The Way I See It
By Joseph C. Phillips

Anthropo –who?

The Associated Press recently described Global warming as "a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid," and that "global warming is accelerating."

Ironically this report preceded a report of record low temperatures in my home town of Denver Colorado; Las Vegas receiving its heaviest snowfall in 33 years and a cold spell sweeping through southern California that brought snow fall to the beach community of Malibu.

AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein dismissed such inconvenient truths arguing that the fact that we are experiencing cooler global temperatures in 2008 “actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.”

The arrogance of manmade global warming hucksters seems boundless. And it gets more bizarre. University teachers Jules Boykoff and Maxwell Boykoff, authored a report "Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias; Creating Controversy Where Science Finds Consensus" arguing that attempts by media to report both sides of the global warming issue is actually a form of bias. In all fairness Borenstein and the Boykoff’s may be from what columnist Kathleen Parker might call the oogedy-boogedy wing of the anthropogenic global warming crowd. Clearly for them up is down, in is out and evidence will never shake their belief in those things unseen. Nevertheless, if actually reporting the opinions of scientists that remain skeptical of manmade global warming creates controversy (to say nothing of revealing the absurdity of the present hysteria) never let it be said that I didn’t do my part.

Following are a few quotes that you may or may not have read in the main stream press.

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.”
-- U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical. The main basis of the claim that man’s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system”
-- Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology, and called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.”
-- UN IPCC4 Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.”
-- Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.”
-- Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group.

“Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC….The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium…which is why ‘global warming’ is now called ‘climate change.’”
-- Climatologist Dr. Richard Keen of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado.

“If we go back really, in recorded human history, in the 13th Century, we were probably 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than we are now and it was a very prosperous time for mankind,” Lehr said. “If go back to the Revolutionary War 300 years ago, it was very, very cold. We’ve been warming out of that cold spell from the Revolutionary War period and now we’re back into a cooling cycle.”
--Dr. Jay Lehr a senior fellow and science director of The Heartland Institute.

“All previous [IPCC] “projections” were wrong. The most recent example is the period from 2000 to 2008. IPCC predicted warming but temperatures went down while CO2 increased.”
-- Timothy Ball PHD. Climatology, renowned Environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg.

Consider this a late gift from me to you.

 

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Joseph C. Phillips is the Author of "He Talk Like A White Boy."  Now available wherever books are sold."