This century the current trend has been cooling at -0.8C/century. There are strong suspicions that that figure may be significantly “upjusted” by the “scientists”. I’m so sick and tired of being told black is white, that its warming, when it really is cooling that I no longer believe these “scientists” have any credibility and integrity.
If only they would admit that it is cooling, when it is cooling, then we may believe them if or when it starts to warm again. Carry on like this and they will all be looking for new jobs!
I am 45 years old. One of the reasons why I resist the whole “global warming” screech from the media is because of what I heard repeatedly when I was young: that we were 100% certain to have to endure another ice age soon, possibly in my lifetime.
My elementary school teachers talked about it often enough to scare us pretty well. Humanity would be helpless and we would be forced to move towards the equator. Politics would shift, the USA would be frozen and everything we knew & held dear would be under miles of ice. I remember a science fiction book about this, something to do with the world getting too hot & everyone moving towards the Arctic regions and then the main character getting awakened from his dream & told to continue packing as his family moves south to avoid the oncoming icebergs.
In the suburbs of Chicago this was well publicized and an accepted fact back in the 1970’s. And then the big switch: for the past decade plus all the “scientists” are making the opposite prediction, presumably backed up with data just like in the 1970’s. We know so much more, we are so advanced, yada yada yada (to quote Sienfeld). What we are saying must be true, believe us! Fund our research! Change everything to the way we want it to be!
Meanwhile we had snow in 49 states last week. The ice age theory espoused by John Holdren (now Obamas science advisor) a generation ago sounds more likely now. But wait, he says he was wrong about that and also about global warming killing a billion people. Why did our President pick this guy to advise him on anything? That’s like hiring Isiah Thomas to give counsel on gender relations at the office; whatever he says is guaranteed to be wrong.
1,000’s of scientists? Let see a listing–and include their credentials please.
I am surprised that a publications such as this one would print this tripe.
Neville is a a bag of hot air. The Australian Senate just shot down their version of cap and trade–and it wasn’t even close. They were way ahead of the US in buying this AGW baloney, and now the Australians are out in front in putting this issue where it belongs–in the dust bin.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is continuing this theme. She stated, apparently with a straight face, that even though there has been no statistically increase in global temperatures in the past 15 years does not mean that there has not been human induced global warming.
If anyone from the Insurance Journal staff is reading this, please take note of this: it’s obvious that you’ve been drinking too much of the government/mainstream media Kool-Aid and exercise absolutely no critical thinking when choosing which articles to put in the IJ. Surely there are better things to put in here than this statist tripe.
How to read an article like this: note the key phrases in here which are either nothing but fluff and/or designed to trigger emotional responses and/or nothing but unsupported opinion designed to look like “fact” rigorously supported by scientific data.
“images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards;” no, these are not “images,” they are realities of much colder than normal temperatures.
“it is really quite challenging to find places that haven’t warmed in the past 50 years;” for people who can think for themselves it’s not challenging; and yes, in the summer it warms and then come fall it cools down again.
“November-January as a whole is the hottest November-January the world has seen;” really? Does he mean that he has temperature data spanning the last 4 billion+ years-the estimated age of the earth?
“climate models predict there will likely be greater extremes of cold and heat, floods and droughts;” yes, and any “scientist” will tell you that a model is only as good as the data fed into it; and any honest scientist will tell you that climate is such a complex field of study that no man-made model can even begin to approximate reality.
“The discovery of this error has been seized upon by climate skeptics;” They’re trying to give the impression here that “skeptics” had so little truth to identify in debunking global warming that they had to “seize” this one tiny factual error when their whole premise is built on lies and bias; also, scientists are the ones who should be “skeptics” rather than declaring in a pompous air “the science is settled” and then distorting all their “findings” to fit their politically motivated conclusions; isn’t it strange that virtually every other science evolves over decades or centuries yet the so-called science of global warming is settled in a few years?
Although I didn’t grow up in ChicagoI remember those dire warnings from teachers too in the late 70’s when I was in Jr High and later High School. You really were left wit the thought that it almost wasn’t worth going on in life that our world was going to end as we know it. Know its just the opposite. Our world is heating up so much it’ll be an uninhabitable soup in the next 50 years if “we don’t do something now!”
Lets also not forget how the ozone layer was going away about 15 years ago and as such we would all fry because the suns rays would burn us all up to a crisp.
And it so bends reality that even though its getting colder, its because of global warming, when it rains its because of global warming and when the wind blows its becasue of global warming.
Its a few really twisted scientists and eco wackos that ruin truly good science for all of us.
Have you ever noticed how these “scientists” change the terms they use. When it’s warm they call it “Global Warming” and when it’s cold they call it “Climate Change” – either way, I call it HOG WASH! I agree with all the other smart people who have commented and am displeased the insurance journal chose to print this garbage.
This century the current trend has been cooling at -0.8C/century. There are strong suspicions that that figure may be significantly “upjusted” by the “scientists”. I’m so sick and tired of being told black is white, that its warming, when it really is cooling that I no longer believe these “scientists” have any credibility and integrity.
If only they would admit that it is cooling, when it is cooling, then we may believe them if or when it starts to warm again. Carry on like this and they will all be looking for new jobs!
Go to http://www.climatedepot.com to get the truth about Global Warming.
I am 45 years old. One of the reasons why I resist the whole “global warming” screech from the media is because of what I heard repeatedly when I was young: that we were 100% certain to have to endure another ice age soon, possibly in my lifetime.
My elementary school teachers talked about it often enough to scare us pretty well. Humanity would be helpless and we would be forced to move towards the equator. Politics would shift, the USA would be frozen and everything we knew & held dear would be under miles of ice. I remember a science fiction book about this, something to do with the world getting too hot & everyone moving towards the Arctic regions and then the main character getting awakened from his dream & told to continue packing as his family moves south to avoid the oncoming icebergs.
In the suburbs of Chicago this was well publicized and an accepted fact back in the 1970’s. And then the big switch: for the past decade plus all the “scientists” are making the opposite prediction, presumably backed up with data just like in the 1970’s. We know so much more, we are so advanced, yada yada yada (to quote Sienfeld). What we are saying must be true, believe us! Fund our research! Change everything to the way we want it to be!
Meanwhile we had snow in 49 states last week. The ice age theory espoused by John Holdren (now Obamas science advisor) a generation ago sounds more likely now. But wait, he says he was wrong about that and also about global warming killing a billion people. Why did our President pick this guy to advise him on anything? That’s like hiring Isiah Thomas to give counsel on gender relations at the office; whatever he says is guaranteed to be wrong.
1,000’s of scientists? Let see a listing–and include their credentials please.
I am surprised that a publications such as this one would print this tripe.
Neville is a a bag of hot air. The Australian Senate just shot down their version of cap and trade–and it wasn’t even close. They were way ahead of the US in buying this AGW baloney, and now the Australians are out in front in putting this issue where it belongs–in the dust bin.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is continuing this theme. She stated, apparently with a straight face, that even though there has been no statistically increase in global temperatures in the past 15 years does not mean that there has not been human induced global warming.
If anyone from the Insurance Journal staff is reading this, please take note of this: it’s obvious that you’ve been drinking too much of the government/mainstream media Kool-Aid and exercise absolutely no critical thinking when choosing which articles to put in the IJ. Surely there are better things to put in here than this statist tripe.
How to read an article like this: note the key phrases in here which are either nothing but fluff and/or designed to trigger emotional responses and/or nothing but unsupported opinion designed to look like “fact” rigorously supported by scientific data.
“images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards;” no, these are not “images,” they are realities of much colder than normal temperatures.
“it is really quite challenging to find places that haven’t warmed in the past 50 years;” for people who can think for themselves it’s not challenging; and yes, in the summer it warms and then come fall it cools down again.
“November-January as a whole is the hottest November-January the world has seen;” really? Does he mean that he has temperature data spanning the last 4 billion+ years-the estimated age of the earth?
“climate models predict there will likely be greater extremes of cold and heat, floods and droughts;” yes, and any “scientist” will tell you that a model is only as good as the data fed into it; and any honest scientist will tell you that climate is such a complex field of study that no man-made model can even begin to approximate reality.
“The discovery of this error has been seized upon by climate skeptics;” They’re trying to give the impression here that “skeptics” had so little truth to identify in debunking global warming that they had to “seize” this one tiny factual error when their whole premise is built on lies and bias; also, scientists are the ones who should be “skeptics” rather than declaring in a pompous air “the science is settled” and then distorting all their “findings” to fit their politically motivated conclusions; isn’t it strange that virtually every other science evolves over decades or centuries yet the so-called science of global warming is settled in a few years?
Although I didn’t grow up in ChicagoI remember those dire warnings from teachers too in the late 70’s when I was in Jr High and later High School. You really were left wit the thought that it almost wasn’t worth going on in life that our world was going to end as we know it. Know its just the opposite. Our world is heating up so much it’ll be an uninhabitable soup in the next 50 years if “we don’t do something now!”
Lets also not forget how the ozone layer was going away about 15 years ago and as such we would all fry because the suns rays would burn us all up to a crisp.
And it so bends reality that even though its getting colder, its because of global warming, when it rains its because of global warming and when the wind blows its becasue of global warming.
Its a few really twisted scientists and eco wackos that ruin truly good science for all of us.
Have you ever noticed how these “scientists” change the terms they use. When it’s warm they call it “Global Warming” and when it’s cold they call it “Climate Change” – either way, I call it HOG WASH! I agree with all the other smart people who have commented and am displeased the insurance journal chose to print this garbage.