Comment Re:Grasping at Straws (Score 4, Insightful) 552
Over the last 2 months the Drudge report has been full of climate news. All of it being evidence against AGW.
Well when you go looking for evidence, you tend to find it. Both sides in any debate like this will present veritable mountains of evidence in favour of their position, we've seen it time and again. It doesn't make you right.
Such as the US just had one of the 10 coldest years on record.
Citation? Also localized event, also short dips do not contradict long-term trends, also potentially not all that remarkable if it's only the ninth or tenth coldest on record (the statement is pretty non-specific).
The UK getting record snowfall despite AGWers claiming the UK wouldn't see snow after 2008.
Who said that? Someone whose opinion actually matters in this debate or just some newspaper reporter on a slow day?
Antarctica getting within
.5 degrees of the coldest recorded temperature on earth.
Well how cold does it usually get in that part of Antarctica? If it gets within a few degrees most years, then that's not news.
Along with 2000 record low temperatures recorded over the last couple of months.
As opposed to a typical winter, which sees... how many? Really, this needs to be placed in context.
Add that to the IPCC report showing no warming for 17 years.
Who said that? The people who made the report or someone else? If someone else, then I bet they're disagreeing with the people who did make the report. So what is the point of disagreement? What part of the IPCC methodology was flawed? Who reached this conclusion and how did they reach it? There are no details to go on here.
Its become pretty obvious which side has been lying.
Lies. Lies and deceptions. If it were so 'obvious' there would not be such protracted debate over the issue. Truth of the matter is, most people don't know what to think any more. Both sides seem to have so much evidence that trying to sift through it all is an exercise in futility. We've got to the point where it's a handful of 'true believers' on both sides who are absolutely convinced they are right, and a majority of confused individuals who don't know what side to take if they should even be taking a side at all.
Now they are grasping at straws to report ANYTHING that shows their side "might" be right.
Yep.
I'm going to ignore the alarmists and look at the evidence myself.
Nope. You're very clearly one of the true believers, you're going to find what you want to find and believe that it was just coincidence that all the evidence reinforced what you thought already.
If AGW was real, they wouldn't have to lie as often and at least ONE of their predictions would have happened.
Don't believe me? Look at what you just typed. You are not looking for the truth because you believe you already found it, so what would be the point of looking further?