The Discerning Texan
-- Edmund Burke
Saturday, July 07, 2007
A Reality Check for "Live Earth" Acolytes
In the meantime, as Scientists continue to make more and more discoveries--this one in Greenland for example--the sheer gall of Mr. Gore and the utterly fictional nature of An Inconvenient Truth becomes more and more obvious:
If you have the courage to learn the truth, it is out there. If you choose instead to go along just to get along--and you refuse to see any facts that would refute your world view--then your ignorance is your business; but then please stop pretending to be knowledgeable about this subject, and stop your ridiculous whining to "save the earth." If you want to be taken seriously, learn all the facts. Fortunately I am here to show you the way: Here is a site where you can watch this 10-minute clip of pertinent facts from Channel 4's (UK) "The Great Global Warming Swindle". (Once you have watched that, you can watch the entire documentary here). Joe Bob says: "check it out."Ice-covered Greenland really was green a half-million or so years ago, covered with forests in a climate much like that of Sweden and eastern Canada today.
An international team of researchers recovered ancient DNA from the bottom of an ice core that indicates the presence of pine, yew and alder trees as well as insects.
The researchers, led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, say this is the first proof that there was forest in southern Greenland.
Included were genetic traces of butterflies, moths, flies and beetles, they report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
Historians have long known that Vikings established colonies on coastal Greenland over a thousand years ago, but that it disappeared as the Little Ice Age waxed. The creep of the glaciers killed the agricultural efforts of the colonists, and they eventually abandoned Greenland. Researchers had assumed that the colony took advantage of an exceptionally warm temporary weather pattern that freed the land from its normal icy status, but this discovery could show that the glacial period of Greenland is the exception rather than the norm.
That has some implications for the climate-change debate. Advocates of anthropogenic climate change use Greenland as key evidence in their argument. They claim that the loss of Greenland's glacial mass -- which is still in dispute -- shows the effect that mankind has had on the Earth's climate. If Greenland's glaciers have only recently formed, then that argument makes little sense. Some estimates of the age of the DNA from the central portion of southern Greenland have them as recent as 116,000 years ago.
Dennis Miller has a nice rant about Global Warming on Fox's 1/2 Hour News Hour. And of course there is always this classic evisceration of "Consensus Science."
We should save the Earth all right: from these alarmists and from all the marxists and socialists and grant-hungry climatologists in the background egging them on.
Labels: "Consensus" Science, Al Gore, Global Warming Hysteria
