Judy, you were very polite at the hearing but nevertheless effectively presented some of the realities that the global
warming advocates do not want to hear.
Not exact matches
Take that ad Gingrich
did with Nancy Pelosi on global
warming,
advocating urgent government action.
Explaining to Australian's that the recent flooding is due to «Global
Warming» just reminds them they were told by Global Warming Advocates that the future held only drought, drought and more drought and if they didn't act to stop global warming they would all die of thirst or som
Warming» just reminds them they were told by Global
Warming Advocates that the future held only drought, drought and more drought and if they didn't act to stop global warming they would all die of thirst or som
Warming Advocates that the future held only drought, drought and more drought and if they didn't act to stop global
warming they would all die of thirst or som
warming they would all die of thirst or something.
In 30 years I have encountered very few (one or two) strength programs that
advocate reps above 20 and most
advocate no more than 15 reps. (I am not including
warm up sets — I am only referring to «work sets», those sets
done to elicit a training response, not the sets
done to «
warm» the muscles by
doing a high rep set and a low intensity of effort.)
A few years ago, any dispute wasn't even taken serious, so I don't think that the Global
Warming advocates are somehow in the minority or disrepresented in the media.
I often hear nuclear
advocates proclaiming that «nuclear is THE solution to global
warming» and that «no one can be serious about dealing with global
warming if they don't support expanded use of nuclear power» but I have never heard any nuclear
advocate lay out a plan showing how many nuclear power plants would have to be built in what period of time to have a significant impact on GHG emissions.
Careful
advocates of the AGW position (and I
do not include Al Gore among them)
do not try to make any link between global
warming and tornadoes, because it is so easily shot down.
Anyway it is a false comparison to compare old temperatures with new temperatures when asking «wht should we
do» you need to compare «our solution» with «their solution» If you are
advocating a political strategy you need to accept current proposed strategies will probably still result in the majority of the global
warming predicted in the ordinary scenario (if not all of it — a point which I can argue if you like).
You
do this because somebody has told you so (i think you've been reading junkscience a little too much), and you preach it with the same faith and passion as global
warming advocate.
I don't think many folks who have observed Heartland from afar would say that Heartland has any special focus on or animus towards Gleick (more than they might have for any other strong
advocate of catastrophic man - made global
warming theory).
If we have such an overwhelming scientific «consensus» about the supposed threat of catastrophic man - made global
warming — and about the political and economic solutions to it — then why
do advocates have to sue scientists to prevent them from questioning it?
No one would have
advocated wasting money on trying the prevent that
warming would give future generations and
did actually give us.
This example brings us all the way back to the start of my essay, and the central problem for
advocates of aggressive emissions abatement
advocates: despite the rhetoric, the projected damages from global
warming just don't appear to justify the costs of the proposed remedy.
I can certainly understand why those who
do not have as clear an understanding of the climate system as Jim Hansen
does would want to be more ambivalent with respect to
advocating action to counteract global
warming since, this has very significant economic implications.
The National Association of Scholars
does not take a position on global
warming but
advocates for a full discussion of all sides of the controversy.To learn more about NAS, visit www.nas.org.
Even if you play devils
advocate and accept that humans
do cause catastrophic
warming and there are too many of us, and if you can skip past the Nazi eugenics connotations of population control and depopulation policies, those methods are fundamentally still not a valid solution to the perceived climate change threat.
Most climate
advocates would certainly disagree if the yardstick was whether the Accord gets us on a path to avoid a 2 degrees C
warming (it
does not).
The
advocates called on governments to
do their fair share in keeping global
warming below the tipping point to save the Filipino people, and all others who are most vulnerable to climate change.
Even global
warming advocates, who insisted that the 1998 El Nino
warming was a trend, are now claiming that the cold
does not contradict their
warming trend.
In 2009, for example, he
advocated against the cap and trade systems that the Obama administration and its overseas partners were trying to install here and globally, calling it «a market - based approach that has been widely praised but
does little to slow global
warming or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels... [allowing] polluters and Wall Street traders to fleece the public out of billions of dollars.»
And I'm sorry the foremost
advocate for global
warming, Al Gore doesn't live his own life as though there is some great crisis facing us.
He
does not call anybody a «zealot» in the lecture, but refers to «public support for over-zealous action», and refers to «the more zealous
advocates of action on global
warming».
You will soon end up in a «prove god
does or doesn't exist» debate with a
warming advocate and they call it «settled science».
This fact has not been ignorerd by
advocates of global
warming who have written several dozen scholarly articles trying to prove that the hiatus
does not exist.
Most of the measures that global
warming advocates suggest
doing such as energy conservation and greater reliance on renewable energy are sensible in themselves.
... It would look exactly like the carbon tax
advocated by global -
warming crusaders... You don't have to believe that global
warming is a problem to recognize that a carbon tax is the solution.
At the same time I understand the frustration of Gavin, talking to sceptics all the time and also believers with limited knowledge, but still, nasty talking and arrogance is not
doing any good for your cause): «As a former
advocate of global
warming I must say that your reference to anyone who
does not believe as you
do as a «crank» offensive to say the least.»
There is no area in global
warming discussions where AGW
advocates have
done more to shoot down their own credibility than in the absolutely egregious science and absurd claims that have been made about the potential negative effects of global
warming.