For the clueless, the cynical diehards among us and the ideologically-constipated deniers of global warming, it's gotten awfully quiet as of late. Never mind the fact that four separate, independent studies found no validity to the FOX-induced 'scandal' of "climategate", so instead of bringing back the original thread (with its 560 follow-ups) and embarrassing the neo-luddites who thought global warming science was "post normal", here's the news. The real facts....
Like David Stockman and Arthur Laffer who have publicly repudiated the "trickle-down theory" of economics, this blast of reality for conservatives comes from from a prominent scientist who was once widely quoted - and cheered - as a climate change skeptic, someone who dismissed most previous research as "polluted by political and activist frenzy."
Richard Muller is a physicist at UC Berkeley, and frustrated by what he considered to be shoddy research, he launched his own study to set the record straight. 1.6 billion records later - five times the size of any previous study - he published his conclusions. In the conservative Wall Street Journal last week. "Global warming is real" he wrote.
Despite what the posters in the original thread (and FOX) said about the sloppy research and "post normal" or fraudulent climate research, he found the skeptics to be wrong. Wrong when they claim figures were skewed by urban 'heat islands,' and wrong to base arguments that seem to indicate a cooling trend. (How many original posters referenced last winter's snow storms? More moisture and 'energy' in the atmosphere is one subset of global - and ocean - warming.) "You should not be a skeptic, at least not any longer," Muller wrote.
Deniers have been reduced to silence, denial or incoherent mumbling. Like Cain, Perry and Bachmann. Perry claims some are manipulating the data to win research grants. (What a tool....) Bachmann claims it's "naturally occurring." Cain simply denies the science. The GOP is turning into the anti-science party. It's a real bitch when reality collides with your faulty ideology.
The rise in temperatures in the past few decades is consistent with previous models based upon greenhouse gas emissions. And thanks to Muller, it has been demonstrated that previous research was careful and honest. Definitely not "post normal." Only the dimmest, know-nothing politicians (Perry and Bachmann certainly fill that bill....), the most ideologically-constipated conservatives, or employees of coal and oil companies, will continue to deny global warming.
Like David Stockman and Arthur Laffer who have publicly repudiated the "trickle-down theory" of economics, this blast of reality for conservatives comes from from a prominent scientist who was once widely quoted - and cheered - as a climate change skeptic, someone who dismissed most previous research as "polluted by political and activist frenzy."
Richard Muller is a physicist at UC Berkeley, and frustrated by what he considered to be shoddy research, he launched his own study to set the record straight. 1.6 billion records later - five times the size of any previous study - he published his conclusions. In the conservative Wall Street Journal last week. "Global warming is real" he wrote.
Despite what the posters in the original thread (and FOX) said about the sloppy research and "post normal" or fraudulent climate research, he found the skeptics to be wrong. Wrong when they claim figures were skewed by urban 'heat islands,' and wrong to base arguments that seem to indicate a cooling trend. (How many original posters referenced last winter's snow storms? More moisture and 'energy' in the atmosphere is one subset of global - and ocean - warming.) "You should not be a skeptic, at least not any longer," Muller wrote.
Deniers have been reduced to silence, denial or incoherent mumbling. Like Cain, Perry and Bachmann. Perry claims some are manipulating the data to win research grants. (What a tool....) Bachmann claims it's "naturally occurring." Cain simply denies the science. The GOP is turning into the anti-science party. It's a real bitch when reality collides with your faulty ideology.
The rise in temperatures in the past few decades is consistent with previous models based upon greenhouse gas emissions. And thanks to Muller, it has been demonstrated that previous research was careful and honest. Definitely not "post normal." Only the dimmest, know-nothing politicians (Perry and Bachmann certainly fill that bill....), the most ideologically-constipated conservatives, or employees of coal and oil companies, will continue to deny global warming.
