GASBAGS ON GLOBAL WARMING

Fats Limbaugh was back on the AGW soapbox today and had this factoid:

So I consulted our official climatologist, Roy Spencer. I said, "What is this scientific consensus? Please explain this to me." Here is what Dr. Spencer wrote back. He's at the University of Alabama Huntsville, former NASA, he's a climate specialist specializing in precipitation, what impact it might have on global warming. By the way, precipitation is not in any global warming models. He wrote back and said, "The only survey of climate scientists I'm aware of is a survey of 530 climate scientists from 27 countries. Only 56% of these 530 scientists agreed that climate change is mostly the result of man-made causes." 56%. So Gore is saying that we are now voting on the whole concept of man-made global warming. Exactly right. We are voting, 56% is this consensus of scientists. How can anybody accept anything that 56% of scientists say? It ain't science. It's all politics. It's religion. It is a hoax.

The reason Fats likes Spencer is solely because Spencer is on the fringe. Here's just one example from RealClimate:

Roy Spencer, best known for his satellite work arguing against warming of the
atmosphere (which turns out to have been an artifact of a combination of algebraic and sign errors), criticizes Gore for pointing out that recent warmth appears to be anomalous in at least the past 1000 years. Spencer does this by both mis-characterizing the recent National Academies Report on the subject which indeed pointed out that there are numerous lines of evidence for precisely this conclusion, and by completely ignoring the recently-released IPCC Fourth Assessment report, which draws the stronger conclusion that the warmth of recent decades is likely anomalous in at least the past 1300 years.

RealClimate notes that Spencer is also skeptical about the theory of evolution:

...despite my previous acceptance of evolutionary theory as "fact," I came to the realization that intelligent design, as a theory of origins, is no more religious, and no less scientific, than evolutionism.

Whore Hannity was no better and referred to the "religion of global warming," just as Michael Weiner (Savage) recently did in a promo for his show. As Newsweek pointed out, this smear started in 1998. I became annoyed and amused at the same time when Hannity claimed that global warming is part of the natural cycle and "without any basis in real scientific proof," as if he would have a clue one way or the other.