My favorite part of this, besides the utter insanity of their premise, is that this Steve Goreham guy nonchalantly suggests that "people" blamed the "Little Ice Age" on witches and burned them for their "sins," when in fact those "people" were Christians responding to confusion and fear by attacking perfectly innocent people and punishing them due to their superstitious belief that their GOD would never allow such a thing to happen and darker forces must be to blame.
You'll notice that with today's understanding of climate, thanks to science, there are no witches being burned nor pagans being persecuted.
thanks to science, there are no witches being burned nor pagans being persecuted.
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OT - but this preview of Palin on Greta's show to air tonight is just hilarious. She's gone totally bonkers.
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Somebody needs to give this nut a history book. He seems to be confusing the Salem Witch Trials in America and/or the Bubonic Plague in Europe with the Little Ice Age. These events were separated by thousands of years. There were no Christians around during the Little Ice Age to say anything or to burn anyone at the stake for their beliefs. Those living during the Little Ice Age were most likely pagans.
ReplyDeleteNo, you're wrong there. You're thinking of the Ice Age, about 15 thousand years ago. The Little Ice Age is a period of about 500-600 years roughly between the late 1200s and the late 1800s. The guy is right about that part. His conclusions, though, are about as insane as they come.
DeleteThis guy is an electrical engineer, so why does he expect anyone to take his word about climate change when it conflicts with 95% of the scientists who specialize in climate study? It's some of that willful ignorance that the RW is so good at.
ReplyDeleteSo basically he proclaims that "ALL the climate models are wrong" and then backs it up with... a smug smirk.
Delete-And fails to notice the cognitive dissonance he HAD to be experiencing when he failed to admit that "those people" who burned people as witches back in the day were CHRISTIANS.
I wonder how long until these revisionists start proclaiming that the Inquisition was an Atheist organization?
Yeah... No one expects the Atheist inquisition!
"You'll notice that with today's understanding of climate, thanks to science, there are no witches being burned nor pagans being persecuted."
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I have no doubt that the lunacy of the right will offer up this "solution" before too long.
Average global temperature is more correctly understood as a problem in the thermodynamics of radiation heat transfer, and a fairly simple one at that (or at least simple for a licensed mechanical engineer like me with 9 units of post graduate thermodynamics). Climate Scientists are the wrong folks to try to solve a heat transfer problem. Along with other mistakes, they get mired in the minutia of weather.
ReplyDeleteSome of their mistakes are revealed at http://consensusmistakes.blogspot.com/
The radiation heat transfer problem is addressed at http://lowaltitudeclouds.blogspot.com/
A simple, physics based equation, with only one external forcing, that calculates average global temperatures since 1895 with 90% accuracy is (with resulting graph) at http://climatechange90.blogspot.com/2013/05/natural-climate-change-has-been.html