Throwing down the Climate Change Gauntlet

So you read this story. Nothing really surprising here, another liberal democrat shouting to the rooftops about how the sky is going to fall. Then you read this story, and you might even laugh a little because you realize that MSN-B.S. didn't even have the integrity to mention that Energy Secretary Steven Chu has a PhD in (and won his Nobel Prize for) work trapping atoms with laser light. But then you read this goomba and you get irritated because you see what a simplistic, unoriginal,  mouthpiece this guy is. 

All of these "news" stories, and not one contrary position. My liberal friends will tell me that there is no contrary position. Regurgitating the scientist Al Gore, they simply say there is "consensus" and that the "debate is over". Oh, really? Are you sure about that? Really sure? 

Here's where I am at...I am tired of overblown media hacks who have an interest in scaring the living daylights out of people (read: selling more news copy, airtime, and carbon credits) running around, consuming my Congress' time and flooding my airwaves with half-baked, often fully fabricated, half truths and innuendos. Look at the language they have to use "farms and vineyards could all be gone by the end of this century", "the Sierra snowpack could disappear". They can't truly predict a thing. "Might", "could", "possibly" these are the watchwords of the Environ-mental Scare Patrol (ESP). They don't know a thing.

I propose a compromise. For one year, one short year in our planet's long long history, all the member's of the ESP stop running around and trying to scare and shame everyone. In that year they need to predict (every day) whether the global temperature goes up or down and by how much. They also need to predict at least 50% of every major natural disaster (tsunami, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, droughts, etc) that may occur and be accurate within 3 days of the occurrence. 

Now, one year on a global timeline is not very long. The variables for one year of weather are infinitely less than 100 years from now, which is what Mr Chu and his ilk claim to be able to predict. Do this for one year and I will begin to believe that you can tell me what's going to happen 10 years from now. Do it for 10 years and I'll believe you can do it for 100. 

But if you can't, for even one short year, use your models and computers and your PhD's to predict the weather future... you have to hang up your spurs and go and find some other way to bilk the public of their time, money, and freedom.