Monday, November 23, 2009

Guess The Globe Didn't Get The Memo...

You know, the memo about the release of data, albeit through circuitous channels, of the "science" behind global warming? The one that talked about how they falsified data on a grand scale? Yeah, they missed it, because their big "science" story of the day is this one:

Effects of warming have worsened since Kyoto

WASHINGTON - Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated, beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made then.

As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages have opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa have been shrinking faster than before.

ZOMG! We're all gonna die! Global Climate change is going to render the planet uninhabitable in five years um ten years err 20 years some indeterminate point in the future! Hockey Stick! Science is settled! Kyoto!

I loved this line:
When the US Senate balked at the Kyoto Protocol and President George W. Bush withdrew from it, that meant that the top three carbon polluters - the United States, China, and India - were not part of the pact’s emission reductions.

See what they did there? They very conveniently left out the fact that the US Senate "balked" - the vote was, what, 97-0 against signing Kyoto - in 1997, nearly four years before George Bush took office. Interesting, is it not?

If the stakes weren't so high, I'd have to laugh at how comical this is. In the wake of the single biggest scandal to rock the anthropogenic global warming community, there's nary a word on the dissemination of the "data" and the GIANT GAPING HOLES and OUTRIGHT FRAUD engaged therein. Cherrypicking data that doesn't fit, eliminating discussions that don't produce the right results, basically ignoring the entire scientific method to get the results they want.

And they want to kneecap the US industrial and commercial engine based on this junk science? I don't theenk so...

That is all.

2 comments:

Borepatch said...

What's interesting (but not surprising) about the Globe story is that the data show cooling since 1998.

Maybe by "accelerate" they meant "for a year, followed by a decade of reversing course".

I'm sure there are special classes in Journalism School that explain how this makes sense.

Jay G said...

Layers upon layers of editorial oversight. At least that's why they tell us they're superior to blogs...