The Absurd Report

Almost every day another species of plant or animal is “discovered” to be threatened by global warming. I read a new report concerning moose in Scandinavia that are unexpectedly “threatened” despite what researchers admit is a growing population. Penguins are in danger from loss of Antarctic ice even though the Antarctic ice-cap is known to be growing with colder temperatures recorded in the southern hemisphere in recent years according to NASA. Fortunately for these species — which hitherto managed to survive and thrive on their own for hundreds of thousands or millions of years — intrepid 21st Century researchers have arrived on the scene with Al Gore just in time to “rescue” them from climate change. How is it possible that such disparate species all around the globe are in such dire straights all at once?

Perhaps it has less to do with actual species’ population trends and other such noisome facts and more to do with a novel nexus between the news-media and “grantsmanship” among academic researchers who have hit upon a winning formula: if one ties one’s research project somehow — even via the most tenuous and flimsy grounds — to global warming, one’s grant proposal will have much greater chance to be selected for funding, one’s chances of appearing on 60 Minutes or NPR are greatly increased, and as a consequence of this positive PR for one’s project, university and funding agency, one’s grant is more likely to be renewed.

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Scientific “Consensus”: Gateway to Tyranny By William D. Zeranski

The next time someone asks, “Do you believe in Global Warming?” Inquire why they are asking a religious question, because that is what they are asking. Belief is for religion not science.
The question should be: “What do you think about Global Warming” or “Do you think Global Warming is real (i.e. a fact)?”

Science is about facts, and the fact of the matter is, with regard to Global Warming, there are, and have been, two sides, and two difference trains of thought on the whole Theory of Global Warming. At least two sides are necessary for science to advance. Lord Monckton recently rebuked Al Gore for his attempt to silence dissent:

“Sceptics and those who have the courage to support them are actually helpful in getting the science right. They do not, as you improperly suggest, ‘obfuscate’ the issue: they assist in clarifying it by challenging weaknesses in the ‘consensus’ argument and they compel necessary corrections …

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