Note: from 1990 First Assessment Report IPCC
First Assessment Report of 1990, page 202
First Assessment Report of 1990, page 2021990
First Assessment Report of 1990, page 202
First Assessment Report of 1990, page 202
Note: WASPS is an old term from since late sixties meaning (Middle Class) White Anglo Saxon Protestants.
Why the science doesn't matter.. it's for the Planet and the Children.
As the near term predictions of sea level rise, and warming to the point of death, of the Warming advocates comes crashing down around them, they become ever more strident in their gloom and doom.
We heard less than a decade ago that temperate climes no longer would see snow or winter weather and the result of the last five years in Europe are the coldest winters in decades with another severe winter forecast for this year. Yes. That's WEATHER, not climate. But climate is the product of years of weather. And it doesn't normally snow in the Mediterranean.
The reason for this is that it's the common cause of the new left who have taken over the environmental crusades.
We were told that very soon arctic ice would disappear in summer. Indeed, 2007 and 2012 had the lowest sea ice cover ever recorded by satellite. That's 30 years, barely enough to even be part of a 'climate cycle'. The fact is that the ocean currents have changed, not for the first time.. early and mid 20th century are well documented as being 'open water'.
We were told that we would see, starting immediately, more and more severe weather events because of current state of warming. In, fact the US has had a record low number of both hurricanes and tornados in the last year.
Never mind it was shown that Superstorm Sandy level events had occurred at least twice previously in the same area since the thirties. Hardly unprecedented.
The IPCC AR5 report, just issued, backs way off the earlier gloom and doom, providing you read INTO the report, ignoring the Summary issued to the press.
But it doesn't matter...
He's Bill McKibben, described in his own words, part of Stanley Kurtz' The Wannabe Oppressed
McKibben describes his arrival at college in 1978 as a liberal-leaning student with a suburban Protestant background. “My leftism grew more righteous in college,” he says, “but still there was something pro forma about it.” The problem? “Being white, male, straight, and of impeccably middle-class background, I could not realistically claim to be a victim of anything.” At one point, in what he calls a “loony” attempt to claim the mantle of victimhood, McKibben nearly convinced himself that he was part Irish so he could don a black armband as Bobby Sands and fellow members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army died in a hunger strike. Yet even as he failed to persuade himself he was Irish, McKibben continued to enthusiastically support every leftist-approved victim group he could find. Nonetheless, something was missing. None of these causes seemed truly his own. When McKibben almost singlehandedly turned global warming into a public issue in 1989, his problem was solved. Now everyone could be a victim.Let's look at others who are the activists in this crusade from Grit, one of their own media organs:
