Posted by
SteadyJohn on Saturday, December 29, 2007 6:42:26 PM
The "silver lining" in Global Warming, the Destruction of Conservatism in America....
Far left reporter Dave Lindorff (Wesleyan '71) writing in the Baltimore Chronicle (12/22/07) opines:
Say what you will about the looming catastrophe facing the world as the pace of global heating and polar melting accelerates. There is a silver lining.....The area that will by completely inundated by the rising ocean—and not in a century but in the lifetime of my two cats—are
the American southeast, including the most populated area of Texas,
almost all of Florida, most of Louisiana, and half of Alabama and
Mississippi, as well as goodly portions of eastern Georgia, South
Carolina and North Carolina.....
So what we see is that huge swaths of conservative America are set
to face a biblical deluge in a few more presidential cycles.....So again, we will see the decline and depopulation of the nation’s vast midsection—noted for its consistent conservatism.
Only in the northernmost area, around the Great Lakes (which will be
not so great anymore), and along the Canadian border, will there still
be enough rain for farming and continued large population
concentrations, but those regions, like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, are also more liberal in their politics. (emphasis added)
This is nutty stuff folks. This is the most extreme
form of climate change alarmism and clearly illustrates the underlying
political agenda i.e anti-capitalism and destruction of conservatism,
United Nations usurpation of our national sovereignty, and other far
left nostrums. There is recent, albeit limited, evidence that Global
Warming has actually ceased. Astrophysicist David Whitehouse writing in "The New Statesman" (U.K.) 12/19/07) states:
With only few days remaining in 2007, the indications
are the global temperature for this year is the same as that for 2006 –
there has been no warming over the 12 months.
But is this just a blip in the ever upward trend you may ask? No.
The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the
same as 2006 as well as every year since 2001. Global warming has,
temporarily or permanently, ceased. Temperatures across the world are
not increasing as they should according to the fundamental theory
behind global warming – the greenhouse effect. Something else is
happening and it is vital that we find out what or else we may spend
hundreds of billions of pounds needlessly.....For the past decade the
world has not warmed. Global warming has stopped. It’s not a viewpoint
or a sceptic’s inaccuracy. It’s an observational fact. Clearly the
world of the past 30 years is warmer than the previous decades and
there is abundant evidence (in the northern hemisphere at least) that
the world is responding to those elevated temperatures. But the
evidence shows that global warming as such has ceased.
Dr. Whitehouse does not reject the
CO2/Greenhouse Gas science. Clearly CO2 emissions are rising but CO2
comprises only an extremely tiny fraction of the earth's atmosphere.
It's present concentration is roughly 390 ppm up from 315 ppm in 1960
when accurate measurements of this sort became feasible. To visualize
the quantity of CO2 in our atmosphere, imagine the atmosphere as a 100
yard football gridiron. On this scale Nitrogen (78%) would occupy all
of the field down to the 22 yard line; Oxygen (21%), would bring us to
the 1 yard line where Argon (1%) would bring us to the final inch line
of which only a small fraction of that would signify the volume of CO2!
This comparison is mentioned in Michael Crichton's "State of Fear"; a similar example, using stadium spectators instead of the gridiron, itself can be found here.
An extended discussion of the CO2 problem and related matters can be found at the EcoWorld
website. Here, in an interview titled "Beyond Global Warming", climate
scientist Roger Pielke, Sr. throws much light on the subject. He says
to blame all of the perceived changes in climate on CO2 emissions is
wrong. Important factors being overlooked and/or underreported are
changing patterns of land use and land cover. He says:
With respect to extreme weather, a much more important issue than how
greenhouse gases are altering our climate is society's greatly
increased vulnerability to extreme weather events - a direct result not
of changes in weather but of increased settlement by expanding human
populations into low-lying coastal regions, floodplains, and marginal
arid land.
Roger Pielke Sr. is a retired professor of
atmospheric science at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, and a
senior research scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Since
July 2005 he has written and maintained Climate Science,
a blog that serves as a scientific forum for dialogue and commentary on
climate issues. With William R. Cotton, he is the co-author of Human Impacts on Weather and Climate (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Also please see our recent posting on ConservaCity "Global Warming Hoax Losing Ground"