Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:53:01 AM
Here's an interesting juxtaposition, we follow this item with the Press Briefing by White House
Spokesman Dana Perino:
31,072 American scientists
against AGW - The Global Warming Petition (click!)
was signed by 9,021 American PhD's and 22,051 additional American scientists.
For the sake of balance, here is the list
of 100 or so most prominent climatologists who believe man-made catastrophic global warming:
Celebrities
Al Gore, B.A. Government (no science degree)
Alanis Morissette, High School Diploma
Bill Maher, B.A. English (no science degree)
Bono (Paul Hewson), High School Diploma
Daryl Hanna, B.F.A. Theater (no science degree)
Ed Begley Jr., High School Diploma
Jackson Browne, High School Diploma
Jon Bon Jovi (John Bongiovi), High School Diploma
Oprah Winfrey, B.A. Speech and Drama (no science degree)
Prince Charles of Whales, B.A. (no science degree)
Sheryl Crow, B.A. Music Education (no science degree)
Sienna Miller, High School Diploma
ABC - Sam Champion, B.A. Broadcast News (no science degree, not a meteorologist)
CBS - Harry Smith, B.A. Communications and Theater (no science degree)
CBS - Katie Couric, B.A. English (no science degree)
CBS - Scott Pelley, College Dropout
NBC - Ann Curry, B.A. Journalism (no science degree)
NBC - Anne Thompson, B.A. American studies (no science degree)
NBC - Matt Lauer. B.A. Communications (no science degree)
NBC - Meredith Vieira, B.A. English (no science degree)
Al Sharpton, College Dropout
Alicia Keys, College Dropout
Alicia Silverstone, High School Dropout
Art Bell, College Dropout
Ben Affleck, College Dropout
Ben Stiller, College Dropout
Billy Jean King, College Dropout
Brad Pitt, College Dropout
Britney Spears, High School Dropout
Bruce Springsteen, College Dropout
Cameron Diaz, High School Dropout
Cindy Crawford, College Dropout
Diane Keaton, College Dropout
Drew Barrymore, High School Dropout
George Clooney, College Dropout
Gwyneth Paltrow, College Dropout
Jason Biggs, College Dropout
Jennifer Connelly, College Dropout
Jessica Simpson, High School Dropout
John Travolta, High School Dropout
Joshua Jackson, High School Dropout
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, College Dropout
Julia Roberts, College Dropout
Kanye West, College Dropout
Keanu Reeves, High School Dropout
Kevin Bacon, High School Dropout
Kiefer Sutherland, High School Dropout
Leonardo DiCaprio, High School Dropout
Lindsay Lohan, High School Dropout
Ludacris (Christopher Bridges), College Dropout
Madonna (Madonna Ciccone), College Dropout
Matt Damon, College Dropout
Matthew Modine, College Dropout
Michael Moore, College Dropout
Nicole Richie, College Dropout
Neve Campbell, High School Dropout
Olivia Newton-John, High School Dropout
Orlando Bloom, High School Dropout
Paris Hilton, High School Dropout
Pierce Brosnan. High School Dropout
Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens), College Dropout
Richard Branson, High School Dropout
Robert Redford, College Dropout
Rosie O'Donnell, College Dropout
Sarah Silverman, College Dropout
Sean Penn, College Dropout
Ted Turner, College Dropout
Tommy Lee (Thomas Lee Bass), High School Dropout
Uma Thurman, High School Dropout
Willie Nelson, High School Dropout
Politicians:
John McCain, B.S. (Graduated 894th out of 899 in his class)
Newt Gingrich, Ph.D. Modern European History (no science degree) (Hypocrite)
Pat Robertson, B.A., J.D., M.A. Divinity (no science degree)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, B.A. Government, J.D. Law (no science degree, 'recovered' Heroin addict)
Scientists:
Bill Nye, B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Bill Nye the Science Guy)
Gavin Schmidt, B.A. Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (RealClimate.org)
James Hansen, B.A. Physics and Mathematics, M.S. Astronomy, Ph.D. Physics (NASA, Gavin Schmidt's Boss)
James Lovelock, Ph.D. Medicine, D.Sc. Biophysics
Lonnie Thompson, Ph.D. Geological Sciences
Michael Mann, A.B. Applied Math, Physics, M.S. Physics, Ph.D. Geology & Geophysics (RealClimate.org)
Michael Oppenheimer, S.B. Chemistry, Ph.D. Chemical Physics
Richard C. J. Somerville, Ph.D. Meteorology
Steven Schneider, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics
Social Scientists:
Ronald Bailey, B.A. Philosophy and Economics (Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine)
(Luboš Motl, The Reference Frame)
Press Briefing
by Dana Perino - May 20, 2008 3:09 PM EDT
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
Excerpt:
Les Kinsolving. (reporter for WorldNetDaily.com)
Q Thank you, Dana. Two questions.
MS. PERINO: Okay.
Q WorldNetDaily reports that more
than 31,000 U.S. scientists, including 9,000 Ph.D.s, now signed a petition rejecting global warming, the assumption
that human production of greenhouse gases is damaging the Earth's climate. My question: What is the White House
reaction to these 31,000 U.S. scientists?
MS. PERINO: I would say that everyone is entitled to their opinion. What's your next question?
Q That's all?
MS. PERINO: That's all I'm going to say. (BUSINESS WIRE)
For an administration allegedly hell-bent on cooking the planet and 'denying global warming' they sure give the
impression of having imbibed deeply from the Kool-Aid barrel.
Consider that global warming hysteria is driving the most dangerous misdirection of effort and resources in
human history. No one knows what the 'right' temperature is for the planet any more than we know its current
temperature with a precision greater than guessed change over centuries. The only thing holding the silly scare
together is the alleged 'consensus of scientific opinion' despite facts not requiring a quorum and here's more
than adequate demonstration of lack of unanimity of opinion anyway.
And the administration's response? 'Everyone's entitled to their opinion' (which is true -- they just aren't
entitled to their own facts).
Audio (MP3): Dr. Arthur Robinson’s
presentation at the National Press Club
Now, while the administration is yielding to the anti-energy watermelons, we have the National Academies
hosting panicked meetings about America's loss of competitiveness -- it is being outcompeted on the world stage.
Check out their podcast: Is
America Falling Off The Flat Earth? (alternate link)
One startling omission in the NAS 'Gatherings' podcast is cheap and abundant energy (arguably the foundation of
America's industrial greatness). Why? If America does not get off its collective butt and bring one heck of a lot
of fossil fuel and modern power stations online in the near future no amount of hand-wringing or
education/innovation initiatives are going to help. Industry needs innovators, smart, educated workers and
committed, productive people but, above all, industry needs abundant, reliable and cheap power.
Get busy or lose. What's so hard to understand?
WCCO meteorologist: Global
warming 'extremism' uses 'squishy science' - Longtime WCCO-TV meteorologist Mike Fairbourne says that the
environmental movement is practicing "squishy science" when it ties human activity to global warming.
Fairbourne's assessment Monday came on the same day that the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine appeared
before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and announced that it has the signatures of more than 31,000
scientists -- including Fairbourne's -- who agree that the human impact on global warming is overblown.
Fairbourne, who joined WCCO in 1977 and has been a meteorologist for 40 years, said that while there is no doubt
that "there has been some warming" of global temperatures in recent years ... there is still a pretty big
question mark" about how much of that warming is from human activity. (Star Tribune)
Stink over alarmist theory
- YOU'D think a record of dud predictions would shame Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery into silence. But, no. It
seems this professional fearmonger has learned instead that global warming is a faith that grows on panic, not
facts. (Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun)
