Krauthammer: “Climate Science” Is A Religion

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A Washington Post columnist recently attacked a Nobel Prize winner by claiming that the scientific consensus that backs climate change is essentially a religious institution.

“Look, if Godzilla appeared on the Mall this afternoon, Al Gore would say it’s global warming,” Charles Krauthammer said on PBS’s Inside Washington Saturday.

He continued, “Look, everything is – it’s a religion.”

Host Gordon Peterson kicked off the discussion, quoting former vice president Al Gore in a recent interview with a New York Times columnist.

“There is about four percent more water vapor in the atmosphere today than there was in 1970,” Gore told Gail Collins.

Gore further explained that the extra water appeared because the warmer oceans and air returned to earth as heavier precipitation.

However, this scientific fact escaped Krauthammer who instead called for proof that climate change is wrong.

“You find me a single piece of evidence that Al Gore would ever admit would contradict global warming, and I’ll be surprised,” he said.

Krauthammer would indeed be surprised because the climate science community unanimously agreed that human industry directly affects the Earth’s climate.

“It is well established through formal attribution studies that the global warming of the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced increases in heat-trapping gases,” the US government’s Global Change Research Program reported. [PDF] “Such studies have only recently been used to determine the causes of some changes in extremes at the scale of a continent. Certain aspects of observed increases in temperature extremes have been linked to human influences.”

Their summary concluded: “In the future, with continued global warming, heat waves and heavy downpours are very likely to further increase in frequency and intensity. Substantial areas of North America are likely to have more frequent droughts of greater severity. Hurricane wind speeds, rainfall intensity, and storm surge levels are likely to increase. The strongest cold season storms are likely to become more frequent, with stronger winds and more extreme wave heights.

“Current and future impacts resulting from these changes depend not only on the changes in extremes but also on responses by human and natural systems.”

This video is of PBS’s Inside Washington, broadcast Feb. 5, 2011, as sniped by climatebrad.

Thanks to Raw Story

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Daniel Bratchell
12 years ago

In Britain there is a lot of scepticism about man made global warming. Sceptics, of whom I am one, are ridiculed by its adherents. My doubts started when a British High Court Judge found our government guilty of propaganda when it distributed Al Gore’s video to schools. The judge stopped searching when he found eight significant errors in the video. Subsequently Lord Monckton found more than twenty. Our government has also been targetting children as young as five by publishing on television scenes of fathers reading bedtime stories about global warming.

Since then I have written to more than twenty climate scientists and institutions (including our oldest and most prestigious Royal Society)for proof that the minute amount of 0.0388% (388 parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can cause disaster. The only two replies I received were from an Oxford University professor who advised me to read a 200 page book on geophysics, and from our energy minister Chris Huhne who referred me to ninety pages of statistics and conjectures.

To cap it all our government’s chief scientific advisor has said on television that “we have not been able to prove that global warming is due to natural phenomena therefore it must be carbon dioxide”. He also likened the billions of pounds we are spending on “green” energy to an insurance premium against fire. Some premium against an unproven risk. I rest my case.

Michael John Scott
Reply to  Daniel Bratchell
12 years ago

We need to make a distinction between global warming and climate change. The evidence of climate change is irrefutable and accepted by the vast majority of the world’s scientists. There is evidence that indicates that global warming may be influencing elements of climate change, but that evidence remains tenuous. The fact is climate change, which is cyclical, can be catastrophic, and this cycle will not be the exception.

Daniel Bratchell
Reply to  Michael John Scott
12 years ago

Although there are doubts about global warming due to inadequacies of reliable weather stations I am prepared to believe that it is happening. I just do not believe it is carbon dioxide.

13 years ago

Krauthammer, like a lot of his fellow ignoramuses, will be crying for assistance when the waves start lapping at the lower shores of Manhattan…

dp1053
13 years ago

There is none so blind as he who will not see. Ignorance is lack of education, stupidity is ignoring what you have been taught. These people are stupid.

Joe Hagstrom
13 years ago

I’ve always said Krauthammer and William Buckley were over rated as intellectuals.

The trick is to speak with an Ivy League accent and sound bored. Oddly, this also works to be a successful runway model. Too bad these guys weren’t born skinny and female.

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