Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Way, WAY West of Eden
According to scientist and author, Indur Goklany, the odds of someone from the developed world perishing from a catastrophic weather event (flood, hurricane, drought, etc.) have decreased by approximately 98% over the past 100 years. This whole viewpoint that it will somehow be human progress that ultimately causes human extinction is absurd (the one possible exception obviously being nuclear war) in that it is only through progress that adaptation can occur....................................................................................I mean, just take a look at how human beings existed prior to scientific advancement, for God sakes. It was abominable! Life was short, nasty, brutish (just the amount of wood that you'd have to cut simply to get through winter) and the fact that you still have Hollywood idiots like James Cameron and Drew Barrymore going around glorifying this simpler existence (this while they themselves personally live in opulence) is utterly despicable, in my opinion.
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Looks like you are about to get a dose of global warming Will.
/me again intones in the robotic Southern drawl of the guy who lost the 2000 election and did the political equivalent of jumping the shark:
"Global... warming!!!!"
We all know that global warming causes a sub-0 windchill factor. We learn that on day one!
"... it is only through progress that adaptation can occur."
Hm, some who don't know better might think you're making a case for progressivism. ;-)
As long as it's not a politician or bureaucratic dullard who championing it, I'm good.
All that aside....you're about to get 14" of global warning dumped on you.
Only 4-6 in my neck of the woods (they say). North of Boston into Maine and New Hampshire is where they're really gonna get it (the 14" stuff).
One of the bloggers over at Climate Depot did some research and came up with over 30 pairs of contradictory findings from peer-reviewed studies conducted by alarmists. Here are 12 of the more hilarious ones; 1) Amazon dry season greener - Amazon dry season browner. 2) Avalanches may increase - Avalanches may decrease. 3) Coral island atolls to sink - Coral island atolls to rise. 4) East Africa to get less rain - East Africa to get more rain. 5) Great Lakes to get less snow - Great Lakes to get more snow. 6) Indian monsoons to be drier - Indian Monsoons to be wetter. 7) Indian rice yields to decrease - Indian rice yields to increase. 8) North Atlantic cod to decline - North Atlantic cod to thrive. 9) North Atlantic cyclone activity to increase - North Atlantic cyclone activity to decrease. 10) Northern Hemisphere ice sheets to decline - Northern Hemisphere ice sheets to grow. 11) Swiss mountain debris flow may increase - Swiss mountain debris flow may decrease. 12) Winters may be warmer - Winters may be colder.............For the entire list go to, http://notrickszone.com/2011/03/30/robust-science-more-than-30-contradictory-pairs-of-peer-reviewed-papers/ - You cannot make this nonsense up!
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