Did anyone see the abysmal movie The Day After Tomorrow? If you did, let me offer my condolences. If you didn’t, just know that the plot is a mish-mash of Al Gore discipleship and strained family drama that aims to hit home with large-scale special effects. There is a disastrous shift in the global climate from our mismanagement of the Earth, resulting in a “worst-case” scenario that includes tornadoes, flash freezes, frozen oceans, etc.
Nature 1, Mankind 0.
This latest AP article reminds me of that movie. When I read it, I was immediately reminded of the Hollywood disaster epic. The second to last paragraph of this article is particularly striking:
Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government’s machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it’s thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.
Oh really? How? You can’t just make a statement like that and not substantiate it. Work with me here–if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the air and if more methane is being liberated from artic permafrost, doesn’t that make the temperature rise? The wind chill in Dallas this morning is seventeen (17!) degrees. Last year, this time, I was comfortable in jeans and a long sleeve shirt. Today I’m wearing a sweater and wool socks.
I’m willing to look at hard scientific evidence, but don’t feed me sound bites that are distilled from “expert projections” that are based on questionable data, especially in light of the recent scandals surrounding climatological studies.
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When I was a kid all the experts swore we were headed to another ice age. Too bad I was too young to remember all the details.
Sounds like the junque science bandwagon is still rolling
I remember similar training as JW, except that it was explained that we were in a brief warm period between ice ages. I find it interesting and amusing that folks can swallow this movie’s display of pseudo-science as fact and still laugh at people who believe in creationism.