Top 10 Junk Science stories of the last decade

[DesertFox]

Steven Milloy
FoxNews.com
6 Apr 06


My web site JunkScience.com (http://www.junkscience.com/) celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2006. To mark the event, this column spotlights 10 big junk science stories of the last 10 years. In no particular order, they are:

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[DeclinetoState]

10. The Mother of all junk science controversies. The most important junk science story of the last 10 years is global warming. Though climate varies naturally and ongoing climate change is within that natural variation, the global warming lobby seems bent on railroading us into economy-killing regulation.
The Kyoto Protocol is being ignored by its EU signatories. Global warmers admit that the drastic and impossible step of halting all greenhouse gas emissions would have no impact on climate. Sky-high energy prices threaten our economy. Yet many yearn for global warming regulation

Are you reading this, Bob Arctor, cerberus, and other liberals?

[Native American]

10. The Mother of all junk science controversies. The most important junk science story of the last 10 years is global warming. Though climate varies naturally and ongoing climate change is within that natural variation, the global warming lobby seems bent on railroading us into economy-killing regulation.

Not only that, but the latest scientific evidence indicates the Earth is undergoing global cooling, not "warming"! Bob Arctor, cerberus, and you other liberals who cling to your faith belief in "global warming", where are you???


There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
By Bob Carter

(Filed: 09/04/2006)

For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

Yes, you did read that right. And also, yes, this eight-year period of temperature stasis did coincide with society's continued power station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say "how silly to judge climate change over such a short period". Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming. Tosh. Our devotee will also pass by the curious additional facts that a period of similar warming occurred between 1918 and 1940, well prior to the greatest phase of world industrialisation, and that cooling occurred between 1940 and 1965, at precisely the time that human emissions were increasing at their greatest rate.

Does something not strike you as odd here?


Read the complete report at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html

[Timberwolf]

There's a LOT of money to be made from scaring the holy living crap outta people, isn't there? We shouldn't be surprised, though...think Fear Factor.

[DoctorDoom]

Well, you see, it doesn't matter what the facts are. It MIGHT happen, and we must invest trillions of dollars just in case.

[BEST45CAL]

This might be junk science, but does anybody remember sometime back in the late '80s about that barge of garbage that nobody wanted? They said that the landfills were full. Oh no! Another crisis! That got debunked, too. It's since been estimated that 1000 years of U.S. garbage would fit in a 44 sq.mi. hole about 120' deep. According to the EPA, since the late '70s, over 14,000 landfills have been shut down and we're doing just fine with the few we have in operation today.

[Rhino]

Yeah. Remember Alar? DDT? Junk science has a long history.