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Global Warming as Mass Neurosis

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TheSarge:
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the mass hysteria phenomenon known as global warming. Much of the science has since been discredited. Now it's time for political scientists, theologians and psychiatrists to weigh in.

What, discredited? Thousands of scientists insist otherwise, none more noisily than NASA's Jim Hansen, who first banged the gong with his June 23, 1988, congressional testimony (delivered with all the modesty of "99% confidence").

But mother nature has opinions of her own. NASA now begrudgingly confirms that the hottest year on record in the continental 48 was not 1998, as previously believed, but 1934, and that six of the 10 hottest years since 1880 antedate 1954. Data from 3,000 scientific robots in the world's oceans show there has been slight cooling in the past five years, never mind that "80% to 90% of global warming involves heating up ocean waters," according to a report by NPR's Richard Harris.

The Arctic ice cap may be thinning, but the extent of Antarctic sea ice has been expanding for years. At least as of February, last winter was the Northern Hemisphere's coldest in decades. In May, German climate modelers reported in the journal Nature that global warming is due for a decade-long vacation. But be not not-afraid, added the modelers: The inexorable march to apocalypse resumes in 2020.

This last item is, of course, a forecast, not an empirical observation. But it raises a useful question: If even slight global cooling remains evidence of global warming, what isn't evidence of global warming? What we have here is a nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God. This doesn't mean God doesn't exist, or that global warming isn't happening. It does mean it isn't science.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121486841811817591.html

ReardenSteel:
Good one Sarge.  :cheersmate: I offer the following not to supplant but in enthusiastic support...

Global warming hysteria is new eugenics
By Henry Lamb
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57099

--- Quote ---Gore's global warming religion is reminiscent of the eugenics phenomenon in the 20th century. The elite of the scientific community, and well-to-do of the social set, embraced eugenics as the enlightened way to the perfect society. Skeptics were ridiculed, denounced and pointed to as the kind of scum that would be eliminated if eugenics became the official policy of government.

Like the eugenics fiasco, the global warming debate left the scientific arena and has become a matter of belief, or social acceptance. The in-crowd "believes" that people are causing global warming and that the only way to stop it is to have government force people to stop using fossil fuel. The in-crowd is no longer interested in science. Their only interest seems to be to discredit the people they call "deniers" and to pressure government into adopting the policies that will ultimately prevent the use of fossil fuels.

Gore's army of in-crowd zealots are in precisely the same position the pro-eugenics in-crowd occupied when they convinced Hitler's government to implement the policies necessary to advance their point of view.

Should Gore's army prevail, the consequences will take longer than Hitler's violence but the end result will be quite similar: The destruction of a significant portion of society. At U.N. Climate Change meetings, Non-Government Organizations function much like the "local eugenics societies" in a prior century, lobby the policy makers to deny developing countries the use of fossil fuel and promote the use of solar panels and windmills. Consequently, thousands of people die each day, needlessly, because they do not have access to affordable energy to power water pumps, refrigerators, stoves, transportation and factories.
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Also see:
Global-warming theory and the eugenics precedent
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2007/feb/18/20070218-100445-1207r/

The OP is dead on. GW is a "mass neurosis". And the following Mencken quote I pinched from my second link sums it all up quite well...

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it."  H. L. Mencken

Ptarmigan:
Global Warming is a religion to those people.

Peter3_1:
Of course it is. Crap like "tipping point" of CO2 , not mentionong that water vapor accounts for 90 to 95% of the greenhouse effect, forgetting to mention that during the Dinasauer period the CO2 was at 4,000PPM, and today, at aboout 380 PPM. aT 4000 ppm, THERE WAS no runaway greenhouse effect.  Remember, the CO2 effect is LOGRYMIC not GEOMETRIC! As onlY certain wavelengths convert to IR, as they are converted, there is less and less to concert, so the effect tapers off. It is not "catistrophic"!

Further, you can observe yourself that the oceans have not risen as predicted, only a tiny fraction of sealevel rise has been actually observes, less than 10% of predicted. FURTHER,  evidence at the poles indicated that in the glaciation before this retreat, the glaciers were essentially gone, both poles. So, somewhere on Earth, in fact all over earth, there should be the remains of beaches MUCH higher on the land that date abt 300,000 years ago. There are NONE.

Anyway, IT GOES ON AND ON. oF COURSE THERE IS CLIMATE CHANGE. But the idea that in 200 years of industrialization out of 4.5 BILLION years of ever changing climates, we're going to either save or ruin the Earth is, well, just silly.

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