Ragister Fear Mongering

The Ragister devoted a two page spread to Iowa's Changing Climate yesterday.

They presented it as a historical look at the weather in Iowa and the latest projections for the state.

They had a time line that showed a period from the 1880s to 1930s with an increase of temperature of 2.8 degrees.

This was attributed to increased solar radiation and a lack of volcano activity.

As someone who enjoys history, could the Industrial Revolution had any impact in that?

The cities were also covered by layer of dirty black smoke (from burning coal that was used to heat water so as to create steam to run the machines). The factories chimneys would continually belch out dark, dirty and poisonous smoke into the atmosphere, polluting it.
This blocked out most of the sun's light giving the city a bleak and gloomy look.

















The time line continued with the period of 1930s to 1980s that saw a decrease in temperature of 2.2 degrees.

This is attributed to increased volcanic activity. Volcanoes eject particles and gas into the air that block solar radiation and cool the atmosphere.

The historical time line from 1980s-2000s shows an increase in temperature of 1.4 degrees.

This is attributed to increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Experts say solar radiation and volcano activity levels have not changed significantly.

The World Map of Volcanoes shows, by my count, 40 major eruptions between 1880-1930. 51 major eruptions from 1930-1980 and 45 major eruptions since 1980.

I think the problem may be the Ragister's experts.

As in May, they utilize the Union of Concerned Scientists(UCS) .

Here's John Stossel on UCS...

The key word in "Union of Concerned Scientists" isn't "Scientists" — you don't need any particular degree or experience to join — but "Concerned," and the concerns in question are decidedly left wing. Its own website reveals that it developed out of a campaign to make students think that strengthening the American military was an illegitimate use of technology.

Indeed membership in UCS can be obtained for $25,$35 if you want the mousepad (is that eco friendly?).

ActivistCash.com has more on UCS, as does DISCOVERTHENETWORKS.ORG,
the Competetive Enterpriste Institute and Dennis Byrne.

Another Ragister expert is Iowa State University Professor Gene Tackle, who served on the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

This is a picture from Gene's web page



















I'm sure it's for showin' and not for goin' and the scientific community is united in that fact!

Takle was also part of a group that predicted Gore-BULL warming wouldn't be as severe in the central U.S. because of a "hole".

As for the IPCC, they don't even do their own research, instead taking papers and results from other bodies.

Meteorologist Christopher Landsea resigned because he saw it "as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound".

Tune in next month.

Worst Case Scenario?

The brain trust that is the Ragister editorial board went on an ignore rant today about the debt ceiling.

We need to ignore disaster scenario deniers

The Ragister tells readers(?) that legislation Congressman Steve King is pushing, setting priorities for which payments are made first, with interest on the national debt and pay for members of the U.S. military at the top of the list, means that almost no other obligations of the federal government could be fully paid for.

BUZZ--WRONG!

As I pointed out, Tell The Truth, August revenues will total $172.4 Billion and after paying the debt interest, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Active duty military pay and Veterans affairs progams, the federal government will have $38.4 Billion still to spend.

The Ragister is worried about salaries for members of Congress, to which I say




And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Obama, Biden and the unidentified Obama staff members who owe the Internal Revenue Service $831,000 in back taxes should forget about being paid too!

While we're at it, cancel that trip to Chicago for your 50th birthday -- LAME-O!

Back to the Ragister, they say it is not fear-mongering to say there would be no money to pay employees to process Social Security and Medicare checks, even if a stream of revenue could be protected for those entitlements (See previous revenue scenario paragraph).

There's another crisis that Obama and the Dummycrats don't want to deal with.

Debt crisis punctures Social Security Trust Fund myth

Haven't Washington's professional politicians been telling us for decades that Social Security is in no danger of bankruptcy because of those trillions of dollars supposedly just sitting there in the Social Security Trust Fund?

Climate of Fear

The Ragister ran a less than objective, and mildly confusing, story on Gore-BULL warming...Er, Climate Change.

The most disingenuous part was their characterization that skeptics...

- are financed by oil, gas or coal companies -

The Ragister fails to mention the controversies that cloud their authorities and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Take th U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a U.S. meteorologist (Christopher Landsea) resigned because he saw it "as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound".

The IPCC doesn't even do its own research, instead taking papers and results from other bodies.

Apparently, the IPCC has doubts...man's role is so uncertain that there is a strong possibility that we have been cooling, not warming, the Earth.

Another authority, the Union of Concerned Scientists(UCS).

ABC's John Stossel had this to say about UCS...

The key word in "Union of Concerned Scientists" isn't "Scientists" — you don't need any particular degree or experience to join — but "Concerned," and the concerns in question are decidedly left wing. Its own website reveals that it developed out of a campaign to make students think that strengthening the American military was an illegitimate use of technology.

UCS also is pro abortion, I guess babies have too big a carbon footprint for the "Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions".

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) led the scare mongering against the pesticide DDT, useful in eradicating mosquitoes.

As a result the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that malaria, carried by mosquitoes, kills more than one million people a year.

An estimated 30 to 50 million people have died since the ban on DDT was implemented, that certainly eliminates man's possible impact on the environment.

These are the folks that should strike fear into your environment.