Global Warming Religion's Invisible Friend

"Republicans deny science." The statement was repeated on HBO's The Newsroom season finale written by Aaron Sorkin and by HBO's Bill Maher on the Tonight Show last week. It is a statement in defense of the Anthropomorphic Global Warming religion (AGWr). AGWr is a non-scientific system of beliefs with one tenet: humanity is evil and must be depopulated.

AGW is effortlessly debunked by the scientific process and thinking critically for a moment. Of course, the information to debunk Anthropomorphic Global Warming is hidden and obscured by elitists.  To simplify the debunking of AGW, look at this temperature chart of the last thousand years, including the Medieval Optimum:

In short, it was warmer before industrialization, between 950 and 1350. It was then generally colder until around 1880 when "modern" climate measurements began. Notice this graphic is from the Northern hemisphere. So are the NASA measurements beginning in 1880, which are considered the temperature measurement gold standard. The NASA measurements were used to make the Global Warming argument. Initially, there was scientific debate on this climate change theory.

Back in 2008, when alarmism peaked, I emailed NASA's leading global warming proponent, Dr. James E. Hansen, a simple question:

Is GISS data available prior to 1880?

His reply was short, honest and appreciated:

Sorry, we do not analyze the data prior to 1880 -- not enough stations, measurements not as good, and not enough nearby neighbors to check validity -- you can get original station data, going back before 1880 from the National Climate Data Center or the World Meteorological Organization.  Jim H.

Consider the implication. On a geological scale of time, the data is insignificant. There are a myriad of reasons that we might see a short term spike in temperatures. A quick review of observed scientific history, aka the aforementioned graphic, uncovers that global warming is likely nothing more than the end of the Little Ice Age.

Since 2008, Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW) has become a religion. It is now a faith-based belief that ignores observation, testing, falsifiability, critical review and reproducibility (repeatable). AGW ignores the scientific process. It relies upon cooked numbers, denial of scientific observation and over-the-top claims of approaching doom and even cannibalism. All of these claims have one goal in mind, vilifying humanity as the cause of Earth's destruction. It is a claim that is simply not reasonable.

Progressives are the religious fanatics who deny science on this issue. Moreover, they have a golf-loving president who is famously invisible. (see #eastwooding, #emptysuit and #emptychair ) Let's call him Global Warming's invisible friend.

Why is President Obama the progressive's AGW/GWR invisible friend? During the 2012 Republican National Convention, Clint Eastwood made President Obama a mockery by placing an empty chair on stage to take his place. Per fellow SLOB author Temple of Mut's recent post:

I was one of the early proponents of the idea that Clint Eastwood’s use of the chair was an amazing iconic success. Many pundits have since followed suit (see HERE, HERE and HERE for starters). It was so successful that the Twitter world has a new hashtag experience: #Eastwooding. It seems the new political term, “Eastwooding” means taking a picture of an Empty Chair.

One of the reasons the president was mocked is because he has wasted billions of tax dollars on his "green" crony schemes. He ignored actual jobs from oil and coal. Instead he spent billions on "green energy" jobs that turned out to be bus drivers, garbage men, oil lobbyists and roofers upon closer inspection.

To prop-up the company Solyndra, the Obama Administration's Department of Energy (DOE) knowingly violated the law. The left-wing media is ripe with religious zealotry for AGW in defending President Obama. This is even when no one is talking about Global Warming, as pointed out by Beers with Demo:

Appalling? At least it wasn't racist.

We don't suppose it occurred to Kristoff, who occupies that statist mind-hive of the New York Times, that Romney was not so much dismissive of global warming as he was dismissive of and chiding Obama's elevated sense of self-importance.

President Obama is the "green" religion's "invisible friend."

HBO's The Newsroom Finale: Tea Party is "American Taliban"

Last night's season finale of The Newsroom, "The Greater Fool," made the case that the progressive left has gone insane with hate for facts, math and especially the tea party. Aaron Sorkin, a musical theater major, uses the show to substitute characters' fictional credibility as "economists" and "moderate Republicans" to push progressive-left propaganda.

Behind a nice music track and lots of interpersonal relationship drama emerges a thinly veiled and uninformed political narrative. The insulting and incredulous nature of the show's political argument is breathtaking. Here are some musical theater versions of economic and political reality from the season finale:

• Only drivers licenses and passports can be used as voter id. 
• Debating the national debt is the cause of two U.S. credit downgrades, not the spending.
• The tea party are the "American Taliban."
• The tea party is responsible for the lack of compromise in Washington. (How was ObamaCare passed?) Here is a list of compromises from the right by fellow SLOB Blogger in Chief.
• The tea party is xenophobic (racist) due to opposition to illegal immigration.
• The tea party hates women despite being organized largely by women.

The clip of the tea party being called "The American Taliban:"

In defense of the Newsroom, this is not the first time that the left-wing "news media" has used this term. Here is The Ed Shultz show calling Rick Santorum the "American Taliban."  Examiner.com wraps up the sentiment:

Will (Jeff Daniel's character) finally concludes the Tea Party is the American Taliban. When seen in that light perhaps the real enemy isn't some remote terrorist organization in Afghanistan. Our worst enemy has hijacked our government and is holding our country hostage.

Look closer at this article's title graphic. Without the music and the narrative, one might think it is referencing Al Gore, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi or Debbie Wassermann-Shultz. Maybe Aaron Sorkin believes America is stupid and believes anything when emotional music is playing.

America and President Obama would do well to listen to the tea party. The members of the tea party are more educated than the public at large. Personally, my financial education is in money, banking and investments. My goal in 2009 was to educate President Obama and the Democrat congress that, "raising taxes during a recession is doo doo economics." A New York Times article describes where the tea party placed blame in 2010:

But while most Americans blame the Bush administration or Wall Street for the current state of the American economy, the greatest number of Tea Party supporters blame Congress.

Surely, a larger proportion of tea party supporters blame President Obama at this point. However, we have not forgotten the Democrat and then Senator Obama's role in the economic collapse. Maybe Mr. Sorkin's failing memory forgot who took congress in January 2007 and what led to the 2008 collapse. Here is some background: Obama Lies About Creating 3 Million Jobs: Democrat Policy Since 2007.

The previously mentioned NYT article also points out that tea party members are not concerned for themselves, they are concerned for others:

But 55 percent are concerned that someone in their household will be out of a job in the next year. And more than two-thirds say the recession has been difficult or caused hardship and major life changes. Like most Americans, they think the most pressing problems facing the country today are the economy and jobs.

The debt and spending continues to drive tea party concern for America's future. The CBO recently warned of the "fiscal cliff" coming in 2013. It will kill 2 million jobs.

President Obama could have reached out to congress anytime. The President should have called a meeting to address this problem. It is he who will not compromise. Due to President Obama's amateurish behavior, Mitt Romney will inherit a much more damaged country than did Barack Obama.

Again the previous NYT article directly disputes the "American Taliban" slander of patriots:

Yet while the Tea Party supporters are more conservative than Republicans on some social issues, they do not want to focus on those issues: about 8 in 10 say that they are more concerned with economic issues, as is the general public.

The Newsroom actors are good. Jeff Daniels stands out, but the show's content is not edgy enough to be on HBO. It could be playing on any cable or network station. There is little sex, violence, senseless nudity or significant profane language. Maybe Aaron Sorkin's vision of an elect-Barack-Obama-at-any-cost show was turned down by the networks as propaganda. If so, well done network executives.