Roger Dewhurst, who is a member of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, has sent a letter to NZ MPs:
"I was appalled to see a one page propaganda sheet apparently put out by the Ministry of Education which made it abundantly clear that officialdom has swallowed the anthropogenic (man-made) global warming stuff hook, line and sinker and is promoting it without a shred of balance. These small children are actually being invited to propose their own solutions to the 'problem' of global warming. This is not education, it is attempted brainwashing. Fortunately there is a teacher in the school who thought that it would be a good idea to have a bit of balance.
"When the anthropogenic global warmers can explain why there were five or six periods of glaciation in the earth's history, a couple of these before there was life on land, with longer periods between them generally warmer than today; why the temperature has fluctuated very rapidly in the last 2.5 million years between warmer and very much colder; why atmospheric carbon dioxide levels lag temperature rise and why carbon dioxide and methane levels rose with global temperature when our palaeolithic ancestors were chipping stones, I might begin to think that they have something useful to say.
"They have to explain the past, not just deny it. Looking at the Pleistocene alone on a scale of 1mm per 1000 years we have an event rather more than 2.5 metres long. We are still in this event. One centimetre at the top represents the 10,000 years since most of the last load of ice melted.
ADVERTISEMENTTwo millimetres represents the time humans have been capable of recording anything. A slice thinner than a razor blade represents the time over which humans have been able to make some sort of attempt to measure the temperature.
And on the basis of dubious numerical models constructed in a slice of time mere microns thick the Fart Tax Freddies and their ilk claim to predict the future climate for the next 100 years or so! That is not science, it is bone necklace and monkey skin hat stuff larded well with politics and grant money."
While trying to retrieve Dewhurst's letter I must have hit the wrong button because the page I got was dated 25 May 2106 and instead had a letter from Dewhurst's great grandson. It said:
"I was appalled to see a one page propaganda sheet apparently put out by the Ministry of Education which made it abundantly clear that officialdom has swallowed the ridiculous story that the four degrees of warming in the 21st century was anthropogenic (man-made). The climate is always changing, where is their proof that people caused this?
"They have to explain the past, not just deny it. Looking at the Pleistocene alone on a scale of 1mm per 1000 years we have an event rather more than 2.5 metres long. We are still in this event. One centimetre at the top represents the 10,000 years since most of the last load of ice melted.
Two millimetres represents the time humans have been capable of recording anything. A slice thinner than a razor blade represents the time over which humans have been able to make some sort of attempt to measure the temperature.
And on the basis of dubious numerical models constructed in a slice of time mere microns thick the Fart Tax Freddies and their ilk claim to predict the future climate for the next 100 years or so! That is not science, it is bone necklace and monkey skin hat stuff larded well with politics and grant money."
Proof that evolution confers a selective advantage to denial?
Yes, 'balance' is a keyword to look for. Find the keyword and know that you are reading something produced by a shill.
Best,
D
I had an odd feeling in the pit of my stomach yesterday. I thought to myself, "Could this be what is meant by hunger?" Of course, life has existed on earth for billions of years, and a couple of hours is not nearly long enough to determine an answer to this question, so I settled down to collect a lot more data before I could answer the question.
Indeed.
As a Flat Earther would say: "Balance makes the world go round".
The evidence for global warming is ...
1) thinner than a razor-blade.
2) more suspect than OJ Simpson.
3) sparser than the hair on Kojak's head.
4) shallower than a mud puddle.
5) emptier than interstellar space.
6) more lacking than the response to Hurricane Katrina.
7) weaker than the argument(s) for invading Iraq.
8) more wanting than a cowboy who's been alone with his cattle all summer.
9) all of the above.
10) none of the above.
11) Not enough information to answer the question.
12) Too much information to answer the question.
"Two millimetres represents the time humans have been capable of recording anything. A slice thinner than a razor blade represents the time over which humans have been able to make some sort of attempt to measure the temperature.
And on the basis of dubious numerical models constructed in a slice of time mere microns thick ..."
...Roger Dewhurst feels confident about describing the entire history of the Earth's climate up to this point.
So basically the skeptics are using an "argument from personal incredulity", akin to "how can l'il ole man affect the great big earth" etc.
Y'know, I skimmed many a textbook ten years back (they were being scanned in and OCRed for the blind), and the sections on environmentalism really were rather heavy on the indoctrination. But when it comes to facts, such as anthropogenic global warming, that the citizens of tomorrow will have to deal with, well they should be included in the curriculum. (Ok, Ok, it's a theory. But it's a sufficiently well established theory that it's appropriate in a school science book. And much as students should be exposed to the scientific method in action, there just isn't time for every crank's theory.)