Hacker-gate hearings, December 2, 2009

[Viking12]

Now available on Ed Markey's youtube channel. Inslee's Q&A rocks, especially at about 4:00 when he confronts the minority on ocean acidification.

http://www.youtube.com/user/RepMarkey

[MH1]

1. Worthwhile MIT study on why people have trouble grasping the reality of GW

http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/cloudy_skies.html

via (and summarized at): "An Inconvenient To Understand Truth" - http://www.exponentialimprovement.com/cms/cloudyskies.shtml#inconvenient

(I got this from someone else's post here at DU. I can't recall who but it bears repeating. Frequently)

[tabatha]

2. This text is unbelievable

so much hyperbole, so little factual.

"Should environmental radicals succeed in parleying their mathematical fantasies into the expropriation of stockholder profits, a ban on fossil fuels and the ability to regulate modern industry into extinction, the rest of us can take comfort from the fact that global warming will likely continue. Evidence from a variety of sources - including ice cores, glaciers, tree growth, peat, pollen and sea- floor sediments - suggests that the Earth has been warming in fits and starts since the Little Ice Age (1300-1900). In time, we may even return to the balmy temperatures that characterized the Medieval Warm Period (800-1300). Environmentalists have few scruples about inflicting vast discomfort on other humans. If they get their way, retreating glaciers, more arable land and the kind of climate that let the Vikings settle Greenland will no doubt be welcome events.

Like Lenin, whose birthday is celebrated on Earth Day, modern environmentalists want power. Green on the outside and red within, they'll do anything to get it, including burning buildings they don't like, planting lynx hair to get control of other people's land and using junk science to close down legitimate businesses. We haven't run out of food or raw materials as they predicted in the 1970s, or forests and space to put garbage as they predicted in the 1980s.

Legally used pesticides don't turn children into little green monsters, either. For that, one needs environmentalist scare campaigns like the one on global warming."

"space to put garbage" - yep, it is all going into the ocean
"Legally used pesticides don't turn children into little green monsters" - there is so much on the impact of pesticide use that the author has probably not read
"Plant lynx hair" - how can anyone take anything else the author wrote, seriously


There needs to be a concerted effort to fight back with the truth.