June, 2019, Part 2, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: More Failed Predictions and Ocasio-Cortez Is A "Twit"

On a periodic basis, we revisit a continuing theme in this blog, “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” Several years ago we started investigating the viability of this position for a number of reasons:

• It did not appear that global warming advocates were looking at all of the available global warming science, realities, and trends, just those select pieces of information that supported their position.
• There seemed to be a growing sense of doubt among scientists about whether or not global warming was actually a real thing.
• We were getting tired of Al Gore and others of his ilk who constantly were calling those that were undecided about global warming a whole litany of slurs including racists, homophobes, and other insulting terms.

After researching and writing about dozens of global warming information sources, we have proven over and over that it is perfectly logical to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science:

• Realities show that global warming actually stopped about 18 years ago, causing global warming advocates to rebrand their position as “climate change” since “global warming” was no longer an emerging reality.
• Turns out the major global warming forecast models all turned out to be grossly inaccurate in predicting future climate and warming trends, throwing into doubt whether any man made global warming or climate change was actually happening.
• Major and reputable scientists and science organizations (e.g. the renowned CERN Institute) were either originally determining that man made global warming and climate control never existed or changing their position to become doubters of what they may have original believed about global warming.
• Important and prominent scientists around the world were caught manipulating climate data to verify their false claims and forecast models or were outed for at least contemplating changing real world data to match their ill performing analyses and forecasting models.

Previous exposes’ of global warming and climate change theories by using real world numbers, scientific experiments, and the simple act of observing can be accessed in this blog by typing “I am a global warming doubter” in the search box above. At that point, you will be provided many previous posts from this blog including dozens and dozens of information sources that more and more point to a repudiation of Al Gore and others, man made global warming, and man made climate change. The latest proof that you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in sciences is discussed below:

1) In our last post we reviewed some of the blatantly wrong climate predictions that have come around since the original Earth Day back in 1970. We often review past climate change/global warming predictions, all of which were so, so wrong. A recent article article on the Godfather Politics website by Warner Todd Huston reminds us about five “expert” climate predictions that went oh so wrong:

• We were told on Earth Day in 1970 that exploding populations around the world would strain the Earth’s ability to feed everyone and result in a global famine by the year 2000. But in reality, those going hungry around the world has actually been declining over time and the predicted global famine never materialized.
• Another 1970 prediction was that American city dwellers would have to go around wearing gas masks as the climate would be so poisoned by pollution. Oops, never happened.
• Back in the late 1990s the Associated Press reported: “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.” Never happened.
• By now, the polar ice caps should have melted according to global warming advocates like Al Gore. According to the article, between 2012 and 2016 Arctic ice mass has grown from about 2.2 million square miles to 3.3 million square miles.
• As far back as the late 1950s we were seeing predictions that the climate was about to experience a coming ice age, a prediction that persisted until the early 1970s when some climate scientists did an amazing turnaround, going from predicting a coming ice age to a prediction a deadly global warming trend, a diametrically opposed view from just a few years prior.

The article correctly sums up what we should take away from this total failure of some scientists to accurately predict the future, be it overpopulation, famine, or the climate: “If there’s a lesson to be learned from all of these predictions, it’s not that scientists are always wrong or that we shouldn’t be good stewards of the environment. Instead, we should treat extreme predictions with skepticism, especially if they mean upending our way of life.”

2) Marc Moran, writing for the Heritage Foundation on March 19, 2019, reviewed a fascinating piece of research that may explain why global warming advocates and their forecasts were so wrong.
Climate scientist John Christy explains: “The occurrence of both record highs [temperatures] and record lows is declining. Record-low events are simply declining more rapidly than record highs. The drop in record lows is associated with development around the weather stations, which causes low temperatures to increase more than highs for a variety of reasons.”

He points out that what might really be happening is that the weather stations across the country that have recorded temperatures for decades may not be in the same environment that existed over time. For example, assume that a weather station out in the woods has been used for many, many decades, recording temperatures and creating a historical baseline. But over time, on average, that weather station has recorded higher and higher temperatures, which on the surface would imply that the Earth is getting warmer.But let’s assume that a new highway was built that went right by the weather station. Not surprisingly, the temperature in that immediate area would be higher as hot cars and trucks going by and heat absorbing concrete road structures would make the air around that weather station artificially warmer, not because the climate is getting warmer but because the conditions around the weather station changed. Christy calls this: “urbanization and natural variability.” He has done this analysis based on 682 weather stations around the country with at least 105 years of records.

Climate scientist Roger Pielke also says that something is going on that resulted in manmade changes to the environment around the stations, not necessarily changes in the climate: “Without assessing the role of increased urbanization and other land-use changes … changes in atmospheric aerosols overhead, microclimate around observing site, changes in heights of observations, and concurrent trends in surface air humidity, it is not robust to attribute any changes in extreme temperatures to just human-added atmospheric CO2.”

The article also debunks some other global warming myths:

• A 2013 paper published in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology found that extreme heat waves in the U.S. have decreased since the 1930s, not increased as global warming advocate would have us believe.
• Princeton physicist Will Harper has analyzed and debunked the often printed media stories that claim some place just had the “hottest year EVER,”, pointing out that some of these claims are a result of a tenth of a degree or less, not statistically significant.

Some other reasons why it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science as more and more predictions turn out to be worthless.

3) Global warming advocates have not only made some grossly wrong predictions but have made some really absurd conclusions. One of our favorite myths was an assertion by some global warming “experts” that beavers building dams, something that they have probably done for thousands of years, was causing global warming. Never mind that we have already reported that China and India by themselves are planning on bringing over 2,000 coal burning power plants on line in the near future, it is the building of beaver dams that had this expert all upset.

Not to be outdone by this climate change link to animals, Newsweek, once a great piece of journalistic effort which has been shrunk down to non-significance over time, recently tried to match the beaver dam theory. According to another Godfathers Politics website story by Mr, Huston, Newsweek recently published a story that predicted more people would be hunted down by man eating tigers as a result of global warming: “According to the official Newsweek Twitter feed, “Man-eating tigers could hunt down more humans due to climate change | Opinion””

Seriously, global warming, which stopped two decades ago, is going to eventually result in man eating tigers going after humans on a more frequent basis. I thought the beaver story was far fetched.

4) And finally for this month, let’s consider a recent interview that one of the co-founders of Greenpeace gave as it related to climate. Keep in mind that I would think that the co-founder of Greenpeace has a better handle on science and the climate than a freshman Congresswoman from NYC has, a Congresswoman who up until recently was a bartender with no extensive scientific background, if any at all:

• Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, says that while climate change is real, it has been going on for eons, it is “not made by people, and is a perfectly natural phenomenon.”
• In other words there is no dangerous climate change, global warming crisis going on, a crisis that was caused by humanity.
• He also had unkind words for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is pushing the insanely stupid New Green Deal idea and who has also made the totally wrong and stupid prediction that the world was going to end in ten years unless we adopted her insanely expensive and non-workable New Green Deal idea.
• He actually spoke out and called Ocasio-Cortez’s plan what it is really is: "It’s a silly plan. That’s why I suggested she was a pompous little twit. Twit meaning silly in the British lexicon and pompous meaning arrogant.” 
• He went on to rip the former bartender who has a bachelor’s degree in business: “She really rubbed me the wrong way when she said she is the boss, because she can make up a proposal that’s completely ridiculous. There is no climate crisis.There is weather and climate all around the world, and in fact, carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.” 
• He went onto rip other global warming advocates: “Earth has survived Ice Ages, massive asteroid impacts and extinctions, continents colliding & volcanoes building massive mountain ranges. And CO2, the food for all life, is a ‘threat to the planet.’ Not likely.”

So who are going to believe: the co-founder of Greenpeace who I assume has a deep love for the health of the Earth and who has devoted a lot of his life to such an ideal or a freshmam Congresswoman from Queens, NYC, who has no climate or science formal training, who has only bachelor's degree in business, and who has made a fool of herself so many times over so many topics, many of which we have covered in this blog. Again, given this discussion, it is perfectly sane to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, not some hackneyed politicians in D.C.

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Retro # 12 - Newsweek Magazine - First Financial Bankruptcy and Now Moral Bankruptcy

Please note: Given the holiday and family activities this Thanksgiving week, we are rerunning some of our most popular posts from earlier this year. We will be back with fresh, new political class insanity the week after Thanksgiving. Happy Turkey Day!

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In following President Obama's reactions and words to the tragic Tuscon shootings from this weekend, I was finally impressed with his display of leadership. I can honestly say it was the first time, in my opinion, that he was a leader rather than just another Chicago politician. His words seemed sincere, his desire to finally address the venomous political climate and dialog in this country, of which he is partly responsible, also seemed sincere. The words he delivered at the gathering yesterday seemed heartfelt and appeared well received by everyone. Kudos for finally delivering some non-partisan leadership.

I can only hope that he follows through with the message of cooperation and respect he delivered this week. The only other time he came close to displaying this level of leadership was in his Cairo speech early in his Presidency where he promised hope and a different way of doing things in U.S. foreign policy. However, he was not able to deliver, resulting in crashed expectations in countries around the world. Let us hope he can deliver on the bipartisan message he has been talking about this week.

I will not be so kind when talking about Tuscon and Newsweek, specifically Newsweek writer, Jonathan Alter. As many of you may know, Newsweek has been having serious financial problems over the past few years and recently merged with another organization to try and stay afloat. Thus, the "financial bankruptcy" phrase above. However, in a January 10, 2011 Newsweek article by Jonathan Alter, "Can Obama Turn Tragedy into Triumph?" Newsweek, in my opinion, has entered the region of "moral bankruptcy" relative to the Tucson shootings.

Consider two direct quotes from Mr. Alter's article:

'"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Rahm Emanuauel (formerly Obama's Chief of Staff) famously said in 2008. The same goes for a shooting spree that gravely wounds a beloved Congresswoman. Congress won't enact gun control, as it did in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, but perhaps something positive (politically) can come of this.'

"Even if he (Obama) makes a good speech (State Of The Union), the President may find that the memory of the Tucson tragedy fades quickly. Sad to say, if Giffords had died, she would have been mourned and soon the conversation would have moved on. But Giffords lives, thank god, which offers other possibilities."

I have a lot of real problems with the whole article and these two quotes in particular:

1. The first problem is one of respect. Congresswoman Giffords has been shot through the head and obviously is in very critical condition, fighting for her life first and the quality of her life second. The least Alter could have done is given her a little respect in her time of need and sympathy and rather than just address her as "Giffords", maybe "Congresswoman Giffords" would have showed a little more class and sympathy for her plight. For the most part throughout the article, he refers to the Federal judge who also died in the shootings as John Roll or Judge Roll. Why couldn't he extend that same level of respect to Congresswoman Giffords?
2. Second, I find it highly disrespectful that her tragedy is even mentioned in the same sentence with the Rahm Emanuel quote, as if her suffering can be used to leverage political action on any issue. Was there not enough suffering already by those who died or were wounded and their families in Tucson? For Mr. Alter to look for opportunities to leverage their suffering for more gun control, and gains on other issues, is at the very least premature; many of these Tucson folks are still grieving or fighting for their lives.
3. Third, why would Mr. Alter even hypothetically think about what would have happened if Congresswoman Giffords had died. She did not die, she is obviously a fighter and a hero to most of us for what she has gone through. Why in the world would you ever hypothesize what would have happened if the heroes around her that day had not done the right things or if the surgeons had not been as good as they are? Despicable to even talk about or contemplate the fatal alternative, which thankfully, will not come to fruition.

Since this past Saturday, I have made a vow to myself to not even waste my time, my breath, my eyes, and moments of my life with people that rant and rave and are obviously biased, whether they are politicians, bloggers, or Newsweek writers. Mr. Alter will be my first test to see if I can ignore him and others like Beck, Olberman, Hannity, Maddow, etc. who it has become clear contribute nothing to the world except possibly their TV ratings or magazine readership. I have too much respect for people like Congresswoman Giffords to think that her situation should be exploited for political good or to even think about what could have happened in the worst case.

In other words, I pledge to no longer have any patience with moral bankruptcy wherever and whenever I come across it.






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Newsweek Magazine - First Financial Bankruptcy and Now Moral Bankruptcy

In following President Obama's reactions and words to the tragic Tuscon shootings from this weekend, I was finally impressed with his display of leadership. I can honestly say it was the first time, in my opinion, that he was a leader rather than just another Chicago politician. His words seemed sincere, his desire to finally address the venomous political climate and dialog in this country, of which he is partly responsible, also seemed sincere. The words he delivered at the gathering yesterday seemed heartfelt and appeared well received  by everyone. Kudos for finally delivering some non-partisan leadership.

I can only hope that he follows through with the message of cooperation and respect he delivered this week. The only other time he came close to displaying this level of leadership was in his Cairo speech early in his Presidency where he promised hope and a different way of doing things in U.S. foreign policy. However, he was not able to deliver, resulting in crashed expectations in countries around the world. Let us hope he can deliver on the bipartisan message he has been talking about this week.

I will not be so kind when talking about Tuscon and Newsweek, specifically Newsweek writer, Jonathan Alter. As many of you may know, Newsweek has been having serious financial problems over the past few years and recently merged with another organization to try and stay afloat. Thus, the "financial bankruptcy" phrase above. However, in a January 10, 2011 Newsweek article by Jonathan Alter, "Can Obama Turn Tragedy into Triumph?" Newsweek, in my opinion, has entered the region of "moral bankruptcy" relative to the Tucson shootings.

Consider two direct quotes from Mr. Alter's article:

'"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Rahm Emanuauel (formerly Obama's Chief of Staff) famously said in 2008. The same goes for a shooting spree that gravely wounds a beloved Congresswoman. Congress won't enact gun control, as it did in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, but perhaps something positive (politically) can come of this.'

"Even if he (Obama) makes a good speech (State Of The Union), the President may find that the memory of the Tucson tragedy fades quickly. Sad to say, if Giffords had died, she would have been mourned and soon the conversation would have moved on. But Giffords lives, thank god, which offers other possibilities."

I have a lot of real problems with the whole article and these two quotes in particular:

1. The first problem is one of respect. Congresswoman Giffords has been shot through the head and obviously is in very critical condition, fighting for her life first and the quality of her life second. The least Alter could have done is given her a little respect in her time of need and sympathy and rather than just address her as "Giffords", maybe  "Congresswoman Giffords" would have showed a little more class and sympathy for her plight. For the most part throughout the article, he refers to the Federal judge who also died in the shootings as John Roll or Judge Roll. Why couldn't he extend that same level of respect to Congresswoman Giffords?
2. Second, I find it highly disrespectful that her tragedy is even mentioned in the same sentence with the Rahm Emanuel quote, as if her suffering can be used to leverage political action on any issue. Was there not enough suffering already by those who died or were wounded and their families in Tucson? For Mr. Alter to look for opportunities to leverage their suffering for more gun control, and gains on other issues, is at the very least premature; many of these Tucson folks are still grieving or fighting for their lives.
3. Third, why would Mr. Alter even hypothetically think about what would have happened if Congresswoman Giffords had died. She did not die, she is obviously a fighter and a hero to most of us for what she has gone through. Why in the world would you ever hypothesize what would have happened if the heroes around her that day had not done the right things or if the surgeons had not been as good as they are? Despicable to even talk about or contemplate the fatal alternative, which thankfully, will not come to fruition.

Since this past Saturday, I have made a vow to myself to not even waste my time, my breath, my eyes, and moments of my life with people that rant and rave and are obviously biased, whether they are politicians, bloggers, or Newsweek writers. Mr. Alter will be my first test to see if I can ignore him and others like Beck, Olberman, Hannity, Maddow, etc. who it has become clear contribute nothing to the world except possibly their TV ratings or magazine readership. I have too much respect for people like Congresswoman Giffords to think that her situation should be exploited for political good or to even think about what could have happened in the worst case.

In other words, I pledge to no longer have any patience with moral bankruptcy wherever and whenever I come across it.



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What Can We Learn From The Rest Of The World's Leaders

In our last post we briefly discussed a recent article from Newsweek magazine that rated the best countries in the world to live. Unfortunately, the United States finished behind ten other countries relative to the Newsweek rating criteria. In that post we listed out several key actions that America, via its political class, needs to undertake in order to move us up that list of most desirable places to live.

Also in that article were a number of examples of what world leaders are doing in their respective countries that is resulting in improved living standards for their citizens. Some of these noteworthy efforts include the following:

• The Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, is credited with moving India to the forefront of growth and power by getting rid of his country's stagnant socialism ways of doing things and embracing market driven capitalism. The Newsweek article depicts him, however, as being modest, humble, and incorruptible. Compare this to the current American political class that seems hell bent on jamming socialism down our throats and words like modest, humble, and certainly incorruptible (especially given the unethical and/or criminal behavior of Walters (alleged), Rangel (alleged), Blagojevich, Traficant, Cunningham, Jefferson., etc.) certainly do not apply to the prima donnas that currently reside in our political system.
• The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is the youngest prime minister in over a century but his aggressive attacking of the country's budget deficit has been credited with calming the financial markets relative to the British economy. Compare this to the American political class that continues to rack up record Federal budget deficits every month with no end in sight.
• As with England, the economy if Ireland is expected to rebound strongly due to the necessary but painful austerity moves that Irish Prime Minster Brian Cowen implemented to get his country's deficit spending under control. He had the courage to take a short term popularity hit while doing the right long term strategy, a feat of courage not present in our politicians today.
• Brazil's outgoing president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva took Brazil from a second rate economic power to an economic dynamo in the eight years of his rule, primarily because he understood that business was critical to growing the economy, not an enemy to the economy. Compare this attitude with the current White House attitude that feels that more business taxes and more regulations on business is the right thing to do, resulting in chronically high unemployment in the United States for the past year or so, a high unemployment rate that is not expected to decline any time soon.
• The President of South Korea, Lee Myung-Bak, is credited with using his business background to understand the financial crisis and then acting decisively to guide his nation to safety through the economic upheaval. As a result, South Korea recovered very quickly from the recession and the South Korean economy is expected to grow almost 6% in 2010. Compare this to the anemic 2-3% that the United States may grow in 2010 and the fact that our leadership still has not figured out how to get the economy fully out of the ditch.
• According to the article, the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabo "has earned a reputation as a leader with a heart." Compare that compassion to the lack of compassion shown by the Bush and Obama administrations regarding the Gulf disasters of Katrina and the BP oil spill, Senator Harry Reid who things American tourists to Washington DC in the summer physically smell, Nancy Pelosi who accused Americans who were against Obama's health care reform legislation as being un-American, the Congressman who physically assaulted a college student on the streets of DC after the student asked a question of the Congressman, or the two members of Congress who likened opponents of Obama Care to the racists who fought the Civil Rights movement. Not compassionate at all, downright disrespectful.
• Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is credited with uniting her country after decades of civil war and creating the economic environment for two major industries, timber and diamonds, to thrive and grow significantly. She also increase school enrollment by 40% and slashed its debt. Compare that to our politicians who look forward to demonizing those that dare to have differing views, who cannot get our public schools to be successful, and whose management of the economy has been less than stellar.
• King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is credited with modernizing schools, appointing women to high office, and investing in science and technology. Compare him to our politicians that have place virtually no emphasis on education process improvement, continue to be dominated by older white males in Congress, and who waste our tax money in building bike trails, building farmers markets, and other wasteful Federal earmarks rather than expanding the research and development efforts needed in science and technology.

Just consider some of the words above that describe some of the more dynamic and success leaders throughout the world: humble, modest, incorruptible, attacking budget deficits, sacrificing short term popularity for long term gains, modernizing schools, uniting her country, understanding business and capitalism, a leader with a heart, etc. How refreshing it must be to have leaders such as these. There is much to be learned from people who are actually focused on improving the lives of their citizens and not just on how get elected or where to find re-election campaign financing support. These people actually govern once in office, getting elected is a means to an end. Our politicians see getting elected as the end game.

That is why November is so critical to getting the nation out of every ditch that our current political class has driven us into. It is truly time to dump the incumbents and elect people that fulfill some of the ideals discussed above. Yes, we can learn a lot from the rest of the world's leaders. Whether we do anything about it is up to us.


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