not of this world

if you read one dissenting piece from a scientist calling out the criminal hysteria being piped through the media re human induced global warming climate change, this one from Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT (who is receiving death threats for his reasoned, expertified street cred unconsent), is a pretty good one to go with.

What most commentators—and many scientists—seem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes. The earth is always warming or cooling by as much as a few tenths of a degree a year; periods of constant average temperatures are rare. Looking back on the earth’s climate history, it’s apparent that there’s no such thing as an optimal temperature—a climate at which everything is just right. The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman’s forecast for next week.

personally, i’ve been rather enjoying catching a few times now the irony of npr directly following their global warming doom reports with record colds and unseasonably devestating winter storms in april.

at least there are still some left of centers who have some intellectual honesty:

As a lapsed Catholic, I detest dogma in any area. Too many of my fellow Democrats seem peculiarly credulous at the moment, as if, having ground down organized religion into nonjudgmental, feel-good therapy, they are hungry for visions of apocalypse.

from here