COMMENTARY
By Andrew FreedmanThis may come as a shock to you, but global warming is a controversial subject in the United States these days. (No, really, it is.)
The very existence of man-made global warming, not to mention the array of policy choices for responding to it, are such flash points in American politics that it’s nearly impossible to raise the subject in social settings without sparking an awkward conversation. Worse, those discussions are nearly always set spiraling downward by the most annoying question ever posed to a climate scientist or journalist: “So, do you believe in global warming?”
A better question is : Do you believe in “Mann/Hansen” made warming? About 10 years ago, Hansen magically turned a 70 year long US cooling trend into a warming trend.
Mann did some even more impressive work, erasing 1,000 years of global history
Perhaps Freedman should take his road show to Europe, and ask them if they believe in global warming?
Fifteen feet of snow buries Eastern Europe in historic winter
MONDAY 20 MARCH 2000
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
What kind of silly person would dare question the world’s top scientists? They need their funding, and it doesn’t help to have informed laymen questioning their junk science.
a climate scientist or journalist
groups them both together………..
I had to check out the article. The author says he is embarrassed to admit he is a climate scientist at social gatherings.
We are winning!
Meanwhile, we have once again dipped into record low temps on the amsu satellite.
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/data/amsu_daily_85N85S_ch05.r002.txt
“COMMENTARY
By Andrew Freedman”
So much rhetoric; so little to show.
I had just one of those encounters last night at an event at our local University. I had brought along “Watermelons” by James Delingpole (Please consider reading this…it is quite good) and one of the students asked me “Do you believe in this stuff?”. I replied that I don’t typically “believe in stuff”, I just go check the numbers and suggested he should do the same thing – check temperatures and google some seaports of his choice to see what they are doing about the alleged catastrophe of sea-level rise.
Then we changed the subject.
Man-Made Catastrophic Global Warming/Man-Made Climate Change – To talk about? Easy. And fun. I do it all the time.
Hey GregO!The truth is always easy, as it requires very little preparation. The only time I have ever shied away from discussing climate, was this past Christmas when one of my second cousins announced she was studying “Environmental Sciences’ because she is worried about global warming. So sweet.
My 75 year old mother was the person who insisted I put her straight, and I did. We are still corresponding, and she is shocked at the world she has now discovered. She had absolutely no idea of the breadth and depth of the fraud involved. And to her parents credit, there was no yelling, name calling, or refusal to accept new information.
I just did not want to ruin her Christmas!
Gator,
That’s a great story!
I remember when I found out that CAGW was a sham after reading about Climategate 1.0 in the Wall Street Journal. First I guffawed and laughed at the “scientists” caught with their hands in the cookie jar. You have to know, that as an engineer, I have and I continue to work on a day-to-day basis with my share of PhD types – some are real ego-maniac creeps; most are just awesome smart people; but I can spot the creeps, the know-nothings and the frauds and have no patience for them personally or professionally.
I checked some info, read a couple of books, and you know what? A lot of these so-called climate scientists are liars, crooks, and shills. I went from gloating and chuckling to being absolutely disgusted with the whole story.
CAGW is the greatest scientific fraud in history, and one of the largest scams in all history.
Maybe it is easier for Freedman to believe that 100s of predecessors to Hansen were the ones who altered to temperature record that stood for 70 years before Hansen laid hands on it.
Given that Freedman urges climate scientists to lie (they need urging?) about their occupation, perhaps on a planet destroying jet plane during a flight to their next book tour destination, paid speaking engagement or exotic and remote location of a UN climate meeting, he should also have advised them to use an alias. For example Ondrug Fraudman has a nice ring to it with the added benefit that anyone not skeptical of a name like Ondrug Fraudman, would be someone who is the perfect candidate for unquestionalbe belief in the catastrophic consequences of CO2. lol
Did anyone else spot the irony in a bloke called Freed Man falling sucker for a UN social control scam?