{"id":365839,"date":"2010-02-26T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metasd.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2010-02-26T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:43:00","slug":"dumb-and-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365839","title":{"rendered":"Dumb and Dumber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not to be outdone by Utah<\/a>, South Dakota has passed its own climate resolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They raise the ante – where Utah cherry-picked twelve years of data, South Dakotans are happy with only 8. Even better, their pattern matching heuristic violates bathtub dynamics<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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WHEREAS,\u00a0the earth has been cooling for the last eight years despite small increases in anthropogenic carbon dioxide<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They have taken the skeptic claim, that there’s little warming in the tropical troposphere, and bumped it up a notch:<\/p>\n

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WHEREAS,\u00a0there is no evidence of atmospheric warming in the troposphere where the majority of warming would be taking place<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nope, no trend here:<\/p>\n

\"Satellite<\/a><\/p>\n

Satellite tropospheric temperature (RSS, TLT)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/span>Skipping over a red herring about Erik the Red,<\/p>\n

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WHEREAS,\u00a0the polar ice cap is subject to shifting warm water currents and the break-up of ice by high wind events. Many oceanographers believe this to be the major cause of melting polar ice, not atmospheric warming<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, where could the energy for those warm water currents and high wind events be coming from?<\/p>\n

Next we get the Oregon Petition (you can fact check the signatories yourself using google). Finally, we come to the point:<\/p>\n

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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, …, that the South Dakota Legislature urges that instruction in the public schools relating to global warming include the following:
\n(1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact;
\n(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological<\/strong>, thermological<\/strong>, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shouldn’t knowing what a theory<\/a> is and knowing the difference between astrology and astronomy, thermology and thermodynamics be prerequisites for making science education policy?<\/p>\n

You can’t make this stuff up. I guess I’ll have to quit telling North<\/em> Dakotan jokes now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not to be outdone by Utah, South Dakota has passed its own climate resolution. They raise the ante – where Utah cherry-picked twelve years of data, South Dakotans are happy with only 8. Even better, their pattern matching heuristic violates bathtub dynamics: WHEREAS,\u00a0the earth has been cooling for the last eight years despite small increases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}