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2008-09-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

National Geographic decends into Global Warming dementia

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Posted by 3dc 2008-09-18 09:32|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Yep, they've shifted in the last 5 years to the left talking points memos on 'science'. Should'a seen their issue on the End of Oil[tm]. They acknowledged in the piece that there had been End of Oil[tm] panics before but this TIME[tm] it's different, it's really really true. Sad to watch another old school pub descend into the dinosaur pool [pun intended].

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-18 10:26|| 2008-09-18 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember in the last election they came out about this time and went into the tank for the democrats. I've always loved the National Geographic and I was so sad to realize they were no longer a reliable source of info.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-18 10:57|| 2008-09-18 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 They lost me in the months after Sept 11 when I read their article on Islam and it talked about the vile crusades but forgot to mention how Islam somehow found itself fighting in France and at the gates of Constantinople and washing up in Indonesia in the century or two prior. Yeah they were just praying and playing chess when the big-bad Europeans picked a fight with them.

One sided white washing. Disgusting.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-18 11:23|| 2008-09-18 11:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Evidence is slowly accumulating that we may be going into an extended sunspot nadar. That means significantly lower temps for awhile, a few years to a few decades. The politicans can just manufactor some new talking points and lie their way out of the global warming craze., but what will the scientists do? It wont be so easy for them to reverse an academic position that was not securely based in science and may prove to be false, precisely because of their failure to follow good science methodology. Retire quietly is my suggestion.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-09-18 12:47|| 2008-09-18 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Global warming may be our only chance against the sunspot draught. Everybody, to your SUV's. It's for the EARTH!

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-18 15:29|| 2008-09-18 15:29|| Front Page Top

#6 The magazine has pretty pictures, but the content is as agenda-driven as it gets. Might as well read the Greenpeace newsletter. Sad.

Posted by remoteman 2008-09-18 16:21|| 2008-09-18 16:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Arctic Ice in "Death Spiral," Is Near Record Low
Except the record low occurred 29 years ago. Was the planet warmer in 1979 than now? Maybe. I remember it being plenty hotter when I was younger... but then I spent the mid to late 80s in air conditioning, so what does my "recollection" matter?

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-09-18 16:52|| 2008-09-18 16:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Respectfully disagree with Remoteman. Please see the May 2008 issue on China and the article on soil conservation in the Sept. issue.

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