With record-breaking climate disasters crippling the United States...
The link "proving" there have been "climate" disasters is a post recapping the latest snow storm to hit Chicago. For starters, a snow storm in the middle of winter, even one that produced the third highest snowfall totals in the area, is not "climate." It's weather. If you don't know what the difference is between the two you really ought to keep your ignorant mouth shut.
In the cast of Think Progress we won't get off that lucky. They continue:
...defenders of global warming pollution are growing increasingly desperate. Gordon Peterson, host of PBS’s weekly Inside Washington show, noted the scientific fact that “there’s about a four percent more water vapor in the air now in the atmosphere than there was in the ’70s because of warmer oceans and warmer air, and it returns to earth as heavy rain and heavy snow.”
And what scientific proof do these people rely on here? The first link goes to a statement by Al Gore, who is not a scientist. The second link goes to a New York Times op-ed writer Gail Collins, also not a scientist, who was quoting as her authority on the matter one Al Gore. You can't make up this junk.
How could anyone argue against this collection of uncredentialed intellectual firepower?
Oh, I know...maybe they could actually hold a doctorate in the field? Like Dr. Roy Spencer:
No serious climate researcher — including the ones I disagree with — believes global warming can cause colder weather. Unless they have become delusional as a result of some sort of mental illness. One of the hallmarks of global warming theory is LESS extratropical cyclone activity — not more...
...global satellite measurements of precipitation which shows that the annual amount of precipitation that falls on the Earth stays remarkably constant from year to year.
Got that super geniuses? We know, for a fact, there has not been an increase in global precipitation. Al Gore is either lying or willfully ignorant. (You can see graphical representation of the satellite data here courtesy of NASA.)
Here is how Think Progress quotes Charles Krauthammer who had pointed out the unscientific nature of the Global Warming hysteria:
Look, if Godzilla appeared on the Mall this afternoon, Al Gore would say it’s global warming, because the spores in the South Atlantic Ocean, you know, were. Look, everything is, it’s a religion. In a religion, everything is explicable. In science, you can actually deny or falsify a proposition with evidence. You find me a single piece of evidence that Al Gore would ever admit would contradict global warming and I’ll be surprised. [ed. moronic highlighting by Think Progress]
That's right, Think Progress. The key to this point is the bit about Godzilla, and not the discussion concerning the scientific requirement of falsifiability and the Left's refusal to be bound by scientific evidence.
Think Progress goes on to prove my point by claiming the oceans are warming, when the evidence shows this simply is not true. [Warning! That link leads to another actual scientist and not an op-ed writer or a washed up politician looking to make a buck.]
What is most scary about this crap is the degree to which people like those at Think Progress operate in a realm beyond rational discourse. It is that aspect which reminds people of arguing with someone on a religious matter, though it needn't be viewed in that light. Ideological "true believers" are just as irrational, though more dangerous as they wish to hold political power which can be used against the recalcitrant. To this end the recalcitrant is demonized by equating them with neo-Nazis via the constant and mindless use of the term "denier" to describe their "enemy." It is sad, vicious, stupid, and has absolutely nothing to do with science.
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