Senator Boxer recently held a hearing entitled, “Climate Change: It’s Happening Now.” To honor historic truth, the title “It’s Happening Again” would have suited better.
Heidi Cullen, formerly the alarmist voice at the Weather Channel, was one of Boxer’s key witnesses. In her testimony, Dr. Cullen said that “heavy downpours” have increased by 73 percent over recent decades due to global warming. The U.S. Geological Survey data show no such increase over the past 60 years, though there may have been some increase in rainfall variability. She once was too good a scientist to make a misstatement such as that.
In fact, her side has not been able to give her much alarmist ammunition beyond the never-verified and now-failing computer models. At one point, Senator Vitter (R-LA) asked the panel of experts “Can any witnesses say they agree with Obama’s statement that warming has accelerated during the past 10 years?” After a deafening silence, Dr. Cullen said our focus should be on longer time-periods, rather than the ten years mentioned by Obama. When pressed, however, she admitted that global warming has slowed, not accelerated.
Dr. Cullen knows about longer climate cycling. She is an expert on the long, natural 1,500-year climate cycle that gave us the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warming, and more than 600 previous warming/cooling cycles over the past 1 million years.
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Really why is climate change still being debated FEMA is reclassifying flood plane status across the US to start in 2014 legitimate scientific opinion believes the sea level of the US will rise by one foot by 2030. Smith islanders are being asked to relocate Waterman can't find their fishing holes their grand dads took them to because they are under water. Crisfield was devastated by Hurricaine Sandy but I guess this is all just cyclical really no big deal right
ReplyDeleteJust won't let it go, will they? Somebody MUST be making big bucks to keep this controversy going.
ReplyDelete822, you missed the report that the land around here is sinking? The Eastern Shore was formed by glacial runoff from the mainland. In other words, we're on a sandbar. Cedar island moves every day, that's why houses there have to be moved to a new lot every 10 years or so. IT'S NATURE AT WORK!
ReplyDeleteOh, and I'd love to see the science behind the theory that the water level in the Bay could possibly be higher than everywhere else on earth without building a dam! Put that on my table, LOL!
the push for warming initiative acceptance is on since a great "cooling cycle" will soon be upon us.
ReplyDeleteAll someone has to do is suggest that global warming is real.Thats good for dozens of comments pro and con.What if it is real and what if it isn't?
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