Comments on: An Inconvenient Truth

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:06:40 +0000

I hope this is a joke.

By: An inconvenient parody « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub

An inconvenient parody « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:30:41 +0000

[...] inconvenient parody I found such a fantastically wonderful parody of the way denialists think science works . . [...]

By: norealname

norealname — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:09:46 +0000

Very true, mklasing. You have seen the light. It is a vast, left-wing conspiracy to fund evil, dogmatic scientists.

By: mklasing

mklasing — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:05:31 +0000

Elvis: no there isn’t. The average temperature of the globe has not changed in the last 15 years according to a recently published report. Also–notice that the only time any reports come out about the ice caps melting is during the time of year that they are ALWAYS melting. They refreeze during the winter. Duh!

By: elvis

elvis — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:17:01 +0000

It’s your opinion. But isn’t there any sense out of the climate-change issue?

By: ivan5cuevas

ivan5cuevas — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:52:31 +0000

Are you sure you made that????

By: A.Ho

A.Ho — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:01:36 +0000

It doesn’t hurt to preserve energy though

By: xanthippa

xanthippa — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:44:45 +0000

Thanks! I am familiar with this – but that is not the one I was referring to.

Earlier this week (and it was BIG on the news around here – print, radio and TV), a 13-year old boy in Germany announced that the NASA calculations for the likelihood of a particular asteroid hitting the Earth was only about 1:450, instead of 1:450 times MANY powers of 10. The media grabbed it, and added that a ‘highly placed’ person at NASA admitted to a ‘higly placed’ person at the European Space Agency that the kid was right. HUGE fanfare about it.

Of course, the kid (smart as I’m sure he is) was wrong, has been shown wrong, and the NASA data has been demonstrated to be correct. And nobody from NASA told anybody from ESA anything….just lies to make the journalists a nice ‘confirmation’ where none existed.

However, when this second part of the story came out, it was not even announced by MOST of the MSM outlets that led the news with it a day or two earlier. Even many techies were not aware that the error in the kid’s math was found….

Similarly, the MSM ‘bought into’ little bits of science twisted by policymakers into the AGW/ACC/GW chiamera, without bothering to understand what it was they were touting. And now they can’t retract it without loosing any vestige of the credibility that might still be glistening in their slimy trails…

For more, check out ‘The Reference Frame’ – a blog by one of the world’s leading physicists. Or, check out my blog (subject of my rant today) – Xanthippa’s Chamberpot at WordPress…

By: FreakyT

FreakyT — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:50:18 +0000

That’s true, there is a lot of money to be made in Global Warming–I hear Hitler and Stalin teamed up to use it as a vehicle for expanding the Soviet Union.

Realistically, though, just because NASA made a high-profile error (and it wasn’t their first, either–just look at what happened to the Mars Polar Lander!) certainly doesn’t discredit all scientists. If you want to take it a step further, I’d suggest reading this blog post, which provides an interesting look at the recent “update” of NASA’s climate data. (Which is what I assume you’re referring to.)

At this point, it has been proven that the Earth is getting warmer–the debate primarily centers on whether the change is being brought upon by
humans, or natural temperature cycles. Saying that global warming doesn’t exist a) is naive and b) doesn’t make it go away.

By: xanthippa

xanthippa — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:04:39 +0000

I knew a scientist, and I tell you, Al Gore is no scientist!

And the ‘ACC’ – aka Global Warming, aka Global Income Re-distribution Scheme, aka fundraising for world socialists, aka Gore re-election fund – is not based on any science at all.

Rather, it is based on the similar principles of ‘accurate scientific reporting’ by the MSM (main stream media) that so responsibly brought us the story about a 13-year-old kid correcting a calculation error by NASA (complete with confirmations from highly positioned, secret sources within NASA) – but failed to even mention it when the story proved to be completely, 100% FALSE! You can’t blame THAT on the scientists!