Let’s see how many errors we can count. I’m guessing (based on past performance) we’ll see between 5 and 10 major errors. Maybe even a rehash of polar bears.
from Time.com
Tom Brokaw’s New Global Warming Documentary
For someone who supposedly “retired” in 2004, Tom Brokaw has kept plenty busy. He filled in as moderator of Meet the Press after the death of Tim Russert, pitched in on campaign coverage for NBC and completed a documentary on global warming in 2006. Covering the environment isn’t a fad for Brokaw — the South Dakota native is a longtime outdoorsman, often fly-fishing near his home in Montana and hiking with green friends like Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. The former NBC Nightly News anchor just finished a new climate change documentary — Global Warming: The New Challenge with Tom Brokaw — which airs on the Discovery Channel on Mar. 18. Brokaw spoke to TIME in New York shortly after his return from a biking trip to Africa. Apparently semi-retirement isn’t so bad.
Tonight March 18th 10 PM EST and 10 PM PST on the Discovery Channel.
Feel free to note any errors seen here.
For those that missed the first viewing, see the additional air times here
What I find most interesting is that when you go to the main page of discovery.com you find that the site is sponsored by an oil company – Shell.
Looks like Discovery Channel is in the pay of “Big Oil”. Gosh! I’ll await the pronunciations from the usual suspects like Joe Romm.
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Hansen is a government funded person who thinks everyone should be a government funded person. That’s why authoritarian and socialist ideas are popular with many government employees. They don’t know what it is like to be a free person who has to build their life on their own. When Hansen thinks about free people he realises he is a prisoner. This makes him angry and jealous. The only way he can be satisfied is if he can encourage as many people as possible to be a prisoners like him.
Thanks to all who dropped over to read my rant.
Did you guys catch that His Wholly Reluctance has charged his administration to publish a book “explaining” AGW–aimed mostly at those with a primary education level?
Obviously the “need” for a carbon-trading Ponzi scheme needs some PR.
OT, yet another snow storm is forecast by NWS for this weekend in the Southern Sierras — and it is dang near April!
“…WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA…
A COLD PACIFIC LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FROM THE GULF OF ALASKA WILL
MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO AND ACROSS THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR
LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THIS SYSTEM
WILL HAVE ENOUGH MOISTURE AND COLD AIR FOR THE THREAT OF A
SIGNIFICANT SNOW EVENT IN THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA.
BASED ON THE LATEST DATA…SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2 FEET ARE
POSSIBLE AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 5000 FEET WITH THE SNOW BEGINNING IN
THE YOSEMITE PARK AREA BY LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND THEN
SPREADING SOUTHWARD OVERNIGHT. SNOW LEVELS WILL LIKELY FALL TO
3000 FEET OR LESS ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON…THUS ACCUMULATING SNOW IS
ALSO POSSIBLE IN THE HIGHER FOOTHILLS…INCLUDING BASS LAKE.”
Did Brokaw mention any of this?
Aron (02:13:23) :
A “perfect storm” of food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources threaten to unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migrationas people flee from the worst-affected regions, the UK government’s chief scientist will warn tomorrow.
What could possibly happen to our climate in the coming decades that would cause a mass migration? This has always seemed like one of the silliest global warming caused scenarios out there. If man can adapt to life in the African bush with a little genocide thrown in for good measure man can adapt to anything. I’m really not expecting to see any Eskimos or Bedouins showing up in our neighborhood anytime soon to escape extreme climates. Climate is only one factor, and I would consider it a minor one, that determines where a person lives. To think that a change in temperature of .5c/ decade would cause a whole population to leave house and homeland is ridiculous.
A “perfect storm” of food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources threaten to unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration
There is no credible science that GW will result in less food. I challenge anyone to show a single historical instance where hot weather caused a famine. They are, without exception, caused by cold weather or drought.
The world’s supply of water is for practical purposes infinite. Shortages without exception result from lack of adequate investment. The Roman’s solved this problem 2,000 years ago, yet it suddenly reappears in the 21st century.
And the insufficient energy resources claim is ludicrous, because their ‘solution’ is to severely restrict supplies of energy.
The ‘mass migration’ is pure racism. It doesn’t mean you are going to find blond-haired blue-eyed Swedes moving into your neighbourhood.
The lack of posted “errors” by those that watched the Brokaw special can mean only that either (a) people had better things to do than to suffer through it, or (b) heavy on effects of warming (anthropogenicity is assumed, of course) and policy changes needed to “fight” this change accompanied by pep talks such as “we can do it!”, “it’s not too late yet”, etc., which, since they are for the future to judge, cannot at this time be listed as errors.
Without supporting the need to combat climate change I must say that control of good old fashioned pollution, achieving energy independence, and saving a finite hydrocarbon supply are worthwhile goals and, agreeing that man can do anything he sets his mind to, including a complete overhaul of our energy generating system, why not give a larger cut of the various energy taxes and trading schemes being proposed for a stepped up basic research program (I’m trying not to say “Manhattan Project”) so that an actual solution can be reached within 10-20 years that does not involve millions of acres of ugly windmills. Set technology loose on the energy problem, reap the benefits from all the “spin-offs” and really see a change by 2100.
My question for the scientists that predict global warming is this … If your model can predict 10-20-50 years ahead, then logically it has to be able to predict any number of years less than those targets. So, why not take some of these predictive models and have them make their predictions for 3 months, 9 months, and 1 year from now? That way we can see if they have any sense of accuracy. If they do not predict the short term well, then long term results will just be that much more unreliable. If, on the other hand, the models predict the short term well, then go out 2 years and 5 years. If they show they are accurate with those mid-term ranges after 2 and 5 years, THEN we can feel fairly comfortable in attributing global warming to man and THEN we can start making policy to deal with it.
Is this correct?
Thom Scrutchin (19:08:26) :
[i]Nietzsche wrote: ” The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
So, the Discovery channel and Brokaw really are Big Oil Shills, because they defend the AGW alarmist cause with deliberately faulty arguments.[/i]
Clever but then how do you really tell??? Was htis the motive behind AIT???? No it was propaganda and so is Browkaw….BS is BS and the alarmists have piled enough out….it’s getting real deep……
So? Error Number 1 is _____????