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Sense, instead of nonsense

Posted on February 11, 2007 | Comments Off on Sense, instead of nonsense

Where are the journalists protecting us from government overreach? What? Leading the bandwagon?

"’The good news is, that it should not take long for the latest environmental scare to join the ‘ozone layer’, ‘global winter’, the Club of Rome forecasts, and many other crocks on the shard-heap of history. The bad is, it will be succeeded by more Chicken-Little expostulations, with the same propagandist theme: ‘Unless the planet is delivered immediately into the iron embrace of the environmental bureaucracies, we’re all going to die!’”

Double heh. 

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Global good?

Posted on February 5, 2007 | Comments Off on Global good?

I linked before to this good essay (with 40 plus comments) by Donald Sensing, but it’s worth doing it again. It answers a good question about Global Warming, one you’re not likely to hear in the doomsday "debate" and furor: What if the warming is a good thing? Rising oceans can’t be good, they say, but they won’t rise in an afternoon, but over many decades, allowing plenty of time to build Dutch-like dikes, for one thing. But what if the warming produced more arable land in the Third World, helping them to feed themselves better than they do now? What if, in other words, Global Warming is a good thing?

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Save the planet, 2

Posted on February 3, 2007 | Comments Off on Save the planet, 2

Professor Reynolds’ snarky suggestion to ban private jets and stretch limos to fight global warming certainly appeals to me. Since the celebs and politicos are gathering behind new demands for restrictions to tame the warmth–even if it may be a natural, and benign, process over which humans have no control–by restricting the rest of us, why not have them belly up to the bar, as well? But the Libertarian professor, Instapundit, accused of being merely snarky, makes a good argument of his own as to what needs to be done:

"Energy conservation needs to be something positive. Nothing sells on a "suffer for the future" model very well. Too many environmental activists are hair-shirt types (at least when the hair-shirt is for other people) and that stuff is poor salesmanship…This lesson applies to lots of other things, too. Neo-puritanism, on the other hand, has a certain personal and political appeal to some people, but it doesn’t sell beyond its niche. The less scold, the more sold."

Worth a read.

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Posted on January 26, 2007 in Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate

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Global warming and meteorologists

Posted on January 22, 2007 | Comments Off on Global warming and meteorologists

Al Gore and Heidi Cullen, call your office. Meteorologist James Spann puts the kibosh on global whatsis:

"The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe."

Great stuff. 

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Global warming battle

Posted on January 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Global warming battle

Speaking of weather forecasting, In From The Cold has a well-researched post on the global warming to-do sparked by the Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen. I won’t call her Dr. Cullen, because she’s not a physician, and my journalism training makes me balk at giving apparent physician status to a doctorate in anything else. As for the issue at hand–Cullen’s endorsement of global warming as human-made and her cheeky call for meteorologists who don’t get in line with her to be decertified by the American Meteorological Society–I have yet to meet a broadcast, or for that matter National Weather Service, meteorologist who believes global warming is a human product. That’s not to say that it isn’t, although there’re good arguments that it isn’t. Just that I–and apparently most of them– think the jury is still out. As Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, has said: the founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, must be spinning in his grave.

UPDATE  Well, Coleman might be spinning in his grave, if he was dead. But he seems to be still doing the weather at KUSI-TV in San Diego.  

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