Native American
03-28-2006, 05:25 AM
"Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer took George Stephanopoulos for a ride Sunday over Glacier National Park, and not just in a helicopter."
Thus begins a revealing account in today's The Prowler of how "journalists" such as Stephanopoulos are so easily taken for a ride concerning the mythical "global warming". Ungrounded in science, Clinton Administration saps such as Lil' Georgie are easily deceived, and don't even know how to ask critical questions of those who gull them into believing the "global warming" myth.
The article is well worth reading, and shows what a hodgepodge of Junk Science today's disciples of the "global warming" mythology spin. For example:
How about looking at western Montana and Glacier National Park? The USGS authors cite annual summer mean temperatures from nearby weather stations at Kalispell, West Glacier, and Babb. (I'll grant them their choice of locations, even though the first two are in climate zones vastly different -- and much warmer -- than the Continental Divide, where most glaciers are located (http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/images/glac_map.jpg).) Though data from the latter two stations are sporadic, the authors claim a temperature increase of 1.66 degrees Celsius from 1910 to 1980. That's it. No details on fluctuations, statistical significance, or r-squared values. As Virginia climatologist Patrick J. Michaels wrote (http://www.cato.org/dailys/09-15-01.html) for Cato in 2001, "With climate data, it's easy to play the standard game of picking a starting point in the record to prove a point. Precisely, one can come up with 3 1/2 degrees of warming by looking at data beginning in 1950, rather than considering the entire history."
A CLOSER LOOK CALLS warming in western Montana into doubt. Michaels examined the history of the Western Montana Climatological Division and said, "Inspection of the entire summer history yields no statistically significant warming whatsoever."
The Great Falls National Weather Service office's report (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/tfx/tx.php?wfo=tfx&type=html&loc=text&fx=stn_history) goes further than that. Rather than a steady increase, average annual temperatures in the area show a decline into the late 1920s, then an increase into the early 1940s, then a decline until the late 1950s. Temperatures rose in the 1960s, and dropped in the early 1970s, followed by fairly constant temperatures in the late 1970s and 1980s before a sharp increase just before 1990.
You can read the full article at http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9588
Thus begins a revealing account in today's The Prowler of how "journalists" such as Stephanopoulos are so easily taken for a ride concerning the mythical "global warming". Ungrounded in science, Clinton Administration saps such as Lil' Georgie are easily deceived, and don't even know how to ask critical questions of those who gull them into believing the "global warming" myth.
The article is well worth reading, and shows what a hodgepodge of Junk Science today's disciples of the "global warming" mythology spin. For example:
How about looking at western Montana and Glacier National Park? The USGS authors cite annual summer mean temperatures from nearby weather stations at Kalispell, West Glacier, and Babb. (I'll grant them their choice of locations, even though the first two are in climate zones vastly different -- and much warmer -- than the Continental Divide, where most glaciers are located (http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/images/glac_map.jpg).) Though data from the latter two stations are sporadic, the authors claim a temperature increase of 1.66 degrees Celsius from 1910 to 1980. That's it. No details on fluctuations, statistical significance, or r-squared values. As Virginia climatologist Patrick J. Michaels wrote (http://www.cato.org/dailys/09-15-01.html) for Cato in 2001, "With climate data, it's easy to play the standard game of picking a starting point in the record to prove a point. Precisely, one can come up with 3 1/2 degrees of warming by looking at data beginning in 1950, rather than considering the entire history."
A CLOSER LOOK CALLS warming in western Montana into doubt. Michaels examined the history of the Western Montana Climatological Division and said, "Inspection of the entire summer history yields no statistically significant warming whatsoever."
The Great Falls National Weather Service office's report (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/tfx/tx.php?wfo=tfx&type=html&loc=text&fx=stn_history) goes further than that. Rather than a steady increase, average annual temperatures in the area show a decline into the late 1920s, then an increase into the early 1940s, then a decline until the late 1950s. Temperatures rose in the 1960s, and dropped in the early 1970s, followed by fairly constant temperatures in the late 1970s and 1980s before a sharp increase just before 1990.
You can read the full article at http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9588