Host Scott Todd started off the Sunday show by saying, "We are not goi9ng to discuss the science (that is settled) or give deniers a voice" Translation "Ye shall believe in Global Warming and why are you not sacrificing to it?" Well, I believe in thermometer readings. Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS for short) maintains a database of every temperature reading going right back to the invention of the thermometer. I downloaded the whole schmeer. It was old fashioned, data in fixed length 80 byte records, no separators, clearly a file going back to punch card times. I wrote a simple data swabber in C to convert the old GISS data into comma separated variable format acceptable to Excel. Plotted in Excel, the data shows that global warming leveled off 19 years ago. Not a peep since 1999. So, no I don't believe in global warming since it doesn't show up to thermometers. I am an engineer, I believe in instrument readings.
The show went on. They gave Governor Moonbeam a lot of air time. He spent it ranting against Republicans who fail to sacrifice to global warming. The gist of the show, we need a good stiff "Carbon tax" to curb the burning of fuels. And politicians who fail to vote to tax their constituents to support the holy cause are sinners.
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