Year of Global Cooling

Posted December 19, 2007, 12:47 p.m.

Here’s the truth about climate change: The nominal 0.7 degree Celsius increase in mean temperature over the last fifty-or-so years is, at best, inconclusive. The average volume and severity of hurricanes hasn’t gotten worse, despite predictions to the contrary. Much of the world has actually been trending cooler for the last few years. I’m a fan of being eco-friendly, and I’ll be among the first in line to buy an affordable fuel cell or electric car once a usable refueling infrastructure is in place, but the evidence points to Al Gore’s ‘inconvenient truth’—for which he ludicrously won a Nobel Peace Prize—being neither particularly inconvenient nor true.

Year of Global Cooling (Washington Times) [link no longer available].
Related: NASA Climate Data Miscalculated . . . Badly.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

There are only two kinds of politicians—those who have stopped lying and those who are still alive.

Thomas Sowell

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Steve Jobs

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.

John Wesley

I observed . . . that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And . . . the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Benjamin Franklin

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is false and absurd to say that we should remain in error after we have discovered it.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

John Wesley

Consequences are under the control of that all-wise and all-powerful being, whose providence conducts the affairs of all men. Our part is to act right, and we may then have confidence that the consequences will be favorable.

Melancton Smith

If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and beyond.

Catherine of Siena

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Bernard Shaw

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant’s threatening countenance.

Horace

Suffering overwhelms you because you take it like a coward. Meet it bravely, with a Christian spirit, and you will esteem it like a treasure.

Josemaría Escrivá

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ: first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Charles Spurgeon

Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant . . . it is important that the sovereign—the people—should possess intelligence.

Ulysses S. Grant

The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.

Hugo Black

[Violence] does not always, not necessarily, openly throttle the throat. More often it demands from its subjects only . . . complicity in falsehood.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Matters of fact are stubborn things. . . .

Anonymous

An idealist believes that the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Sydney J. Harris

We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

Edward Bernays

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