CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers had never bought into the notion that man can alter the climate and the Vegas snowstorm didn’t impact his opinion. Myers, an American Meteorological Society certified meteorologist, explained on CNN’s Dec. 18 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that the whole idea is arrogant and mankind was in danger of dying from other natural events more so than global warming.
“You know, to think that we could affect weather all that much is pretty arrogant,” Myers said. “Mother Nature is so big, the world is so big, the oceans are so big – I think we’re going to die from a lack of fresh water or we’re going to die from ocean acidification before we die from global warming, for sure.”
It’s a lonely thing to be outnumbered when you think you’re right. That’s true for several hundred scientists who are pushing back against the United Nation’s global warming alarmism. Marc Morano from the minority staff of the Senate’s Environment & Public Works committee writes:
UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in ‘Dustbin of History’
POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.
The U.S. Senate report is the latest evidence of the growing groundswell of scientific opposition rising to challenge the UN and Gore. Scientific meetings are now being dominated by a growing number of skeptical scientists. The prestigious International Geological Congress, dubbed the geologists’ equivalent of the Olympic Games, was held in Norway in August 2008 and prominently featured the voices and views of scientists skeptical of man-made global warming fears.
The American people who owe their long, comfortable and healthy lives to the accomplishments of modern industry, technology, medicine and affordable fossil energy ought to be outraged by activists’ claims and policies. They should come to grasp the terrible costs and futility of the left’s policies; they must understand that life lived as the left envision it for them and their children is baneful; life lived in submission to the hard natural forces of climate and disease, increasingly lived without labor-saving technology, without the fruits of sophisticated agricultural techniques, and without modern medicine, sanitation, electrification and transportation systems is, to borrow a phrase from Thomas Hobbes, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
Currently we are approaching the prospect of spending hundreds of billions of dollars, or more, to combat global warming, and we don’t even know its magnitude or real trend, because the major temperature indices we possess are giving very different readings. To oversimplify a bit, there are two competing methodologies that are giving two different answers. NASA’s GISS uses a melding of surface thermometer readings around the world to create a global temperature anomaly. And the UAH uses satellites to measure temperatures of the lower or near-surface troposhere. Each thinks it has the better methodology (with, oddly, NASA fighting against the space technology). But they are giving us different answers.
A lot of people were grateful when acclaimed author Michael Crichton blended science with a great storyline to highlight some of the holes in global warming theory in “State of Fear.” His basic story skeleton: unable to convince the world that their enviro-religious fervor is justified, unethical activists go to any lengths to spur the world into action.
Of course, this week, Crichton passed away. In memory, many publications ran his brilliant speech, Aliens Cause Global Warming. What did the New York Times run? An ill-written, ill-conceived hit piece from some author no one has ever heard of named Dave Itzkoff, a book review editor at the Drab-Gray Lady.
Itzkoff attacks Crichton’s recent work including “State of Fear.” The line of attack is simple: Crichton supposedly let fans down by blending facts with fiction … which is sort of what science fiction is. Itzkoff claims readrs — unnamed, unquoted — were “disappointed.” Itzkoff’s is little more than a thinly veiled attempt at peeling back Crichton’s efforts to question global warming propaganda. Now the empire has struck back.
Overall, it was a cheap way to attack a global warming skeptic. The real questions: whether anyone will bother to write an article about Mr. Itzkoff, and when will someone write an epitaph for the NYT’s credibility? Finally, if global warming is manifestly true, and manifestly catastrophic, why feel the need to use a man’s death (rather than cool, scientific debate) to make a propagandist’s point?
One author’s death has, sadly, become another chapter in the ongoing attack on anyone who questions global warming or the supposed “solutions” to it.
Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels. This is the first increase in ten years, and what baffles science is that this data contradicts theories stating man is the primary source of increase for this greenhouse gas. It takes about one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere. However, since all worldwide levels rose simultaneously throughout the same year, it is now believed this may be part of a natural cycle in mother nature - and not the direct result of man’s contributions.
While McCain still struggles to make up his vote gap in the U.S., he’s also lacking support from across the pond. An open letter from The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy was sent to The Chilling Effect over the weekend and the lengthy letter deconstructs the science, consensus and hype over global warming to the GOP presidential wannabe.
It’s a lonely thing to be outnumbered when you think you’re right. That’s true for several hundred scientists who are pushing back against the United Nation’s global warming alarmism. Marc Morano from the minority staff of the Senate’s Environment & Public Works committee 
medicine and affordable fossil energy ought to be outraged by activists’ claims and policies. They should come to grasp the terrible costs and futility of the left’s policies; they must understand that life lived as the left envision it for them and their children is baneful; life lived in submission to the hard natural forces of climate and disease, increasingly lived without labor-saving technology, without the fruits of sophisticated agricultural techniques, and without modern medicine, sanitation, electrification and transportation systems is, to borrow a phrase from Thomas Hobbes, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
