Roll Call is reporting that next Monday night, the United States Senate is going to stay in session all night to discuss the impact of climate change. The effort is being led by senator Whitehouse, (D-RI). To paraphrase Winston Churchill, "Never in the course of human history will so much be said by so many about so little."
Ten years ago, global warming was perceived as a real threat. The best computer models predicted massive and quick warming of the atmosphere. Winter was to be a thing of the past. The polar ice was to disappear. Coastlines were to be inundated. Snow would disappear from most of the world.
Ten years later, just the opposite has happened. There has been no warming of the atmosphere for the last 15 years. This is not a computer model but the result of literally hundreds of thousands or even millions of actual temperature readings taken during that time. Winter has hardly disappeared. In the USA, 2013-14 has been the harshest winter in many decades. Similarly, 2012-2013 was the "winter of the century" in Europe and northern Asia. Ice in the arctic is at a twenty year high. Ice in the Antarctic is so extensive that climate scientists who went close to Antarctica to view conditions there during the Summer got their ship caught in massive ice floes and had to be rescued by ice breakers. The level of the seas has not risen. Snow is so widespread that at one time last month every American state except for Florida had areas covered with snow. Most important, the actual temperature readings of the last fifteen years have statistically proven that the computer models that are the basis for the entire global warming theory are WRONG.
Is it any wonder then that the Democrats in the Senate want to spend an entire night discussing the impact of global warming? These are the same people who thought that Obamacare would work and that the Stimulus bill of 2009 would create jobs. I would say that senator Whitehouse at the head of the senate Democrats is like the blind leading the blind, but that would be unkind to sightless people.
Ten years ago, global warming was perceived as a real threat. The best computer models predicted massive and quick warming of the atmosphere. Winter was to be a thing of the past. The polar ice was to disappear. Coastlines were to be inundated. Snow would disappear from most of the world.
Ten years later, just the opposite has happened. There has been no warming of the atmosphere for the last 15 years. This is not a computer model but the result of literally hundreds of thousands or even millions of actual temperature readings taken during that time. Winter has hardly disappeared. In the USA, 2013-14 has been the harshest winter in many decades. Similarly, 2012-2013 was the "winter of the century" in Europe and northern Asia. Ice in the arctic is at a twenty year high. Ice in the Antarctic is so extensive that climate scientists who went close to Antarctica to view conditions there during the Summer got their ship caught in massive ice floes and had to be rescued by ice breakers. The level of the seas has not risen. Snow is so widespread that at one time last month every American state except for Florida had areas covered with snow. Most important, the actual temperature readings of the last fifteen years have statistically proven that the computer models that are the basis for the entire global warming theory are WRONG.
Is it any wonder then that the Democrats in the Senate want to spend an entire night discussing the impact of global warming? These are the same people who thought that Obamacare would work and that the Stimulus bill of 2009 would create jobs. I would say that senator Whitehouse at the head of the senate Democrats is like the blind leading the blind, but that would be unkind to sightless people.
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