{"id":7766,"date":"2006-06-24T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2006-06-24T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T14:57:26","slug":"global-warming-skeptics-left-to-making-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/global-warming-skeptics-left-to-making-things-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warming skeptics left to making things up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was awfully curious how the far-right would respond to news like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since Earth has run such a fever.<\/p>\n

The [tag]National Academy of Sciences[\/tag], reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the “recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia.”<\/p>\n

A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that Earth is heating up and that “human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.” Their 155-page report said average global surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose about 1 degree during the 20th century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Done deal, right? The NAS is the premier scientific research body in the nation; the [tag]report[\/tag] on [tag]global warming[\/tag] was requested by a Republican member of Congress; and the results were overwhelming. House Science Committee Chairman [tag]Sherwood Boehlert[\/tag] (R-N.Y.) said, “There is nothing in this report that should raise any doubts about the broad scientific consensus on global climate change.”<\/p>\n

Boehlert clearly underestimates the intellectual acrobatics some [tag]conservatives[\/tag] are capable of.<\/p>\n

An electricity industry trade journal, for example, said<\/a>, “The NAS report casts serious doubts on the conventional scientific wisdom of man-made climate warming, particularly as described by political advocates such as former Vice President Al Gore.” True? Not so much. The report concluded that “human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.”<\/p>\n

Sen. James [tag]Inhofe[\/tag] (R-Okla.), who gets his scientific advice from fictional novels<\/a>, said<\/a> the NAS report proves that climatologist Michael Mann’s famous “hockey stick<\/a>” graph is wrong. True? Strike two — NAS research “largely vindicates<\/a>” Mann’s central thesis.<\/p>\n

It’s a telling reaction. For the far-right, no amount of evidence or science will ever be enough. They’ll keep denying reality and, when confronted with inconvenient facts, will just make it up as they go along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was awfully curious how the far-right would respond to news like this. It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since Earth has run such a fever. The [tag]National Academy of Sciences[\/tag], reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the “recent warmth is unprecedented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}