Ezra should go back to discussing Sarah Palin’s clothes, and leave the big boy issues alone: Wonkbook: The disaster we refuse to see coming
There are disasters we can’t see coming, and then there are disasters we refuse to see coming. That an earthquake (and tsunami) of biblical proportions would crack open nuclear power plants along the coast of Japan is the sort of catastrophe that’s very difficult to predict. On the other hand, the consequences of a large increase in the volume of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are not hard to predict. The precise effects of climate change may be uncertain — though that does not make them any less dire — but we know, in a rough way, what will happen: the earth will warm. In fact, it’s already warming. Has been for decades. You can see it clear as day on any graph of global temperatures. You can see it in the record books, too: Of the 10 hottest years on record, nine were in the Aughts, and the last was in 1998.
After awhile, it gets tiring rebutting the same old talking points. But, good news, the effects of climate change (hot, cold, wet, dry) are unknown, so, let’s spend lots of money, raise taxes, and control people’s lives for a hoax. If he truly believed that the Earth will warm, he’d call it global warming. Seriously, we’re talking a few degrees uptick in the global temps since the end of the last cold period 160 years ago, and chicken littles like Ezra freak out. Then they go home and use lots of power. Say, how much energy does the Washington Post use? How many trees do they kill to produce their paper?
Remember, though, even though no one knows what will happen, the effects could be dire. Though, apparently, these uncertain effects are easy to predict.
Steven Goddard gets the hat tip, and has a simple graph that destroys Excitable Ezra.
First off, Ezra, your temperature graph on Wikipedi is not a graph of earth temperatures. It is a graph of temperature anomalies compared to some man-set average temperature.
IT MEANS EXACTLY SQUAT!!!!
My average earnings when I was 16 was $8,000. I now earn $40,000. If I were to set my average at $8,000, by any stretch o Ezra’s mind, I am skyrocketing to riches beyond belief. But he also refuses to see a few year periods in there when my “data” points were near zero.
Second, as Goddard points out, we had a really cool spell in the 70s. Then we had a warm spell. Could we now have another cool spell? Hey Ezra, could we also be in a WARM spell following the ICE AGE?!?!?!
Which do you want Ezra? Ice Age, or today’s warm temps?
Ezra may like surviving on frozen fish and no forests to burn for warmth, but I like ice-free lakes and temps where I can wear shorts and go to the beach.
OKay. First of all the temperature readings that the left uses as holy graille are devices that are planted around the country and around the world.
Many…many…many are planted in parking lots….Asphalt gets really hot during the summer…retains heat during the winter.
Many…Many are placed in areas that while once in suburban areas are now URBAN areas.
BUT….
FOLLOW THIS CLOSELY PEOPLE…..
Global warming is NOT ABOUT RAISING TEMPERATURES…….
its about HEAT RETENTION…..
Heat retention is the indicative factor that cannot be unduly influenced by man made manipulation of data.
By the IPCC’s own findings the earths upper atmosphere should be warming and yet…
By using their own data sets…
We find the Stratosphere has a HEAT RETENTION of just .1 degrees since 1970.
And overall?
Taking the average of readings for the three upper atmosphere zones from the 70’s till 2009 we find the earths atmosphere has warmed only .3…….Thats right 3/10’s of ONE degree.
Its Heath Retention Ezra…not thermometer readings that can be unduly influenced by where and WHAT they are placed on and surrounded by.
and now….you know the rest of the story.
Hence using heat retention and their own disclosure that its about heat retention and not temperature is why you have the
HIDE THE DECLINE…..and its a shame we cant account for the failure of the facts to support our conclusion…….EMAILS.
But of course lets continue to be chickn littles……
Once again people on the left have confused POLLUTION with GLOBAL WARMING….
and because they generally agree with the left politically they think they must support AGW too cause…well my brothers in arms say its so……
Example….I like Sarah Palin….I agree with her politically but I would never vote for her as president….at least not yet…..
While I might side with her politically I have to forsight to realize that it takes more then someone idealogically on “MY SIDE” to run this country and ultimately run this world…..
Get some EXPERIENCE SARAH and Ill campaign for you…until then…tell us all your not running and get a job…..Run a corporation or something……please dont make us vote FOR another untried…unchalleneged and unable to succeed president just cause they are LIKEABLE and side with me idealogically.
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