Stupidest quote...
Okay, so the Global Climate change people have changed their story again (maybe that is what the actual "change" part means in their name?). After predicting the hottest winter on record, only to be met with already record lows and snowfall, and claiming that the temperature has been going steadily up for the last 10 years (debated, heavily), they are now taking the fact that they were wrong as proof that they were right.
Yes, the fact that it is so damned cold is proof of climate change. The great Al Gore (who has the most hypocritical lifestyle I can imagine and has some cronies that have called for everyone who denies climate change to be charged with high-treason, but more on that later) and one of his cronies, Dr. Hansen at NASA, come out to say that the record cold across the US is proof of the change that he has been preaching for so long.
Now, for those of you who have not been able to figure this out, I am dubious about anthropogenic global climate change. And for those of you who aren't in college yet, that means climate change caused by humans. The reasons why are many-fold, first and foremost being that the people who designed most of the computer models admit that the only way to get the scenarios the scientists have predicted is to know the outcome that you wanted...
But that is not the quote that spurned me into writing this morning instead of studying for my final in 5 hours. The quote was one that was quite misleading to anyone who doesn't know their natural history, and it goes like this:
"'We're out of time,' Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. 'Things are going extinct.'"
Yes, things are going extinct...
Just like they have been since the dawn of life on Earth. And the climate is changing, at (oh my God) a rate almost identical to the Milankovitch cycles (well, actually, we are a bit behind, but that is still well within the error margin), which show dramatic rising and falling of carbon and ice-levels has been going on for as long as the Earth has had ice. Odd that we could get ice-cores if there was no ice, isn't it?
To finish this out, I want to quote the late George Carlin to refute Root's comments, because it is true and really gets the point across, though the actual number is between 95-99, closer to 99:
"Way over 90% of all life that has ever lived, EVER lived, are gone, whoosh. They're extinct. We didn't kill them all. They just disappeared. That's what nature does!"
So keep that in mind, as well as remembering that arrogant meddling in the environment is what got us in trouble in the first place, whenever anyone talks to you about the dangers of climate change. The climate isn't stable and nature has a naturally cruel way of dealing with those who cannot adapt to the change.
And I hope that if the extreme tree-glompers get their way and have me executed for speaking out a view that they cannot tolerate (tolerance: my next blog entry), that they too make the ultimate sacrifice for the planet by permanently removing their carbon foot print as well. After all, if we cannot tolerate more than one opinion, why even bother to tolerate the one?
Yes, the fact that it is so damned cold is proof of climate change. The great Al Gore (who has the most hypocritical lifestyle I can imagine and has some cronies that have called for everyone who denies climate change to be charged with high-treason, but more on that later) and one of his cronies, Dr. Hansen at NASA, come out to say that the record cold across the US is proof of the change that he has been preaching for so long.
Now, for those of you who have not been able to figure this out, I am dubious about anthropogenic global climate change. And for those of you who aren't in college yet, that means climate change caused by humans. The reasons why are many-fold, first and foremost being that the people who designed most of the computer models admit that the only way to get the scenarios the scientists have predicted is to know the outcome that you wanted...
But that is not the quote that spurned me into writing this morning instead of studying for my final in 5 hours. The quote was one that was quite misleading to anyone who doesn't know their natural history, and it goes like this:
"'We're out of time,' Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. 'Things are going extinct.'"
Yes, things are going extinct...
Just like they have been since the dawn of life on Earth. And the climate is changing, at (oh my God) a rate almost identical to the Milankovitch cycles (well, actually, we are a bit behind, but that is still well within the error margin), which show dramatic rising and falling of carbon and ice-levels has been going on for as long as the Earth has had ice. Odd that we could get ice-cores if there was no ice, isn't it?
To finish this out, I want to quote the late George Carlin to refute Root's comments, because it is true and really gets the point across, though the actual number is between 95-99, closer to 99:
"Way over 90% of all life that has ever lived, EVER lived, are gone, whoosh. They're extinct. We didn't kill them all. They just disappeared. That's what nature does!"
So keep that in mind, as well as remembering that arrogant meddling in the environment is what got us in trouble in the first place, whenever anyone talks to you about the dangers of climate change. The climate isn't stable and nature has a naturally cruel way of dealing with those who cannot adapt to the change.
And I hope that if the extreme tree-glompers get their way and have me executed for speaking out a view that they cannot tolerate (tolerance: my next blog entry), that they too make the ultimate sacrifice for the planet by permanently removing their carbon foot print as well. After all, if we cannot tolerate more than one opinion, why even bother to tolerate the one?