“Do you still believe that global warming is not man-made?” Gibson asked Palin.

“I believe that man’s activities certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change. Here in Alaska, the only Arctic state in our union, of course, we see the effects of climate change more so than any other area with icepack melting. Regardless though of the reason for climate change, whether it’s entirely, wholly caused by man’s activities or is part of the cyclical nature of our planet — the warming and the cooling trends — regardless of that, John McCain and I agree that we gotta do something about it and we have to make sure that we’re doing all we can to cut down on pollution,” Palin replied.

Full Article (ABC News)

Fact: The World is ever-so-slightly warmer, but not enough to cause alarm.

Fact: We don’t know what’s causing this. It could be man-made, but it may well be part of the climate’s natural behavior.

Fact: If anything is going to do Sarah Palin in, it’ll probably be her reluctance to jump on the man-made global warming bandwagon. ]]> http://justinology.org/2008/09/12/palin-global-warming/feed/ 0 http://justinology.org/2008/07/20/the-myth-of-man-made-global-warming-the-deniers-are-finally-coming-forward/ http://justinology.org/2008/07/20/the-myth-of-man-made-global-warming-the-deniers-are-finally-coming-forward/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:46:00 +0000 Justin http://conservativelayman.com/?p=12

Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate
By Michael Asher

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming “incontrovertible.”

Article Continues… (Daily Tech)

I, for one, am glad the facade on this one is coming down. There has never been solid proof that man is responsible for global warming, nor do we know enough about world climate trends to prove much of anything right now. It’s time to stop being distracted by this and start worrying about some REAL epidemics (cancer, diabetes, hunger, and poverty for starters).

I’m all for preserving the environment, but there are two big problems:

1) A sudden shift in how we do things is going to do some serious damage to the economy. If we don’t ease into things, people will lose their jobs.

2) On a personal level, I want no part of the environmentalist political movement. I suspect there are other eco-friendly conservatives out there that would agree.

HT: I got the above ad from NewsBusters.

When Ellen Goodman likened climate skeptics to holocaust deniers last February, she raised more than a few eyebrows. Yet, hers was not the first reprehensible use of that fetid analogy, nor, unfortunately, would it be the last. In truth, environmentalists’ deplorable trivialization of Hitler’s genocide can be traced as far back as the late 1980′s (by an ambitious senator from Tennessee) and as recently as last month by the scientist considered to be the world’s premiere global warming researcher.

Full Article (American Thinker)

Well, for starters, one of these things is believed to be a myth by certain anti-semites, the other actually is. For example: Warmist polar expedition was cancelled due to extreme cold

In all seriousness, this is even more proof that we’re far enough removed from the Holocaust for it to happen again, as we’ve lost all concept of the horror and severity of it.

Police were confident of being able to contain the expected climax of the climate camp at Heathrow Airport.

Protesters, buoyed by an influx of new arrivals, promised 24 hours of direct action, starting from midday on Sunday.

The move came after 20 anarchists from the camp broke into a warehouse in Hayes, owned by Carmel Agrexco, an Israeli fruit and vegetable importer. Up to six were arrested on suspicion of burglary, police said.

Amos Orr, general manager of Agrexco UK, said: “They broke in. A lot of them were drunk, they broke doors, spread papers everywhere and they were very aggressive. They were singing about Hamas.”

Full Article (BreitBart.com)

Remember kids, Israel is responsible for global warming. Apparently.

Gateway Pundit has pictures of a Palestinian flag these chaps hoisted out in front of a Jewish warehouse at Hethrow. Click Here

Oct. 23, 2006 – In April, 1975, in an issue mostly taken up with stories about the collapse of the American-backed government of South Vietnam, NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster. Citing “ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically,” the magazine warned of an impending “drastic decline in food production.” Political disruptions stemming from food shortages could affect “just about every nation on earth.” Scientists urged governments to consider emergency action to head off the terrible threat of . . . well, if you had been following the climate-change debates at the time, you’d have known that the threat was: global cooling.

Full Article (MSNBC)

While I do believe conservation to be a good thing, I also feel Global Warming is a myth that’s morphed into a political agenda that is no longer concerned with fixing the alleged environmental problems. We simply have not been on this Earth with the proper equipment long enough to know how the climate cycles really work.

Anyway, a couple of fun links:

A Newsweek article on global cooling from April 28, 1975.

A Time article on global cooling from June 24, 1974.

My buddy Harp’s take on this whole thing (from last April).

Hat tip: Little Green Footballs

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.

“The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change,” Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column. UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons. “This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming,” the South Korean diplomat wrote.

“It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought,” Ban said in the Washington daily. When Darfur’s land was rich, he said, black farmers welcomed Arab herders and shared their water, he said.

With the drought, however, farmers fenced in their land to prevent overgrazing. “For the first time in memory, there was no longer enough food and water for all. Fighting broke out,” he said.

Full Article