Saturday, September 25, 2010

American Thinker: Tom Friedman's Totalitarian Temptation
As an aside, China indeed has a pollution problem. The last time I was in Beijing, the air was so thick the streetlights came on at noon. The problem with Liu and Friedman's justifications is that they don't differentiate between industrial pollution and carbon dioxide; CO2 is not a pollutant that people see, eat, and breathe. Classifying carbon dioxide as pollution has done great harm; an unjustified fear of CO2 has corrupted our energy decisions, incentivizing investment in inferior non-carbon energy sources like wind and solar. Furthermore, when we spend public money to eliminate a harmless gas, we have less money to spend reducing real pollution.

The shocking thing about the above quote is that Friedman is not warning us of a potential threat to freedom. Instead, he admires China for its lack of debate and is enthusiastic that the Chinese government doesn't "waste time" with dissenters.
Thermometer Magic | Real Science
As you can see, essentially all of the “warming” which is shown in the graph since the 1930s, is due to adjustments made to the thermometer readings.
Enviro and Media Agenda on Extreme Weather - State Climatologist Invited, then Uninvited to Rally
It is clear these groups and their media messengers are uninterested in facts or the truth just in communicating the scare message that they think will bring their movement to success. This is just another example of the blatant hypocracy that the public must be made aware of.

David R. Legates, Ph.D., C.C.M
Maybe We Can’t Count, But GCD Will Still Kill You | Real Science
Global climate disruption is coming after you. Tornadoes are going push Grizzly Bears across mud flats into cities full of zombies. Death is now certain for all 7 billion people on the planet.

They used to call this “certifiable.” Now they call it “NASA.”

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