The New Federalist

Ah, those Brits- they’ve done it again. A perusal of the Guardian’s online edition from Friday (I seem to have let my subscription lapse for the printed version) reveals another calm, rational discussion of climate change, which, as is typical, is totally free of any hyperbole, alarmism, and plain, old-fashioned junk science.

Ah-hem.

The article informs the public that, while 2008 will be the coolest year so far this decade (according to some data to be released shortly by something called the Met Office, whatever that is), don’t let’s get our dander up about this being a really cold year. For that, we’d have to go all the way back to that icy decade called the 1980s. At least that’s according to a Professor Myles Allen from Oxford. Now, I’m looking at the chart they have for yearly average temps, and I gotta say, it was… yep, at least a half, maybe a whole degree Fahrenheit cooler in the 80s.

Now, in the spirit of full disclosure, Professor Allen also runs climateprediction.net. I’ll wait while you open that page up….. You’ll notice that the site talks about an experimental way to predict the next century’s climate. Fair enough. Even in light of the “broad scientific consensus” about global warming, his experiment “should, for the first time, tell us what is most likely to happen.” I see. Even though the “broad scientific consensus” is really none of those. But I digress. Suffice it to say that this is someone who definitely is a global warming true believer.

Also for the sake of full disclosure, he says, well maybe not the 1980s, maybe go a little bit farther back. That chart I mentioned goes back to 1840, presumably when the very first highly sensitive and accurate instruments were invented for measuring global temperature averages. Give or take a few years. In 1840, Charles Dickens turned 28 years old, and it’s a good thing, because, says Prof. Allen, “For Dickens this (2008) would have been an extremely warm year.” Well yeah, we couldn’t have had good ol’ Charlie sweating bullets while he was writing A Christmas Carol. In fact, let’s have a look at our trusty chart again. The average temperature in 1840 was cooler by… nearly two whole degrees Fahrenheit. A statistically significant amount if ever there was one.

Just ask yourself, when you hear the yelling about global warming and how much government expansion, regulations, and spending are going to be needed to combat it, that we have to do something right now OR ELSE WE ALL DIE!!!, ask yourself who stands to benefit from that. Put simply, follow the money. The money, and the power. To whom will both of them flow if the public freaks out about global warming? Oh no, we don’t want to scare you, but basically you have two years to live. Or, as Ted Danson said in 1990, “We have only ten years left to save this planet.” (I could do a whole post or two about these Hollywood types… maybe another time.) Do you know when government gets the most power, the fastest? When the public is afraid. Hunger helps too, but fear is the most powerful tool that the leftists and radical environmentalists have as their disposal. My advice? Disarm them by refusing to be afraid. Be informed, be active, and for heaven’s sake be discerning. And don’t be afraid.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS