to be fair, once published, articles are rarely edited in a way that alters the original slant, and in the paper's favor, most of the other media ignored the story altogether. At the end of the article about a melting Greenland, the qualification that the scientists are “almost certain” about the Arctic island's ice melt was buried at the bottom with the expected standard superfluous global warming alarmism:
If all the inland ice on Greenland was lost, the oceans would rise about seven metres. Antarctica contains about ten times as much ice.
Global warming skeptics wouldn't be so skeptical if these double standards weren't employed to support a popular theory. It's hard to believe in global warming when warm weather and shrinking ice is certain evidence of global warming, but cold weather and ice growth is either dismissed or chalked up to the all-encompassing “climate change.”
Here is the Cryosphere Today website side-by-side comparison of arctic ice. (Enter 2/15/1980 and 2/15/2008 to see the data on the day I posted this.) Pay attention to the west coast of Greenland. That is some weather. Here is an image that shows departure from "normal" temperatures for much of the Middle East and Asia. Again, that is some weather. Here's an example of the data collection that is being used to "prove" global warming." (Last two links courtesy of ICECAP.)
You can claim you "understand the science" or you can believe your own lying eyes. Wake up.
Environment, Junk Science | Gaius February 16, 2008
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By daveinboca, February 17, 2008 @ 3:27 am
For hilarious laughs, you should go to a Newsweek blog site that proposes Al Gore as the Dem NOMINEE after Hillary and Barack deadlock! Because of Lyin’ Al’s “prescience” on the internet, on “Global Warming” and on the lockbox…! The comments of delirious morons seconding such a suicidal decision are simply too precious, unless one is actually concerned about the mental health, or lack of it, on the Dhimmicrat left. Eleanor Clift, whose mental ship left port a decade ago and is hopelessly adrift, also believes this Gore move would fly.
By syn, February 17, 2008 @ 9:23 am
Since McCain is just like Gore when it comes to believing in man-made global warming, Gore is going to have to come up with some other fraud in order to get elected.
By syn, February 17, 2008 @ 9:43 am
Seriously though which is more insane, the EU for taking the lead in imposing tax and restrictions to save the planet from Climate Change or America for following in the EU’s footsteps?
Day after day America watches as Europe commits suicide yet America is determined to march in the same direction; we’re are about to elect a President (either D or R) who is a devoted worshipper in the Church of Environmentalism yet for some odd reason we think Europeans are nuts.
There really is nothing moderate about many of the moderate’s position when America’s Center is moving in the same direction as the European Union’s totalitarian Left.
That siad; I don’t want to hear one word of complaint from the ‘1 billion new-agey mercury bulbs in America’ crusaders when the incandesant ban takes effect.
By Andrew X, February 17, 2008 @ 11:00 am
Let us take note of the recent report that the sun might be cooling, leading to another (mini) ice-age –
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4248062.html
OK, just another report, takes it as you gets it.
Now it has been mentioned the terrible prospect that we bend over backwards to do what the warmeners want, we do it, and then the earth cools. They’re HEROES! And we are locked into their social control forever. But consider…. what if we did so and the earth cools…. I mean, REALLY cools? Glaciers advancing cools, crop failing cools, cities blizzarded cools. Causing major problems.
Well, the obvious answer would be to start pumping CO2 into the atmosphere big time, would it not? I mean, they’ve been hammering this cause and effect for a decade now. Ref: petards, hoisting.
My real prediction is that the five to ten year olds of today will be 20 to 25 year olds in 15 years. And they will not be lacking in opinions of the bill of goods that the (liberal) "establishment" has been selling them.
By Quilly Mammoth, February 17, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
I like this quote from the PM article:<blockquote>And for anyone hoping that a solar downswing might bail us out of our current dilemma: Solar influence on climate is slight compared to the impact of man-made greenhouse gases, a National Academy of Sciences report concluded in 1995.</blockquote>