There Are Bugs in Global Warming Alarmism

Retired Award Winning NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. William W. Vaughan, recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, a former Division Chief of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and author of more than 100 refereed journal articles, monographs, and papers, also now points to natural causes of recent climate changes. “The cause of these global changes is fundamentally due to the Sun and its effect on the Earth as it moves about in its orbit. Not from man-made activities,” Vaughan told the minority staff on the Environment and Public Works Committee on February 6, 2009.

"But current conditions are not evidence of looming environmental disaster."

Your article ended with that, and perhaps should have started and ended with it. For the hundredth time, global warming, hence the name, is the average global temperature change over decades, even a hundred or more years. You will not notice it this year, or next.

and...

"Maybe you have forgotten that the ozone is not a permanent fixture. Rather it shifts location constantly. That is why certain parts of the earth have periods of colder and then warmer climates. Still,since there is no disturbance by man on these other planets why are they getting warmer?"

"So, let’s say that all of the scientists aren’t just marching in a liberal P.C. lockstep and are all 100% right. What is going to save us? Penance, hairshirts, flagellation, indulgences, and we-are-not-worthy self-denial? Or technology? ...What we DO NOT need are liberal posers that want us to sacrifice so they can have more for them and their two-faced lifestyles. This can be a real win-win for most people (excepting those who are stuck in the fossil energy business)—maybe finally resulting in energy too cheap to meter. And, before someone blames our current situation on “technology”, I want them to give it all up first. No cheating! No fair blaming something that has been a tremendous net gain for the human condition."

and one of my favorites =)

"When I was a child we were told that another Ice Age was around the corner. Seems to me that going from Ice Age to Global Warming is quite a difference in the evaluation of scientific data. For me, when the weather experts are able to accurately forecast tomorrow’s weather, I’ll pay a little more attention to their forecast for next century’s weather."

some comments I enjoyed =)

"Dittos Jim – they should have outlawed science after the dinosaur hoax…"

"When the alarmists and hypocrits who preach to us about global warming stop driving cars and flying in jets, I will begin to beleive that they are sincere about mans contribution to the impending doom. Until then..."

"Thought the new word was ‘climate change’ b/c of the cold winters that occured this year. Anyway, I heard ‘Scientists’ say Neptune’s been warming up for the last 25 years. Does Al Gore have a mansion on Neptune, and fly back and forth from there on his private plane? Or is that where his carbon emmission credits are being deposited?"

"I am very suspicious of Global Warming. Why? Because the politicians are making a bog deal of it. You don’t see them making a big case about the missing honey bees, which is a huge issue. We live in a society that distorts statistics, funds biased research, staffs our schools with activists rather than educators and we get this as a result. I am highly susicious of the motivations of ALL scientists. They have lost their credibility by selling objectivity... We are not the ones in charge here and the sooner we realize that, the more we can focus our energy on something we can change, ourselves."

"Anyone with a PhD in climate research, please raise your hand. Everyone else, admit you’re not qualified to comment on this and move on."

"Typiical left wing anti individual socialist, and, yes democrat, drivel proclaim man is destroying the earth! What crap! The climate was much worse in the middle ages and ancient times. The oceans were much higher, 300 feet or higher. Scientists have recently discovered that the New Madrid fault in Missouri was caused by ancient oceans. Climate change has occurred in various cycles over the history of the Earth without industrial activity. Did man cause it? Of course not. This is a natural phenomenon of the cycles of the planet. For these alarmists to think that humans are so powerful that they can destroy the Earth or the vast galaxies of space is pretty conceited and absurd. We may cause severe damage with vast nuclear explosions, but, I seriously doubt we can destroy what we cannot fully understand how it came into existance!!!!"

"The planet Mars has been warming for years. This week the news comes out that the planet Neptune is showing evidence of planetary warming. IT’S THE SUN STUPID!!!! There’s nothing we can do about it. Our solar system is going to do whatever the hell it wants in spite of us insignificant carbon-based life forms that inhabit the paper-thin crust of the third rock from the sun!"