Always busy now, so less time to post. Anyway I just have to note that Flagrant Harbour picked up on Al Gore’s claim that smoking contributes to global warming. Al Gore is really on a runaway train he can’t get off now, I predict even more hysterical statements from Mr. Gore in future.
Meanwhile, Greenpeace is continuing to use strange surveys to raise more money for its offices and staff. In Saturday’s South China Morning Post, Greenpeace campaigner Francis Yeung is apparently trying to pass government janitors off as global warming experts. He writes:
More proof of global warming’s effect on Hong Kong comes from a survey conducted by Greenpeace and the Government Mod 1 Staff General Union last month. Nearly all of the 201 government janitors interviewed for the study reported that it was getting hotter working outdoors. More than 90 per cent said they had suffered dizziness, suffocation and heat exhaustion. Serious cases such as shock and heatstroke were also reported.
Whilst I do sympathize with anyone that has to work outdoors without the benefit of air conditioning, I sincerely doubt that janitors are fully reliable as measurements of any global warming. Working out in the hot weather is certainly not nice, however janitors are not scientists.
On another global warming point, my own letter about a recent SCMP editorial appeared on October 2. In that I said:
American Senator James Inhofe, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee cited recent studies that have shown polar icecaps to be expanding, not contracting — making complete nonsense of Mr. Chugani’s claims of polar ice shrinkage.
Senator Inhoffe also noted that the left-wing media was completely biased in its coverage of global warming. I wonder, did ATV or the Post cover Senator Inhofe’s speech? The senator also noted that the American public can, and do find his speeches on the Drudge Report. There will be an American outcry over global warming alarmism, just opposite the one Al Gore and the Post intend.
An outline of Senator Inhofe’s speech to the US Senate is here.
I put this up because I notice that a certain blogger named Chris is not criticizing the logic of the Senator’s argument. Rather Chris is criticizing the Senator for accepting money from oil and gas "interests". This seems standard operation for Chris, despite the fact that the senator has done a great deal of work researching this issue. (See link above). There are a couple of things to note here:
1. The science is on the side of Senator Inhofe. (Chris claims I would put my argument, even it was untrue. It is just as easy to assert the opposite to be true. Could it be that Chris knows there is no real science behind the claim that global warming is man made? Chris, get some evidence!)
2. NGO’s and government scientists receive hundreds of millions of dollars a year in funding based on their shrill claims. So if Chris wants to bring up the funding issue, I suggest he look carefully at the champagne lifestyle that some environmental frauds in Hong Kong are engaging in, and the reasons they continue to push their crazy ideas as "fact".
3. Global warming conspiracy theorists incorporate corporate bashing into any argument. Whilst there are a few rogue companies out there (including Enron and the Tobacco companies), most companies realize they have to survive on reputation. Reputation is easy to lose with false claims. (Please note: this is not an endorsement of those companies that run to the government for protection. I support companies that profit from their own effort, not from their ability to collude.)
Anyway, as Gore continues to make his claims, it seems he is only strengthening the resolve of people like Senator Inhofe.
