Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year’s Extreme Weather

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  • Posted By: tiny280 @ 07/03/2008 10:44:12 AM

    Since when has neo-religious fervor become the basis of journalism?

    "Attribution" studis based on computer models which: cannot reliably predict next month's weather with any greater reliability than a random number generator; cannot run backwards through time even though the programmers know the "correct" answer for each period; start with the questionable assumption that man-made emmisions are a material factor in any weather trends (hubris much?); cannot explain any of the myriad warming and cooling trends of history; start from the silly assumption that "normal" global temperatures just happen to coincide with the beginning of the reliable data (a little more hubris with your new gospel?); and are promoted by bureacrats with massive budgets to grow and protect!?!

    Not since the early days of Mr Pulitzer has such weak Yellow tea been so prevalent in American "journalism".

  • Posted By: sirpops @ 07/03/2008 10:50:13 AM

    Newsweek articles from the 70s spread climate gloom and doom. Only then the storyline was global cooling. I would have thought those idiots would have retired by now. I guess they haven't

  • Posted By: Hokiepoker @ 07/03/2008 10:45:22 AM

    Mark my words...

    There is NO "man made" global warming!!!

    Where is the Ice Age you promised us in the 70s when I was growing up and shivering my butt off on the way to school. I remember it well... You scared us with lies then, and you are doing it again!!! Stop the madness!!!

  • Posted By: sirpops @ 07/03/2008 10:44:50 AM

    False: I remember articles in Newsweek from the 70s. The same gloom and doom. Only then it was global cooling. Newsweek was fear mongers then and they are fear mongers now. Those who believe this trype are useful idiots.

  • Posted By: melmcclell @ 07/03/2008 10:40:13 AM

    Please... Gimme a break!!!

  • Posted By: melmcclell @ 07/03/2008 10:38:17 AM

    Please... Gimme a break!!!

  • Posted By: OKthatsIT @ 07/03/2008 10:32:43 AM

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    -- Secretary of Defense William Cohen, 1997, Counterterrorism Conference

    "Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally... It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth or to modify space weather,and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide substantial increase in US, or degraded capability in an adversary, to achieve global awareness, reach, and power."
    - Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report,
    http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/

    Dr Nick Begich <-- HE's the MAN. LISTEN TO THE DOCTOR
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    Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
    http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2025/v3c15/v3c15-1.htm

    The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: "Owning the Weather" for Military Use
    by Michel Chossudovsky
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.html

    IT'S NOT ONLY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS:
    WASHINGTON'S NEW WORLD ORDER WEAPONS HAVE THE ABILITY TO TRIGGER CLIMATE CHANGE
    by Michel Chossudovsky
    http://www.earthpulse.com/src/subcategory.asp?catid=1&subcatid=7

    "Reconstruction is now such a big business that investors greet each new disaster with the excitement of a hot new stock offering: $30 billion for Iraq reconstruction, $13 billion for tsunami reconstruction, $110 billion for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast."
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    "War, Terror, Catastrophe: Profiting From 'Disaster Capitalism'"

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  • Posted By: craigdev @ 07/03/2008 10:31:45 AM

    The dumbing down of America. Everything evil can be explained away by two words "Global Warming"
    First and foremost, Al Gore is a certifiable moronic egomaniac. Second the global warming mantra is the best propaganda the green nuts have ever had fall in their laps. Is it really true that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes reality?

    I remember in the 70's we were causing global cooling. Please look at long term...ie hundreds or thousands of years to find your answers, not decades. Sick and tired of having left wing trash shoved down our throat...even though I KNOW it's not politically correct to refuse to embrace the global warming theory or accept Al Gore as the next great prophet. Wev'e had 3 ice ages, wev'e had tropical climes well in to the northern latitudes, and all before automobiles and factories...hmmm.
    We need to be decent stewards of the earth, but we don't all have to become econuts.

  • Posted By: skydvrboy @ 07/03/2008 10:29:49 AM

    I find it very ironic that they would use a photoshop created image as the attention grabber on MSN in a story that is trying to "prove" that these disasters are due to global warming. The photo in question is of Chapman Kansas with an American flag in the center and the grain elevators in the back. I live near Chapman and recognize the location where the base photo was taken. However, the tornado hit at 10:20 PM and it was pitch dark out. I watched that same tornado go 3 miles south of my house west of Chapman. I could barely make out the tornado and only when the lightning flashed behind it because it was so dark. It is just a shame that newsweek is so unscrupulous as to use a photoshop job to provide a visual image of global warming causing natural (mother nature made) disasters.

  • Posted By: hrhlaurie @ 07/03/2008 10:23:54 AM

    This magazine loses credibility from stories like this. It's more like the National Enquirer now instead of a legitimate news magazine. It's no secret what agenda they're pushing because they have zero objectivity in their reporting and as you can see by the comments here, it shows.

  • Posted By: phil-505 @ 07/03/2008 10:22:57 AM

    If man is to blame for the rise in temps then why has Nasa rovers shown that the temps are also rising on planets where there is no human life causing rising cabon dioxide levels. Also last year there were many less hurricanes than predicted by the so called experts, do to cooler than normal atmosphere temps. And cooler temps are also needed to produce more forceful tornados. So I think the answer is FALSE.

  • Posted By: renewableenergy2 @ 07/03/2008 10:21:01 AM

    Global Warming ??? Man Made or Nature???s Cycle R8.

    The debate: Is the observed global warming natural or man made?
    Global Warming or natural climatic rhythm?
    Global Warming Man made or natural cycle?

    Compiled by Jay Draiman, Energy Analyst.
    An extensive look at Global Warming ??? Cause and effect.
    The dominant greenhouse gas is WATER, not carbon dioxide. It is responsible for up to 95% of the so-called "greenhouse effect". Carbon dioxide is only a minor player, and Man's activities put only about 3% as much CO2 into the atmosphere yearly as does Nature. How does the atmosphere distinguish between them? Its concentration is believed to have increased from 0.00028 of the atmosphere to 0.00038 over the past couple of hundred years.
    There are numerous pros and cons as to the cause of Global Warming.
    After some study and research I share with you the various opinions.

    This consensus in this on-line article represents the views of some researchers and forecasters, but does not necessarily represent the views of all scientists. It was not the intention of this article to discount the presence of a human-induced global warming element or to attempt to claim that such an element is not present. There is a robust, on-going discussion on climate change within the scientific community.

    It takes a certain kind of gumption to stand up to the status quo.
    Folks who challenge the mainstream media and popular culture are subjected to some of the nastiest insults and character assassinations. And such retribution is nowhere more severe than for those who take issue with popular views about global warming.
    There are a number of very bright climatologists and meteorologists out there who believe that this century???s warming trend is neither critical nor man made. Now you can agree or disagree with these folks. But you can???t pretend that these folks are crazies or ill informed or just in it for the money. They believe that the models used by the ???We???re all going to die!??? global warming worriers are far too severe and fail to take enough natural factors into consideration in their climate models. For their audacity to take on the status quo, they have been censured, excoriated and labeled as lackeys for the oil companies.

  • Posted By: Orpheus75 @ 07/03/2008 10:20:02 AM

    Sorry about the double posting... webpage error.
    But I just saw this article on DrudgeReport and copied the first line. Intersting considering the subject here.
    "This morning was downright cool in the Charlotte region -- cool enough to break a record that had stood for more than a century"
    We've seen this type of thing throughout the world, like snow for the first time in the middle east..etc. Yet we keep hearing "warming". hmmmm

  • Posted By: dpansing @ 07/03/2008 10:18:31 AM

    I expected nothing less from the Newsweek agenda. I especially appreciated the ???mostly man made??? in parenthesis. Insuring the uneducated among us could be blessed with the author???s insight and brilliance. I get sucked in by your sensationalistic claims, knowing like a train wreck I cannot look away. Thank you again Newsweek for getting my blood going this fine Thursday morning.

  • Posted By: dpansing @ 07/03/2008 10:18:19 AM

    I expected nothing less from the Newsweek agenda. I especially appreciated the ???mostly man made??? in parenthesis. Insuring the uneducated among us could be blessed with the author???s insight and brilliance. I get sucked in by your sensationalistic claims, knowing like a train wreck I cannot look away. Thank you again Newsweek for getting my blood going this fine Thursday morning.

  • Posted By: hrhlaurie @ 07/03/2008 10:18:10 AM

    This author spews out her thoughts and conjecture like she's a qualified scientist but she just looks ridiculous. Since our earth has been in existence scientists have proven that it has gone through many cooler and hotter periods all on it's own. What if the earth is getting warmer now? It's a natural occurance and then, it will go through a cooler period again. I like how these liberal nuts are startingt to change their terminology from 'global warming' to 'climate change'. They had to do that when some areas had extremely cold temperatures or no change at all. Their new term can encompass so much that they can blame anything and everything that occurs on humans. Get your facts from real scientists, MS Begley, and not politicians.

  • Posted By: RubeckJ@msn.com @ 07/03/2008 9:19:19 AM

    Al Gore is a fear mongering WHORE. He movie was filled with the distorted facts and pictures. Please do your own research and you will see. Newsweek and AL GORE are all in the big liberal, big government bed and are on their way to bankrupting and destroying this nation. Get your head out of the sand and get involved with groups that what to take this country back and make it the great nation that it is and was. There are 545 people in Washington (i.e. Congress-house-president) that make all the decisions for we the people, only problem is we the people and the bozo's in Washington are not on the same page. Here we are in a crisis with fuel prices never seen bofore and have enough fuel in the ground here to last for at least a half a century but the pin heads in Washington don't care. They and we are being lead by a very, very, very small group of liberal envirometal left wing nuts. Let's clean out these idiots that are only in office to get re-elected for decade after decade. Newsweek is nothing but a wing of the liberals running this nation and they are hell bent on destrying this great country.

    • Posted By: pHilgert @ 07/03/2008 10:14:43 AM

      NICE POST!!! I couldn't agree more! I can only hope there are enough people like yourself come election time to stop this ignorance.

  • Posted By: HedHunter01 @ 07/03/2008 9:23:22 AM

    Before you bash 'Big Oil"...are you aware that "Big Oils" profit margin last year was 8%? Compare that to the pharmaceutical industry (46%) or the retail industry (38%). Heck, I'll bet your 401k made a better profit than "Big Oil" did.

    • Posted By: pHilgert @ 07/03/2008 10:11:18 AM

      It get's even better! The ones doing the bashing ( Congress and the Senate ) make over .20 cents per gallon. Compare that to the oil companies .8 cents for the same gallon of gas. Yet the Goverment says these wind fall profits the oil companies make are excessive? And to top it all off the Democrats want to raise our taxes even further and repeal the Bush tax breaks that stimulated the economey after 911 in the first place. How can anyone that has a shred of common sense think higher taxes would be good for the country? Amazing!

  • Posted By: liquidmental@msn.com @ 07/03/2008 10:01:51 AM

    Although the American military has actually published a detailed document "Owning the Weather by 2025", many people will simply say "I don't believe it" when confronted with this. Why? They may say because it has not been reported in the mass media, it must not be real. (Some others will say this is a prime indication that it is real, because most of what the mass media publishes is fantasy.) But normally any military power must be kept secret, and the major media outlets are well aware that they must not cross this line or they could be shut down. Freedom of the press is allowable only if "national security" policies are not breached.

  • Posted By: Orpheus75 @ 07/03/2008 10:01:48 AM

    In the first line of the last paragraph they state, "Hurricanes have become more powerful due to global warming". This is conjecture, not fact. But they state it as such. They keep trying to push stronger cool-aid, but not everyone is drinking it.
    And as MEGARIFF stated, temps are COOLING not warming. So many scientists around the globe are saying that sunspot activity which is actually related to warming/cooling has ceased... which means a cooling period.
    Take your cool-aid elsewhere.

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