“Climate Heroes” Swoop Through Santa Barbara

I wonder what fuel is allowing these brainwashed students to travel around the state? What a foolish, nieve campaign, and waste of resources. Santa Barbara will always be a NIMBY state whether it be drilling of our coast or expansion of so called "green" energy.

For a different take on this global warming nonsense, here's a fascinating profile of that prominent "denier", Freeman Dyson.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/mag...

"brainwashed"

That's the word for those who have drunk ExxonMobil's koolaid and reject the findings of science:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientif...

"With the release of the revised statement by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 2007, no remaining scientific body of national or international standing is known to reject the basic findings of human influence on recent climate change."

"96.2% of climatologists who are active in climate research believe that mean global temperatures have risen compared to pre-1800s levels, and 97.4% believe that human activity is a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures."

BTW, Freeman Dyson is a physicist, not a climatologist, and is not active in climate research. He's a bright guy, but being bright doesn't make him right in an area in which he has no expertise. It's grossly intellectually dishonest to trot him out while ignoring all those scientists who are better informed and disagree with him.

Here is an article addressing Dyson's arguments and pointing out some of his ignorant errors:

http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/20...

note: "... shows that the author has never even sat down with the undergraduate level approximation of how atmospheric radiative transfer actually works. It's really quite shocking."

Here's another piece on Dyson that notes his crackpot claims about global warming but is really aimed at a crackpot claim about mathematics:

http://recursed.blogspot.com/2009/01/...

"Most of my nominees for Blowhard of the Month are talentless, pretentious hacks....This month, with some reservations, I'm going to nominate a man with serious accomplishments. Unfortunately, serious accomplishments in one field don't prevent you from being a blowhard in others....The mark of the blowhard is not simply to comment on areas outside his competence, but to do so publicly, with the weight of his reputation behind him, while not doing the appropriate background reading and refusing to seek the opinions of actual experts in the field before publishing. In doing so, the blowhard frequently makes mistakes that would be embarrassing even for those equipped with an undergraduate's knowledge of the area. Freeman Dyson is the Blowhard of the Month."

And before some blowhard jumps in to ignorantly defend Dyson:

"Dyson has very kindly responded to my e-mail, and concedes his description was wrong and that he was speaking outside his area of expertise."

Now if only he would acknowledge the same about the much more important issue of global warming, but he's too ideologically invested.

JayB,

Look, I'm sorry that you're brainwashed into thinking that companies like Exxon are not behind the global warming scam and you think WE'RE drinking the Exxon kool-aid, but I mean, come on.. You seem like a smart guy, do you really think that if all of the big polluting corporations owned big media, that they would allow big media to parrot global warming day after day after day?! Do you know who owns all of the mainstream media? Six very large corporations owned by very elite people who want control. As soon as they take control of our country through climate regulation, they will be able to destroy all of their competition because they write the regulation. That's why the media loves to talk so much about regulation, because the big corporations get to write all of it so that nobody else can produce what they produce any other way except for their patented or highly vested process!!

Global Warming: Doomsday Called Off

http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...

Jay, I'm an environmentalist. I know we are polluting the s#$^ out of our planet.. but climate change is a distraction. C02 is not a problem, plants love C02. It isn't going to raise our oceans. BUT, all of the other toxic pollution that we should be focussing on is being completely ignored because people have been scammed into trying to get C02, a very natural good substance, out of our atmosphere!! Stop being distracted and wake up, man!!

JayB,

Do you know how cap and trade schemes work? This is what our government is trying to implement.

Company A gives a bunch of donations to politicians.

Company B is owned by your uncle.

Through Cap and Trade, Company A is allowed 15,000 emission credits, of which they can sell to other companies.

Company B is allowed 100 emission credits.

Company A sells your uncle 50 emission credits for $8,000.

Company A sells 100 more companies 50 emission credits for $8,000.

Company B goes out of business.

Company A makes a healthy profit from selling emission credits and appears to be environmentally friendly in the eyes of investors and customers, even though they polluted much more than your uncle's company.

Do you see what's happening here? Do you see what you're being scammed into? Speaking of scams..

Biggest scam ever:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...

"I'm sorry that you're brainwashed into thinking that companies like Exxon are not behind the global warming scam"

Wow. Your handle is apt.