The 10 Dumbest Things Ever
Said About Global Warming.
Exxon Continues Its Reckless Campaign To Delay Action on Global Warming Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson
said about global warming in January, «It is clear that something is going on.
I understand Buckley said the word submission in a general context, but Dude, he never
said it about global warming.
A list of the dumbest things ever
said about global warming is, sadly, almost impossible to curate in any comprehensive fashion.
One prime example involves contrarian meteorologist Joe Bastardi, a frequent climate misinformation guest on Fox News who Rolling Stone awarded the # 1 dumbest thing ever
said about global warming for claiming that CO2 «literally» can not cause warming because it doesn't «mix well in the atmosphere.»
So why should I believe anything
said about global warming by anyone?
The June 2013 issue of Rolling Stone published some of these utterings, several made by prominent elected officials, in its funny article, «The 10 Dumbest Things Ever
Said About Global Warming,» just as likely to draw tears as it is to invoke laughter.
As Richard Lindzen
said about global warming and CO2, the consensus was reached before the research had begun.
Fiorina
said about global warming that the U.S. alone, no matter what it does, will not impact any global issue like that.
So what does this mixed record
say about global warming?
«Because what these murderers and madmen have said differs very little from what spokespersons for the United Nations, journalists for the «mainstream» media, and liberal politicians
say about global warming... The point is that believing in global warming is not «mainstream,» smart, or sophisticated.
Gregg Jarrett: Still no evidence of Trump - Russia «collusion» - but Hillary is a different matter Donald Trump has a lot of things to
say about global warming.
Only tonight I heard a Russian scientist
say about global warming: «People claim that there is not enough evidence to act.
«The most discouraging aspect of the statements out of Japan, for many experts, was seeing the persistent gap between what science is
saying about global warming and what countries are doing.»
We find this to be well - argued and in line with what we have been
saying about global warming denialist interventions to manipulate the communication of climate change research.
These scientists (and, for that matter, anyone with a public profile who has anything critical to
say about global warming) are whores — «industry shills», «corporate toadies», or part of the «well funded denial machine» — who not only prostitute themselves, but also sell us all out to an apocalypse for dirty, dirty dollars... Those who «deny» climate change are in fact, denying a «holocaust ``.
What particularly interested me was the number of scientists who had been pushed out of CSIRO, or had left of their own volition, after being tightly censored in what they could
say about global warming, and the emissions reductions that would be needed to stabilise the climate (the latter point is particularly sensitive since any actual number implies a target and government policy is opposed to targets).
The institute chose to feature «some of the world's most notorious killers» on the billboards «because what these murderers and madmen have said differs very little from what spokespersons for the United Nations, journalists for the «mainstream» media and liberal politicians
say about global warming,» Heartland said at its Web site.
Why don't you try and expand your pea - brained mentality and read what a real scientist
says about global warming.
This spectral viewpoint also shows that Paul Vaughan's LOD analysis is unlikely to have anything more to
say about global warming than do the other phenomena of that duration, all which have been with us for centuries as far as we know.
What does the BEST land temperature data have to
say about global warming?
While Exxon now appears to be moving to the right side of the global warming issue, here's what some of the thinks tanks they continue to fund
say about global warming on their websites and the amount of money they have received from Exxon since 1998:
The goal of Skeptical Science is to explain what peer reviewed science has to
say about global warming.
To put it another way, what most people
say about global warming is «there is a scientific concensus», and «you can't understand it unless you are a climatologist».
And so that's what I would
say about global warming in so far as there has been no technologies we've invented that we have not been able to invent a greener version of.
Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to
say about global warming, they have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.
Other than stating that «climate change is not a hoax» during his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, President Obama hasn't had much to
say about global warming issues throughout his re-election campaign.
But despite such subterfuges, Hoggan and Littlemore document that Exxon has spent at least $ 20 million to counter what the scientific literature has to
say about global warming since the signing of the Kyoto accord.
I'm a little worried about what that
says about global warming... but let's face it, I'm a little worried about EVERYTHING, so what's one more thing to add to the list?
Not exact matches
During his campaign, Trump also called
global warming a hoax and promised to quit a
global accord to cut greenhouse gas emissions, though he has since softened his stance and
said he is keeping an «open mind»
about the deal.
«The U.S. has obviously been clear
about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,»
said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of
global warming.
If you've
said, «it's not that big a deal, the scientists aren't sure,» you chose to ignore that there is no more debate
about global warming and how it will hurt people.
It's not
about credentials, despite your complaint that «if anyone disagrees with any scientist who supports
global warming, you hypocritical bozo's are the first to
say»... whatever.
They can
say «Hey look, one of you smart people decided to come back to our ideology of «ignorance is bliss» where we don't need to worry
about global warming, or sharing what we have with the poor or any science and wellfare stuff at all because God will just take care of it...»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a speech Wednesday in New York City at the Flatiron Institute in New York City
said he was worried
about the complex world being left to the next generation, pointing to issues ranging from North Korea, to terrorism and eluding to
global warming.
That
said, in general - in the United States, at least - the issue isn't so much
about denying
global warming as much as it is
about protecting and favoring the major fossil fuel industries:
«We're glad the governor went to
global warming school, but he didn't learn the lessons from it,»
said David Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation,
about the governor's recent meetings with climate scientists.
One of the most significant findings is that high percentages of Americans — or roughly a third —
say that they could easily change their minds
about global warming, said Tom Bowman, president of the consulting firm Bowman Global Change, who has examined how climate scientists communicate to the p
global warming,
said Tom Bowman, president of the consulting firm Bowman
Global Change, who has examined how climate scientists communicate to the p
Global Change, who has examined how climate scientists communicate to the public.
Nearly 40 percent of Americans are part of categories called the «alarmed» or «concerned,» meaning they are more likely to
say global warming is man - made and are motivated to do something
about it.
As such, it's hard to make any definite conclusions
about whether and how
global warming contributed to Sandy and other recent destructive storms, he
said.
«In Asia and the Middle east, you'll find that people are less aware
about the risks of climate change and
global warming,» a spokesman for the Kuwaiti team
said.
«Too often in debates
about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only
global warming in excess of 2 °C represents a threat to humanity,»
says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, College Park.
Wheeler
says NSTA has no desire to suppress information
about global warming.
A United Nations report released Sunday
said that governments must act faster to keep
global warming in check and that a radical shift from fossil fuels to low - carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only
about 0.06 of a percentage point a year off world economic growth.
«Now, the question has shifted from whether
global warming is happening to what to do
about it,»
said Naomi Oreskes, a science historian at Harvard University, in an email.
So if you think of going in [a]
warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can
say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is
about 4 degrees F on a
global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.
The new report, from a panel of the interagency National Science and Technology Council,
says that too little is known
about endocrine disruptors to
say where they rank compared to other environmental problems such as
global warming and loss of species habitat.
«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic
warming) outweigh the potential problems,»
said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter
about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on
global warming this year.
According to one of its lead authors, the report will
say that to limit
global warming to 2 °C, we must keep CO2 emissions from all human sources since the start of the Industrial Revolution to below
about a trillion tonnes of carbon.
«When we think
about global warming, what we should really thinking
about, to be honest, is ocean
warming,»
said Paul Durack, a climate modeler at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).