Comments on: Why Global Warming is a Lie

By: Richad Mercer

Richad Mercer — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:39:50 +0000

Speaking of big government. There’s a new book called “The Case for Big Government” by Jeff Madrick. Reading it will cause you to laugh, because it makes it perfectly clear that the fears of big government are all based on hot air.
Neocon economics is based, as most know, on the theory of Milton Freedman. He lived and wrote during the 50s and 60s. Freedman was alarmed by the relatively mild recessions of the late 40s and the two recessions in the 50s. In all three cases, the economy rebounded and the two decades of the 50s and 60s saw the growth of government social programs
and taxes as a percent of GDP while we were in the midst of the greatest economic growth and growth of the middle class perhaps in our history. The very time duing which he wrote are living proof that he was wrong. The same thing happened in Europe. Social democracy grew in Europe with larger and larger government and higher taxes, while the economies grew and grew and the standards of living of all it’s citizens grew.
These countries have standards of living at least as good as the U.S., with workers getting higher real pay than in the U.S. even though they get much more in social programs and work less, with longer vacations than Americans. The only country that maybe lost a little worker productivity in comparison with the U.S, is Sweden, which it could be argued went a little too far in it’s welfare state. Still they have worker productivity that is 88% of America’s. Englands is 92% and the rest have higher productivity. Germans are paid 127% of American pay in real buying power, even after getting free health care and education and working less hours and paying more taxes.

Not only that, but the idea that big government takes away freedom is also a bold faced lie. During the time that America was increasing the size of govt, with the New Deal and Great Society programs, Americans gained in freedom – civil rights etc. The same is true in Europe. These are all strong democracies, and in the process, Spain and Portugal became democracies for the first time.

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:19:06 +0000

ENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE ran a fruadulent TV ad using kids going TICK,TICK,TICK and talking about this GLOBAL WARMING lie i mean these sinister greens will stop at nothing to get us to beleive this GLOBAL WARMING poppycock and even kids school text books are carrying this big lie. I mean its like this stuff about the rainforests disappearing at a alarming rate or the rainforests being the LUNGS OF THE EARTH were total lies yet those who perpatrated these lies were not forced to return their ill gotten money. ENVIROMENTALISM IS A PAGAN NEW AGE CULT OF SINISTER EARTH WORSHIPPING RADICALS

By: JohnnyRook

JohnnyRook — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:34:27 +0000

I approved your comment because it provides another example of the point that I was making in the article.

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:13:24 +0000

I see where the DISCOVORY CHANNEL is going to air one about this GLOBAL WARMING poppycock ITS A CONSPERACY BY UNSCRUPLOUS PERSONS TO CONTROL OUR LIVES GLOBAL WARMING ADVOCATES ARE LIARS AND ARE EVIL

By: Evolution & Climate Deniers: The Redux Edition « Greenfyre’s

Evolution & Climate Deniers: The Redux Edition « Greenfyre’s — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:16:16 +0000

[...] Johnny Rook even goes so far as to break down the Deniers into: [...]

By: JohnnyRook

JohnnyRook — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:39:39 +0000

WRONG! That myth has been completely debunked. See:

The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooing Scientific Consensus (PDF)

http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0477/89/9/pdf/i1520-0477-89-9-1325.pdf

If you want to comment here you’re going to have to come up with more than the same old denialist/delayer lies, disinformation and personal attacks.

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:57:57 +0000

Back in the 70s there was talk about GLOBAL COOLING as a NEW ICE AGE now its GLOBAL WARMING Its nothing but a lie being used by unscruplous persons like AL GORE and other green freaks and the best they can do to stop it is to keep their mouths shut and cut off all that HOT AIR

By: JohnnyRook

JohnnyRook — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:55:22 +0000

You’re cherry picking the data by providing only the UAH data, which is the data set that shows the least warming. (Remember, also, that in any case, we’re interested in trends not just a month or two.)

See here for 3 other data sets:

http://www.junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Warming_Look.html

Also check out Joseph Romm’s anaylysis of the data at Climate Progress:

http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/16/this-just-in-great-ice-age-of-2008-is-still-over-2/

By: Paulidan

Paulidan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:13:48 +0000

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/uah_may_08.png

The troposphere is also a denier.

And don’t give me any of that satellite drift stuff, the instruments have been corrected and this is the proper data.