From Alaska:
Monitoring earthquakes underneath the 10,200-foot Redoubt Volcano about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, scientists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory warned that an eruption was imminent, sending experienced Alaskans shopping for protection against a dusty shower of volcanic ash that could descend on south-central Alaska.
Now, if this thing goes off as expected, it will send a gigantic amount of CO2 into the atmosphere…if over the next five years after such an eruption mean global temperatures stay the same or drop, will you global warming fanatics out there just drop the whole ridiculous hoax of global warming?
UPDATE: James Lewis over at Pajamas Media has 7 bad things to say about the corruption of science in the name of the anthropogenic global warming (you know, such as non-scientist Al Gore telling us that AGW is a settled issue, or calls to have global warming doubters brought up on charges), and concludes thusly:
Climate modeling is just a toddler science, barely able to waddle around the living room. It’s a nice idea to try modeling the earth’s atmosphere. But nature is inconceivably more complex than what we ever see in a laboratory jar. There are no proven “greenhouse gases” in the real atmosphere, just as there are no proven causes of alcoholism or obesity. Alcoholism is an incredibly complex mix of nutrients, heredity, epigenetics, exercise, lifestyle, early learning, puberty, social support, economics, food availability, optimism, toxins, sunshine, interactions, feedback loops, and all the unknown unknowns.
Try to build little computer models of alcoholism and you learn nothing new — because it’s the evidence that’s missing. Computer models of the atmosphere are just as premature. Climate modeling is a baby “science” just like the quack cures for alcoholism or obesity.
Most scientifically savvy people understand this perfectly well. It’s not news — except to the news media, who just don’t want to know. They will never ruin a good story with facts. Journalists don’t get fired for being wrong.
AGW therefore looks to be the biggest fraud in the history of science. The AGW hype machine may signal the worst breakdown ever in the normal, healthy process of open debate and endless testing that makes for good science. It’s pathological science — which is not science at all.
What’s happening today is very dangerous. It can infect other parts of the sciences, medicine, and technology. If honest scientists cannot stand up to the pressure we are in deep, deep trouble as a society. Bad science kills people.
That institutional breakdown could spread — perhaps it has already spread — to other fields that have been politicized. This is very bad.
Ultimately the only solution may be to cauterize the proliferating mass of corruption. That can only be done by the new media, which are not playing footsies with political frauds.
All we can do is keep telling the truth, and listen to honest debate. Keep on doing that, and this sickness may yet pass, without killing the patient.
When I’m driving around listening to the radio there is this commercial for some weight loss scam which talks about how the product will remove waste which “some experts” say is spackled to the colon like paste…which assertion is not just false, but stupidly false. But people believe it, and there are people – who have a vested interest in such scams – who have degrees and licenses who will assert stoutly what they must know to be untrue, is true.
Environmentalism has long been corrupted and all sciences related to the environment are corrupted by environmentalism. Ever since Carlson wrote her mendacious Silent Spring, the entire environmentalist movement has based itself on one lie after another…but as environmentalism gained political power and thus the ability to direct research funding, there has been an endless string of scientists all too willing to trim their work to fit environmentalist alarmism.
But you want to know the funniest part of this whole, sad spectacle? The fact that our liberals, who pride themselves on their alleged scepticism, buy this nonsense without thinking.
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