Special Report's Baier: "We've reported several scientists have detailed a recent global cooling trend"
July 08, 2009 12:05 pm ET
From the July 7 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier:
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Or is Fox really just as dumb as a bunch of rocks?
They USED to say that we shouldn't listen to the scientists, becuase they've been wrong before - like when they predicted global cooling in the 1970's.
Now... putting asinde the utter BS that this claim is, they still have no credible position that makes a lick of sense.
1) If they were WRONG then, and they're saying that exact opposite now, how can they STILL be wrong?
2) If they were WRONG then, why should the cooling trend of the last 8 years or so be treated any differently?
3) If they were RIGHT then, why didn't it last?
And yes, I know all about the couses of cooling in the'70's, that's not really the point. It just astounds me how they will accept anything that says the other side is wrong, even blatantly contradictory logic.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29469287/
Swanson thinks the trend could continue for up to 30 years. But he warned that it's just a hiccup, and that humans' penchant for spewing greenhouse gases will certainly come back to haunt us.
"When the climate kicks back out of this state, we'll have explosive warming," Swanson said. "Thirty years of greenhouse gas radiative forcing will still be there and then bang, the warming will return and be very aggressive."
"Swanson thinks the trend could continue for up to 30 years. But he warned that it's just a hiccup, and that humans' penchant for spewing greenhouse gases will certainly come back to haunt us."
"When the climate kicks back out of this state, we'll have explosive warming," Swanson said. "Thirty years of greenhouse gas radiative forcing will still be there and then bang, the warming will return and be very aggressive"
So here you have scientists who believe in AGW who say that the earth could continue to cool for up to 30 years. I don't know how much weight I would put in their long-term projections, but there sure are a lot of indications in the real numbers available that they may be right.
If Baier didn't mention them, how could RW know who they are? He suggested that Baier didn't mention them because it would be easy to find out whether they are hacks.
Fox is a bunch of sensationalist (no big surprise). They are really reaching...they even quoted what Al Gore actually said, but still found the need to throw in "Nazi Germany". The Winston Churchill reference is appropriate because the speech took place at Oxford.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
The art of Al Gore and Nazi Germany is a cheap stunt by Fox. How they can take the quote above and juxtapose Nazi Germany is absurd. He was making a comment on how great leadership, like Churchill in WWII, can arouse a nation and the globe, and that is what is going to take to overcome climate change.
Fox, as usual, misses the point. They are an attack machine. They saw Al Gore in the news and looked for something they can smear him with...and the Right Wing standard smear is Nazi Germany.
This will help to coincide that the increased hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis and animal extinction is just "the lord" coming back, who is also a republican, to destroy the earthly sinners (and by "sinners" Factless News means Liberal, Democrats, Progressives, Tree Huggers and Homosexuals.) because it is most certainly NOT global warming that caused this or they would have reported accurately.
WHY ARE THEY STILL ON THE AIR?
Now, without the sound, I am going to interpret this picture:
"People, Special Report has learned Al Gore is leader of the Nazi's, will command an enormous army and take over Planet Earth."
Surprise! It's yet again another spin on global warming, and how Al Gore is full of it, and how scientists are going to eat your children after they modify them, yeah, yeah yeah.
Here's my interpretation of this:
"Conservative=Nazi"
"Rush Limbaugh=2nd rate Hitler".
Any day now Baier is going to blow his brains out, and the blood splatter on the wall will form into a Fox logo, because he'a a company man to the end.
Mmmmmm children...
Randy