Redneck Review
No.40  1/25/1016
I don't get it! Lewiston's Tribune, 1/21/16, proclaimed in a big black headline: "NOAA, NASA: 2015 was earth's hottest." The article then proceeds to claim: "Last year wasn't just the hottest year on record---it left a century of high temperature marks in the dust." The article continues: "2015 was by far the hottest year in 136 years of record keeping."
Down a ways, the article says NOAA ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) credits 2015 with "passing 2014 by a record margin of .29 degrees,... 1.62 degrees above the 20th century average," while NASA said "2015 was .23 degrees warmer than the record set in 2014 and 1.6 degrees above the 20th century average."
Hey! Be sure to note the decimals in the above stats: .29, 1.62, .23, and 1.6! One sure would never question the pinpoint accuracy of these tiny figures, would you! And is the difference between NOAA, and NASA stats significant? Or which is the more accurate?
And do not overlook the paragraph about half way down through the article which boldly asserts: "Although 2015 is now the hottest on record, it was the fourth time in 11 years that Earth broke annual marks for high temperatures." Does this not suggest that these figures are all time highs" Not just "136 years of record keeping?"
Dare one asks the following questions? What about the hundreds of graphs found in a Google search that show periods of even warmer temperatures in the far distant past? What about the ones showing a Medieval Warming period between 1100 and 1200 A.D. that is significantly higher than todays? And I quote: "Latest Greenland ice core research reveals Medieval Warming peak temperatures were higher versus those of Modern Warming -- the 20th/21st centuries?" And what about those which show the "Little Ice Age" from roughly 1400 to 1800, followed by a prediction of another warming peak lasting roughly 1800 to 2000? And then another cooling period lasting through 2020 and beyond??
What about the disastrously incorrect prediction of 1960 scientists and their simulators that all carbon based fuel would be GONE by 2000? And what about the 31,000 plus scientists who signed the "Petition Project" claiming a flawed 1997 Kyota accord?
It seems to me that an effort is being made to justify more government intervention and regulation, like the "Cap and Trade" proposals made and still pushed. A quick study here guarantees another serious layer of federal control and cost increases for us all! 
Just what is going on here? Maybe one should give serious consideration to a recent book entitled RETURN TO ORDER: FROM A FRENZIED ECONOMY TO AN ORGANIC CHRISTIAN SOCIETY by John Horvat. Mr. Horvat argues logically and eloquently that a "frenzied intemperance" has taken over our economic and cultural systems. Slowly over the years his contention is that our early free enterprise system which was family oriented and which sought the satisfaction of human wants and needs has slowly involved into a dog-eat-dog competition primarily concerned with profits and money making, no matter what the costs or methods used. So faulty product coverups, and false and misleading advertising become commonplace in this "frenzied" environment!
And in the process, all dependence on a God above is replaced by a smug conviction that man and his banks and his governments have the answers to everything! Hmm! Really?
Jake Wren 

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