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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Dennis Miller on Global Warming By Gina Liggett @ 1:09 PM Dennis Miller scathingly attacks global-warming hysterics, those Al Gore groupies he aptly names "the world is flat and hot society." The audience sounds a bit hestitant to laugh at times--maybe because any heretical comments against global warming is so politically incorrect. But there's no mistaking his message. Labels: Environmentalism Share |    E-mail Gina Liggett     PermaLink ()    Comments (New Page)   Subscribe to NoodleFood Blog Posts via Feed Reader   via E-mail Subscribe to NoodleCast Podcasts M4A via iTunes (MP3)   via Feed Reader   via E-mail

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	Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 12:37:10 mst Comment ID: #1 Name: Bill Brown E-mail: bill(at)bbrown.info URL: http://bbrown.info/ Man, I had forgotten how much I enjoy Dennis Miller. Time to go looking for more of his stuff!
	Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 14:33:01 mst Comment ID: #2 Name: Dave Littel E-mail: DaveLittel(at)cox.net In case folks here don't know, Dennis Miller has a serious interest in Objectivism. He interviewed Yaron Brook last year and began by saying that he "fancies" Objectivism and wanted to know more about it. A few months later I happened onto his radio program when a caller asked him to identify his own perspective. He said "I'm an Objectivist. I'm a libertarian." Then just a couple of weeks ago I heard him say "I'm libertarian on many issues, indeed, Objectivist on some." His further explanation indicated a somewhat pragmatic approach to issues, and conflating Objectivism with libertarianism is certainly wrong. However, I see it as a very good sign that someone of his celebrity is willing to positively identify Objectivism as a driving force in his belief system.
	Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 16:08:19 mst Comment ID: #3 Name: Leon Brozyna E-mail: LeBroz(at)aol(dot)com With the incessant drumbeat of alleged consensus on the subject of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), it's no wonder that an audience wouldn't know how to react when someone speaks out against the absurd nonsense that a mediocre politician peddles. Just today there was an excellent summary posted at CO2 Skeptic of the fatal flaws in the AGW hypthesis: http://co2sceptics.com/news.php?id=1562 Another excellent daily source of the many complex drivers of the climate can be found at: http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/ Anthony Watts is a meteorologist who examines on his blog many of the problems with climate science as well as having a major nationwide volunteer program that examines and photographs the poor state of weather monitoring stations (his surfacestations program). When you see these stations located on hot roofs or asphalt parking lots or next to air conditioning units you can understand why the data is so flawed and the records so generated skew results up so much that it appears there is a warming trend. Yet while he and many other AGW skeptics keep providing proof of flaws in the systems as well as increasing skeptic studies that blast holes in the AGW edifice, the media ignore anything that goes against the grain. Now that a new cooling cycle has begun and with solar activity at all time lows it'll probably start showing up in the media's own cycle in a couple of decades when they start on a wave of scare stories about global cooling and a new ice age.
	Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 18:34:54 mst Comment ID: #4 Name: Mark Wickens E-mail: noodlefood(at)wickens.ca URL: http://randex.org/ As Dave mentioned, he has a daily radio show. (He is on vacation this week, FYI.) http://dennismillerradio.com/ is his website. If you sign up for the Dennis Miller Zone, you can get the full show via podcast.
	Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 19:35:01 mst Comment ID: #5 Name: Joseph Kellard E-mail: Theainet1(at)optonline.net URL: www.josephkellard.blogspot.com Miller’s most important point comes when he asks why he can't take terrorism as seriously as others take an allegedly man-made catastrophic warming of the earth. Environmentalists-leftists can make dream up any hysterical, baseless claim about how man is destroying Mother Earth and himself -- from overpopulation to acid rain to resource depletion to global warming -- but when an Islamic enemy has actually murdered Americans and other Westerners worldwide for four decades, and most spectacularly took down two skyscrapers along with 3,000 innocent â€" well, to be concerned about stopping them is just fear and war mongering. I mean, come on, the possibility of you dying in a terrorist attacks is next to nil, but we or future generations will die of heatstroke and dehydration or drown in floods because we selfishly refused to stop driving our gas guzzlers and build more wind farms. In reality, the difference is that environmentalism is essentially a lethal danger to human life; eliminating our lethal enemies -- even for so much as issuing death threat against us or putting a scratch an individual American in an effort to physical harm him -- is entirely pro-human life.
	Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 22:06:42 mst Comment ID: #6 Name: Lance E-mail: contact(at)doublelightmusic.com It was a funny bit. I was struck though by how the audience responded. They did not find it funny. I suspect that there was just too much truth in what he said - so true that it made them uncomfortable.
	Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 10:32:54 mst Comment ID: #7 Name: Paul Revere It's incredibly important not to confuse regular 'ol global warming with anthropogenic global warming. There IS NO (significant) debate about the fact that the earth goes through cooling and warming cycles, and is currently in warming period. It won't put Manhattan under the sea anytime soon, and we couldn't stop it with current resources if it would, but it IS a fact. Al Gore & Friends use the scientific certainty of this fact -against- science, by conflating climate change with the environmentalist movement's pet theory that we're doing it and it's gonna be bad. This is kind of like the Catholic hijack of evolution: saying they believe it, but God started and directs the process. Anyone who moves in academic circles will be ridiculed, and rightly so, for claiming that the earth isn't warming on its own. The debate over just how much it is, and why, is complex, and nobody expects a layperson to get involved in it. But if you're going to hold an opinion on the basic facts, you need to get a basic education. When you're hearing a different opinion from an "Objectivist", reconsider. There is a serious failure of philosophic understanding from anyone who digests his concrete views without independent and critical thought. I find it worrying first, that many of us have bought into Al Gore's conflation, and second, that so few of us are challenging it.
	Friday, July 18, 2008 at 8:26:56 mst Comment ID: #8 Name: Gina Liggett E-mail: GLiggett(at)comcast.net I enjoyed reading the above intelligent comments. It's so refreshing and inspiring! When you have a journalism specialty of "environmental journalism" at University of Colorado, Republic of Boulder, it should come as no surprise that the media TOTALLY ignores the scientists--not theatricians like Gore---who have been quietly, painstakingly, studying climate science for decades. It is basically a virgin science, and there is no way they can come to the sweeping conclusions they've come to about man-caused global warming based on knowledge to-date. Hell, we can't accurately predict the local weather!!!!!!!!!! Gore's cause is junk science, totally policially driven, and intellectually......I'm sorry, that word is coming back to me.....STUPID!!!!!!
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