I will confess to criticizing a Portland right-wing talk show host, Victoria Taft, without listening to much of what she said.
All I needed to hear via my car radio channel surfing were words along the lines of, "The Earth is cooling this decade; so much for global warming."
No, Victoria, you're wrong. I realize that facts don't mean much to conservative talk radio, but it's still irresponsible to spout such erroneous B.S.
Check out: "Very warm 2008 makes this the hottest decade in recorded history so far."
I recall Victoria Taft blabbing on about how 2008 was the coolest year in ages, so in her science-challenged brain this fit right in with the delusional belief that global warming is a fantasy cooked up by Al Gore and other liberals who are trying to use a fictional environmental crisis as an excuse to embrace the Green Savior of socialist big government.
Actually, this graph from the "Very warm" article speaks the truth.
The decade of the 2000s — 2000 to 2009 — will almost certainly be the hottest decade in at least 2000 years (see “Sorry deniers, hockey stick gets longer, stronger: Earth hotter now than in past 2,000 years“).
So once again, right-wing talk radio gets it wrong ("it" encompassing just about every subject).
I love to blog about these blunders. I'd put up more posts on this subject, but the blunder-picking is so easy, I could devote my full blogging-time to exposing the inanities of Victoria Taft and her comrades in lies.
The problem they have is they cannot get their minds around a concept that uses one word but the result will be another. So global warming to them has to mean everybody in the tropics or deserts but not that some regions (and not where they have been) could experience a small ice ages. Global warming is about impact on ocean currents, winds, storms, but the word used to start explaining it (global warming) is too confusing to a mind not willing to explore an idea for where would it go? They cannot or don't want to look at things with any complexity which explains a LOT of the choices they make and the stuff they spew out. I also think the people like Taft know their listeners never check anything which means they can say what they want to hear and no chance the reader will be inspired to go see if it's true.
Posted by: Rain | June 19, 2009 at 07:25 AM
How many ice ages has the world been through Brian? How if the world has had ice ages and some how warmed up, was this from cow farts, cars or what? The world warms & cools and we have very little or no cause of that. I can't wait to here the complaints from people like you about the high cost of energy to heat your home or to drive your so called green car. Praise Bama, higher food, water and energy and save nothing.
Posted by: Mort | June 29, 2009 at 03:03 PM