{"id":7,"date":"2005-09-28T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T21:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-09-20T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T01:11:12","slug":"flat-earth-hurricanes-and-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/flat-earth-hurricanes-and-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Earth,  Hurricanes and Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/october\/floridacoast.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><strong>Damsel<\/strong> knows why the earth is flat &#8211; at least around the Gulf and Southeastern U.S. &#8220;The hurricanes have kept it mowed flat for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years!&#8221; she exclaims, &#8220;And &#8216;Global Warming&#8217; hasn&#8217;t got anything to do with <em>hurricanes<\/em>! It&#8217;s obvious to me, and I&#8217;m not a science person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: St. Andrew Bay Entrance Channel to Perdido Pass, Florida Gulf Coast (USGS)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I agree with her; and I <em>am<\/em> a science person. When I was supporting a project in Florida, I learned that the highest elevation in the state was only 300 feet above sea level &#8211; <em>the entire state<\/em>. Similarly, low-elevation terrain is characteristic throughout the Caribbean, the Southeastern U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico &#8211; the precise area where hurricanes strike after they develop. <\/p>\n<p>Some misguided scientists claim they can model global warming trends using tree ring evidence combined with <em>only<\/em> 20th century atmospheric  evidence; this produces the leftist-touted &#8216;hockey-stick&#8217; curve that seemingly proves the guilt of mankind in his reckless production of carbon dioxide. However, the errors of this analysis method are proven by <strong>David Legates<\/strong> in his article <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/commentary\/20030825-090130-5881r.htm\">&#8216;Global warming smear targets&#8217;<\/a> in the <strong>Washington Times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So if the &#8216;hockey stick&#8217; hypothesis  is incorrect, it must be discarded. Then, what actually caused global warming in the last few hundred years? The increase in so-called &#8216;greenhouse gasses&#8217; in the atmosphere? No, apparently not; it seems to be our <strong>own SUN<\/strong>. And that makes sense too &#8211; the sun is the main driver for all Earth weather patterns. <strong>Arthur<\/strong> and <strong>Zachary Robinson<\/strong> prove this with real data in their article &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.junkscience.com\/news\/robinson.htm\">Science Has Spoken: Global Warming Is a Myth<\/a>&#8216; originally published in 1997 in the <strong>Wall Street Journal<\/strong>. They even go on to make a case that increased carbon dioxide is having a <strong>beneficial effect on the environment<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, moonbat celebridiots such as <strong>Barbra Streisand<\/strong>, and politically-driven, uninformed politicians like <strong>John McCain<\/strong> and <strong>Hillary Clinton<\/strong> continue to perpetuate the lies by vacuously making public statements about things they are obviously not qualified to evaluate. See <strong>GOP Bloggers<\/strong> article &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopbloggers.org\/mt\/archives\/001874.html\">John &#038; Hill Show Take Global Warming Myth on the Road<\/a>&#8216; for more about them.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reading: &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/capmag.com\/article.asp?ID=1824\">The Myth of Catastrophic Global Warming<\/a>&#8216; by <strong>Steven Brockerman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel knows why the earth is flat &#8211; at least around the Gulf and Southeastern U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42,30,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global-warming","category-science","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}