Global Warming "Consensus" via George Orwell

Some words from Thomas Sowell, funky economist from Stanford University, in a recent article. Click above to go to the full article.

Going over this stuff becomes boring, but since it does not seem to sink it, I will adopt the media approach of saying something over and over and over and over until Alec Baldwin starts repeating it. But, at least, I will not lie to create double plus good newsspeak. Sowell:

...There is S. Fred Singer, who set up the American weather satellite system, and who published some years ago a book titled Hot Talk, Cold Science. More recently, he has co-authored another book on the subject, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years.

There have been periods of global warming that lasted for centuries — and periods of global cooling that also lasted for centuries. So the issue is not whether the world is warmer now than at some time in the past but how much of that warming is due to human beings and how much can we reduce future warming, even if we drastically reduce our standard of living in the attempt.

Other serious scientists who are not on the global-warming bandwagon include a professor of meteorology at MIT, Richard S. Lindzen.

His name was big enough for the National Academy of Sciences to list it among the names of other experts on its 2001 report that was supposed to end the debate by declaring the dangers of global warming proven scientifically.

Professor Lindzen then objected and pointed out that neither he nor any of the other scientists listed ever saw that report before it was published. It was in fact written by government bureaucrats — as was the more recently published summary report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that is also touted as the final proof and the end of the discussion.

You want more experts who think otherwise? Try a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, Patrick J. Michaels, who refers to the much ballyhooed 2001 IPCC summary as having “misstatements and errors” that he calls “egregious.”

A professor of climatology at the University of Delaware, David R. Legates, likewise referred to the 2001 IPCC summary as being “often in direct contrast with the scientific report that accompanies it.” It is the summaries that the media hype. The full 2007 report has not even been published yet.

Skeptical experts in other countries around the world include Duncan Wingham, a professor of climate physics at the University College, London, and Nigel Weiss of Cambridge University.

The very attempt to silence all who disagree about global warming ought to raise red flags....

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One has to be very careful about the "Dad, everyone else is doing it!" argument. Everyone else is not doing it, even if the New York Times says so or some professor of history dismisses the climatologist as a "kook," as if he would know.

In fact, when you hear an alleged supporter of a position has published objections to a report saying he never even saw it, the burden of proof that any of the report is acceptable is on its writers - unknown bureaucrats.

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