Gustatus Similis Pullus (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dazed1) wrote,@ 2008-02-27 09:07:00 |
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don't I ever shut up?
Al Gore has done more damage to environmentalism than anyone else on Earth ever has, in the history of mankind. Why? He lead a successful movement in thinking that "global warming" was occurring due to human activity, and not only is he a hypocrite ($500 of nat gas/month to heat his pool, very non-green habits), he's patently wrong. And in being wrong, he will turn off people to the idea of caring, because they now associate being green merely with preventing global warming, instead of associating it with, well, just doing what one should. Damnit.
Why he gets a free pass for looking at just a few short years and then extrapolating that out is beyond me. "But the difference between 1998 and 1908 was vast!" well, ok, but how about 1996, 1997, 1999, or 2008? It is beyond question that proponents of the "man-made global warming" scare cherry-pick years to prove a point, instead of looking at trends.
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God, people like you make me tired. So every commenter on this thread is a scientific illiterate, except you? OK, so I'm a lowly historian and you're a chemist. Fine. Let me tell you what I do know, friend.
I know that a diagram (Mann's discredited "hockey stick") that wipes out a three-hundred year historical reality, the Medieval Warming Period, is patently fraudulent. I know that when I see a goofball described as a "leading climatologist" spouting the insane proposition that the infancy of industrialization is what ended the Little Ice Age, I am watching a political hack with zero credibility. I know that when a petition supporting global warming is presented with 4000 names and half of those names are not scientists, that science had little or nothing to do with it. And I know that when the gears start switching to "Climate Change" instead of "Global Warming," the wheels are coming off the bus.
I further know that politicizing science in the name of a concept as undefined as "social justice" is a crime against both science and history.
So do people not notice the shift? That we're no longer hearing "global warming" but instead "global climate change?" And do people really not know that all evidence prior to the AlGore movement pointed to global cooling?
Clean up the air, and the environment, because it is dirty, not because it may or may not be warming something! You don't clean the dishes because you think they'll get hotter if you don't, right? Do you like the idea of living in a pile of trash? Then recycle, and buy green products! Do you like the idea of breathing toxic fumes? Then stop driving SUVs and wasting electricity! Don't do it because AlGore said the planet is warming, do it because you should. Where were your mothers, damnit!
Al Gore has done more damage to environmentalism than anyone else on Earth ever has, in the history of mankind. Why? He lead a successful movement in thinking that "global warming" was occurring due to human activity, and not only is he a hypocrite ($500 of nat gas/month to heat his pool, very non-green habits), he's patently wrong. And in being wrong, he will turn off people to the idea of caring, because they now associate being green merely with preventing global warming, instead of associating it with, well, just doing what one should. Damnit.
Why he gets a free pass for looking at just a few short years and then extrapolating that out is beyond me. "But the difference between 1998 and 1908 was vast!" well, ok, but how about 1996, 1997, 1999, or 2008? It is beyond question that proponents of the "man-made global warming" scare cherry-pick years to prove a point, instead of looking at trends.
Fav quote from the above article:
God, people like you make me tired. So every commenter on this thread is a scientific illiterate, except you? OK, so I'm a lowly historian and you're a chemist. Fine. Let me tell you what I do know, friend.
I know that a diagram (Mann's discredited "hockey stick") that wipes out a three-hundred year historical reality, the Medieval Warming Period, is patently fraudulent. I know that when I see a goofball described as a "leading climatologist" spouting the insane proposition that the infancy of industrialization is what ended the Little Ice Age, I am watching a political hack with zero credibility. I know that when a petition supporting global warming is presented with 4000 names and half of those names are not scientists, that science had little or nothing to do with it. And I know that when the gears start switching to "Climate Change" instead of "Global Warming," the wheels are coming off the bus.
I further know that politicizing science in the name of a concept as undefined as "social justice" is a crime against both science and history.
So do people not notice the shift? That we're no longer hearing "global warming" but instead "global climate change?" And do people really not know that all evidence prior to the AlGore movement pointed to global cooling?
Clean up the air, and the environment, because it is dirty, not because it may or may not be warming something! You don't clean the dishes because you think they'll get hotter if you don't, right? Do you like the idea of living in a pile of trash? Then recycle, and buy green products! Do you like the idea of breathing toxic fumes? Then stop driving SUVs and wasting electricity! Don't do it because AlGore said the planet is warming, do it because you should. Where were your mothers, damnit!
