On Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams resumed his interest in highlighting stories of concern to the environmentalist left as, uniquely among the broadcast network evening newscasts, he touted a study published in the journal Science which contends that temperatures in the Arctic are at a 2,000-year high, which the report blames on greenhouse gases. Williams: "A new study in the journal Science says temperatures in the Arctic are the warmest they have been in 2,000 years, and they’re blaming greenhouse gases and resulting global warming. Scientists said the Arctic should actually be colder than usual now because changes in the Earth’s orbit are causing it to get less sunlight."
One night earlier, Williams had notably stepped out of character by running a full story highlighting complaints by Europeans that the European Union was going too far in its effort to go green with its ban on old-fashioned lightbulbs in favor of a more fuel-efficient model which many find produces light of inferior quality to the traditional bulb.



















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We know what the
September 4, 2009 - 07:19 ET by pcantidoteWe know what the temperature in the Arctic was 2,000 years ago? That is some funny stuff. Is that in the Bible?
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2000 Year High
September 4, 2009 - 08:04 ET by allanfWhether its at a 2000 year high or not is ridiculous. Temperatures in the Arctic Circle are always below freezing in winter. There is near total darkness. Nothing will melt due to high temperatures.
In summer there is nearly continuous sunlight. Temperatures can rise above freezing but not for long.
As for temperature reconstruction methods, the proxy methods are used
The accuracy of these methods is unknown.
How does less sunlight make something warmer...?
September 4, 2009 - 07:22 ET by supercon"Scientists said the Arctic should actually be colder than usual now
because changes in the Earth’s orbit are causing it to get less
sunlight."
Doesn't the temperature usually go down when there is no sunlight ?
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Who is behind the study in the journal Science? My...
September 4, 2009 - 07:37 ET by jawebster1mother always told me to consider the source and follow the money and Glenn Beck tells me to "question boldly!". My question. Who is Brian Williams trying to please by running this story one day after highlighting complaints of the "green movement"? Is he being "Fair and Balanced" or is he just trying to get back on the left's good side after stepping in it? (My guess is, since his dwindling audience is Liberal, he got lots of nasty letters.) Jim Webster
Green Movement
September 4, 2009 - 07:44 ET by adamsmithYou're going to see more than usual amounts of "Green" stories on the Communist channels. Beck is taking the Obama administration to task on its appointment of Communist Van Jones. They will do anything now in the Communist media to divert attention from that as it's a lose-lose for Communist Obama. If he fires him, it shows once more how inept this administration is. If he keeps him on, "birds of a feather", everyone will know Obama is a Commie as well...(Doubt the President is a commie? Well his mother was a Communist, Dad was a member of Kenya's communist government, his "typical white" grandparents were communist sypathizers,his adolescent "mentor" Frank Davis was a communist, Obama sought out Marxist professors at ultra liberal Colombia University, he told "Joe the Plumber" that with income redistribution "everyone will be better off", the Van Jones appointment as "Czar", I mean like Larry the Cable Guy says, "I can do this all day".......Am I the only one seeing this pattern?)
Brian Williams is a liberal idiot who has no credibilty left as a newsman. His credibilty was gone after he talked to Obama and his nose was covered in Communist excrement....
Jim - follow this trail
September 4, 2009 - 07:44 ET by FeynmanFanBrian Williams is on NBC. NBC is owned by General Electric. The head of General Electric enjoys a close relationship with Barack Obama. Barack Obama is pushing policies that will result in a lot of financial gain for General Electric. Global warming is a key issue in those Obama policies that will benefit General Electric.
See how that works? ;)
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GE and Obama....
September 4, 2009 - 08:00 ET by adamsmithFeynmanFan, I believe it's what's referred to as Fascism. You know, when Big Business and Government get together. I wonder if there's any legal precedents for this in some kind of anti-Trust legislation. I know it's certainly a violation of the 10th amendment. I just wonder where all the lefties who scream about the "evil corporations" are at with this fascist hoedown...They seem to be silent when the corporation is a liberal run government....
I believe it will be something of this kind that will lead to the impeachment of this President. He will overreach to the point of committing a federal crime, be impeached,convicted, and removed from office. Just remember, they took Nixon out with a silly coverup lying session over an inconsequential break-in at a political election office. A President not in line with the Constitution should be easy......
Adam - I agree with you
September 4, 2009 - 08:13 ET by FeynmanFanAdam, I agree with you that a lot of what the Obama administration is doing is unconstitutional, but I haven't been able to figure out who is going to bring up the issue. Someone will have to challenge the administration's actions in court and push it to the Supreme Court to be ruled on. Maybe it could be an organization that has been impacted by an unconstitutional policy (and there are plenty of those) but it will probably require a lot of fortitude because you can be sure that all sorts of liberal groups will come after them if they do it.
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Get out your winter coats boys and girls.
September 4, 2009 - 07:54 ET by JWFThey is trotting out the hockey stick again.
The result is a "hockey stick"-like curve in which the last decade - 1998-2008 - stands out as the warmest in the entire series.
It smelled fishy and I am not even a scientist.
Not Again! Media Promoting Arctic 'Hockey Stick' - Claim Temps Warmest in 2000 Years - But Scientists Already Rebuking Latest Study
Ahh. Now we know why it looks like a hockey stick.
The study in under fire for basing key results and conclusions on Penn State Professor Michael Mann's discredited “Hockey Stick" temperature graph.
But wait, doesn't all data input into Perfesser Mann's equations look like a hockey stick. Isn't that the big problem?
Mann at it again! 'Very erroneous conclusions'- Michael Mann's newest invention! The Hurricane 'Hockey Stick!'
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Mann
September 4, 2009 - 16:12 ET by NorthCoasterMann has discovered a statistical method to be used to produce a "Hockey Stick" graph with every kind of data up to and including random noise.
Amazing, what will he think of next!
He is developing one for the
September 5, 2009 - 01:24 ET by Dan The Man 2He is developing one for the health care problem as we speak.
"changes in the Earth’s orbit"???
September 4, 2009 - 07:56 ET by SickofLibsGreat. Not only did we wreck the earth with our filthy CO2, now we're screwing up the Solar System.
SERVE your President!
September 4, 2009 - 07:58 ET by Sergeant ROCKIf you would quit b*tchin' and get behind B. Hussein Obama's efforts, he could get Earth back into it's correct orbit!
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Hey, Sarge! Here's how he'll do it...
September 4, 2009 - 08:33 ET by goldenthroatHe'll don his supermessiah cape, take off into the atmosphere, fly around the earth at breakneck speeds and reverse the earth's rotation. This will immediately throw the earth back into the ice age, the polar caps will freeze up again and everything will be fine, right?
This will certainly make AlGore happy, too.
I would like to know which of these dunderheads was around 2000 years ago taking temperatures!
Like Bugs Bunny once said: "What a maroon!"
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Cape?
September 4, 2009 - 08:38 ET by Sergeant ROCKNow, you're just being silly. He doesn't need a cape, a simple wave of his hand will correct the earth's orbit. But, he will not do it until you swear allegiance unto him.
Now get on your knees, fool! Lord Obama be praised!!
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This is effing mindless!
September 4, 2009 - 08:00 ET by Six String SpiffThis is effing mindless! With the record COLD 'summer' we just had, how do any of these morons even get the courage to speak about global warming? It's quite obvious that they have completely disregarded the sun and have gone with the 'humans suck' idea.
Imagine: Trying to claim how much of an effect we have on a planet's climate that has been around for billions of years by measuring the temperature for .00000001% of that time?
It's either that or they are trying to give meaning to their pathetic self loathing existence.
Six String, And let's not
September 4, 2009 - 08:07 ET by Scuba DudeSix String,
And let's not forget any volcanic activity. Eruptions throwing up all that debris will block sunlight and cause the Earth to cool. These friggin morons are ignoring natural events which effect the climate.
The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER
Scuba Dude,
September 4, 2009 - 08:37 ET by Six String SpiffScuba Dude,
Exactly, every time I see a volcanic eruption on the news, I wonder if liberals would like to tax it. It's absolutely ridiculous. The planet is fine, we are a blip in it's existence. To say we have more power than the sun and gravitational pull is absurd to say the least.
Living in MA I get inundated with this nonsense on a daily basis.
Since when did the sun become so irrelevant?
Hey Scuba Dude, don't say that too loud...
September 4, 2009 - 09:20 ET by goldenthroat..or the libs will try to blame volcanic eruptions on George W. Bush!
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blame's already on Bush
September 4, 2009 - 09:31 ET by jon_torlinRemember the tsunami that hit Indonesia? They blamed that on Bush and global warming. Some people bought it too!
As for taxing volcanoes, they don't make money so they don't get taxed.....
-Jon
tsunami?
September 4, 2009 - 20:45 ET by RayRayyou mean the one where US servicemen were passing out food to people wearing Osama t-shirts? Have they switched to Obama t-shirts?
It's much easier to lie
September 4, 2009 - 08:38 ET by 10ksnookerDo you know what the temperature in the Arctic was 2000 years ago? If they say they do, do you know if they are lying?
The AGW hoax, let government scientist pretend to control the weather, and tax the public based on those pretensions.
They're guessing.
September 4, 2009 - 11:17 ET by CobraManThey're guessing, of course. The "study" uses, again, computer simulation in order to guss at how much cooling there should be as opposed to what is actually occurring, but you'll never hear that from MSNBC.
"The scientists compared the temperatures inferred from the field-based data with computer model simulations." Source
In other words, they're "inferring" (guessing) the 2000 year old temperature and are using"simulations" to guess what effects the reduced solar radiation should have. Of course, they don't use real, actual, data in this "study", like recording upper and lower atmospheric temp readings over the course of a year which would give them accurate data as to the amount of heat gains or losses due to variable solar radiation.
So, they're guessing about past temperatures, they're fussing about how the sun warms the air, and they're avoiding all actual temperature readings that they need to correctly to figure it all out. But, hay, they used the words "greenhouse gasses" so they MUST be right, right?
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Inproper Instrument Usage
September 4, 2009 - 08:40 ET by SkipperMLMPerhaps Brian should take the thermometer out of his *** when taking a reading next time.
Hmmm.
September 4, 2009 - 08:47 ET by inquiringmindWhenever I hear at statement like Brian's I think, " so it was this hot 2000 years ago? We were not driving cars back then. Must have been all of that mule dung and it's mathane.
Global warming to blame for fall colors fading out west
September 4, 2009 - 10:03 ET by Hawaiian JoeAnother story blaming global warming
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pigs will fly!
September 4, 2009 - 10:13 ET by jon_torlinI'm surprised they haven't blamed the swine flu...I'm sorry, was that racist? I mean the H1N1 flu on global warming, what with all this scare coming up and all.(when you have Sebelius and Napolitino out there issuing warnings, you gotta wonder how people might buy their swill....was that another pig joke?)
-Jon
Obozo and Congress will
September 4, 2009 - 10:09 ET by Seabeach4348Obozo and Congress will propose and pass an Orbit Correction Contribution Act, and that should take care of it.
Just throw some $$$ and it will go away.
This crap is becoming really beyond ridiculous.
And Brian Williams is a jerk.
o-Dumb-uh Had a Dream
September 4, 2009 - 11:07 ET by kilrodIn this dream, he was the one he'd been waiting for to get out of his way so he could....., but then he woke up??
(grins) kilrod
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Godthab Nuuk, Greenland - warmer in the 1920's - 40's
September 4, 2009 - 11:43 ET by Gary HallHere's a popular place up north. Godthab Nuuk, Greenland (64.2 N.,51.8 W) - just off the edge of the Arctic Circle. Just how well does this temperature history fit William's claim? It was warmer in the 1920's - 40's. Since the 40's (last 60 years) with all of the greenhouse gas emissions rising so fast; guess what? It's getting cooler. (;~/ gary
I read somewhere
September 5, 2009 - 00:33 ET by acadia1755jon_torlin of course swine flu is not cause by GW. It is Obama's doing.. remember ... ..Pigs will fly before we elect a black president? well there you go swine flu.
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