Posted by
Steve on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:34:36 PM
The National Hurricane Center is having a problem with their forecasting. They have been wrong every year since the hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. How do they explain the fact that they forecast a big year for hurricanes and have a mild or normal year for hurricanes?
They have finally decided to wise up. They have been blindly following the lead of NASA. NASA is the leader in the charge for global warming. The National Hurricane Center has a reputation that they have to maintain for integrity and accuracy. That reputation has been severely tested since they bought into NASA’s idea that global warming was going to increase hurricanes. They have not been just wrong, they have been spectacularly wrong. That does not increase anyone’s faith that they know what they are doing.
So, this year, The National Hurricane Center is divorcing them from NASA and going on their own. They have decided to go back to the way they predicted hurricanes pre-Katrina. Their accuracy rate was much higher and when they were off, it was pretty close.
All of this makes me wonder why anyone would believe in global warming. There is no scientific evidence that man is causing global warming. The global warming that has been detected is less than one degree centigrade. The temperatures were warmer one thousand years ago, before the invention of the industrial revolution.
When one looks at the pollution that man is putting into the environment, it only amounts to less than 3%. If less than 3% is causing all the problems, what about the 97%? Shouldn’t we be doing something about the 97% instead of worrying about the 3%?
To the people that believe in man caused global warming, we should only concern ourselves with the man caused portion of the pollution. Why? Well, by concentrating on the man caused portion, it gives government control over people’s lives. When the government controls the way people live, everything will be great. The Soviet Union was a great place, wasn’t it? I think the way people live in the US is much better than the way people lived in the old Soviet Union. Freedom is a wonderful thing for individuals. It is a bad thing for governments. Governments like to control as much as they can. The more government controls, the more security the government has.
Unfortunately for the socialists, freedom is better than slavery. All totalitarian governments will fall in time. When they do, the leaders are almost invariably executed by the people that overthrow them. That is a bad way to live. It is better to peacefully transfer power to the next group and everyone live in freedom. Socialists never learn that lesson. They always want more control. They always try to make their slavery sound like it is wonderful. It is wonderful until you are actually living in the hell that is socialism. Socialist countries build walls to keep people in. Free countries have to build walls to keep people from sneaking in uninvited. That is a big difference. Nobody flees to a socialist country. They always flee to a free country. When the US becomes socialist under Mrs. Bill Clinton, the last flame of freedom will have been extinguished.