One of the reasons this thing has been heating up and the reason the leftists are so desperate online when we point out the other side of this issue, encouraging people not to ‘fall’ for it, is what Bill points out here.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers called for an end to American complacency over global warming as the new Democratic-controlled Congress weighed measures to reduce greenhouse gases.

After years of relegating climate change to the bottom of the legislative agenda, Democrats who wrested control of the House and the Senate from the Republicans in November elections, have vowed to make it a priority.

At a hearing of the Senate Environment Committee, Democratic Senator
Hillary Clinton said after years of delay, global warming was “an issue whose time has come.”

“If we look at where we are … we are not making progress. In fact, emissions are still going up,” she said.

Nancy Pelosi’s jackboots are trying to push this thing through, with Shrillary screaming at the forefront as their would-be presidential candidate. What Shrillary has over Obama is experience; what Obama has is not much of a record, and his smooth and pleasant star power like presence. Hillary should have a bag over her head, and she really needs to tone down the biting tonality of her voice. But those who worked with the Clintons in the Clinton Whitehouse know that the Clinton family is looney tunes, and quite prone to tantrums and rages. Bill is afraid of her, and rightly so; she’s a feminazi.

As I’ve pointed out at least a few times in the past, it’s kind of funny to see the lefties hopping around claiming that we’re in some kind of a catastrophic situation with global warming when it hasn’t been proven. Watch for the footnotes, I’m using my footnote plugin in this post.

At Answers in Genesis, we have an interesting article that points it out even more graphically. It’s called “Human-Caused Global Warming Slight So Far”. Read the whole article, but here are a few excerpts that I found particularly enlightening:

There are also a number of scientists who believe global warming, so far, has been slight. They believe that doomsayers have not proven their case for the expected huge temperature increase for a doubling of carbon dioxide, and that increased carbon dioxide may have a net beneficial effect. In fact, 20,000 scientists, of whom about 2,700 of them are physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers or environmental scientists, who are in a position to understand the global warming issues, have signed the following statement:

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.¹

But of course, the evolutionist green environmentalist cabal doesn’t recognize what it is these people are saying, apparently. 20,000 scientists don’t phase the proliferation of propaganda in order to enslave the industrialized nations and hamstring their populations with environmental restructions, based on the same junk science that outlawed DDT and is killing millions today from malaria.

Examples of misinformation and hysteria are not hard to find. One of the most recent examples of hysteria was a special report on global warming published in the April 3, 2006, issue of Time magazine.² The article flatly states without any qualifications, “The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame.”³⁴ The article claims that serious debate has quietly ended (although this is untrue) and lists many devastating weather, climate and environmental occurrences. Serious debate has only ended because radical environmentalists now dominate the discussion and malign those who disagree. This is not unlike the creation/evolution debate.

That’s because the same totalitarian ideology is driving it.

There are many other examples of wrong information, half-truths and hysteria. In the January 22, 1996, issue of Time magazine, the front cover exclaimed, “The hot zone—blizzards, floods & hurricanes: blame global warming.”⁵ Believe it or not, even blizzards such as the powerful East Coast northeaster of January 1996 have been blamed on global warming by some advocates. It seems like some believe all bad weather is caused by global warming. One of the problems in countering such misinformation is that people have short memories or do not read weather history.

Yeah, they don’t seem all that bright to me, particularly the fallacious arguments the blind moonbats seem to bring up in comments.

Probably the most outrageous example of false information is a video produced in 1990 that claimed world temperatures would rise 55°F (30°C) by the year 2050!⁶

Well that falls in line with the allegation that President Bush has a weather control machine in the Whitehouse. That was the real reason for Katrina, dontcha know.

There is even a dramatic movie promoting an ice age rapidly caused by global warming.⁷ Although the movie was admitted to be a Hollywood exaggeration, many scientists see such an ice age, caused by global warming, developing more slowly, perhaps over of the course of several decades. This belief has been reinforced by what are believed to be indications of abrupt climate change shown by ice cores from the Greenland Ice Sheet.⁸ In the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research on ice cores, Hammer and others stated:

These millennial-scale events represent quite large climate deviations: probably 20°C in central Greenland … . The events often begin or end rapidly: changes equal to most of the glacial-interglacial differences commonly occur over decades, and some indicators, more sensitive to shifts in the pattern of atmospheric circulation, change in as little as 1–3 years.⁹

Such temperature changes in Greenland are related to the atmospheric circulation and would affect much of the Northern Hemisphere. Such rapid changes are indeed scary, but their deductions are based on their wrong interpretations of ice cores as a result of their assumption that the ice sheets are millions of years old.¹⁰

Al Gore wrote a book on global warming in which he seemed to believe every dire prediction of the radical environmentalists.¹¹ Recently, he has produced a video documentary with an accompanying book, called An Inconvenient Truth. The video contains the same old misinformation. M. Bergen stated:

But Mr. Gore’s radical political agenda and tendency for half-truth have undergone no such makeover … Mr. Gore employs stage tricks, straw men, and well-rehearsed rhetoric to contend that opposition views on climate change are rooted in callous profiteering.¹²

Mr. Gore’s hysterical and ad hominem attacks are typical of doomsayers. It is common for these advocates to claim that those who disagree with them are working for the oil companies. But we should look at the agendas of the radical environmentalists, and the great economic benefit for them to keep the pot stirred. A new website examines this and is trying to calm some of this hysteria at www.fightglobalwarminghysteria.com.

1. Oregon Petition Project, http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p37.htm.[back]
2. Kluger, J., 2006. Global warming. Time 167(14):28–42.[back]
3. Kluger, J., 2006. Global warming. Time 167 Humans are blamed for global warming, and the potentially harmful effects are emphasized.[back]
4. ibid[back]
5. Anonymous, 1996. The hot zone. Time 127[back]
6. Anonymous, 1990. The Fragile Planet: Alterations in the Atmosphere. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Princeton, New Jersey.[back]
7. Oard, M.J., 2004. The greenhouse warming hype of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. Acts and Facts Impact #373, Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon, CA.[back]
8. Oard, M.J., 2005. The Frozen Record: Examining the Ice Core History of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. Institute for Creation Research, Santee, California, pp. 123–132.[back]
9. Hammer, C.U., P.A. Mayewski, D. Peel, and M. Stuiver, 1997. Preface. Journal of Geophysical Research 102 (C12), p. 26,315.[back]
10. Oard, M.J., 2005. The Frozen Record: Examining the Ice Core History of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. Institute for Creation Research, Santee, California, pp. 1-199.[back]
11. Gore, A., 1992. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York.[back]
12. Bergin, M., 2006. Convenient spin. World 21(24):26[back]