But let's not be too hasty to believe something merely because some politician pushes an agenda to take away your money. Instead, let's sit back, think a moment, look at the real data, and think some more.
So if things are heating up, why have the four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) all released data showing that over the past year, global temperatures have gone down, not up.
Oh yeah, and another thing. All that ice that is melting and making headlines... apparently those are just local phenomena. In fact, in 2008 the antarctic ice actually increased overall.
In addition, from 1940 until 1980, recorded temperature measurements of the earth show cooling. The argument is that there has been warming since then but, in fact, almost all of that is due to what is called the "urban heat island" effect – that is, that the weather stations are around the edge of cities and the cities expanded out and distorted the record. When you look at rural stations – if you look at the Antarctic, for example – the South Pole shows cooling since 1957 and the satellite data which has been up since 1978 shows a slight cooling trend as well.
So let's think about it. Why would politicians hype up a "global emergency" of global warming as they called it, especially leading up to an election year? After all, it would be irresponsible and unethical to tell people that there was a global emergency when really they were just pushing a liberal agenda to expand government and taxes.
So... if they all clamored about global warming, and yet the data does not support a warming trend, and it is unethical to stir up people with a lie like that...
What does that say about the current administration?
I wonder.
Copyright 2009, Kevin Farley (a.k.a. sixdrift, a.k.a. neuronstatic)
