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November 26, 2007
Climate Skeptics Are Stupid...
...and they think you are equally as stupid. Here is Christopher Booker's latest thing for the UK Telegraph:
The scare over global warming, and our politicians' response to it, is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded.This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.
I don't know nothing about nothing, but THE WORLD is different than THE US. Booker is mixing his statistics like an idiot and expecting the rest of us idiots to not notice. In other words, he's comparing the IPCC's world temperature figures ("world surface temperatures have been higher") to temperatures within the borders of the United States ("US surface temperatures showing...").
The fact is that the hottest year IN THE WORLD was 2005. The hottest year in the United States used to be 1934 -- but now it's 2006. The United States represents only 2 percent of the world's surface area.
Then Booker exploits this deliberately misleading information as the basis for the conclusion that the climate crisis is, "another vastly inflated scare."
And you know which idiot bought the lie this time? Drudge, of course, who presents this as legitimate news with the misleading headline:
Satellite Data Shows Temps FALLING Since 1998, declining to 1983 levels...
It's one thing for skeptics to dismiss the climate crisis with only vague references to actual science (as Tony Blankley did on McLaughlin this weekend), but Booker shows us some scientific data and believes -- hopes we're too dumb to notice that he's full of shit. I'm not sure if that's brazen, ballsy, moronic or all three.
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Posted By Bob Cesca | November 26, 2007 9:06 PM
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Booker is just trying to sell a book (with Bruges member Richard North), and help these assholes with their agenda.
http://www.brugesgroup.com/mediacentre/index.live?article=92
I don't trust any group/organization with Thatcher as a member, let alone their Honorary President.
Posted by: lnbno13 ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.bobcesca.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at November 26, 2007 11:28 PM
All 4: add snake oil salesmanship.
Hey, I professionally know some of the leaders on the IPCC. They're hot under the collar, pun intended, about the skeptics' brazen attacks, and traditional medias' bullshittin' bullhorn.
Their biggest fault is they don't want to politicize this issue and the data. They want the data to speak for itself. And having worked for one of them in a very small capacity, I can tell you straight up that these scientists - absolutely fucking brilliant minds - are politically inept. Why don't you - Bob - contact Susan Solomon at NCAR in Boulder, Colorado - and blog for them? The NCAR bureaucracy is a nightmare... maybe I will do it, but only if you help promote it.
Posted by: FrictionSoul at November 27, 2007 10:53 AM
