George Will, Lying Sack Of Shit (Sorry, Title Paraphrase) Anti-Climate-Science Loon

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The original, circa-2009 version of this talking point was that “there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade.” What Will meant by this was not exactly what you might think. He meant that the hottest year on record was 1998, and no year has exceeded that one, and so there has been no global warming.

Recently, Will has subtly altered his formulation, the most recent version of which is “global warming, of which there has been essentially none for 15 years.” That “essentially” has been added because 2010 was clearly hotter than 1998.

In any case, even if that weren’t true, and 1998 were still the hottest year on record, would Will be correct in asserting there has been no global warming for fifteen years? No, of course not. 1998 was a freakishly hot year due to El Niño. But there’s just a basic concept in statistics called a trend. Here’s the trend in global temperature, per NASA:



Any remotely honest person would look at that data and recognize that the trend has been rising. Now, it’s true that it hasn’t risen in a completely straight line, because that’s not how most data works. Will’s old method was to pluck that spike you see in 1998 and make that a starting point, insisting there’s been no climate change. For this claim to make sense, you’d have to believe that the world experienced a huge, sudden, and permanent spike in temperature in 1998, and hasn’t changed since. Of course, since Will’s favorite meaningless fact stopped being true, he’s just started inserting weasel words that allow him to pretend his unimportant-if-it-were-true fact is still true.

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/george-will-anti-climate-science-loon.html

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1. Who you gonna believe, George Will or your lying eyes? Recd. nt

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2. Faux News plucks data points the same way

If you read their scrolling news bits across the bottom of the screen they constantly pluck convenient data points as starting points to make Obama appear to look bad. They tend to leave out data points from the Bush administration unless they are using them to go after Obama.

This climate thing is irritating. It seems like conservatives have it wired in their DNA that man has absolutely no control over the environment or they will pray things will get better. They claim it's a hoax. I always bring up the CFC-Ozone layer thing then they say I'm an Al Gore fan.

I'm trying to find out the scientific reason why Conservatives are in denial. Actually, I'm not spending alot of time worrying about that but it's a curiosity.

When I worked at NASA as a graphic designer creating NASA posters and exhibits I did quite a bit of work on Earth Observation graphics. It was pretty apparent inflating the atmosphere with too much of one gas or compound wasn't a good thing. Deforestation isn't good either. It's not only science and physics but basic common sense.

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3. I would even begin to read anything Will writes.

Wrote that right wing hack off about 15 years ago. He makes Bill Kristol or Dick Morris look like Nostradamus.