Will says there is no man made global warming, and that it is all going to be OK? All the scientific warming measurements for 2008 are inconsequential? And he is called the most influential writer in America?
By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / January 22, 2009
I sometimes read Newsweek magazine’s back page column by George F. Will because he can be a fine writer. In 1977, Will won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Heretofore, I usually have been only mildly irritated by his generally conservative timbre and his trademark tendency toward sesquipedalian prose. But with his PhD from Princeton and his M.A. from Oxford, he instinctively must scatter about long, generally unfamiliar words like journalistic territorial scent marks on the page. Will has been called, perhaps “ … the most influential writer in America” by the Washington Post writers group. And that is what troubles me.
Will’s recent column in the January 26th edition of Newsweek see-saws between tepid stamps of approval for George W. Bush’s spare positive moves, and a final verbal lashing for his incompetence and failed leadership. His latest column artfully winds its way through his assessments of the name, “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” to the failures of hurricane Katrina disaster assistance, the failed Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, and then in a seeming involuntary, uncontrollable Tourette Syndrome burst of keyboard tapping, this paragraph is awkwardly forced into the column:
Within the lifetimes of most Americans now living, today’s media-manufactured alarm about man-made global warming might be an embarrassing memory. The nation will then be better off because Bush—during whose administration the embarrassing planet warmed not at all—refused to be stampeded toward costly “solutions” to a supposed crisis that might be chimerical, and that, if real, could be adapted for considerably less cost than will be sunk in efforts at prevention.
Wait, did I just read that? Yep. Will says there is no man made global warming, and that it is all going to be OK? All the scientific warming measurements for 2008 are inconsequential? And he is called the most influential writer in America?
Will chooses his words carefully. He qualifies his claims with “man-made,” “supposed crisis” and “if real,” all code that positions him way to the right. But then he suggests the supposed crisis “might be chimerical” (imagine your own mythical fire-belching she-goat animal made from mismatched body parts) to remain true to his logocentrism, while leaving a door open for maybe, kinda, sorta some kind of climate change. The derailing of his column’s train of thought from reviewing Bush’s two-term presidency to suddenly, jarringly pitching his denial of global warming is what troubles me.
Ultraconservative eagerness to jump on most any convenient juicy liberal-bashing rumor and rush it to press showed itself, sadly, in Will’s Washington Post column this past June when he wrote that “Drilling is underway 60 miles (97 km) off Florida. The drilling is being done by China, in cooperation with Cuba, which is drilling closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are.” Dick Cheney, and GOP House leader, John Boehner both cited the same wild claim to the press, wanting to believe the right wing fiction. All three were forced to offer retractions after Democats and energy experts pointed out the gross error. But the egg had already dried on their faces by then.
A little more poking around shows that George F. Will is, in fact, a darling of man-made global warming denier web sites like climatechangefraud.com who declare they are, “dedicated to debunking, reviewing, and responding to the shrill cries of the media and the global warming zealots who have embraced anthropogenic global warming (AGW) as an eco-religion and not as a scientific endeavor for answers.” I wonder if Will wrote that paragraph for their web site? Most folks just say manmade instead of anthropogenic.
All the debunkers hate Al Gore with a frightening, almost pathological stridency. The professed belief that carbon dioxide has nothing to do with global warming is almost like a secret fraternity handshake among rabid ultraconservatives. In a December 29th, 2007 column Will wrote, “Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize that should have gone to nine-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow, who proposed saving the planet by limiting—to one—”how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.”
And from that strange, tasteless toilet paper comparison, Will also has sweepingly minimized concerns of the world’s top atmospheric and environmental scientists with observations like, “The warming that is reasonably projected might be problematic, although not devastating, for the much-fretted-about polar bears, but it will be beneficial for other species. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment anticipates increasing species richness.”
George’s father, Frederick L. Will, was a professor of philosophy, and specialized in epistemology, at the University of Illinois. Ironically, Will certainly must know that epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. Today Will sadly seems to be unable or unwilling to make that distinction in his writing.
[Retired journalist Larry Ray is a Texas native and former Austin television news anchor. He also posts at The iHandbill.]
Larry,
This is not the first time G.F. Will denies the threat of climate change.
See for yourself over the last 2 years in Nesweek:
– 8 Feb 2007 GF Will on Global warming
– 12 Feb 2007 Inonvenient Kyoto Truths
– 28 Jul 2008 another one
– 16 dec 2008 The biofuel follies
Influential or not, he has made it his “cause” to “debunk the myths” of global warming and he will not stop there!
Thanks for doing deeper research on Will’s dark denial. I don’t understand this mentality. It is pervasive among the hard-core ultraconservative base. I guess if they all tee up together at the club and agree that the tooth fairy is actually real, in spite of knowing parents put the half dollar under the kid’s pillow, they eventually will believe kids magically get money when a tooth falls out. Makes as much sense as denying man made global warming to keep their energy company stocks from dropping in value. The irony is that this kind of thinking has actually already done in their stocks with no help from the tooth fairy! The subprime fairy came first.
Keep smiling, Larry
Call me a liberal. Call me an intellectual. Call me a progressive. Call me a realist. And Call me a climate skeptic.
We have only in the past few years even been able to grasp the simplest mechanisms of global climate… and immediately thereafter come up with ‘projections’ and ‘interpretations’ and ‘forecasts’ that are absolutely astounding in their righteousness… all the while there’s not a single climate ‘model’ that could have predicted today from all the real information of the past.
I would ask all environmentalists and thinkers and scientists to review the track record of Paul Erlich, the Al Gore of the ’70’s. The following quote from his book “The Population Bomb” should give the modern chicken little’s pause:
“In the 1970s and 1980s . . . hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”
There are many more like that, but you get the picture… and amazingly, the man is still listened to by the same people who condemn GWBush for saying that there were WMD in Iraq. It seems to me that consistency is, if not a measure of good judgment, than at least the measure of honesty, and if we rightfully condemn the latter, so to should we judge the former.
I would humbly suggest that people actually inform themselves through their own work about things such as solar winds, the ‘hockey stick’ of rising temperatures and rising sea levels before they rush to judgment. While there are indeed many very good reasons to stop using fossil fuels, rising CO2 levels leading to a calamitous rise in earth temperatures is most likely not one of them.
respectfully
And when you’ve got HOURS to check into this even further, here are enough links to read and form your opinion.
Me? I’m as skeptical as hell – way too much money to be made in all of this; they’re always looking for ways to grab your money THROUGH FEAR….
Schnitt’s Global Warming Files
[YouTube] – The Great Global Warming Swindle
[Google] – The Great Global Warming Swindle
[YouTube] – Global Warming – Doomsday Called Off
[YouTube] – Climate Catastrophe Cancelled
[DivX Video] CAUTION CONTENT LANGUAGE – Penn and Teller – S06E06 – Being Green
Penn & Teller: Al Gore is an EPA — ‘Egregiously Pushy A**hole’
The Anti “Man-Made” Global Warming Resource, STOP the hysteria
Man-made Global Warming – So What If It’s a Hoax? By Geoffrey P. Hunt
EARTH IN THE BALANCE Don’t Believe the Hype Al Gore is wrong. There’s no “consensus” on global warming. BY RICHARD S. LINDZEN
FREE INQUIRY Climate of Fear Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence. BY RICHARD LINDZEN
Why Global Warming is Probably a Crock By James Lewis
[PDF] – Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth One-sided, Misleading, Exaggerated, Speculative, Wrong By Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Gorey Truths 25 inconvenient truths for Al Gore. By Iain Murray
Chill out over global warming By David Harsanyi
HOT & COLD MEDIA SPIN CYCLE: A CHALLENGE TO JOURNALISTS WHO COVER GLOBAL WARMING SENATOR JAMES INHOFE CHAIRMAN, SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts? By Timothy Ball
There IS a problem with global warming… It stopped in 1998 By Bob Carter
Resisting Global Warming Panic By J.R. Dunn
A Necessary Apocalypse By J.R. Dunn
GORE’S HOT AIR FLAKY FLICK SUFFERS FROM ‘TRUTH’ DECAY by Kyle Smith
ALL THAT HOT AIR IS BAD FOR EARTH by Kyle Smith
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth By Marlo Lewis
Gore’s flying visit questioned
Group questions level of energy use at Gore home High electric billing records show ‘green power’ also was purchased By ANNE PAINE
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth” Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average
GORE CRITICIZED FOR HIGH ENERGY BILL
Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’? — $30,000 utility bill
Gore Responds to Charges His House Uses Too Much Electricity
A Modest Proposal to Eco-Celebs Clarice Feldman
Green Power Switch®
Gore may get doctorate By Elena Rozwadowski
Al Gore rains on his party Andrew Bolt
Celebs Who Claim They’re Green but Guzzle Gas
Citadel, Shaw, Tudor Shun Global Warming as Short Sales Climb
Say what? The report on global warming you didn’t hear about BY TARA SERVATIUS
The IPCC Should Leave Science to Scientists By Marc Sheppard
Global warming activists turn storms into spin
FOX News Poll: Most Americans Believe in Global Warming By Dana Rohinsky
Global Warming Effects Could Be Seen in 10 Years Giant Mirrors to Deflect Sun Suggested as a Possible Solution
AMS CERTIFIED WEATHERMAN STRIKES BACK AT WEATHER CHANNEL CALL FOR DECERTIFICATION
Remember Global Cooling? Why scientists find climate change so hard to predict. By Jerry Adler
[PDF 1975] – Newsweek: The Cooling World
Amazing Mars picture show planet’s ‘dramatic climate changes’
Cosmic rays blamed for global warming By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph
On Global Warming: Follow the Money Indeed! By David Asman
Who’s Afraid of Global Warming? By J.R. Dunn
An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist, says the orthodoxy must be challenged
Del. Global warming skeptic stands pat State climatologist on opposite side of governor in court case By JEFF MONTGOMERY
Del. Scientist’s’ view on climate criticized Ties to big oil, industry-funded lobbies draw criticism By JEFF MONTGOMERY
NOT THAT SIMPLE GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT WE DON’T KNOW By ROY W. SPENCER
Al Gore, Global warming, Inconvenient Truth Scientists respond to Gore’s warnings of climate catastrophe “The Inconvenient Truth” is indeed inconvenient to alarmists By Tom Harris
Harper’s letter dismisses Kyoto as ‘socialist scheme’
AEI Critiques of Warming Questioned Think Tank Defends Money Offers to Challenge Climate Report By Juliet Eilperin
Two New Books Confirm Global Warming is Natural, Moderate
The real deal? Against the grain: Some scientists deny global warming exists Lawrence Solomon, National Post
Climatologist Timothy Ball sends PhD to Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod
Global Hot Air Greenhouse hysteria. By Thomas Sowell
Global Hot Air: Part II By Thomas Sowell
Global Hot Air: Part III by Thomas Sowell
Climate change: our fault, or cosmic consequence? JAMES MORGAN, Science Reporter
Global warming is a theory, not scientific fact By PETER WORTHINGTON
AMERICA REACTS TO SPEECH DEBUNKING MEDIA GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM
Global warming ‘over-hyped’? By Christina Bellantoni
Media climate By Greg Pierce
Al Gore full of hot air: Klein, Gore bashes oil sands development By FRANK LANDRY
Global Warming’s Real Inconvenient Truth By Robert J. Samuelson
Two New Books Confirm Global Warming is Natural; Not Caused By Human Activity Drudge Report
Humans’ beef with livestock: a warmer planet By Brad Knickerbocker
Scientist Alleging Bush Censorship Helped Gore, Kerry By Marc Morano
Spokesman for U.S. Senator says global warming skeptics are ‘demonized’
Will the sun cool us? LAWRENCE SOLOMON
No change in political climate By Ellen Goodman
Global-warming skeptics cite being ‘treated like a pariah’ By Eric Pfeiffer
Global warming debate spurs Ore. title tiff VINCE PATTON
Bad Research, Worse Reporting on Global Warming By Dennis Byrne
Inconvenient Kyoto Truths George F. Will
Global Warming Skeptics Shunned By Fred Lucas
Global Warming: Just Another Liberal Orthodoxy Chris Adamo
Cleveland’s weather wizards downplay global warming Michael Scott
Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions
The “carbon sink” and global warming James Lewis
More Hot Air on Global Warming By Roger Aronoff
Flights of Fancy by Gregg Easterbrook
Hollywood Golightly An interview with Hollywood eco-crusader Laurie David By Amanda Griscom
Who is Laurie David
Can’t stand the heat? Laurie David wants you Ray Richmond
Why is global warming a forbidden topic for most TV weather reporters? Climate change is “controversial” and bad for ratings. By Linda Baker
Kyoto is pointless, say 60 leading scientists By Philip Sherwell
What about the left-wingers who put politics over science? Jay Ambrose
Experts question theory on global warming Anil Anand
The Executive Ranch The scoop on Bush’s Texas getaway By Umbra Fisk
Prairie Chapel Ranch From Wikipedia
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
Statistics needed — The Deniers Part I
Warming is real — and has benefits — The Deniers Part II
The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science — The Deniers Part III
Polar scientists on thin ice — The Deniers Part IV
The original denier: into the cold — The Deniers Part V
The sun moves climate change — The Deniers Part VI
Will the sun cool us? — The Deniers Part VII
The limits of predictability — The Deniers Part VIII
Look to Mars for the truth on global warming — The Deniers Part IX
Limited role for C02 — the Deniers Part X
End the chill — The Deniers Part XI
Clouded research — The Deniers Part XII
Allegre’s second thoughts — The Deniers XIII
The heat’s in the sun — The Deniers XIV
Unsettled Science — The Deniers XV
Bitten by the IPCC — The Deniers XVI
Little ice age is still within us — The Deniers XVII
Fighting climate ‘fluff’ — The Deniers XVIII
Science, not politics — The Deniers XIX
Greenhouse effect is a myth, say scientists By JULIE WHELDON
Gore’s guru disagreed — The Deniers XX
The ice-core man — The Deniers XXI
Some restraint in Rome — The Deniers XXII
Discounting logic — The Deniers XXIII
Dire forecasts aren’t new — The Deniers XXIV
They call this a consensus? – Part XXV
NASA chief Michael Griffin silenced – Part XXVI
Forget warming – beware the new ice age – Part XXVII
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Global-warming theory and the eugenics precedent By John Linder
‘Hannity & Colmes’ Lists More Than 70 Scientists Skeptical of Global Warming Hysteria Show proves case isn’t closed, discusses major new documentary. By Dan Gainor
Bush’s Ranch House ‘Far More Eco-Friendly’ Than Gore’s By Randy Hall
All those scientists may still be wrong By Martin Livermore
Global Warming will make you healthy and sexy By James Lewis
Profit of Doom – Bill Hobbs
Carbon credits: indulgence or commutation fee? Thomas Lifson
Valentine bouquets ‘are bad for the planet’ By Nicole Martin
Global-warming theory and the eugenics precedent By John Linder
Sun Responsible for Global Warming
Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming – Now Skeptics
[XLS file] – Skeptic Scientists
Polar Bear Baby Boom Occurring in Eastern Arctic, Will Media Notice?
Polar bears ‘thriving as the Arctic warms up’ By Fred Langan in Toronto and Tom Leonard
Global Warming Is Not a Crisis OPINION By PHILIP STOTT
Danish scientist: Global warming is a myth
GLOBAL ‘SUNSCREEN’ HAS LIKELY THINNED, REPORT NASA SCIENTISTS
Researchers Question Validity Of A ‘Global Temperature’
Hummer Greener Than Prius?
UK (C4) Documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle
Al Gore’s Science Fiction A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth by Marlo Lewis, Jr.
[PDF] – Al Gore’s Science Fiction A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth By Mario Lewis, Jr.
[PDF] – A Skeptic’s Primer on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth One-Sided, Misleading, Exaggerated, Speculative, Wrong By Marlo Lewis, Jr.*
[PDF] – Some Convenient Distortions A Brief Guide to Distortions, Misleading Statements, Exaggerations, and Errors in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth* By Marlo Lewis, Jr.†
Gore plan will harm us all By MARLO LEWIS JR
Czech leader Klaus fights global warming ‘religion’
NASA Finds Sun-Climate Connection in Old Nile Records
AL’S WARMING LIES & THE REAL ‘INCONVENIENT TRUTH’ By IAIN MURRAY
Dazzling new images reveal the ‘impossible’ on the Sun
The Big Chill by Kirk A. Maasch
150 Years of Global Warming and Cooling at the New York Times
Global warming on trial Sixth-graders decide that humans aren’t to blame By Ben Ready
Gore’s Faith Is Bad Science By Michael Barone
In age of reason, the brouhaha over global warming can leave you cold
Critic takes longer view of warming NED ROZELL ALASKA SCIENCE
Global warming hits Mars too: study
Study: Red planet heating up
Forecaster says Al Gore does ‘great disservice’ with film about global warming Says Gore “a gross alarmist” By CAIN BURDEAU
Why So Gloomy? By Richard S. Lindzen
[2004] – Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high
Scientist: Warming not caused by humans
Climate change skeptics say it’s hard to get heard
Global warming debate ‘irrational’: scientists Stephanie Stein
Industry caught in carbon ‘smokescreen’ By Fiona Harvey and Stephen Fidler in London
Is Global Warming a Sin? Alexander Cockburn
Climate change hits Mars – Jonathan Leake
A New Ice Age: The Day After Tomorrow? by Brad Lemley
[1996] – A Major Deception on Global Warming Op-Ed by Frederick Seitz
Hurricane Forecaster: Oceans Cause Global Warming, Not CO2
Scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming From Wikipedia
Earth’s Climate Is Seesawing, According To Climate Researchers Science Daily
Scientists blame global warming on rice
Not the End of the World as We Know It By Olaf Stampf
SUNDAY SPECTATOR May 13, 2007 Getting cooler
Did the U.N.’s IPCC Report Exaggerate CO2 Increases to Hype Global Warming?
Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming – Now Skeptics
Global warming debunked By ANDREW SWALLOW
[Video] – Dr. Gray: People not to blame for global warming
So how did An Inconvenient Truth become required classroom viewing? Even climate change experts say many of the claims in Al Gore’s film are wrong. Kevin Libin
Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System
[Audio] – Dr. Gray Talks with Schnitt regarding Global Warming 05-22-2007 – Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
INHOFE OPENING STATEMENT: The Issue of the Potential Impacts of Global Warming on Recreation and the Recreation Industry” May 24, 2007
Junk Science: Hot Air Study Melts Global Warming Theory By Steven Milloy
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Questions Need to Combat Warming
Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System
Global warming — just “hysteria”?
“Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt called for an end to the ‘hysteria’ over global warming in the lead-up to the [Group of Eight] summit
Meteorologist: ‘Al Gore’s Global Warming is the Biggest Myth of the Century’
Cut & paste: Greenhouse gas emissions do not lead to global warming
Global Overheating by Jay D. Homnick
Kilimanjaro not a victim of climate change, UW scientist says By Sandi Doughton
Study: Kilimanjaro’s shrinking snow not sign of warming
Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage By Chris Demorro
High price for load of hot air
Helping along global warming By Bill Steigerwald
Local scientist calls global warming theory ‘hooey’ Samara Kalk Derby
Read the sunspots R. TIMOTHY PATTERSON
Read the sunspots – The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change – and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling R. TIMOTHY PATTERSON
Global warming skeptics score a few points By TED BYFIELD
Richard Burr Left-winger counters global warming hysteria
Global Warming Hysteria is a National Security Issue By Gerd Schroeder
ABC’s Global Warming Piece Ignores Decades of Hysteria from NASA’s James Hansen
An Archive of Resources on Global Warming, Division of Marine Sciences and Ecological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, Edward T. “Terry” Wimberley, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Marine and Ecological Sciences
Manmade Global Warming: The Real Assault on Reason By Marc Sheppard
Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny BY JAMES M. TAYLOR
Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet: report
Ancient Greenland was actually green! DNA analysis reveals ice-covered country was once home to butterflies By Ker Than
Cows that burp less aid climate fight Findings show new diets make them belch less, reduces greenhouse gas
Global warming debunked By ANDREW SWALLOW
All in a Good Cause By Orson Scott Card
EPA to Probe Threatening E-Mail Sent to Global Warming Skeptic
Latest Scientific Studies Refute Fears of Greenland Melt
Global warming? Look at the numbers Lorne Gunter
Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study?
Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data
[PDF] – Global Warming: Man-Made or Natural? S. Fred Singer Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences University of Virginia
Breaking: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory
Challenge to Scientific Consensus on Global Warming: Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears
One More Reason to Distrust Global Warming Predictions By Jerome J. Schmitt
The ‘Old’ Consensus? INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Carbon dioxide did not end the last Ice Age
[Video] – CNN Meteorologist: ‘Definitely Some Inaccuracies’ in Gore Film
Evidence of Dire Global Warming Effects Scant
John Stossel Exposes Global Warming Myths
Most Preposterous Claim Ever [Iain Murray]
[YouTube] – Stossel- GMAB – Al Gore Global Warming Myth
Al Gore’s ‘nine Inconvenient Untruths’ By Sally Peck
35 Inconvenient Truths The errors in Al Gore’s movie By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Junk Science: Hey Al Gore, We Want a Refund!
My Nobel Moment By JOHN R. CHRISTY
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School and Author
Global warming ‘not linked’ to typhoons By Roger Highfield
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’
Global Warming Delusions BY DANIEL B. BOTKIN
Al Gore Wrong Again
NASA Debunks Part of Global Warming Myth, Will Media Report It?
U.N. Climate Distractions By Steven Milloy
A complete list of things caused by global warming
Everything is Caused by Global Warming (600+ links) Christopher Alleva
Planet-saving madness By Christopher Booker
U.N. Climate Distractions By Steven Milloy
It’s the Sun, Stupid By Steven Milloy
Warmist polar expedition was cancelled due to extreme cold Thomas Lifson
The Greenest Hypocrites of 2007
New Peer-Reviewed Study Finds ‘Warming is naturally caused and shows no human influence’
New Study Explodes Human-Global Warming Story
Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing’ At UN Conference
The Pope condemns the climate change prophets of doom
Sun, Not Man, Main Cause of Climate Change, New Study Says
Study: Part of Global-Warming Model May Be Wrong
Convenient Untruths Some who clamor for statist answers to this alleged climate crisis employ dodgy measurement techniques. By Deroy Murdock
Arctic Sea Ice Re-Freezing at Record Pace
Max Mayfield: ‘No One Forced Me to Say Anything’
Scientists doubt link for global warming, big hurricanes By Ken Kaye
Global Carbon Tax Urged at UN Climate Conference
Year of global cooling By David Deming
U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007 Senate Report Debunks “Consensus”
Br-r-r! Where did global warming go?
Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change
A Solution to Man-Made Global Warming by Pat Sajak
Antarctic volcanoes identified as a possible culprit in glacier melting
Study says warming may curb hurricanes
Climate shift: political rhetoric distorts reality Raymond J. Keating
Experts challenge ice shelf claim
The Sun Also Sets By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Will Media Expose Global Warming Con Job? Written by Jerry Carlson
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Baliunas Says Global Warming Related To Sun
Greenhouse Affect
Ethanol Worse Than Gasoline By Stephen Leahy
Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age Lorne Gunter, National Post
Earth’s final sunset predicted
Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling Michael Asher
The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change Sponsored by The Heartland Institute March 2 – March 4, 2008
The Weather Channel Founder Wants to Sue Al Gore? Carbon Credit Money-Making Comes Under Fire
[PDF] – The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change Sponsored Conference Speakers
Prince Charles: Climate change is alarming
Global-Warming Payola? By John Tierney
Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say
Scientists Skeptical of Global Warming Alarmism Join Forces
The media snowjob on global warming Lorne Gunter
Climate alarmists pose real threat to freedom Vaclav Klaus
Climate panel on the hot seat By H. Sterling Burnett
The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat by Richard Harris
Junk Science: The Global Warming Bubble By Steven Milloy
Inconvenient Truth: Global Warming Ended Ten Years Ago By James Murray
More trouble for the global warming movement
Climate facts to warm to Christopher Pearson
The oceans have stopped warming! By Dennis T. Avery
American media ignores inconvenient science on global warming Jerome J. Schmitt
TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) Data Set Potential in Climate Controversy By Joanne Simpson, private citizen
Yet another inconvenient story ignored by the MSM.
Junk Science: Kilimanjaro’s Snow Cap Written By: James M. Taylor
The Clean Energy Scam By MICHAEL GRUNWALD
Global warming ‘dips this year’
Lord Lawson claims climate change hysteria heralds a ‘new age of unreason’ By Christopher Booker
2008: The year the world will cool down
BBC Caught Editing Story To Appease Global Warming Lobbyist
The BBC Changes News to Accommodate Activist
Good science isn’t about consensus
Academic cool on warming
Huge Dakota Oil Pool Could Change Energy Climate Debate By Dennis Avery
BBC heats up the climate news Special to the Financial Post
Geologist: Sun’s shift could mean global chill ‘Warming’ fits 30-year cycles, geologist argues JOHN STARK
Gore Admits Financial ‘Stake’ In Advancing Global Warming Hysteria
Revisiting the global warming-hurricane link
Gore Won’t Ask Wealthy Hollywoodans to Alter Lifestyle to Save Planet
Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh Phil Chapman
Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’
Jeb Bush Skeptical About Global Warming
Greenpeace founder now backs nuclear power
Walter E. Williams: Environmentalists’ wild predictions
Hollywood Agenda: ‘Day The Earth Stood Still’ Remake Is All About Global Warming!
NASA Confirms Natural Climate Shift Marc Sheppard
Environmentalists’ Wild Predictions
Washington Post Enlists Kids in Fight for Polar Bears Lacking key facts, Post asks young readers to decide if polar bears ‘deserve’ to be listed as endangered. By Genevieve Ebel
Gore Financially Invested in Climate Cause By Fred Lucas
Global warming may ‘stop’, scientists predict
You hippy-crites! When it comes to saving the planet do celebrities practise what they preach?
Cold Water Thrown on Antarctic Global-Warming Predictions
Study says global warming not worsening hurricanes
Global warming hysteria challenged Book reveals how controversial the science is on climate change
McCain Finds His Crisis in Global Warming By John Stossel
‘Grantsmanship’ Distorts Global Warming Science By Jerome J. Schmitt
Myth of human CO2 causing warming or climate change The Unholy Alliance that manufactured Global Warming By Dr. Tim Ball
Over 31,000 U.S. scientists deny man-made global warming By Dennis T. Avery
Unlike Global Warming Alarmists, Hurricane Forecasters Now Deliberately Vague By P.J. Gladnick
Global warming: Upon further review it looks like a hoax
Roger F. Gay Global Warming: Has Anyone Noticed that it’s Over?
The end of the fake consensus on global warming Mark Milke
White House issues climate report 4 years late
Pouring cold water on climate report
Climate concern ripped as ‘religion’ Czech leader condemns it David R. Sands
Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System
Global Whining vs. the Truth By Brian Sussman
Gore Invests In Carbon Credit Company, Will Media Care?
Congressman Rohrabacher’s Floor Speech on Global Warming Washington, May 14
Global Warming ‘Alarmism’ Is Hurting New Jersey Economy, Say Conservatives By Kevin Mooney
Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson, and Willie Soon Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
American Physical Society Sponsors Debate On Validity Of Global Warming Science
You were saying something about a Global Warming Consensus?
Former Global Warming Alarmist Deals Blow to Greenhouse Gas Theory
Shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from its warm mode to cool mode assures global cooling for the next three decades. Don J. Easterbrook, Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
No smoking hot spot David Evans
Bad luck, not global warming to blame By O’Ryan Johnson
WaPo: Stop Blaming Everything on Global Warming! By Noel Sheppard
Great Global Warming Myth Explodes
Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered
DOHERTY: NEW SCIENTIFIC DATA JUSTIFIES REPEALING GLOBAL WARMING RESPONSE ACT
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Excellent article by Mr. Ray. I have a special interest in the global warming debate having worked for the National Weather Service for over 37 years.
Much of the controversy over global warming is a result of political viewpoints established years ago when Republicans controlled both houses of congress. It was a standing rule among the GOP that no bill that mentioned global warming would ever see the light of day.
In the climate science research departments of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) gag orders were literally imposed on climate researchers by the Bush administration. Government climate scientists and their research papers were forbidden to mention climate change, nor could they even talk about threatened polar bear habitat as a result of earlier than normal melting of the polar ice due to global warming.
It intrigues me that journalists of George Will’s (Princeton educated) caliber, an icon of conservative pundits, cites himself as an expert on meteorology, global warming and climate change.
But, we have become accustomed to people like Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove, neither of whom have a degree in anything, spouting nonsense that is accepted as gospel by the right wing sheep.
The long term trend from 1880 to the present shows an absolute warming of both the oceans and the global atmosphere as well as the increasing rise in the ocean height levels.
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html#q3
Yes, there are spikes in the 128-year trend line. The years when the average annual temperatures decrease, however, do not translate into an new Ice Age as the global warming deniers are all too willing to exploit to disprove global warming caused by increasing greenhouse gases.
For all of George Will’s supposed education, he is no less a right wing ideologue than Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly and others whose science illiteracy is exceeded only by their myopic brand of Republican political drivel.
That is why they are the minority party today and mostly likely will remain that way for many more election cycles.