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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

August 25, 2011 04:38 PM Forum: Politics

Petition to "spread the wealth" around...

Posted By Dave Snope
I remember trying that one on my daughter when she was in middle school. It was a good lesson and I think it was remembered.

You can't become an intellectual elitist by giving your grades away.

August 26, 2011 04:54 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Who's Going To Call AGW First?

Posted By Dave Snope
Here comes one, from Bill McKibben, one of the leading warmist activists out there:

Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue

Bill McKibben authors a bizarre piece in the Daily Beast where he not only blames the strength of Hurricane Irene on global warming but connects the storm to President Obama’s expected approval of the Keystone Pipeline transport of Canadian Tar Sands to terminals in the United States. While the second part of his thesis is political in nature, the first part is quite easy to fact check, and comes up woefully short. McKibben has no expertise in tropical cyclone science, and relies on the expert quotes of Weather Underground blogger Dr. Jeff Masters who has provided a laudable public service with his Irene coverage.

McKibben begins: “Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming.”
...
While some tropical cyclone scientists are probably sympathetic with McKibben’s political goals, I will keep my eyes peeled for one that will go on record agreeing with McKibben’s stretched scientific logic. In his mind, Bush caused Katrina and Obama caused Irene. Hopefully McKibben and the media will let this crisis go to waste.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/25/climate-activist-mckibben-bizarrely-blames-hurricane-irene-on-global-warming/

August 26, 2011 09:34 PM Forum: Politics

Boys Will Be Boys

Posted By Dave Snope
... This thread corroborates it.

August 27, 2011 07:19 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Who's Going To Call AGW First?

Posted By Dave Snope
Now it's the goons at Think Progress. I only bring them into the fold because there are some posters around here that like to link to them as evidence of, errrr, something.

Below, ThinkProgress Green explores in more detail how Hurricane Irene has been made more destructive by the combustion of hundreds of billions of tons of fossil fuels.

Who really cares how they might explain the downtrend in cyclone energy in recent years? It's not really about the truth. Stinking pile of utterly disproven horse manure follows at:
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/08/26/305265/how-global-warming-is-making-hurricane-irene-worse/

What do you expect from a George Soros - backed org?

August 29, 2011 09:59 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Obviously there really is a consensus-....

Posted By Dave Snope
Krugman opines on global warming frequently ever since he "spent a couple of days reading a lot about it". Of course he chose to read about it from the radical alarmist hot head Joe Romm.

No facts are necessary when you are a big wig NYT columnist. You can make up your own reality. Really, if anyone is paying attention to Krugman on global warming, they probably also got their opinions on Iraq from Sean Penn and his gut.

Krugman's the one who informed us that the Egyptian uprising was due to global warming.

And then there is the time that he said "There is tremendously more money in being a skeptic than there is in being a supporter." Talk about living in an alternate reality.

And of course he warns us about increase in extreme weather events caused by global warming. Except the inconvenient truth is that they have been decreasing.

August 29, 2011 11:16 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Obviously there really is a consensus-....

Posted By Dave Snope
Charles,

JunkScience has this very brief rebuttal of Krugman, but not about the science. I'm sure there will be some detailed rebuttals out there in a day or two, even if it has gotten rather tiresome to rebut his garbage.
http://junkscience.com/2011/08/29/krugman-republicans-against-science/

September 1, 2011 05:15 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Latest Data: Global Warming Leads To Sea Level

Posted By Dave Snope
Heh, another can of corn for Richard.

September 2, 2011 01:28 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Climategate: Still Bogus Nonsense

Posted By Dave Snope
Quoting Phil Platt on global warming is like quoting Nancy Pelosi on personal expense ethics. Phil has always been as emotional as James Hansen on the subject, like he's totally committed to faith regardless of facts, and it really is unbecoming of a man who otherwise shows a strong belief in scientific integrity. I half expect him to go out and get arrested at a protest. I've tried to call him on his blind spot by tactfully posting info on peer reviewed papers in his blog comments, and he deletes my comments. He doesn't want other views ssen.

I like Don Easterbrook's quote on ClimateGate:

Dr. Easterbrook is an Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University who has authored eight books and 150 journal publications.

November 29, 2009

"I've spent four decades studying global climate change and as a scientist I am appalled at [NYT's Paul] Krugman's cavalier shrugging off the Hadley email scandal as 'just the way scientists talk among themselves.' That's like saying it's all right for politicians to be corrupt because that's the way they are."

"Legitimate scientists do not doctor data, delete data they don't like, hide data they don't want seen, hijack the peer review process, personally attack other scientists whose views differ from theirs, send fraudulent data to the IPCC that is used to perpetuate the greatest hoax in the history of science, provide false data to further legislation on climate change that will result in huge profits for corrupt lobbyists and politicians, and tell outright lies about scientific data."

September 2, 2011 02:17 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Fisking of Krugman's NYT Opinion Piece

Posted By Dave Snope
Paul Krugman is a piece of work. These are the words of one of our country's elite intellectual minds:

"As I watched the deniers make their arguments I couldn't help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet,"
Paul Krugman New York Times, June 28, 2009.

"Yet the deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future generations of Americans in grave danger, simply because it's in their political interest to pretend that there's nothing to worry about. If that's not betrayal, I don't know what is,"

"Still, is it fair to call climate denial a form of treason? Isn't it politics as usual? Yes, it is — and that's why it's unforgivable."

September 2, 2011 03:27 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

No gulf hurricanes again this year

Posted By Dave Snope
That's good news!

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