Senator Harry Reid’s Press Release: Time To Stop Acting Like Climate Change Deniers Have A Valid Point Of View – They Don’t
‘If skeptics had taken a stroll along Potomac River on a 70-degree day this Feb., they would have seen cherry trees blossoming earlier than at any time since they were planted 100 years ago’
Umm, no. Let’s go to the data…
Correction for Reid: Both 1990 and 2000 had earlier blooms:
The National Park Service (NPS) has confirmed Washington, D.C.’s cherry blossoms peaked on March 20, tied for third earliest on record.
In the NPS’s 92-year record dating back to 1921, the only years with earlier bloom dates were 1990 (March 15) and 2000 (March 17) . Three other years in the record matched this year’s peak bloom date of March 20: 1921, 1927, and 1945.
You’d think with a well paid staff at his disposal, Senator Reid could at least do some fact checking before bloviating about how “deniers” have no valid point of view.
How embarrassing it must be that we mere bloggers have to point out his factual gaffes he and his staff miss.
[UPDATE: My friend, nationally syndicated radio show talk host Lars Larson has the ultimate zinger for this where he says:
You know, I think this qualifies Senator Reid of Nevada as an official “Blooming Idiot”. ]
Here is Senator James Inhofe’s Press Release on Reid’s announcement:
“He says ‘the time to act is now’ – yet Reid hasn’t brought a cap-and-trade bill to floor since 2008, & he’s the one who said cap-and-trade had been deleted from his dictionary”
“If it’s time to act on anything, it would be to stop President Obama from implementing these global warming policies that the American people have clearly rejected”
Perhaps the title should have been: Time To Stop Acting Like Senator Reid Has A Valid Point Of View on Global Warming – He Doesn’t
h/t to Climate Depot
Citing:
“Rare snowfall stuns much of South Africa”
What rubbish. There are ski clubs in South Africa. You think they only operated for 22 days in the past century?? Look up “Rhodes ski South Africa”. There are even permanent SNOW/SNEEU warning signs on high passes.
It regularly snows in the Eastern Cape in Winter. I have built snowmen in MacLear with a bakkie full of kids from lower altitude where it is rare.
It snows down to 100m above Mthatha for heavens sake. It snowed 11 inches in Western Swaziland and people talked about “the last time it snowed like this”.
The unusual part of the snow cover this week is the low(er) altitude. The reason is not that it is never cold enough to snow – it is often below zero C. The thing is it usually does not rain in winter. Southern Africa is at the wet end of its 18.7 year drought cycle (lunar) and it is precipitating in August when “normally” it would have stopped in April. The precipitation is well within natural variation. It will snow next year too. There will be a long drought centered around the year 2021 and people will all cry ‘global warming’!
Bliksem!
‘Global governance’ sounds promising, until you realize that if it isn’t government “of the people, by the people, for the people,” dedicated to the dignity and worth of the individual, it will be . . .
Tyranny.
/Mr Lynn
Crispin says:
“There is nothing at all wrong with these ‘departments’ of global governance. They prevent wars, both ‘trade wars’ and hot ones. The ICC’s reach is real and leaders who were once untouchable now spend sleepless nights worrying about getting prosecuted. With time the ICC’s power will grow because in the end, everyone wants justice.”
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In the end, no one wants justice for themselves. They only want ‘justice’ for others. And there’s the rub.
Many folks are already discussing using the International Criminal Court [ICC] to exact revenge on those who are supposedly emitting too much “carbon”.
I also note that the United Nations has never prevented a war. And the peace they attempt to broker never seems to work. [North and South Korea are still very much at war, both on paper and in reality, 59 years later.] It can be credibly argued that without the UN there would be fewer wars.
Any world govenrment will be immediately usurped and controlled by the same type of tyrants that control numerous other organizations. ‘Dictatorship of the proletariat’ will be the unavoidable and inevitable result — and the proletariat will be every bit as helpless, impotent and unarmed as it is in every Communist country.
Be careful what you wish for, because if you trade your freedom for security, you will end up with neither.
More signs that the dice is loaded. /sarc
At the airport of all places I tells ya! This is a sure sign of
global warmingclimate whatever.Sen Reid has lately become know as the ‘Dirty Liar’ in the senate. I would say ‘Dirty rotten, low life, scum sucking, bottom dwelling Liar, but I don’t want to offend catfish. I would say more, but I also don’t want to get snipped. Remember when being a member of the senate was a proud thing to be and having truth on your side was a good thing?
And just how is an UHI induced earlier start to spring flowering, a problem…
unless it is followed by a late frost..
@ur momisugly Smokey:
“Be careful what you wish for, because if you trade your freedom for security, you will end up with neither.”
A good point, but there is a bigger problem – those (including warmists) that want to “trade” my and your freedom for their security.
Crispin in Waterloo, I agree entirely with your conclusions. There is much indeed that must be agreed between countries: you mention war and famine as the outstanding instances, but there are many less extreme examples – the laws of the sea, standardisation of radio frequency allocations, crimefighting – come to think of it, almost everything which doesn’t impinge directly on people’s identification of themselves with their country.
The truly terrifying prospect, though, is the accession to real global power of the currently unelected, unaccountable “international” power clique, an event which must be prevented at all costs. When every individual in some future “global governance” authority is accountable to, and is removable, in a timely way, by, the ordinary people of some country, I shall be prepared to recognise that authority. Until then, the current vile collection – UN, EU, take your pick – has no true authority whatsoever, and should – must – be fought with every resource available. These people have declared their position: 90%+ of the human race are “useless eaters” and must be disposed of so as to permit a self-styled “élite” to assume dictatorial power. No. The 1% (or less) who think that way are the corruption which presents us all with a major problem, and not until these defective specimens are removed completely from the equation will the human race be able to make decisions which properly represent all of humanity.
Sadly, as things stand currently, we appear to be on course not for such a utopia but for “the war of all against all”. Given that the scum which has floated to the top appears wholly deficient in basic humanity and has de facto control of all the world’s militia, the outcome isn’t pretty, and it doesn’t even pretend to be democratic. Yes, we all want justice, but we need to press that need home , before we are prevented from doing so.
From stupid comments about cherry blossom to concerned fretting about arrogant power “élites” in one thread. I love this site.
It seems to me that the pro-warmist rhetoric has increased significantly in volume (both in terms of loudness and in terms of quantity) in recent weeks. Anyone else seeing that?
For balance, the spring blooms in the Pacific Northwest have been late for the last few years due to cold. Of course they’re never going to be exactly “on time”, they’ll always be a little early or a little late, that’s how you end up with an average.
Ouch, not only this numpty facepalm on his humongous cherry blossom FAIL, but he also deployed the unforgivable term ‘denier’ (and I don’t think he was referring the rating of his tights).
I just hope he felt the stinging burn of the blowback when he got rumbled for it…
}:o(
@TonyG
Yes indeed, funnily enough I just said the same on another thread – it seems like The Team have launched a reinvigorated CAGW broadside through their multitude of MSM mouthpieces.
Fortunately, there are good folk such as Mr Watts to pull the skirts up on their naughties, hehe!
Check Hansens site he has nooo climate science background,he is an astronomer and a loon.
Steve C,
This may interest you:
No sugarcoating.
And who elected Herman van Rompuy as President of the EU? The people? Nah.
[Another classic]
A link, a paper written and the trees that are planted in Washington are hybrids which are known to bloom earlier when there is a noted UHI in this paper. (Note they are hybrids. So I don’t know how they can use newer data against the old data, as they are hybrids of the original species, and not the original trees any longer.) http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1893.pdf
Harry Reid is a KNOWN liar, a paid liar at that. Look at what he’s tried to do to Mitt Romney. So this latest lie doesn’t surprise me. I know of no one else who gives politicians such a bad name.
Beat me to it. “Continuing resolutions” (repeating the ’09 budget ad infinitum) seem to suit him to a D.
The reason? Economic slowdown (both cause and effect of reduced CO2 generation) and massive economics-driven switchover to frac-gas-powered electrical generation (at about ¼ the price other parts of the world pay for nat-gas). (CH4 gets half its energy when burned from creating H20, while coal produces 100% CO2. Coal is therefore better, but I digress ..)
Not if the question is clear and important. See Walker/Wisconsin. Despite an all-in push by unions and MSM, resounding defeat for his recall (first failed governor recall evah). Combined union and Dem spending was twice per vote obtained of the Rep. outlay. And it failed spectacularly.
Don’t ‘cynicize’ yourself into despair. You are far from alone.
Be REAL careful what you ask for. Those taps you refer to are universal taxation and privation and subjugation. That’s how the weather is manipulated, doncha know?
I think he wants to trade our freedom for his security.
Using the same idiotic logic as this bloke, i don’t believe in CAGW because over here in the UK we have not had a summer at all.
We’ve probably had less than 10 full days of sun here (I’m defining this as from sun up to sun down with 5% cloud cover, it’s a finger in the air test, abit like counting cherry blossoms or cherry picking if you like).
TonyG says:
August 8, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I agree TonyG. Subject to observer and confirmation bias I suspect that the stridency has ramped up, the claims are more than usually ludicrous, and the avoidance of debate and fact is the norm. All that matters is ‘image projection’. With the easily co-opted, manipulated and delinquent MSM, I believe that the unchecked warmists cannot be saved from themselves. Consequently, the day must not be so far off when they will run out of feet to shoot themselves in. One hopes they don’t turn their guns on us.
The word is out, a 100 years ago Mitt’s great-grand father made his returns for all the past generations available and it showed they had paid taxes. Do not know why Mitts is reticent both in exposure and payment.
A con job from the Master Sen. Con himself