Posted by
Brad B on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:22:42 PM
“It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda — and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,” President Obama 3/9/2009
The President and the Demoocrat controlled Congress would never, NEVER, distort or conceal scientific data on the environment to fit their political agenda! NEVER!! And believe me, the environmental crystal ball is never wrong - just ask your local weather man. I mean lets look back a few decades to what the Climate Prophets KNEW would happen - it is definitely an inspiration for basing socio-economic altering legislation on:
Try not to laugh too hard!
In the 1970s, "a major cooling of the planet" was "widely considered inevitable" because it was "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950" (The New York Times, May 21, 1975). Although some disputed that the "cooling trend" could result in result in "a return to another ice age" (the Times, Sept 14, 1975), others anticipated "a full blown 10,000-year ice age" involving "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation" (Science News, March 1, 1975, and Science magazine Dec. 10, 1976, respectively). The "continued rapid cooling of the Earth " (Global Ecology, 1971) meant "a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery" (International Wildlife, July 1975). "The world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age" (Science Digest, Feb. 1973). Because of "ominous signs" that "Earth's climate seems to be cooling down," meteorologists were "almost unanimous" that "the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century," perhaps triggering catastrophic famines (Newsweek cover story, "The Cooling World," April 28, 1975). The North Atlantic was "cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool," glaciers had "begun to advance," and "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" (christian Science Monitor, Aug. 27, 1974)
Gotta love those decisions based on "facts"!
A bit of more data: "As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this was evidence of man-made global warming. Since September, however, the increase in sea ice has been the fastest change, either up or down, since 1979 when satellite record keeping began. According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979" (Townhall Magazine, April 2009)
Maybe our "representatives" should make sure “[i]t is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda — and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology" when it comes to laws concerning the environment. President Obama - heed your own advice!! Keep the religion of Environmentalism separate from Legistlation