More Ice?
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:56 am
Well, this is interesting...
http://www.absoluterights.com/the-scien ... ried-wolf/
It's freezing outside. Hundreds of historic low temperatures have been set in recent weeks around the country. Every single computer model that predicted the globe would be warmer over the last decade has been shown to be wrong. And now this.
“Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world. On Saturday, the ice extent reached 19.51 million square kilometers, according to data posted on the National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site. That number bested record high levels set earlier this month and in 2012 (of 19.48 million square kilometers). Records date back to October 1978.”
At this rate, instead of mourning the drowning polar bears, we're going to find ourselves fleeing for our lives from rampaging packs of them. And that's only if we are able to survive the rapidly advancing glaciers that accompany the spreading polar ice caps.
One wonders if even that would be enough to convince scientists that their assumption of a warming world is incorrect. Even a child is usually capable of discerning that if the ice in his glass of water is not melting, but the entire glass is starting to frost over instead, he is not in a warm environment.
I suspect it is easier for those of us who are middle-aged or older to view the gloomy pronouncements of a boiling planet with a properly skeptical eye because we are old enough to remember when the same doomsayers were predicting an ice age, assuming that mass starvation due to overpopulation didn't get us first. Not only didn't everyone starve, but everyone somehow actually managed to get fat and put on more than enough weight to survive a season or two of drought.
The lesson of the history of science is that scientists panic more easily than teenage girls. Imagine if world leaders had listened to them last time and ruined the global economy in order to save the planet by heating it up? In light of the fact that it's unseasonably cold outside, I can't say that it strikes me as a good idea to try to further cool things down. Especially when it's eventually going to occur to a scientist that the giant ball of fire in the sky probably has a lot more to do with the global temperature than anything Man has managed to do.
It would really behoove scientists to settle down and stop predicting disasters that never come to pass. After all, one of these times they're bound to be right and it would be really too bad if all their failed predictions of the past meant no one was listening to them anymore.
Vox Day is a national libertarian and the author of "The Return of the Great Depression" and "The Irrational Atheist." He is a former columnist for WorldNetDaily, Chronicle Features, and Universal Press Syndicate, and is a member of Mensa and IGDA. He also is the first writer in the history of the Science Fiction Writers of America to be expelled from the organization. Visit his blog, Vox Popoli.
http://www.absoluterights.com/the-scien ... ried-wolf/
It's freezing outside. Hundreds of historic low temperatures have been set in recent weeks around the country. Every single computer model that predicted the globe would be warmer over the last decade has been shown to be wrong. And now this.
“Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world. On Saturday, the ice extent reached 19.51 million square kilometers, according to data posted on the National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site. That number bested record high levels set earlier this month and in 2012 (of 19.48 million square kilometers). Records date back to October 1978.”
At this rate, instead of mourning the drowning polar bears, we're going to find ourselves fleeing for our lives from rampaging packs of them. And that's only if we are able to survive the rapidly advancing glaciers that accompany the spreading polar ice caps.
One wonders if even that would be enough to convince scientists that their assumption of a warming world is incorrect. Even a child is usually capable of discerning that if the ice in his glass of water is not melting, but the entire glass is starting to frost over instead, he is not in a warm environment.
I suspect it is easier for those of us who are middle-aged or older to view the gloomy pronouncements of a boiling planet with a properly skeptical eye because we are old enough to remember when the same doomsayers were predicting an ice age, assuming that mass starvation due to overpopulation didn't get us first. Not only didn't everyone starve, but everyone somehow actually managed to get fat and put on more than enough weight to survive a season or two of drought.
The lesson of the history of science is that scientists panic more easily than teenage girls. Imagine if world leaders had listened to them last time and ruined the global economy in order to save the planet by heating it up? In light of the fact that it's unseasonably cold outside, I can't say that it strikes me as a good idea to try to further cool things down. Especially when it's eventually going to occur to a scientist that the giant ball of fire in the sky probably has a lot more to do with the global temperature than anything Man has managed to do.
It would really behoove scientists to settle down and stop predicting disasters that never come to pass. After all, one of these times they're bound to be right and it would be really too bad if all their failed predictions of the past meant no one was listening to them anymore.
Vox Day is a national libertarian and the author of "The Return of the Great Depression" and "The Irrational Atheist." He is a former columnist for WorldNetDaily, Chronicle Features, and Universal Press Syndicate, and is a member of Mensa and IGDA. He also is the first writer in the history of the Science Fiction Writers of America to be expelled from the organization. Visit his blog, Vox Popoli.
