July, 2020, Part 2, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Chelsea Clinton Hysteria Vs. A Real Scientist

Just about every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have dove into the whole issue of manmade global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) In our last post reviewed two major global warming forecasts that came nowhere close to being accurate. In 2004, the Pentagon was charged by the Bush administration to come up with a view of how global warming would change the world. The result of this research predicted climate disasters, cities being under water, widespread famine and food shortages, rioting in every major city, etc. by the year 2020. We are in that year now and obviously this forecasts of global warming was wrong on every prediction.

Back in 2009, Al Gore cited state of the art computer models that predicted within five years there was a 75% chance that the North Pole would be completely melted. Eleven years later the Pole has not only not melted but the size and density of the ice at the Pole is intensifying, not melting.

One lesson we should learn from these two forecasting disasters is to certainly not trust people who have no climate experience or education, the Pentagon and Al Gore. Which brings us to today’s non-scientist and her failed prediction:

• Chelsea Clinton has absolutely no climate expertise.
• But that did not stop her three years ago when she proclaimed that “experts say we have 3 years to get climate change under control.”
• The source of her dire prediction looks to be a Washington Post article from three years ago: “A group of prominent scientists, policymakers, and corporate leaders released a statement Wednesday warning that if the world doesn’t set greenhouse gas emissions on a downward path by 2020, it could become impossible to contain climate change within safe limits.”
• But the leader of this group is associated with the United Nations climate clique which has never been right about any climate change or global warming prediction.

Three years after non-climate expert Chelsea Clinton predicted that we would be doomed by this year nothing in the world of climate has changed to any great degree, leaving Chelsea’s prediction of gloom and doom just another failed forecast on the junkyard of failed climate forecasts.

2) One of the big problems we have always talked about regarding Al Gore and others like him is that they cherry pick the “science” results that suit their preconceived notions on climate, ignoring any and all scientific research that would raise doubts or topple their precarious notions on global warming and climate change. To consider ALL available research, as we have shown, would raise serious doubts about their scary theories and (failed) climate forecasts.

Consider the credentials of a climate expert, Dr. Mototaka Nakamura:

• He has a doctorate of sciences from MIT.
• He has about 25 years experience in studying weather and climate change at various universities and scientific organizations that include MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology, Duke University and other scientific bases.
• He has studied the oceans and the atmosphere extensively and has published over 20 scientific papers on fluid dynamics.
• He certainly has much better credentials on this topic than Chelsea Clinton, Al Gore, any Swedish teenager, etc. 

He has also published a book, “The Global Warming Hypothesis Is An Unproven Hypothesis.” Some of his scientific findings and reasoning include the following global warming myth busting opinions and conclusions:

• His first big assertion is that the underlying data for the global warming mania is not trustworthy: “Global mean temperatures before 1980 are based on untrustworthy data. Before full planet surface observation by satellite began in 1980, only a small part of the Earth had been observed for temperatures with only a certain amount of accuracy and frequency. Across the globe, only North America and Western Europe have trustworthy temperature data dating back to the 19th century.”
• So right off the bat, he asserts that the raw data is bad and the logical conclusion is that if the raw, underlying data is bad, then any computer modeling, analysis, and forecasting will also be bad, “garbage in, garbage out.”
• Given the 100% failure of any and all climate and global warming models over the years when compared to reality this seems to be a sound conclusion.
• On top of the bad and untrustworthy raw data, the good doctor points out, as we have previously, that the industry of global warming has been caught any number of times of what he calls “data falsification.”
• Data falsification could include anything from adjusting historical raw data to better fit a researcher’s preconceived global warming theory or ignoring data that would disrupt their preconceived theory.
• Getting back to the raw data, Nakamura claims: “The global surface mean temperature-change data no longer have any scientific value and are nothing except a propaganda tool to the public.”
• He goes as far to say that manmade activities relative to carbon footprints and other factors cannot be measured and tracked, we do not have the knowledge or technology to consider all the factors that go into climate change and to try and do so results in the simplification of the analysis which results in the wrong conclusions and forecasts.
• These interacting and complex factors include mankind’s use of carbon energy sources, the sun’s activity, clouds and cloud covers, etc.: “Without a reasonably accurate representation, it is impossible to make any meaningful predictions of climate variations and changes in the middle and high latitudes and thus the entire planet.” 
• In fact, he gets pretty brutal in criticizing past climate modeling efforts: “The real or realistically-simulated climate system is far more complex than an absurdly simple system simulated by the toys that have been used for climate predictions to date, and will be insurmountably difficult for those naive climate researchers who have zero or very limited understanding of geophysical fluid dynamics. The dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans are absolutely critical facets of the climate system if one hopes to ever make any meaningful prediction of climate variation.”
• The big factor that computer models ignore is solar input which most models view as constant which is a false assumption to make.

So who you gonna believe: Chelsea Clinton of Dr. Nakamura. A rich, non-scientist who I believe has degrees in history and international relations or a Phd scientist who has decades experience in the field. Seems like a pretty simple answer.

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November, 2016, Part 6, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: Obama Is Still Delusional, Young Americans Ignoring The Law, and Who Is Stupid Now Jonathan Gruber?6

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and co-pays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wastefully spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care., To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

This week we will be reviewing the latest unfolding disasters from the worst piece of legislation ever written by Washington:

1) We have already discussed the reality that Obama is living in a different world when it comes to Obama Care. He recently proclaimed that only a handful of Americans will be affected by the rampaging increases in Obama Care policy costs but we showed that his handful of Americans is at least 2.3 million people, bigger than all but three cities in the country.

Well, according to the Washington Free Beacon newspaper and an article by Andrew Kugle on November 7, 2016, he is back at the delusional business. At a recent political rally in Florida, Obama claimed that: “The parade of horribles that Republicans have talked about haven’t happened." Obama told a crowd of supporters in Florida on Thursday.

The parade of horribles that Republicans predicted years ago included increased costs of health insurance for Americans, the loss of insurance policies for people that currently had health insurance coverage, and increased costs, regulations, and hassles for small businesses. Specifically:

1. Congressman Paul Ryan said that, “This bill does not control costs.”
2. Senator Lamar Alexander said that, “Premiums will increase in the individual (insurance) market.”
3. Congressman Eric Cantor said that, “Between eight million and nine million people might very well lose the coverage they have.” 

And what actually happened? Premium and deductible costs will skyrocket in 2017 for Obama Care policies with premiums costs going up a national average of over 20%, with some state premium costs going up much higher in different states. Millions of Americans, who were happy with their existing insurance policies, were forced to find new insurance policies that were almost always substantially higher than the policies they were happy with but were forced to give up because of Obama Care. 

President Obama, still living in alternative reality when it comes to the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care. In fact, the fact checking organization, Politifact, rated Obama;’s claim that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” as the “lie of the year.”

2) Jamie Gregora, writing for the Heritage Foundation, talked about the major problem with Obama Care, namely that younger healthier Americans did not sign up for Obama Care problems, quite possibly because they did not want to be the Obama Care stooges that would subsidize healthcare costs for older Americans:

• Given that younger Americans mostly feel that they are young and healthy and will not need health insurance and that paying the Obama Care fine for not having insurance is far less than the cost of Obama Care insurance policies, the decision to not get insurance is a no brainer.
• This is especially true since younger people usually have lower incomes than the rest of America and they have other, more important expenses to worry about.
• American adults aged 18 to 34 represented 40% of the uninsured in the country but accounted for only 24% of the Obama Care policy holders in 2014, perfectly illustrating why Obama Care is failing, younger and healthier Americans are not signing up for Obama Care at the same rate that they exist in the population.
• The Obama Care legislation also forbids insurance companies from charging more for insurance for older Americans who are more likely to need health insurance coverage which means that the insurance companies have to charge younger Americans more, who are less likely to need health insurance coverage, which puts health insurance costs out of the reach of younger Americans.

Is this flaw of the legislation fixable? Probably not, according to Ed Haismaier, a senior research fellow in health policy studies at the Heritage Foundation: “Without changing a lot of the basic design of the [Affordable Care Act], there’s no way to really bring down the cost … for young, healthy people. Young, healthy people tend to have lower incomes and would rather spend their money on something else, so it’s difficult to give them a value proposition where they would instead spend money on [health insurance].”

3) Let’s finish up today with an oldie but goodie from the disastrous history of Obama Care. Remember when Obama Care architect, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, proudly bragged that the law was intentionally written in a contorted way to make it impossible to figure out exactly what was in it and that the supporters of the legislation relied on the stupidity of Americans to get it passed? Relive this idiot’s comments at:

http://politicaloutcast.com/obamacare-architect-confesses-lying-elitist-garbage/

Who is stupid now, Mr. Gruber? Americans you so despise or the law you helped write that has increased premiums and deductibles to unheard of levels, repressed the number of insurance companies competing in the Obama Care market, has limited choices in the doctors and hospitals that can be used, and robbed millions of Americans of the insurance policies they had and who were happy with what they had? 

One last set of Obama Care failures tomorrow.

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

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November, 2016, Part 5, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: Obama Is Still Delusional, Young Americans Ignoring The Law, and Who Is Stupid Now Jonathan Gruber?

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and co-pays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wastefully spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care., To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

This week we will be reviewing the latest unfolding disasters from the worst piece of legislation ever written by Washington:

1) We have already discussed the reality that Obama is living in a different world when it comes to Obama Care. He recently proclaimed that only a handful of Americans will be affected by the rampaging increases in Obama Care policy costs but we showed that his handful of Americans is at least 2.3 million people, bigger than all but three cities in the country.

Well, according to the Washington Free Beacon newspaper and an article by Andrew Kugle on November 7, 2016, he is back at the delusional business. At a recent political rally in Florida, Obama claimed that: “The parade of horribles that Republicans have talked about haven’t happened." Obama told a crowd of supporters in Florida on Thursday.

The parade of horribles that Republicans predicted years ago included increased costs of health insurance for Americans, the loss of insurance policies for people that currently had health insurance coverage, and increased costs, regulations, and hassles for small businesses. Specifically:

1. Congressman Paul Ryan said that, “This bill does not control costs.”
2. Senator Lamar Alexander said that, “Premiums will increase in the individual (insurance) market.”
3. Congressman Eric Cantor said that, “Between eight million and nine million people might very well lose the coverage they have.” 

And what actually happened? Premium and deductible costs will skyrocket in 2017 for Obama Care policies with premiums costs going up a national average of over 20%, with some state premium costs going up much higher in different states. Millions of Americans, who were happy with their existing insurance policies, were forced to find new insurance policies that were almost always substantially higher than the policies they were happy with but were forced to give up because of Obama Care. 

President Obama, still living in alternative reality when it comes to the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care. In fact, the fact checking organization, Politifact, rated Obama;’s claim that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” as the “lie of the year.”

2) Jamie Gregora, writing for the Heritage Foundation, talked about the major problem with Obama Care, namely that younger healthier Americans did not sign up for Obama Care problems, quite possibly because they did not want to be the Obama Care stooges that would subsidize healthcare costs for older Americans:

• Given that younger Americans mostly feel that they are young and healthy and will not need health insurance and that paying the Obama Care fine for not having insurance is far less than the cost of Obama Care insurance policies, the decision to not get insurance is a no brainer.
• This is especially true since younger people usually have lower incomes than the rest of America and they have other, more important expenses to worry about.
• American adults aged 18 to 34 represented 40% of the uninsured in the country but accounted for only 24% of the Obama Care policy holders in 2014, perfectly illustrating why Obama Care is failing, younger and healthier Americans are not signing up for Obama Care at the same rate that they exist in the population.
• The Obama Care legislation also forbids insurance companies from charging more for insurance for older Americans who are more likely to need health insurance coverage which means that the insurance companies have to charge younger Americans more, who are less likely to need health insurance coverage, which puts health insurance costs out of the reach of younger Americans.

Is this flaw of the legislation fixable? Probably not, according to Ed Haismaier, a senior research fellow in health policy studies at the Heritage Foundation: “Without changing a lot of the basic design of the [Affordable Care Act], there’s no way to really bring down the cost … for young, healthy people. Young, healthy people tend to have lower incomes and would rather spend their money on something else, so it’s difficult to give them a value proposition where they would instead spend money on [health insurance].”

3) Let’s finish up today with an oldie but goodie from the disastrous history of Obama Care. Remember when Obama Care architect, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, proudly bragged that the law was intentionally written in a contorted way to make it impossible to figure out exactly what was in it and that the supporters of the legislation relied on the stupidity of Americans to get it passed? Relive this idiot’s comments at:

http://politicaloutcast.com/obamacare-architect-confesses-lying-elitist-garbage/

Who is stupid now, Mr. Gruber? Americans you so despise or the law you helped write that has increased premiums and deductibles to unheard of levels, repressed the number of insurance companies competing in the Obama Care market, has limited choices in the doctors and hospitals that can be used, and robbed millions of Americans of the insurance policies they had and who were happy with what they had? 

One last set of Obama Care failures tomorrow.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
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May, 2016, Part 1, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Another Busted Forecast, Mere Thoughts Cause Global Warming, and The Science Is NOT Settled

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.”This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have dove into the whole issue of manmade global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control of our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical posts listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims:

1) Courtney Kirchoff, writing for the Louder with Crowder website on September, 2015, reminded us how insanely wrong climate forecasters have been over the years. Back in 2007, a global warming advocate and scientist predicted that by 2013, in just six short years, the ice caps would have completely melted, as published in a 2007 BBC article: “Their latest modeling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years (2013).”

The advocate, Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, actually admitted at an American Geophysical Union meeting that the 2007 prediction had “underestimated the processes now driving ice loss.” Well, yeah, let’s state the obvious, since the poles are still frozen with ice and snow and have not disappeared as predicted. But that did not stop him from doubling down on his global warming expertise when in 2013 he predicted that his adjusted predictions would now accurately predict that the ice caps would be gone by the summer of 2016. Like this year. 

Unless I have missed something in the news, I think the good professor also got this latest forecast wrong. Nowhere did I read that the ice caps are close to becoming nothing but melted ice and that the polar bears have all drowned and the coastlines around the world have been flooded out. 

Which is why people like me become global warming doubters: how many times have we been told that we are on the brink of global warming catastrophes and nothing happens? After the hundredth time or so you stop paying attention to the gloom and doom predictions and continue to yearn for an adult discussion on the climate using ALL of the available science and data, not just the science and data that backs up one side or the other.

2) Sometimes global warming advocates go bonkers trying to blame anything remotely possible on global warming, We have previously covered hysteria from global warming advocates that claimed digging squirrels up in the tundra were causing global warming...even though those squirrels have been digging up there for centuries. Another scientist claimed that beavers building dams were causing global warming...even though beavers have been building dams for centuries. These are just two of the insane reasons that advocates claim are causing global warming.

But a new theory might be the most insane of all. Ashley Rae Goldenberg, writing for the MRCTV website on May 11, 2016, told us that an MIT conference was going to explore the question: "Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming?” Yes, now the mere thought of something can cause global warming.

This is not a joke. A recent MIT event hosted by the university’s Ecology and Justice Forum in Global Studies and Languages, run by University of Melbourne professor Ghassan Hage, examined, “the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis.”

Here is the flyer for the event:



I have a college education and an advanced degree but I still could not understand the synopsis of the talk that is highlighted on the bottom of the flyer: “[The talk] looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’”Huh? Are you kidding me? Thoughts now cause global warming to accelerate? You cannot make this stuff up.3) A favorite tactic of global warming advocates is to claim that “the science is settled,” with the implication being if you disagree with their views you are a scientific imbecile. Of course, we have shown hundreds of times over the years that scientists, researchers, realities, and other facts that prove the science is not settled and that if anything, the reality of manmade global warming is becoming more of a myth every day.The Inquistr website recently ran a story in which noted scientists put forth their opinions on why the science is not settled:- Dr. Leslie Woodcock is an emeritus professor of Chemical Engineering and Anayltical Science at the University of Manchester in England. He also a former NASA scientist and has a long list of other scholarly credentials. Here is his take on man made global warming and climate change: “The term ‘climate change’ is meaningless. The Earth’s climate has been changing since time immemorial, that is since the Earth was formed 1,000 million years ago. The theory of ‘man-made climate change’ is an unsubstantiated hypothesis [about] our climate [which says it] has been adversely affected by the burning of fossil fuels in the last 100 years, causing the average temperature on the earth’s surface to increase very slightly but with disastrous environmental consequences. The theory is that the CO2 emitted by burning fossil fuel is the ‘greenhouse gas’ causes ‘global warming’ — in fact, water is a much more powerful greenhouse gas and there is 20 time more of it in our atmosphere (around one per cent of the atmosphere) whereas CO2 is only 0.04 per cent. There is no reproducible scientific evidence CO2 has significantly increased in the last 100 years. Anecdotal evidence doesn’t mean anything in science, it’s not significant…”“Even the term ‘global warming’ does not mean anything unless you give it a time scale. The temperature of the earth has been going up and down for millions of years, if there are extremes, it’s nothing to do with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it’s not permanent and it’s not caused by us. Global warming is nonsense.”- Dr. James Lovelock was considered almost a founding member of the man made global warming theory back in the day. Despite his once revered position in the global warming movement, he now describes the movement as becoming like “a religion, and religions don’t worry too much about facts” and that “It’s just as silly to be a denier as it is to be a believer. You can’t be certain.”Lovelock has also publicly stated: “… In fact, receding Arctic ice rebounded between 2012 and 2013, growing by 29 percent into an unbroken patch more than half the size of Europe and within 5 percent of what it was 30 years ago, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Last month near the South Pole, a Russian ship carrying scientists and tourists traveled to the bottom of the Earth so passengers might document global warming and shrinking ice caps. But the ship got stuck on ice that was thicker than at any time since records started being kept in 1978.”- Dr. Patrick Moore is a Greenpeace co-founder who has also publicly expressed the opinion that: “There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years… no actual proof, as it is understood in science, actually exists.”The science is not settled, at least according to these three distinguished scientists and experts...along with the dozens of others we have previously discussed in this blog.That will do it for today. More proof that the science is not settled as it relates to man made global warming, more lunacy from advocates on possible causes of mythical global warming, and another huge miss on predicting the impacts of global warming. More tomorrow.

April, 2016, Part 2, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: The Science Is NOT Settled and The Polar Bears Ar Doing Fine

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have dove into the whole issue of manmade global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control of our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical posts listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims:

1) The first topic today is an oldie but a goodie. It is an oldie in that it was based on an article from Forbes’ writer James Taylor back in 2013. It is a goodie in that it debunks people like Al Gore, Barack Obama, and others that continually screech that “the science is settled” when it comes to global warming. While it is from three years ago, we have provided more up to date information in other blog posts that verifies that the findings discussed in that article are still true today, i.e. from a science and scientists perspective, the science is NOT settled.

Details and facts of the article include the following:

• According to a survey of scientists conducted by the peer reviewed journal, Organization Studies, only 36% of geoscientists and engineers believe that human beings are creating a global warming emergency.
• A majority of the 1,077 respondents are of the opinion that nature is the primary cause of global warming.
• They are also of the opinion that future global warming will not be a serious problem for mankind.
• The article references two other studies that showed that meteorologists have similar doubts about global warming.

This study has a large enough sample size to draw hard conclusions about science and global warming. The difference between those that claim manmade global warming is real and those that doubt that assertion are in an almost two to one ratio, overwhelmingly in favor of global warming doubters. These are only scientists and engineers included in the survey, omitting politicians that have other agendas to enact and use the global warming myth as a tool for those other agendas.

In other words, the science is not settled as measured by this survey and other realities. 

2) Let’s stay with scientists that know that the science is not settled. Atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen from MIT has grouped people involved in the global warming issue into three categories:

1. Scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, i.e. scientists that believe that mankind’s burning of fossil fuels is creating a dangerous situation.
2. Scientists who are global warming and climate change doubters, i.e. scientists, including Lindzen, that believe there are a whole lot of factors involved in climate and that mankind’s activities are not a significant impact on climate change.
3. Non-scientists such as politicians, journalists, and environmental activists.

Lindzen and his type believe the following realities:

• The climate constantly changes.
• Some degree of warming will occur with the emission of carbon dioxide, but without it there would be no life on Earth.
• Carbon dioxide levels have risen since the 19th century.
• The average global temperature has risen by one degree celsius between 1800 and 2000, but man's carbon emissions have played a role since the 1960's.
• A "confident prediction" about the average global temperature cannot be made.
• Fossil fuel use will not result in armageddon.

Lindzen has very little scientific respect for the third group of non-scientists listed above: "Global warming alarmism provides them, more than any other issue, with the things they most want. For politicians, it's money and power. For environmentalists, it's money for their organizations and confirmation of their near-religious devotion to the idea that man is a destructive force acting upon nature. And for the media, it's ideology, money and headlines. Doomsday scenarios sell."

Additionally, "Unfortunately, group three is winning the argument because they have drowned out the serious debate that should be going on. But while politicians, environmentalists and media types can waste a lot of money and scare a lot of people, they won't be able to bury the truth. The climate will have the final word on that."

Just another scientist that believes it is perfectly logical to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science. Who would you rather believe when it comes to global warming, a has been politician Al Gore or a current MIT scientist?

3) One of the deceptive myths that global warming believers have thrown into everyone’s face is that global warming is killing off the polar bear population. The obvious guilt trip they would want to impose on the rest of us is how can we stand idly by and NOT save the polar bears?

But we have shown that previous posts and scientific studies have shown that the exact opposite is going on. The polar bear population is getting larger, not smaller. Recent reporting by the Daily Caller website cited yet another scientific study to prove that the polar bear population is NOT dying off:

• Researchers from Lakehead University in Canada found no evidence that polar bear populations are threatened by global warming or climate change.
• Publishing their results in the journal “Ecology and Evolution,” the Canadians concluded: "We see reason for concern, but find no reliable evidence to support the contention that polar bears are currently experiencing a climate crisis.”
• After studying 13 polar bear subpopulations, the scientists found that: "Much of the scientific evidence indicating that some polar bear subpopulations are declining due to climate change-mediated sea ice reductions is likely flawed by poor mark-recapture sampling," resulting in the inability to gather accurate “demographic parameters.”

So, in the upside down world of global warming hysteria, the polar bear population is growing while Obama and others of his thinking are making the coal miner population to decrease and become endangered for no reason. 

Today, we learned again that the science is NOT settled, if one would only ask real scientists, and the polar bear population is doing just fine. More evidence tomorrow that it is perfectly rational to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science.

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April, 2016, Bonus Post, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: More Failing Numbers and ....A Retro Look Back to One of The Smug Fools That Developed The Whole Mess In the First Place

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and co-pays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wastefully spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care., To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

We thought that we were done with yesterday’s post regarding the “unfolding disaster that Is Obama Care,” but true to form, just when we think we are through the current month’s disasters, a few more worthy discussion points and disasters pop up, which leads us to the following:

1) One more source of failing Obama Care data today. Some of this information we have already referenced over the past week but the following list from Michael F. Cannon’s article, “5 Things ACA Supporters Don’t Want You To Know About UnitedHealth’s Withdrawal From ObamaCare,” writing for the Cato Institute April 22, 2016, kind of neatly sums everything up:

• Unitedhealthcare,the country’s largest health insurance provider, is getting out of most of the 34 states where it sells Obama Care insurance policies in 2017 because it cannot make money in those states.
• The company lost $650 million on those policies in 2015.
• A recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation stated that if the company leaves the state of Oklahoma, only one company will be left selling Obama Care policies in that state.
• If the company gets out of every one of those 34 states, not just most of them, the share of counties across the country with only one or two Obama Care insurers will jump from 36% to 52% and the share of Obama Care policy enrollees with only one or two carriers will double from 15% to just under 30%.
• If those former Unitedhealthcare customers go to other Obama Care carriers, you can probably expect those health insurance companies to see their financial results to also go south since they will be serving the same Unitedhealthcare customers that Unitedhealthcare could not make a profit on.
• The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, whose member companies are the biggest health insurers in the Obama Care world, reported that Obama Care policy holders are 22% more costly than the customers they serve that have employer based insurance coverage.
• Mr. Cannon points out another negative wrinkle within the whole Unitedhealthcare situation: “Unitedhealth generally didn’t have the lowest-cost premiums in the Exchanges. The fact that it still lost money provides further evidence of significant adverse selection. It suggests high cost patients are shopping for the most comprehensive benefits, regardless of premium; that Unitedhealth offered coverage that was attractive to the sick; and the company thus attracted a particularly costly group of enrollees.”
• Unitedhealthcare also assumed that its current enrollment will drop 18% over the course of this year, with a lot of the reduction driven by current customers that cannot afford their policies despite Obama promising that annmual family health insurance costs would go down by upwards of $2,500.
• A McKinsey analysis recently found that despite getting subsidized by the Federal government’s reinsurance program, 70% of Obama Care insurance companies were still losing money on those policies and the average profit margin of all Obama Care insurance companies was negative in 41 states.
• Obama Care insurance costs will continue to rise in 2017 because of how bad it program it is and because those sicker and less healthy Unitedhealthcare customers, the ones that cost that company to lose so much money, will seek out other Obama Care carriers and by law, those carriers must accept these higher cost customers.
• Given this rising premium and sicker than expected customer scenario, the author predicts that more companies will leave the program if they are not allowed to substantially raise their insurance policy costs in 2017.

As the cost of insurance goes up under Obama Care, less people will purchase insurance, leaving the Obama Care insurance carriers with only the sickest and most costly patients which will cause them to raise rates or get out of the Obama Care market which will reduce competition which will drive up costs, which will dry up customers = death spiral.

Just about any human endeavor that finds itself in a death spiral never gets out of it until that death spiral collpases into failure. That is what we are witnessing today as the Obama Care logic, structure, and realities begin their relentless trend downward.

2) Okay, last disaster review for this month, I promise. Let’s go up a few years to find out how this whole fiasco was spawned. The following paragraph contains the words of one of the academic geniuses [sarcasm] that helped to build the Obama Care legislation, MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, and how it was derived and developed to confuse, divert, and sneak through the legislation, in the process assuming that Americans are too stupid to understand how we were about to get screwed by the worst piece of Washington legislation ever passed. 

I have copied some of his words below with my emphasis on how little he respected our intelligence and brains and have also included a link to the original videotape so that you can hear the contempt that this professor has for you and the rest of us: "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass….Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelcannon/2016/02/05/obamacares-low-enrollment-numbers-also-show-why-exchange-coverage-will-get-worse-over-time/#8b7f48d5a053

“The stupidity of the American voter.” Given the epic failure of Obama Care, who is stupid today, those that pointed out how much this law sucked years ago or those that were so smug, so condescending that they viewed themselves too smart for their own good and that their work on Obama Care will be long known as an unmitigated disaster?

And you can bet that we will be back next month with more disasters, regardless of what an MIT professor claims in the above video.

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