After teasing report on energy, Fox plays "If we had some global warming, it wouldn't be twenty below" as bumper music
November 05, 2009 9:51 am ET
From the November 5 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:
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Less powerful than a locomotive...
Able to enter tall buildings through the front door...
Duh-Duh-Da-Daaaaahhhh!!!
It's CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, here with another mighty revelation:
FOX VIEWERS ARE STUPID.
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And so yet another sinister, althought not very well concealed, plot is foiled by: CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!
This little anecdote tells you all you need to know about corporate interest in green energy. "If America's homes have solar panels and wind turbines and other green energy sources, if America's cars run on renewable bio-energy or batteries, where will we put the meter?" They don't care about global warming, and their opposition to it is pure opportunism. They fund scientists to claim it is a hoax for the simple purpose of muddying the waters and prolonging the debate while they continue to pump oil from the ground.
Here's a good song that applies to AGW deniers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOKK8mAkiUI
They were talking about how important it is to do their part to attempt to slow global warming.
On a daily basis, they twist the scientific consensus, and tell their viewers that worrying about global climate change is crazy at the same time corporate policy is to not only believe in the science but to work towards complying with their corporate green policies.
This is proof that Fox does not believe what it is selling their gullible viewers.
Beg to differ. It's been applied successfully to control acid rain for many years. The method has a proven track-record.
http://www.epa.gov/airmarkt/cap-trade/docs/ctresults.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/progsregs/arp/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf5tld59IGQ
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Presence-of-Mind-Blue-Sky-Thinking.html
FOX viewers who enjoyed If we had some global warming, it wouldn't be twenty below, might also enjoy the singer's other hit, If the Earth is Really Spinnin', How Come I Ain't Flyin' Off?"
Then where would we get our crappy Wal-Mart stuff?
I often wonder if the whole argument trying to exclaim that global warming is real, is the wrong tactic to use?? While agree that global warming is real, it is easily disputed with childish and rather pathetic attacks by right-wing morons who know quite well that their followers/listeners do not have the brain capacity to see the reality.
With that said... would it not be better to argue the common sense approach by simply explaining that oil and coal will not be around forever and that solar, winds, water, and geo-thermal will be??
Saying something to the effect of "Lets assume that global warming really is false and not real but..."
Getting into science can be confusing for many. Lets face it, I watched "An Inconvenient Truth" and I agree with it wholly, but some of the science that Al Gore spoke about was over my head (and I'm a 3.35 GPA, IQ of around 138)... but I understood more or less what he was talking about.
Not everyone has the ability to see the common sense of situations either, unless it is told to them at a grade school level.
I wonder if it is time for those of us who know the truth to spread the reality by explaining that oil and coal will eventually dissapear at some point, whether 2 years or 200 years should make no difference and that, as I said just above, solar, wind, water, and geo-thermal will be there forever (and their cleaner) and by mentioning future generatations, perhaps we can finally break through those people's thick skulls??
Global temperatures have been cooling since 2002.
US temperatures in 2008 were below the average of the last 115 years.
US Summer temperatures in 2009 were the 34th coolest in 115 years.
Antarctica with 90% of the worlds land ice had the most sea ice ever recorded in 2008
The Arctic has 24% more sea ice in September 2009 than September 2007.
Germany recorded its lowest October temperature ever recorded last month.
CO2 continues to rise, yet temperatures are cooling, why is this?
CO2 can not cause temperatures to rise by itself more than 1.5C even if it doubles or triples in volume. CO2s ability to absorb heat is logarithmic, meaning the more CO2 there is the less heat it can absorb.
The earth has been warming in general since the last ice age 11,000 years ago. Any extra heat simply radiates back into space. You notice this happening every evening when the heat of the day drops as the Sun goes down.
Decreasing solar activity is causing the temperatures to drop. Almost 100% of the heat comes from the Sun, it is there that science must look.
see it all here www.isthereglobalwarming.com
Your text to link here...
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/
http://www.duke.edu/web/nicholas/bio217/tls14/general.html
Please, by all means, be my guest. See how the denier's claims fall flat.
http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/blancostemrecht/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle_Documentary_Film.aspx
You bring up a good point about this stuff going over people's heads. I agree.
But some of the issue is that people are just stubborn, and just plain refuse to accept anything but their own cherry-picked crap. Just take a look at what gpp keeps posting. Cherry-picked pseudoscience.
The sites listed below are pretty good sources of understanding climate change.
My advice to anyone is to review the evidence in parts:
1. Is it warming? Look at the charts from NASA.
2. What is causing the warming? Look at the case for the link to CO2.
3. Is global warming caused by us (is it "anthropogenic")?
4. What is the consensus among scientists on points 1-3?
From this point on, it's just a matter of what the effects are or can be - ice melting, ocean levels rising, etc. That you can research on your own.
Deniers mix up the effects with the realities of warming (points 1-4), and the throw in political issues to try to confuse people (Al Gore, IPCC, conspiracies, UN global domination, some scientists disagree, name calling, etc.).
Just focus on points 1-4 when you review the links below.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
http://climate.nasa.gov/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11462-climate-change-a-guide-for-the-perplexed.html
Consensus
http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/2006/08/role-of-consensus-in-science.html
http://www.ucsusa.org/ssi/climate-change/scientific-consensus-on.html
" (Al Gore, IPCC, conspiracies, UN global domination, some scientists disagree, name calling, etc.)."
I know it hurts, to see that the AGW theory is falling apart. Some desperately cling to it, but Mother Nature is weighing in mightily.
I am not saying the earth hasn't been warming, it has, since the last ice age 11,000 years ago. The question is what is causing the warming.
1934 was the warmest year in the USA according to NASA GISS. Five of the ten warmest years were before 1940.
US rural temperatures are cooler today than those of the 1930s.
Here are the years of the record high temperatures per continent.
Europe 1881
Australia 1889
South America 1905
Oceana 1912
North America 1913
Africa 1922
Asia 1942
Antartica 1974
What made it so warm then? Well of course, natural causes, not man.
Antarctica had the most sea ice ever recorded in 2008. Cherry picked data, no way Jose. Fact, not fiction. Antarctica also has 90% of the worlds land ice. The average temperature there is 55 below zero. OUCH. Even if the world did warm a couple of degrees do you think the ice will melt when it is this cold? Besides, the Antarctic ice melts at the bottom, not at the top. Antarctica is the worlds highest continent, averages over 8,000 feet. A mightly cold place with no sunlight for six months of the year.
I can hear it now, the same ol same ol attacks, cherry picked etc.
I do like cherries you know.