Posted by
rycK on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:46:13 PM
Remember Global Cooling?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15391426/site/newsweek
In 1975, this hopeless political rag ran an article of the Doom and Gloom Political Class that “…Citing "ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically," ... the magazine warned of an impending "drastic decline in food production." Political disruptions stemming from food shortages could affect "just about every nation on earth." Scientists urged governments to consider emergency action to head off the terrible threat of . . .”
So, what else is new?? A Prediction of Doom that failed to happen??
The problem here is this is not science—it is politics. Pseudo science types like Carl Sagan have an outstanding history of having their ‘scientific conclusions’ magically coincide with their political views to the wild applause of political activists and their associated druggies. That is one way you can tell the phonies from the common radical Marxist fluff. Sagan (big time pot smoker) was the guy who was refused AAAS membership because of his sloppy, inaccurate, sophomoric and juvenile articles about the “Nuclear Winter” he submitted in the respected scientific journal Science. His ‘computer model’ was analyzed and show to be a farce by respected scientists. Any high school algebra student could have defeated Sagan’s phony hypothesis. It was found that very small changes in parameters and numbers into his math model would convert the winter into an instant sauna. It went hot and cold like a flopping fish on the pier. It is numerically unstable. Any undergrad math student would be given an F on this rubbish by any respective university except, perhaps, for Cornell and Harvard. There was a political point to be made so they could afford to neglect the defects.
Demonstrating that the phony screechings of some left-liberal ‘scientist’ are worthless, and are little more than pathetic blubberings from a simpering dupe, has little effect on the scare message as received by the anxious left. Rachel Carson did much of the same thing with her phony anthropology was ‘accepted’ for decades until they found out how she created her interviews and such. She was a fraud. Those who are fear mongers are also frauds. Unfortunately such spurious notions are accepted by many.
The satellites show no significant temperature rise above the noise levels in the last 30 , but we have maudlin testimonials from ‘experts’ who cite the rise in skin cancers in New Mexico and other precise measurements. No controls with sun screens or correlations with the use of booze or bikinis??
The fastest way to attack this phony baloney is to ask: Well, why did you ‘scientists’ get it backward last time? After all, the earth is 4 billion years old and that is not much in geological time, a mere 31 years! What happened?? Oh, and then we might look into history and wonder just what melted the Kansas glacier 8000 years ago or why the Vikings were frozen out of Iceland and Greenland in the 10th century. Gee. Are we guessing, or are we just political stooges possessing not much more intelligence that Charlie McCarthy’s wood doll?
Tell us what we might be prepared to believe from such blunders. Oh! We are to assume that such predictions are ‘difficult’ to asses. Why, thanks! As long as it is difficult we can just wait until one of their sloppy guesses coincides with some observation and they can hail themselves as howling successes. We can then be persuaded to vote with the left. Sure.
One wild guess that turns out right and they can claim to be scientists and deserve world acclaim with bells and lights.
Much of Science is now the Tawdry Tart of the Left.