There are some folks in our world who prefer to ignore science and cling to the droolings of drug-addled talk show hosts and Faux News. If you ask them, global warming is a myth and the planet is actually cooling. Not so says scientists. This decade — the one we are currently living in — will go down as the hottest in recorded history.
So, why do people choose to believe the far-right, pro-big business bologna? Good question. Besides the fact that so many people from that segment of society not only believe but repeat anything their propaganda machines say — to the point of being known as “ditto heads” — my best guess is they don’t want to accept the fact that they’re in some way responsible for ruining their children’s future. Not only that, they don’t want to take responsibility for cleaning up the mess humans have created.
For the rest of us, though, we’ll stick with real — not lobbyist funded — science and we’ll do what we can to reverse the damage our species has caused.
The Earth is still warming, not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming, according to an analysis of global temperatures by independent statistics experts.The statisticians, reviewing two sets of temperature data, found no trend of falling temperatures over time. And U.S. government figures show that the decade that ends in December will be the warmest in 130 years of record-keeping.
Global warming skeptics are basing their claims on an unusually hot year in 1998. They say that since then, temperatures have fallen — thus, a cooling trend. But it’s not that simple.
Since 1998, temperatures have dipped, soared, dropped again and are now rising once more. Records kept by the British meteorological office and satellite data used by climate skeptics still show 1998 as the hottest year. However, data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA show 2005 has topped 1998.
Read the rest of this Associated Press article here.
Oh, and in related news: CPCC is getting some big money for an energy center. See, those in the know are are taking action working to create jobs. Meanwhile, the ditto heads … well, they’re still nodding.
Further reading: Energy Department aid for scientists on the edge
This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2009.
Trying to convince Fox News believers that the earth is warming is like trying to convince the scientists over at the trailer park that men really have been to the moon and Elvis realy is dead.
A snowball has a better chance in … well, you know where.
Obviously YOU didn’t look at all of the data, Frank. Look at this graph: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/global-jan-dec-error-bar-pg.gif
You’re telling me that you see a downward trend?
Are you dyslexic?
Unfortunately for the future of civilization, there are far too many dumbed-down products of government indoctrination centers (public schools) that prefer to ignore fact and believe the ranting of profiteering, loser politicians, and their Faux Science. It is beyond their abilities to understand that humans have only been able to record temperature for the past several hundred years and that until very recently was very limited in scope due to costs and debates over methods and scales.
The very fact that these hysterical flat-earthers derive their arguments in support of a global trend by extrapolating data from at most few hundred years of spotty and inconsistent “data” against the 4.6 billion year history of the earth ought to invalidate that opinion in the eyes of the public – but it doesn’t since that public is a product of the same “educational” system. After all how can you explain to fish that they are wet?
Continuing this debate is only enabling the climate change profiteers and endangering all mankind.
We should instead be debating the damage these shallow minded lemmings are doing to our ability to adapt to natural temperature fluctuations by developing genetically engineered crops that require little fertilizer or pesticides and can thrive in a wide range of climates.