September 15, 2007
Expanding ice caps...
You've no doubt read about the shrinking ice cap at the North Pole, and the plight of the polar bears there. It's less likely that you've heard that in the meantime, the ice cap at the South Pole has been expanding, and just recently reached its largest extent since measurements began in 1979.
I compared Google News searches for "ice cap 'north pole'" and "ice cap 'south pole.'" The North Pole stories were all about the shrinking ice cap there as evidence of global warming. I couldn't find a single news story about the expanding ice cap at the South Pole. This strikes me as a pretty good illustration of how the conventional story line about Earth's climate drives news reporting...
Neither North nor South Poles are definitive evidence in themselves. Climate change would not be linear. But this is sure powerful evidence of what a bunch of frauds our news-media are.
The whole globo-warming debate is warped because a LOT of things are not being mentioned. Things that would cause the little people—you and me— to possibly fail to reach the conclusions deemed appropriate by our elite would-be masters. For instance, 99% of the Greenhouse Effect on Earth is caused by water vapor. And lucky we are that it is; we'd be pretty cold without it. We'd all be living in the "Antarctic."
Posted by John Weidner at September 15, 2007 12:24 PM"because a LOT of things are not being mentioned."
Because a LOT of things are not being measured, I would have thought. A model is only as good as its data, or GIGO— Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Posted by: B. Durbin at September 16, 2007 04:36 PMWell, that's a whole other pail of worms. There are lots of questions about the data.
And speaking of models, the whole computer model thing is very iffy. For instance, one of the biggest questions about warming is the effect that clouds will have. More warmth = more clouds = more reflected sunlight = less warming....maybe. Nobody knows.
But the computer models can't even do clouds. They work with units of at least 200 sq km.
Posted by: John Weidner at September 16, 2007 08:18 PM
