Global Weirding? They Can't Back That Up

At first we were told that anthropogenic global warming was a result of man's CO2 emissions and that we'd see less and less snow and ice. Ice would melt and raise the sea levels, flooding cities. Then, when it was obvious that empirical data showed we were actually cooling more than warming, they said that dynamic weather variability was the result of manmade 'climate change.' Another group said that global warming was merely being 'masked' by the La Nina effect; that was why we were experiencing cooler summers and winters. Dynamic weather referred to anything deemed 'unusual,' such that a blizzard or freezing temperatures would give the same support to the renamed 'climate change' as a would a heat wave or tornado outbreak. I call these sudden grasps at explaining non-correlating empirical data CLIMATE REVISIONISM.

Somewhere in the midst of the mounting empirical evidence to the contrary, climate scandal upon climate scandal erupted. Interested powers tried to put the genie back in the bottle, but it was too late.

As the public continued to reject the idea of manmade global warming or climate change, Thulsa Doom Obama decided to go with the new moniker of 'global climate disruption.' And most recently, the term 'global weirding' came into vogue. No matter what alias they use, it still all comes down to an indictment of capitalism as the driving force behind a climate gone mad. Americans aren't buying it, and neither are Europeans. The rat radar is up and detecting something foul.

Last week a severe storm froze Dallas under a sheet of ice, just in time to disrupt the plans of the tens of thousands of (American) football fans descending on the city for the Super Bowl. On the other side of the globe, Cyclone Yasi slammed northeastern Australia, destroying homes and crops and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

Some climate alarmists would have us believe that these storms are yet another baleful consequence of man-made CO2 emissions. In addition to the latest weather events, they also point to recent cyclones in Burma, last winter's fatal chills in Nepal and Bangladesh, December's blizzards in Britain, and every other drought, typhoon and unseasonable heat wave around the world.

But is it true? To answer that question, you need to understand whether recent weather trends are extreme by historical standards. The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project is the latest attempt to find out, using super-computers to generate a dataset of global atmospheric circulation from 1871 to the present.

As it happens, the project's initial findings, published last month, show no evidence of an intensifying weather trend. "In the climate models, the extremes get more extreme as we move into a doubled CO2 world in 100 years," atmospheric scientist Gilbert Compo, one of the researchers on the project, tells me from his office at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "So we were surprised that none of the three major indices of climate variability that we used show a trend of increased circulation going back to 1871."

[From The Weather Isn't Getting Weirder - WSJ.com]

States Resist Obama's EPA CO2 Regulation

Not to be outdone by the states who plan to resist Thulsa Doom Obama's end-around methods avoiding democracy with regard to government-provided healthcare, several US states are going to attack Obama's use of the EPA to regulate CO2, since scandals have convinced Americans of the hoax.

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - At least 15 U.S. states have sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to stop it from issuing rules controlling greenhouse gas emissions until it reexamines whether the pollution harms human health.

Florida, Indiana, South Carolina and at least nine other states filed the petitions in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, states said.

They joined petitions filed last month by Virginia, Texas and Alabama.

The Obama administration has long said it would attack greenhouse gas emissions with EPA regulation if Congress failed to pass a climate bill.

[From US states sue EPA to stop greenhouse gas rules | Reuters]

Reality Ignored as Businesses/Governments Challenge Green Fad

Even though Thulsa Doom Obama is refusing to acknowledge reality, business interests that once bought into the hoax (many because it was a boondoggle on which they didn’t want to miss out) are now beginning to turn their backs on intrusive government global warming “solutions,” following recent revelations and scandals involving the “science” behind manmade climate change.

Empirical evidence is also turning more believers into skeptics, even though the alarmist faithful are doing their best to contain the damage following all of the record winter weather. Whereas alarmists once touted empirical weather events that they felt made the case for manmade climate change (little or no snow, heat waves, melting ice, Lake Erie not freezing, hurricanes, tornados, stronger thunderstorms, and all sorts of other ridiculous ills unrelated to weather), they now say that antithetical weather data being experienced (i.e., record snow, record cold, record ice, Lake Erie freezing again, etc.) IS STILL PROOF of global warming.

So, empirical weather data (whatever the temperature involved) is now irrelevant as proof, whereas empirical weather data associated with warmer temperatures was once touted on a daily basis as proof. And you’re not supposed to notice the contradiction; and if you do notice, they’ll tell you how you’re wrong for noticing (because the myth must be kept alive at all costs—too much is at stake for the players). The “precious Earth” is the last thing on their greedy, power-hungry minds, believe me.

They really need to put the crackpipe down. The sheep are waking up.

DALLAS, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Texas and several national industry groups on Tuesday filed separate petitions in federal court challenging the government's authority to regulate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Texas, which leads U.S. states in carbon dioxide emissions due to its heavy concentration of oil refining and other industries, will see a major impact if U.S. mandatory emissions reductions take effect.

In December, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide endanger human health, opening the door for the agency to issue mandatory regulations to reduce them.

Texas said it had filed a petition for review challenging the EPA's "endangerment finding" with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Texas has also asked the EPA to reconsider its ruling.

"The EPA's misguided plan paints a big target on the backs of Texas agriculture and energy producers and the hundreds of thousands of Texans they employ," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said.

[From UPDATE 1-Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules | Reuters]

Several companies are quitting an influential lobbying group focusing in on legislation, despite the administratin's push to use the budget to pass greenhouse gas legistlation. WSJ's Grainne McCarthy reports in the News Hub.

Oil giants BP PLC and ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday they won't renew their membership in the three-year-old U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad business-environmental coalition that had been instrumental in building support in Washington for capping emissions of greenhouse gases.

The move comes as debate over climate change intensifies and concerns mount about the cost of capping greenhouse-gas emissions.

On a range of issues, from climate change to health care, skepticism is growing in Washington that Congress will pass any major legislation in a contentious election year in which Republicans are expected to gain seats. For companies, the shifting winds have reduced pressure to find common ground, leading them to pursue their own, sometimes conflicting interests.

[From BP, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar Pull Out of Climate Partnership - WSJ.com]

U.N. Climate Chief Admits Flawed Prediction on Glaciers

I've already written about this, but here it really hits the fan. What I find funny (in the news over this story) is that pundits simply say that this gives fodder to the "deniers" and strengthens the "denial machine." They take this and turn it around as a negative about "deniers" and skeptics, like myself. Amazing how mounting proof of this utter hoax is turned into a negative about me and my fellow skeptics, simply because we notice the mounting evidence of the hoax and dare to bring it up.

After Climategate, years-long record cold empirical data, Copen-faken, Hansen's climate retractions, and now this admission, the cult members in the media still aren't willing to entertain the idea that they've been royally had.

The UN’s top climate change body has issued an unprecedented apology over its flawed prediction that Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear by 2035.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said yesterday that the prediction in its landmark 2007 report was “poorly substantiated” and resulted from a lapse in standards.

[From UN climate chief admits mistake on Himalayan glaciers warning - Times Online ]

100 Reasons Why Climate Change is NATURAL

Go and read it all for yourself, alarmist believers. See if this list will shake your radical, fanatical devotion to the mythological religion of manmade climate change. Just for a taste, check out #8:

"8) The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited."

HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:

[From Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Climate change is natural: 100 reasons why ]

Copenhagen Imploding Because It's Bull Crap

I love to see all this happening. From the mad polar bear to Al Gore's stupidity to Climategate immediately preceding it, this joke of a conference is falling apart and exposing the global warming hoax for all the world to see.

COPENHAGEN -- The United Nations' effort to muster global action against climate change appeared to move backward Tuesday, as the world's leading economies traded barbs over the most basic questions about how to divide responsibility for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions.

World leaders began arriving Tuesday for the climax of the two-week U.N. climate conference in the Danish capital as disagreements deepened among negotiators for the U.S., the European Union and a bloc of developing nations led by China.

[From Divisions Persist On Core Questions As Leaders Arrive - WSJ.com]

Polar Bear Demands to See Climategate Scientist

Not much else to say, except LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!

I love watching this BS go down in flames.

To a chorus of boos, a man dressed as a polar bear entered Copenhagen's main conference center Tuesday and began paging the discredited climate scientist whose hacked e-mails sparked the Climate-Gate scandal.

Using a megaphone to pierce the rumble of hundreds gathered inside the Bella Center, which is hosting the city's global climate summit, the polar bear boomed out:

"PHIL JONES??? HAS ANYONE SEEN PHIL JONES???"

Jones, who stepped down from his leading academic post amid swirling scandal earlier this month, has reportedly skipped the climate conference entirely. But his shadow and his words could affect its outcome.

[From FOXNews.com - Polar Bear Goes Hunting for Climate-Gate Scientist at Copenhagen Summit]

Developing Countries to World: PAY UP

You see? The developing countries just want the developed countries (like us) to PAY UP. This is all about PAYING UP, no matter which way you look at it or what you believe about the science. The solution involves money in various forms--oil taxes to "solve" it, carbon credits for Al Gore's company, expensive "green" products, or continuing huge research grants for climate scientists. And when reputations are in danger of going into the toilet due to counter-empirical evidence and unequivocal proof that it's all a hoax, you see politicians, scientists, and media types move to protect this pseudo-religion from further scrutiny. That's why the BS myth is continuing to be propped up after being thoroughly debunked. Reputations, when you think about it, all equal money, and many liars right now don't want to pay up.

Developing countries brought the negotiations to a halt earlier Monday with their demand that rich countries offer much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.

[From EU: Developing Countries Agree to Resume U.N. Climate Talks - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com]

Gore Lies: Climategate Emails '10-years Old'

And in reality, the most recent, damning email was from November of 2009, so we have TEN YEARS OF ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC FRAUD AND LYING, not to mention Al Gore's continued lies (he lied three times about the email dates in this very interview).

Of course Gore falisifies the record. His entire climate career (not to mention his lies on other pet projects) is a one giant falsification.

Could those carefully vetted journalists who are allowed an audience with the Great Green Guru please - for once - confront him with his exaggerations, distortions, fake evidence and absurd predictions? I’ve done this myself over this issue, and can guarantee you will get a far funnier and more interesting reaction than another of his sermons. You may also get something rather closer to the truth.

[From Climategate: Gore falsifies the record | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog]

White House Defends AGW Hoax: Climategate

Ostrich with its head in the sand. NOW WHO'S THE DENIER!?!? It's up to you American voters to show our government that you're not going to stand for this alarmism BS and all the government intervention that it entails.

WASHINGTON -- Top White House science officials defended the validity of global warming research against repeated Republican attacks Wednesday that cited leaked e-mails from some climate researchers.

The e-mails from a British university's climate center, were obtained by computer hackers and released last month. Climate change skeptics contend the messages reveal that researchers manipulated and suppressed data and stifled dissent.

In the first Capitol Hill airing of the issue, House Republicans read excerpts from at least eight of the e-mails, saying they showed the world needs to re-examine experts' claims that the science is settled. One e-mail from 2003 was by John Holdren, then of Harvard University and now the president's science adviser.

[From White House Science Officials Defend Climate Change Data Amid E-Mail Scandal - FOXNews.com ]

U.N.'s IPCC Chair Sticks Head in Sand: Climategate

You've got to understand that these people can't just let this go, even when caught red-handed; they are too far invested in this hoax as a reality. If it's not real, ask yourself what becomes of their reputations? Ask yourself what they would all do if Al Gore himself came on the news and said he was wrong (fat chance)? I've written about their reputations before on this blog, long before Climategate broke and proved us skeptics to be CORRECT; to admit it's all a sham and unsupportable by science or empirical evidence is tantamount to saying that their careers are shams too...and THEY ARE. This is why global warming won't go quietly...it will die a horrid death, and many careers and business interests will go down with it.

Al Gore's Oscar, Nobel Prize, and Carbon Credit business? SCAM. The "Green Fad"? SCAM. Countless claimed extinctions blamed on global warming? SCAM. Dead polar bears? SCAM. Countless atrocities blamed on global warming? SCAM. Obama's climate treatises? SCAM. Dr. Hansen's "climate work"? SCAM. Deleted climate data at the Climate Research Unit of UEA? SCAM. Prince Charles' stupid climate predictions? JUST IDIOTIC. United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and their recommendations? SCAM. Liberal news media's NEAR ABSOLUTE support of global warming "consensus"? SHAM and a TRAVESTY against people they should protect. Liberal politicians worldwide who've used this as a means to strengthen their hold on power? SCAM.

This is a worldwide scam and boondoggle that involves many parties, all with different, self-serving agendas. The not-about-to-debate-anyone Al Gore-acle is like the Bernie Maddoff of climate change; he's that culpable in this total rip-off on the people and governments of the world. Congratulations world: You just let a moron con you into giving him millions, a once prestigious award, and an Oscar...all for a stupid, alarmist, error-filled PowerPoint presentation. Didn't you realize he was a doof when he said he 'created' the Internet?

There is "virtually no possibility" of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN's top global warming body, its chair said today.

Rajendra Pachauri defended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the wake of apparent suggestions in emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that they had prevented work they did not agree with from being included in the panel's fourth assessment report, which was published in 2007.

The emails were made public this month after a hacker illegally obtained them from servers at the university.

Pachauri said the large number of contributors and rigorous peer review mechanism adopted by the IPCC meant that any bias would be rapidly uncovered.

[From Leaked emails won't harm UN climate body, says chairman | Environment | guardian.co.uk ]

Climategate: UEA to "release data"

One problem, of course. They cannot release the RAW DATA, because it was destroyed. All they have are their manipulated figures--as in manipulated to "hide" cooling using a "trick."

The U-turn by the university follows a week of controversy after the emergence of hundreds of leaked emails, "stolen" by hackers and published online, triggered claims that the academics had massaged statistics.

In a statement welcomed by climate change sceptics, the university said it would make all the data accessible as soon as possible, once its Climatic Research Unit (CRU) had negotiated its release from a range of non-publication agreements.

[From Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row - Telegraph]

Climategate: 'Worst scientific scandal of our generation'

Yep...he said it: The WORST SCIENTIFIC SCANDAL of our generation. The American liberal news keeps ignoring this story (or dismissing it...in one case), but they do so at their own peril. They've refused for years to even give a faint amount of positive coverage to scientists who disavow global warming alarmism. Now, the chickens are coming home to roost...KARMA!

Remember, these are the characters feeding the doomsday scenario to the U.N. via the IPCC, and that body is trying to establish global governance over all our lives in terms of energy production and consumption.

Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker.

A week after my colleague James Delingpole, on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times. But in all these acres of electronic coverage, one hugely relevant point about these thousands of documents has largely been missed. The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

[From Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation - Telegraph]

Climategate May Halt Obama’s Cap and Trade

Another blog entry from the U.K. press (because our own lefty press just IS NOT going there). It won't matter. Fox News and bloggers (like me) will fill the void where our agenda-driven, majority liberal news media continues failing us.

You must go and read THIS ENTIRE post. It's really great, because it shows just how dead this has become. So many in Congress are already on the chopping block over the economy, bailouts, and health care reform. Obama, in my opinion, is a one-term president. He's trying to cram so much down America's throat that they will rebel against his Marxist butt. He's Jimmy Carter, Part II.

Let's see how many in our government are willing to lose their jobs for Thulsa Doom Obama. Bye, bye crap-and-tax.

Senator James Inhofe’s Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has written to all the relevant US Government agencies, acquainting them with the nature of the e-mails. But the real car crash for Obama is on Capitol Hill where it is now confidently believed his Cap and Trade climate legislation is toast. It was always problematic; but with a growing awakening to the scale of the scientific imposture sweeping the world, as far as the Antipodes, the clever money is on Cap and Trade laws failing to pass, with many legislators sceptical and the mid-term elections looming ever closer.

[From Climategate e-mails sweep America, may scuttle Barack Obama’s Cap and Trade laws – Telegraph Blogs]

Climategate: Bring Forth the Holy Excuses of Antioch

Now, the buttmunches making up the "consensus" at the center of this scandal--recognizing the deep doo-doo they're now in for blatantly violating scientific ethics--are pulling out the stops to lessen the impact of their leaked, blunt, and honest correspondence, describing all sorts of devious behaviors designed to prop up the global warming myth.

The climatologists at the center of last week's leaked-email and document scandal have taken the line that it is all much ado about nothing. Yes, the wording of the some of their messages was unfortunate, but they insist this in no way undermines the underlying science, which is as certain as ever.

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But the furor over these documents is not about tone, colloquialisms or even whether climatologists are nice people in private. The real issue is what the messages say about the way the much-ballyhooed scientific consensus on global warming was arrived at in the first place, and how even now a single view is being enforced. In short, the impression left by the correspondence among Messrs. Mann and Jones and others is that the climate-tracking game has been rigged from the start.

[From How to Forge a Consensus - WSJ.com]

Lying Scientist Told To Resign: Climategate

It keeps coming: Every day there's another story (and usually from the U.K. media) about this scandal. The American liberal press is refusing to acknowledge that this ever happened; how could they? NBC has completely invested itself in being the "Green Network," fully buying into the climate fad, lock-stock-and-barrel.

Moronic leftwing journalists must be completely confused at this point...they bought into all this BS and never asked questions. Whatever happened to the days when reporters questioned everything instead of just accepting what supposed smart people told them? Frankly, our press will have to admit IT HAS BEEN HAD if it really reports on the facts in these stories, or else the stories prove their culpability in the hoax (no one should be surprised at the NYT's dismissal of Climategate).

Meanwhile, Thulsa Doom Obama carries on as if nothing has happened. We're still heading for certain climate doom in his estimation.

George Monbiot, a leading environmentalist, said Phil Jones should resign from the Climatic Research Unit over leaked emails that appear to show researchers suppressed scientific data.

More emails came to light yesterday, including one in which an American climatologist admitted it was a travesty that scientists could not explain a lack of global warming in recent years.

[From Scientist in climate change 'cover-up' storm told to quit | Mail Online]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen for a U.N. climate change meeting on December 9, hoping to add momentum to an international process despite slow progress on a domestic bill to cut carbon emissions.

[From Obama to attend beginning of U.N. climate meeting | Politics | Reuters]

Congressmen and Spouses Study "Global Warming" (and Vacation)

And this surprises who? When Congress wants to "study" something, why do the taxpayers always end up with a bill for what constitutes a vacation?

WASHINGTON -- When 10 members of Congress wanted to study climate change, they did more than just dip their toes into the subject: They went diving and snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. They also rode a cable car through the Australian rain forest, visited a penguin rookery and flew to the South Pole.

The 11-day trip -- with six spouses traveling along as well -- took place over New Year's 2008. Details are only now coming to light as part of a Wall Street Journal analysis piecing together the specifics of the excursion.

[From Lawmakers' Global-Warming Trip Hit Tourist Hot Spots - WSJ.com]

Obama's Climate Czar: Shrink Economy

Here's what you're in store for, America. Get ready for an administration that will REFUSE to acknowledge the truth: global warming is BS. We've seen the 'shrinking economy' slant from many prominent liberals already, including Bill Clinton. Well, since the economy has contracted, it appears they've gotten their wish.

The media will REFUSE to do its job and investigate any of this (except for The Washington Times). Keep your eye on Browner and this mysterious Commission for a Sustainable Society.

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

[From Washington Times - Obama climate czar has socialist ties ]

Skeptical scientist profile: Dr. John Brignell

I've been wanting to do this for sometime, because I've linked to Dr. Brignell's warmlist page a countless number of times.

From his CV:

Professor Emeritus (ESD)

John Brignell was educated at Stationers’ Company’s School and began his career as an apprentice at STC. He studied at Northampton Engineering College (which became The City University, London) and took the degrees of BSc(Eng) and PhD of London University. He joined the staff at Northampton and was successively Research Assistant, Research Fellow and Lecturer. He worked in a number of areas including dielectric liquids and computer aided measurement, co-authoring a book "Laboratory on-line computing" in 1975. He was for ten years Reader in Electronics at The City University and held the Chair in Industrial Instrumentation at Southampton for twenty years from 1980. He has researched and written extensively in the area of sensors and their applications, and in 1994 co-authored a book with Neil White on "Intelligent sensor systems". He had an extensive private consultancy practice for many years and has advised some of the larger international companies, as well as many small ones in the UK, on all aspects of industrial instrumentation. He pioneered the use of a number of technologies in sensing, such as thick film, and latterly turned his attention to the considerable possibilities of micro-engineering. He was elected Fellow of IOP, InstMC, IEE and RSA. In 1994 he was awarded the Callendar Silver Medal by InstMC. He served on the ISAT Committee of IoP from its inception and was the founding chairman of the first joint professional group of the IEE (J1), having served on both its predecessors (E1 and C11).

What Dr. Brignell has done is simple genius--keep a linked list of actual media stories and articles that purport to show the horrors--both past, present, and future--associated with manmade global warming and climate change.

Simply reading the mass of links is mind-boggling; in my opinion, visiting this one page is all that one needs to do to understand how stupid this global warming hoax is.

Dr. Brignell goes further with his entire Number Watch site--he's showing us how the media can misbehave when using numbers and statistics. Thank you, Dr. Brignell, for being brave enough to stick your neck out in this politically correct environment. As he says:

Number Watch - All about the scares, scams, junk, panics, and flummery cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats, so-called scientists and others who try to confuse you with wrong numbers.

CNN's Myers: AGW theory is 'arrogant'

This just becomes more delicious by the day. Anyone want to take bets on how much longer this global warming BS will last, now that the cards have started to fall and all the silent disbelievers who've patiently waited in the wings have started speaking up?

It has nothing to do with whether man can alter the climate with fart gas; this entire boondoggle is partly predicated on creating political dependence--so that Obama and other like-minded alarmists (like Al Gore) can 'save us.'

What could be a great political achievement to have on one's resume? "I saved the entire Earth."

Seek shelter, Chad! Dr. Cullen and her minions will be after you now for 'coming out,' even if their global warming show on the Weather Channel was cancelled. As you can see in the last bit from the article, the Thought Police were able to bring the other dissenting CNN meteorologist--Rob Marciano--back inline.

CNN Meteorologist: Manmade Global Warming Theory 'Arrogant':

Unprecedented snow in Las Vegas has some scratching their heads – how can there be global warming with this unusual winter weather?

CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers had never bought into the notion that man can alter the climate and the Vegas snowstorm didn’t impact his opinion. Myers, an American Meteorological Society certified meteorologist, explained on CNN’s Dec. 18 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that the whole idea is arrogant and mankind was in danger of dying from other natural events more so than global warming.

“You know, to think that we could affect weather all that much is pretty arrogant,” Myers said. “Mother Nature is so big, the world is so big, the oceans are so big – I think we’re going to die from a lack of fresh water or we’re going to die from ocean acidification before we die from global warming, for sure.”

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Marciano also said that, “global warming does not conclusively cause stronger hurricanes like we’ve seen,” pointing out that “by the end of this century we might get about a 5 percent increase.”

His comments drew a strong response and he recanted the next day saying “the globe is getting warmer and humans are the likely the main cause of it.”