NEXT DAY UPDATE:
First snow of the season touches down in Mass.
Must be global warming, right?
And you maybe thought I was lying? Seriously?
"Many of the ills of the modern world — starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts."
Yeah, just ignore the static temperatures and record-cold winters as the greenhouse gas emissions have exploded the last 20 years or so. You just believe the politically-correct dogma and fork over those carbon taxes to Wall Street. If you can't trust them who can you trust?
Maybe this will scare you enough and get you to believe:
"UN report warns on food supply risks" by Justin Gillis | New York Times, November 02, 2013
An international scientific panel has found that climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially reducing output and sending prices higher in a period when global food demand is expected to soar.
The food supply already is a poisonous pipeline of shit.
That finding is by far the starkest warning that the UN-appointed group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has ever issued regarding the food supply. Its last report, in 2007, was more sanguine, essentially finding that climatic warming and the rising level of carbon dioxide in the air would boost agricultural production across large areas, though that report did cite some risks.
Yeah, warmer temperatures mean longer growing seasons and more food. How is that a risk?
The warning is contained in a draft report that was leaked Friday. The document is not final and not scheduled for release until after an editing session in Yokohama, Japan, in March.
The draft report warns that sweeping effects from climate change are already being seen across the planet, and that these are likely to intensify as human emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise.
That's a LIE, and yet here it is staring me in the face!
Echoing past findings, the draft report points out that land ice is melting worldwide, leading to a rise of the sea that is putting coastal communities at increased risk of flooding. It describes a natural world in turmoil as plants and animals attempt to migrate to escape rising temperatures, and warns that many could go extinct. Saving a significant fraction of the world’s biological diversity may require far more aggressive human management of natural systems, the report declares.
I get tired of lies that echo, don't you?
Efforts to adapt to climate change have begun in many countries, the report found; President Obama on Friday signed an executive order to step up such efforts in the United States. But these efforts remain inadequate compared with the risks, the report says, and far more intensive — and expensive — adaptation plans are likely to be required in the future.
That's called dictatorship.
The report found that it is not too late for cuts in emissions to have a strong impact on the future risks of climate change.
Then tell John Kerry and Obama to stop jetting all over the place, and to shut down the largest polluter on planet Earth: the AmeriKan war machine. Maybe I'll start listening then.
On the food supply, the new report finds that benefits from global warming may be seen in some areas, such as northern lands that are now marginal for food production.
Benefits? The most catastrophic threat to the life on this earth -- or so I have been told -- has benefits?
But it added that overall, climate change could reduce agricultural output as much as 2 percent per decade for the rest of this century, compared with what output would be without climate change.
How can they know with any certainty at all what food production will look like next year, never mind decades from now?
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Funny thing is, now I'm no longer hungry. Fart mist has a way of killing an appetite.
"Researcher helps sow climate-change doubt; Industry-funded Cambridge astrophysicist adds to partisan divide" by Christopher Rowland | Globe Staff, November 05, 2013
WASHINGTON — The setting was not unusual for a scholarly conference: a bland ballroom in a Houston hotel. But Willie Soon’s presentation was anything but ordinary. As PowerPoint slides flashed on a screen, his remarks crescendoed into a full-throated denunciation.
“Those people are so out of their minds!’’ exclaimed Soon, a solar researcher at the prestigious Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge. He assailed former vice president Al Gore, among others, for his views on climate change, calling predictions of catastrophic ocean tides “crazy’’ and scornfully concluding: “And they call this science.’’
Never mind that Soon, an astrophysicist, is no specialist on global sea levels, and his most notable writing on the subject was an op-ed article in the conservative Washington Times last year.
And never mind that the author of the study not a climate scientist.
He has, nonetheless, established himself as a front-line combatant in the partisan crossfire over rising oceans, melting ice, and other climate issues beyond his primary expertise. Coveted for his Harvard-Smithsonian affiliation, and strident policy views, he has been bankrolled by hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy industry grants.
Of course, if you are bankrolled by AIPAC it is no big deal to my jewspaper.
Working in close coordination with conservative groups in Washington, he passionately seeks to debunk the growing consensus on global warming before audiences of policymakers, at academic seminars and conferences, and in the media.
That's because there is no consensus.
Polar bears? Not threatened. Sea level? Exaggerated danger. Carbon dioxide? Great for trees. Warming planet? Caused by natural fluctuation in the sun’s energy.
Soon’s views are considered way outside the scientific mainstream, which makes him a prophet or a pariah, depending on which side you ask.
The Globe means $cientific main$tream.
Some say his work simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, that his data are cherry-picked to fit his thesis.
Oh, did he hide the decline in global temperatures like Michael Mann?
But in Washington, where facts generally lose the race with opinion, he is a force.
In other words, Washington is just like an AmeriKan jewspaper.
His writings and lectures are frequently cited by industry backed groups and think tanks, as they attempt to sow doubt about global warming.
He doesn't have to sow very much. The American people can look out their doors each winter and see how full of shit the fart-misting agenda-pushers are.
And the strategy is working.
Outside the Beltway, the science is largely settled.
They meant the $cience is $ettled.
What are we to do when the newspaper tells lie after lie after lie, huh?
Yet in the capital, government response to one of the major environmental and economic challenges facing the planet is mired in an endless cycle of conflicting claims and partisan finger-pointing.
The work of Soon, and a handful of like-minded scientists, is seen by critics in Congress and elsewhere as a case study in how this deadlock has been engineered by energy companies and antiregulation conservatives.
“They are merchants of doubt, not factual information,’’ said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat who delivers a Senate speech every week demanding stronger air-quality standards. “Their strategy isn’t to convince people that the scientists are wrong. Their strategy is simply to raise the specter that there is enough doubt that . . . you should just move onto the next issue until this gets sorted out,’’ he said. “It gives credibility to a crank point of view.’’
I see Whitehouse reads the Boston Globe.
Divided US Congress, public
No fewer than 13 US agencies spend more than $2.6 billion a year gathering and analyzing evidence on climate shifts — in land, at sea, at the poles, in space.
The conclusion? Global warming is real, and human activities are almost certainly a major cause.
Yup, here we go. Obamacare failed to raise sufficient tax outlays so it's back to climate change and carbon taxes.
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There are shrill and over-the-top voices on the left as well, more focused on pillorying climate-change skeptics than in promoting reasoned debate. But conservatives and energy interests have the lengthiest record of funding and promoting reports that attempt to debunk prevailing theories of climate change.
Thank God for conservatives and energy interests then.
Soon’s work falls into that category....
He has proved adept at winning grants. Over the last dozen years, he has received research funding of more than a $1.2 million from sources such as ExxonMobil; Southern Company, a foundation run by the Koch brothers, conservative energy moguls; and industry trade group American Petroleum Institute, according to public documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Greenpeace, the environmental advocacy group....
Those pirates lied about the Greenland ice sheet, so why should we believe them?
Of course, the Koch brothers are great guys when giving money to M.I.T. for day care.
Freeman Dyson, a respected figure at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, whose turn in recent years toward climate skepticism stunned many of his peers, defended Soon’s work.
Yes, God help those that stray from the politically-correct dogma of fart misting and try to find the truth.
“The whole point of science is to question accepted dogmas,’’ Dyson said in an e-mail to the Globe. “For that reason, I respect Willie Soon as a good scientist and a courageous citizen.’’
And the whole point of an agenda-pushing propaganda pre$$ is to obfuscate, conceal, and confuse.
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The Harvard-Smithsonian Center’s former director, Harvard astronomy professor Irwin Shapiro, said there was never any attempt to censor Soon’s views. Nor, he said, was Soon the subject of complaints or concern among the 300 scientists at the center.
“As far as I can tell,’’ said Shapiro, “no one pays any attention to him.’’
It is time to start doing that with the Globe. Fuck this.
While that may be true in the academic environs of Cambridge, it is definitely not the case in Washington.
Soon maintains affiliations with several industry-supported conservative groups that package and aggressively promote his scientific reviews, videos, blogs, and op-eds in an effort to shape the climate-change debate. In addition to the Heartland Institute, a conservative think-tank based in Chicago, they include two nonprofits in Washington where Soon serves as a scientific advisor....
All three organizations — which have received energy industry funding — vigorously oppose greenhouse gas regulations and operate websites that provide endless debating fodder for climate-change skeptics in the United States and abroad....
Keeping up the attack
Soon was back in the spotlight one Monday in late September, a typical split-screen day in Washington’s partisan climate wars.
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Massachusetts native Gina McCarthy, met with reporters at a hotel breakfast near the White House to defend new greenhouse-gas restrictions the agency had proposed the week before.
“EPA is an agency that, after all, is based on science and moving forward with what peer-reviewed science tells us,’’ she said. “In the issue of climate, it tells us that climate change is real, and that human activities are fueling that change.’’
Two hours later, just a few blocks from the Capitol, Willie Soon appeared on stage at the conservative Heritage Foundation to spread the word about a 1,000-page rebuttal, distributed by the Heartland Institute, of a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The rebuttal, featuring analysis by 47 authors of recent published reports, is intended to provide lawmakers with a competing viewpoint on the science.
Except for a Fox News report that prominently featured Soon, Heartland officials have complained the report has been ignored by the mainstream media.
Before the Heritage Foundation audience of 100 people, Soon won appreciative applause before launching into a fresh set of attacks: “IPCC is a pure bully,’’ he said, accusing the body of “blatant manipulations of fact’’ and engaging in a “charade.’’
“Stop politicizing science!’’ he said. “Just stop!’’
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You know, the Globe really makes you think sometimes -- even if it does make you sour.
