The 'Hockey Stick' is on fire... must be global warming

 
Orson Scott Card has published a wonderful, wonderful article in Meridian Magazine concerning the provable falsehood of the so-called "hockey stick."

If you pay close attention, you'll find that Global Warming alarmists are not actually saying "Global Warming" lately. No, nowadays it's "Climate Change." Do you know why? Because for the past three years, global temperatures have been falling. Oops. The thing is, we've had twenty years since the Alarmists first raised the banner of Global Warming. They told us that "If This Goes On" by 2010 or 2020, sea levels will be rising so high that coastal cities will be flooded, famines will cover the earth, and ... Oh, you know the list. They're still making the same predictions — they just move the dates farther back. It's like those millennarian religious cults in the 1800s. Religious leaders would arise who would predict the Second Coming of Christ in 1838. When Christ didn't oblige them by showing up, they went back to their visions or scripture calculations or whatever they claimed and report that they miscalculated, now it was going to be 1843. Or whatever. Here's the raw truth: All the computer models are wrong. They have not only failed to predict the future, they can't even predict that past. That is, when you run their software with the data from, say, the 1970s or 1980s, and project what should happen in the 1990s or 2000s, they project results that have absolutely nothing to do with the known climate data for those decades. In other words, the models don't work. The only way to make them "work" is to take the known results and then fiddle with the software until it finally produces them. That's not how honest science is done.

It's light years beyond a "must read". Send it to all of your progressive friends who believe in this UN-sponsored scam. Just don't ask them why Greenland is called Greenland - that might make their heads explode.

Meridian Magazine: All in a Good Cause (hat tip: Noel Sheppard)