Climate Change Ice-Capped
September 24, 2013 Comments (0)
There is a tradition in politics that is similar to one in the legal profession: When evidence supports your position, make your argument based on the evidence, but when it argues against your position, ignore the evidence and appeal to emotion.
The evidence is piling up that “climate change,” formerly known as “global warming,” is losing evidentiary support, despite recent “preliminary findings” by a group of “experts” from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that a Washington Post editorial suggests may prove, “warming has boosted the chances, in some cases significantly, that certain unwelcome weather or weather-related disasters will occur.” The Post and other “true believers” ignore or ridicule a growing body of evidence rebutting their beliefs.
Most bad weather — from hurricanes, which have been few this
season, to tornadoes — are unwelcome by those in their paths, but these
weather phenomena have existed for centuries. Both sides seem to agree
that CO2 levels are elevated, but they don’t agree on whether that will
cause dangerous climate change, including rising temperatures and
turbulent weather. The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate
Change (NIPCC) argues, “The human effect is likely to be small relative
to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur
will produce benefits as well as costs.”
Yet the climate change cultists continue to focus on melting polar
ice caps and “displaced” polar bears as part of their emotional appeal
for government to “fix” the problem. Now comes a report in the UK Daily
Mail that “eminent scientists” have observed a record return of the
Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60 percent in a year, covering with ice
almost 1 million more square miles of ocean than in 2012.In 2007, the BBC reported that by 2013, global warming would leave the Arctic “ice free.” Oops!
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