So
who do you believe? Well
depends: are you in the believing mode, or the thinking mode?
1. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (pronounced /ˈno(ʊ.ə/, like "Noah") is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of theoceans and the atmosphere. NOAA warns of dangerous weather, charts seas and skies, guides the use and protection of ocean and coastal resources, and conducts research to improve understanding and stewardship of the environment. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'Government,' 'science,'...'research,'.....Sounds legit....
Well, then....
2. 2012 hottest year on record in contiguous U.S., NOAA says Temperatures in the contiguous United States last year were the hottest in more than a century of record-keeping, shattering the mark set in 1998 by a wide margin, the federal government announced Tuesday. The average temperature in 2012 was 55.3 degrees, one degree above the previous record and 3.2 degrees higher than the 20th-century average, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. They described the data as part of a longer-term trend of hotter, drier and potentially more extreme weather..... But the researchers also said the data provided further compelling evidence that human activity especially the burning of fossil fuels, which produces greenhouse gases is contributing to changes in the U.S. climate.
2012 hottest year on record in contiguous U.S., NOAA says - Washington Post
Is it really 'government'...or functionaries who have seized government authority???
3. Ron Arnold, a former executive director of the Sierra Club and founder of the unfairly maligned Wise Use movement, has spent the last twenty years researching the cooperation among foundations, ENGOs, individual activists, and activist federal employees .Arnold proves that thousands of activist members of advocacy groups are employed by federal agencies in positions that give them opportunity to exercise agenda-driven undue influence over goods-production decisions applied in rural areas. Put plainly, by the early 1990s, according to Arnold, the federal agencies- the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management- and many equivalent state agencies were riddled with activists.
Nickson, Eco-Fascists, p.164.
4. Said the New York Times climate blog, in an assertion that was echoed throughout the media: "The temperature differences between years are usually measured in fractions of a degree, but 2012 blew away the previous record, set in 1998, by a full degree Fahrenheit."
Really? If that were true, then hair-on-fire news should have been the fact that 2012 was 2.13 degrees hotter than 2011. That's a far more dramatic change, and in a single year. Nor was it mentioned that 2008, in the contiguous U.S., was two degrees cooler than 2006. Or that 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 were all cooler than 1998 by a larger margin than 2012 was hotter than 1998.
Are you getting the picture? None of this was mentioned because it makes a mockery of using trends in the Lower 48 as a proxy for global warming, the misguided intent that permeated media coverage of the NOAA revelation .The Lower 48 represent just 1.58% of the total surface area of the Earth. The law of large numbers is at work here: The smaller the sample, the more volatile its patterns compared to a larger sample. And the fact remains, in all the authoritative studies, the warmest year on record globally is still 1998 and no trend has been apparent globally since then. Jenkins: Our 'Hottest Year' and Al Gore's Epic Failure - WSJ.com
5. James L. Buckley spoke at the Heritage Foundation, on his book Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State, and commented as follows:
a. While the officials in these agencies are generally good people, they become focused on their particular portfolio of duties, that, often, they cannot see the consequences on other parts of society. Put this together with human nature, and one can see bullying, and misuse of power, especially when these individuals are immune to penalty, and supported by free and extensive legal representation: they have sovereign immunity in their positions.
b. A remedy would be the ability of citizens to sue the federal government to protect their legitimate interests, for damages. While currently unconstitutional, the Congress can waive sovereign immunity.
c. Such a congressional waiver would not only protect the citizenry, but would go far toward defining the limits of federal authority.
But....but....what would happen to the environmental movement without the backing of unlimited federal powers????
1. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (pronounced /ˈno(ʊ.ə/, like "Noah") is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of theoceans and the atmosphere. NOAA warns of dangerous weather, charts seas and skies, guides the use and protection of ocean and coastal resources, and conducts research to improve understanding and stewardship of the environment. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'Government,' 'science,'...'research,'.....Sounds legit....
Well, then....
2. 2012 hottest year on record in contiguous U.S., NOAA says Temperatures in the contiguous United States last year were the hottest in more than a century of record-keeping, shattering the mark set in 1998 by a wide margin, the federal government announced Tuesday. The average temperature in 2012 was 55.3 degrees, one degree above the previous record and 3.2 degrees higher than the 20th-century average, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. They described the data as part of a longer-term trend of hotter, drier and potentially more extreme weather..... But the researchers also said the data provided further compelling evidence that human activity especially the burning of fossil fuels, which produces greenhouse gases is contributing to changes in the U.S. climate.
2012 hottest year on record in contiguous U.S., NOAA says - Washington Post
Is it really 'government'...or functionaries who have seized government authority???
3. Ron Arnold, a former executive director of the Sierra Club and founder of the unfairly maligned Wise Use movement, has spent the last twenty years researching the cooperation among foundations, ENGOs, individual activists, and activist federal employees .Arnold proves that thousands of activist members of advocacy groups are employed by federal agencies in positions that give them opportunity to exercise agenda-driven undue influence over goods-production decisions applied in rural areas. Put plainly, by the early 1990s, according to Arnold, the federal agencies- the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management- and many equivalent state agencies were riddled with activists.
Nickson, Eco-Fascists, p.164.
4. Said the New York Times climate blog, in an assertion that was echoed throughout the media: "The temperature differences between years are usually measured in fractions of a degree, but 2012 blew away the previous record, set in 1998, by a full degree Fahrenheit."
Really? If that were true, then hair-on-fire news should have been the fact that 2012 was 2.13 degrees hotter than 2011. That's a far more dramatic change, and in a single year. Nor was it mentioned that 2008, in the contiguous U.S., was two degrees cooler than 2006. Or that 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 were all cooler than 1998 by a larger margin than 2012 was hotter than 1998.
Are you getting the picture? None of this was mentioned because it makes a mockery of using trends in the Lower 48 as a proxy for global warming, the misguided intent that permeated media coverage of the NOAA revelation .The Lower 48 represent just 1.58% of the total surface area of the Earth. The law of large numbers is at work here: The smaller the sample, the more volatile its patterns compared to a larger sample. And the fact remains, in all the authoritative studies, the warmest year on record globally is still 1998 and no trend has been apparent globally since then. Jenkins: Our 'Hottest Year' and Al Gore's Epic Failure - WSJ.com
5. James L. Buckley spoke at the Heritage Foundation, on his book Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State, and commented as follows:
a. While the officials in these agencies are generally good people, they become focused on their particular portfolio of duties, that, often, they cannot see the consequences on other parts of society. Put this together with human nature, and one can see bullying, and misuse of power, especially when these individuals are immune to penalty, and supported by free and extensive legal representation: they have sovereign immunity in their positions.
b. A remedy would be the ability of citizens to sue the federal government to protect their legitimate interests, for damages. While currently unconstitutional, the Congress can waive sovereign immunity.
c. Such a congressional waiver would not only protect the citizenry, but would go far toward defining the limits of federal authority.
But....but....what would happen to the environmental movement without the backing of unlimited federal powers????