Can I Get A Fact Check?
"We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long."
Here's hoping Michael Steele is as right about climate change as he is wrong about history. Remind me why they picked this guy again?
posted by QueensGuy @ 1:07 PM
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It is true that Greenland has been much warmer in the past. The "hockey stick" modeling of so-called climate experts is incomparably worse than the economic modeling of the people who brought you the meltdown.
When your self-interest matches up so neatly with the science you choose to believe, beware the dangers of self-deception. It's a problem suffered most visibly by federal-income-tax-constitutionality deniers.
Let's not forget Al Gore and a ton of other environmentalists feel great about global warming being verified.
"Feeling great" about being vindicated definitely could provide some tendency towards bias for continuing your prior prognostications -- but it is much more diffuse than being able to keep all your federal income tax dollars in your pocket today. Also, it does not explain why you picked that hypothesis in the first place. Presumably at that time, you would be more motivated toward picking the hypothesis that you think will prove correct and ultimately give you that "feeling great" high.
Environmentalists have been predictng worldwide disaster around the corner at least since the 1960's. They've also been consistently wrong. Nevertheless, they've got an overpowering urge to pick whatever hypothesis du jour claims the world is about to fall apart. It allows them to feel impossibly selfless and noble, don't you know.
Anyone who subscribes to this worldview would have been thrilled to see another disaster looming when global warming (now called climate change so they can claim no matter what happens that they predicted it) was the new kid on the block. Sure enough, the planet got hotter--it tends to do that when it's not getting cooler--and that information is no fun unless you can blame humanity and tell them what to do from now on.
As for money, if you want to work in academia, it's a lot easier to go along with this view, lest you risk losing your funding, get called a sellout, and not receive tenure. Yet that's nothing compared to the billions Al Gore and his cronies stand to make with the "green" businesses they've invested in. Now that government is funneling all that tax money toward them, and punishing people who don't go along, they get the trifecta--money, power and a feeling of self-righteousness. Who could resist
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