George F. Will - Dark Green Doomsayers - washingtonpost.com
In this column George Will laughs at global warming and debunks the predictions of so called experts. It is a delightful column poking fun at our intellectual and ruling class. Jim
Sunday, February 15, 2009
George F. Will - Dark Green Doomsayers - washingtonpost.com
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Funny thing there about those claims of global cooling in the 70’s by George Will; I can only find a single climate expert who made that claim. The rest of that canard was nothing more than reporters offering their own opinions.
Furthermore, unlike then, today the vast majority of climate experts are behind global warming warnings.
While Conservatives can only dredge up the same few climate experts (who all magically appear to be receiving funding from the same sources) and mix in a bunch of economists (whose opinions on global warming are as valid as a plumber commenting on how to perform dental surgery.) And then claim that because a few hundred, including those who know nothing about the climate like economists; the warnings must be wrong.
Conservatives conveniently forget that the number of climate experts are counted in the thousands (if not tens of thousands) who warn about global warming.
P.S. That alleged University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center is a blatant lie.
Here is the real (not the bogus one a Rightwing site created on its own site. Notice how they never link to the actual climate department at the University of Illinois?) graph from the University of Illinois: http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/sea.ice.anomaly.timeseries.jpg
Click on it to zoom in and compare the 1979 and 2009 numbers.
Meanwhile the University of Illinois found out that the Wingnuts were “Quoting them”; and have something to say about their BS.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
In an opinion piece by George Will published on February 15, 2009 in the Washington Post, George Will states "According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979."
We do not know where George Will is getting his information, but our data shows that on February 15, 1979, global sea ice area was 16.79 million sq. km and on February 15, 2009, global sea ice area was 15.45 million sq. km. Therefore, global sea ice levels are 1.34 million sq. km less in February 2009 than in February 1979. This decrease in sea ice area is roughly equal to the area of Texas, California, and Oklahoma combined.
It is disturbing that the Washington Post would publish such information without first checking the facts.
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