For people that know me, global warming has been one of my pet issues since reading Michael Crichton's State of Fear last winter. I really do feel that a large amount of BS goes into some of these climate change models. That being said, I am very pro-enviroment, but I don't need a New York tsunami to make me by a hyrbrid.

Junk Science on FoxNews has some things about this in the light of Wilma:

The first red flag, here, is the Purdue researchers’ reliance on a mathematical model of global climate — essentially the Purdue scientists’ crude guess as to how our exceedingly complex climate system works.

While scientists and engineers often can use mathematics to successfully explain how many natural and artificial systems function — where success can be determined by how well the model’s results match up to real-world data — successful climate modeling has so far proved to be too difficult to achieve. Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, says that the models fail to correctly describe the behavior of clouds, which may cause predictions of higher temperatures to be three times too high.

In fact, no mathematical climate model has ever been validated against the historical temperature record. So why would anyone believe that climate models can predict future climate with any reasonable certainty?

Although the Purdue study claims that increasing greenhouse gas emission levels will lead to more extreme weather events, a look at the historical record seems to refute the claim.

This is why Wednesday night's South Park was just so hilarious.
Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow:

In this episode, Stan and Cartman accidentally crash a boat into the world's largest beaver dam, flooding the town of Beaverton, Colorado; people are stuck on their roofs and the media begins reporting guesses of violence in the city, and while nobody tries to help the situation, everybody tries to figure out who to blame (George W. Bush, FEMA, etc.). They then decide, based on no evidence, that it is the result of global warming, which will hit two days before the day after tomorrow...which is today!

Everybody runs from the "global warming," crowding in the South Park community center, believing there is an ice age outside that would kill them if they left.

.So good, and so true. One of the highlights for me is early on, right after Beaverton floods, reporters who are unable to get into the town report "Casualties in the hundreds of millions in this town of ten thousand, and we are reporting looting, raping and even acts of cannibalism." When questioned by the anchor, the reporter replies that "We don't know for sure, but we are reporting it."

Posted by Ryan S. on Friday, October 21, 2005 at 12:45 PM | Permalink |