Comments on: Understanding the Global Warming Disinformation Campaign http://climateprogress.org/2008/02/08/understanding-the-global-warming-disinformation-campaign/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:04:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jay Alt http://climateprogress.org/2008/02/08/understanding-the-global-warming-disinformation-campaign/#comment-8601 Jay Alt Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:34:06 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/02/08/understanding-the-global-warming-disinformation-campaign/#comment-8601 The Oreskes video is a very informative and worth watching. Here is the Roger Revelle piece she mentions in Time magazine- May 28, 1956 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937403,00.html The Oreskes video is a very informative and worth watching.

Here is the Roger Revelle piece she mentions in Time magazine-
May 28, 1956

http://www.time.com/ time/ magazine/ article/ 0,9171,937403,00.html

]]> By: George, V. K. http://climateprogress.org/2008/02/08/understanding-the-global-warming-disinformation-campaign/#comment-8556 George, V. K. Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:05:00 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/02/08/understanding-the-global-warming-disinformation-campaign/#comment-8556 Greenhouse Chiliasm …George W(acko) Bush joined the Greenhousists club. Gore is making a fortune on speeches and his book on “The Greenhouse Effect” - when the mighty support the theory of overheating, who am I to be negative, and on what basis? What do I know about all those models, our Wise Men have manufactured, forecasting that we all will be drown in the seas in a few decades? I do not know a thing - my objections are philosophical, methodological and political. Every once in a while, some - previously unknown - new factor influencing the Earth’s movement is discovered, new discoveries are made and new theories appear in Astrophysics, although Astronomy is being practiced for at least 3.000 years now; arrogant Climatology prophesising the end of the world does not even have 30 years of life, it’s quite younger than me - why should I respect it? Carbon dioxide has been declared guilty by Greenhousists; why not water vapour and clouds also? They also contribute in the rise of temperature, according to them. • My political objection is that, as we are concerned so much with the Big Future Destruction, we forget big destructions happening every day. We (Balkans) are worried about the “greenhouse effect”, being at the same time the great (not only chemical) dump of Europe. For example, how about worrying about all the Uranium and chemicals NATO has bombed Serbia and Kosovo with, now being washed by the rain and carried to the Aegean Sea and to the rest of the Mediterranean by the rivers? For this, “prophesies” about the end of our species caused by the “greenhouse effect” do not really impress me. I hope that, now that Bush and Gore became “Greenhousists”, the primitive ideology of “anti- Americanism”, will at least have one positive outcome: the number of the Greenhousists might be decreased; Bush is enough to undermine this new chiliastic religion. (G.V.K, based on a Diodoros’s idea, 10 02 2008). Greenhouse Chiliasm
…George W(acko) Bush joined the Greenhousists club. Gore is making a fortune on speeches and his book on “The Greenhouse Effect” – when the mighty support the theory of overheating, who am I to be negative, and on what basis? What do I know about all those models, our Wise Men have manufactured, forecasting that we all will be drown in the seas in a few decades?
I do not know a thing – my objections are philosophical, methodological and political. Every once in a while, some – previously unknown – new factor influencing the Earth’s movement is discovered, new discoveries are made and new theories appear in Astrophysics, although Astronomy is being practiced for at least 3.000 years now; arrogant Climatology prophesising the end of the world does not even have 30 years of life, it’s quite younger than me – why should I respect it?
Carbon dioxide has been declared guilty by Greenhousists; why not water vapour and clouds also? They also contribute in the rise of temperature, according to them.

• My political objection is that, as we are concerned so much with the Big Future Destruction, we forget big destructions happening every day.
We (Balkans) are worried about the “greenhouse effect”, being at the same time the great (not only chemical) dump of Europe.
For example, how about worrying about all the Uranium and chemicals NATO has bombed Serbia and Kosovo with, now being washed by the rain and carried to the Aegean Sea and to the rest of the Mediterranean by the rivers?

For this, “prophesies” about the end of our species caused by the “greenhouse effect” do not really impress me.
I hope that, now that Bush and Gore became “Greenhousists”, the primitive ideology of “anti- Americanism”, will at least have one positive outcome: the number of the Greenhousists might be decreased; Bush is enough to undermine this new chiliastic religion.

(G.V.K, based on a Diodoros’s idea, 10 02 2008).

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