Video: Hey, who’s up for a screaming match over global warming?
posted at 6:41 pm on November 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
By popular request, a “festive” exchange from this afternoon’s Cavuto in honor of WaPo’s new poll showing growing skepticism about the topic du jour. Growing, that is, but still mild: Fully 72 percent believe in global warming (down from 80 percent last year), including 71 percent of independents. Even a majority of Republicans believe in it, although that percentage has dipped from 76 percent all the way down to 54. Imagine what the numbers would look like if television news hadn’t completely blacked out news of Climategate.
Incidentally, am I hallucinating or did Ed Begley choose this week of all weeks to tout the virtues of peer-reviewed research? Because, dude:
But what stood out most for me was extensive evidence of the hijacking of the “peer review” process to enforce global warming dogma. Peer review is the practice of subjecting scientific papers to review by other scientists with relevant expertise before they can be published in professional journals. The idea is to weed out research with obvious flaws or weak arguments, but there is a clear danger that such a process will simply reinforce groupthink. If it is corrupted, peer review can be a mechanism for an entrenched establishment to exclude legitimate challenges by simply refusing to give critics a hearing.
And that is precisely what we find.
In response to an article challenging global warming that was published in the journal Climate Research, CRU head Phil Jones complains that the journal needs to “rid themselves of this troublesome editor”-hopefully not through the same means used by Henry II’s knights. Michael Mann replies:
I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.
Note the circular logic employed here. Skepticism about global warming is wrong because it is not supported by scientific articles in “legitimate peer-reviewed journals.” But if a journal actually publishes such an article, then it is by definition not “legitimate.”
Shockingly, the Climategate e-mails aren’t even a factor in this discussion. No matter. Let the angry finger-jabbing begin!
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Ed is 99% nutcase—1% airhead.
hawkman on November 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Ed is beginning to look like Jerry Springer.
carbon_footprint on November 24, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Huh. Never noticed Ed’s schpeech impediment before.
Hesiodos on November 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Of course he’s angry, he’s lived his life like the climate religion was real.
4shoes on November 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Ed walks his talk, I’ll give him that much, but he has eaten one too many celery stalks.
Bishop on November 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM
I don’t agree with Ed Begley’s politics, but do admire him, because he’s one of the few Hollywood types who actually seems willing to live in a way that matches what he preaches.
Slublog on November 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM
It’s a religion…
Seven Percent Solution on November 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM
At least this guy practices what he preaches … but I can’t stand the way tries drown out the host.
Tony737 on November 24, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Last good movie Ed Begley Jr. was in.
Barely good, at that.
Weight of Glory on November 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM
I look forward to the day when Ed Begley pulls his head out of his ass.
GarandFan on November 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Did he say “Bush technology”!?
bcre8v on November 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Notice how says “Don’t get your information from Glenn Beck” but he doesn’t say “… or Al Gore” ?
Tony737 on November 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Stu was Um Fuego today.
But he just goes to show that logic is wasted on these nutters.
Iblis on November 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Two questions I have for Ed:
1. How did you get to New York? Did you ride your bicycle?
2. Do you recycle your used toilet paper?
3. Do you eat beef?
HornetSting on November 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Oh, Ed. Your first mistake was going up against someone with a British accent.
Emily M. on November 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Only the LEFT uses peer reviewed studies as an argument instead of having facts LMAO!
So I have no answers but, it comes from peer reviewed studies
xler8bmw on November 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Uh, three, Joe Biden. Oops.
HornetSting on November 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Fox News, please give Stuart Varney his own show! Replace Shep Smith at 7PM with Stuart.
cubachi on November 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM
I saw this- this “Ed” guy puts the MENTAL in environMENTALIST!
Why didn’t he just say that this whole “green” thing used to be called “being thrifty” and it behooves us to conserve energy to save money?
There’s no reason to turn it into a religion and act like you’re possessed if anyone questions it.
NTWR on November 24, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Liberals don’t listen, but expect the rest of us to listen to them.
Ed, you believe a lie.
yoda on November 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Ed Begley is incapable of using the power of persuasion and must resort to totalitarian methods. You vill buy the light bulbs vee vant you to use and if you disagree vit me you are a right ving extremist.
Buy Danish on November 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Y’ever notice how the Warmist scientists never appear anywhere to make their case if they think they might face a critical question? They send Al Gore in front of congressional committees and they send Ed Begley to Fox to argue the case.
Buddahpundit on November 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM
He said ”L.A. is twice as clean as it was 30 years ago.” Ok, and 30 years ago you guys were screaming ”GLOBAL COOLING!” So what’s your point?
Tony737 on November 24, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Yes Ed, peer reviewed studies but the problem is the commies control the peer review process.
darwin on November 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM
peer reviewed studies!!! peer reviewed studies!!! peer reviewed studied!!!
tetriskid on November 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Stu should have brought up the fact that Goebbels Warming “scientists” tampered with the peer review process to ensure no “peer reviewed” skeptic papers were published.
NTWR on November 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Science and celebrities don’t mix.
Cicero43 on November 24, 2009 at 6:57 PM
“you should have somebody coming into your house Tells you all you need to know about these people.
bikermailman on November 24, 2009 at 6:57 PM
+1
rebuzz on November 24, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Someone needs to clue him into the Hoax. Oh that’s right! The LSM won’t report it.
dogsoldier on November 24, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Unlike Algore, at least Ed’s got integrity. He’s been using the same paper towel since 1996.
Cicero43 on November 24, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Is Mr. Begely in any way related to Barney Frank?…just sayin. That said, I respect the mans convictions but he is (like many) blind to what is staring him in his face.
NY Conservative on November 24, 2009 at 6:59 PM
I actually feel sorry for Ed. Everything he has based his core beliefs on is cracking & crumbling away from beneath his feet.
I like Ed. I hope he finds peace.
portlandon on November 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Try to give them facts, and they just stick their hands over ears, and instead of ‘la la la’, you get ‘Fixed News! In the pay of Big Oil!’ Same motivation though.
bikermailman on November 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM
He may be a nut, but he does practice what he preaches. He’s been driving an electric car for years.
And I don’t care what anyone says, “St. Elsewhere” was one of the best TV shows ever.
Knucklehead on November 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM
At first glance, Ehrlich (you pig) seems pretty benign. I’ve heard he does walk the walk.
But he becomes absolutely foaming at the mouth to have the government ‘take charge’ to make the rest of us live the way he does.
Kiss my ass Ed.
BigWyo on November 24, 2009 at 7:01 PM
I saw this — I loved it! Ed B was saying read “Peer Reviewed” journals Like “Nature” Hey Ed That’s the place where the phonies made up statistics — READ some NEWS!
And by the way, meteorolgists ARE scientists! Dope!
rebuzz on November 24, 2009 at 7:01 PM
All the spit that Ed spews with every word, maybe he should be a walking, talking hydro-electric plant. That way he can energize the world!
*sigh*
jbh45 on November 24, 2009 at 7:01 PM
CO2 is 385 parts per million!!!! Parts Per Million People!!!! Water Vapor is 95% of the greenhouse effect. Earth warms and cools in cycles…I am so sick of this debate. humans put in like 1% of the CO2 every year…Volcanoes and dead foliage and animals etc. put in the other 99%. I am getting sick of this. Cap and Trade my ass
deepinthought on November 24, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Ed owns a car but he doesn’t drive it. He uses it for composting.
Cicero43 on November 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Honestly, Ed lives in a capsule. No one out here takes him seriously. His world revolves around Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Bel Aire…because that is as far as his electric golf cart can take him.
jbh45 on November 24, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Begley has to believe man is causing GW and harming the environment. If it’s false, his whole reason for getting up in the morning simply evaporates and he’ll have to face the fact he’s a fool.
darwin on November 24, 2009 at 7:04 PM
ed is a loser.
moonbatkiller on November 24, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Stuart is awesome! He always interviews like a British Bulldog. . . . with tenacious integrity.
I’ve never seen him thrown off his game and he always brings up good points and keeps the debate on track. He has his opinion and defends it well. I’m glad he decided to come to America because he’s a great American now. . . too bad ‘Great’ Britain!
ThackerAgency on November 24, 2009 at 7:05 PM
God, I love the net. If we had to rely on news outlets, we would know nothing about the realities of this junk science.
Where’s the Goracle? Give us some dogma on the real facts, O truthful one.
swede7 on November 24, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Can we sell tickets to Begley’s head explosion?
Oldnuke on November 24, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Jerry Springer nothing!
Try Mort Downey!
pilamaye on November 24, 2009 at 7:07 PM
False Gods.
Johan Klaus on November 24, 2009 at 7:08 PM
He protestith too much. What a bag of wind. Typical left debate-shout ‘em down before you have to respond to a legitimate question.
rjoco1 on November 24, 2009 at 7:08 PM
+1
He’s a nut, but he’s not a hypocrite like the majority of the Hollywood elite.
And this is just it…I argue the global warming fraud with a whole bunch of people like Begley almost every day. They do parrot the “peer review” mantra, but as stated above, any journal who doesn’t tow the climate change line is by definition not a good source.
JetBoy on November 24, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Give it time, tick tick tick, give it time.
tarpon on November 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Ed’s “peer review” thing is what struck me too. The lefties think that makes any peer reviewed paper infallible, but peer review is just a minimum standard, and can be corrupted just like any other human endeavor.
The history of science is rife with powerful cliques who controlled the grants, hiring, and publishing processes, thus slowing down the progress of science.
juliesa on November 24, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Yep.
lorien1973 on November 24, 2009 at 7:14 PM
To the defenders of this wackjob:
What does he practice? Oh he owns a hybrid car and grows his own tomatoes. WOW! He still jets all over the country, uses the A/C in the summer, heats the house in winter, turns on the lights at night. He does 95% of what everyone else does yet he’s out there screaming like a loon on how awful we are and how wonderful he is.
angryed on November 24, 2009 at 7:15 PM
The pull starter on Ed’s internet must be on the fritz….
BigWyo on November 24, 2009 at 7:15 PM
OK…so some here say that he practices what he preaches. I dispute the claim that that in itself is a virtue. There is nothing admirable about the substance of what he practices nor preaches.
anuts on November 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM
nor=or
anuts on November 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM
“What’s this?” thought Barack Obama. “I can feel nothing warmer at all! That is terrible. Am I stupid? Am I a flat-earther? Am I a denier? Am I not fit to be President? That would be the most dreadful thing that could happen to me. “Oh, it is very hot!” Obama said aloud. “It has my highest approbation.” And Obama nodded in a contented way, and gazed outside, for he would not say that he felt no Global Warming. The whole entourage that he had with him looked and looked, and felt no warming, any more than the rest; but, like Barack Obama they said, “It is so hot!” and Rahm Emanuel counseled him to always say that he felt hot when he was out in public, even hotter than all the ACORN and SEIC troubles were making them both feel. “It is warm, hot even!” went from mouth to mouth. On all sides there seemed to be general warming, and Barack Obama gave Al Gore the title of Imperial Master of Global Warming Science.
So Barack Obama went in procession, and every one in the streets said, “How incomparable hot it is! What a hot day it is!” No one would let it be perceived that he could not feel warming, for that would have shown that he was not fit for his office, or was very stupid or a flat-earther or a denier. No day of Barack Obama’s had ever been as hot as this one.
“But I’m freezing my ass off out here!” a little child cried out at last. “Just hear what that innocent says!” said the father: and one whispered to another what the child had said. “But it is cold out here!” said the whole people at length. That touched Barack Obama, for it seemed to him that they were right; but the thought within himself was, “I must go through with feeling all the Global Warming. I do not dare to do otherwise” And so he held himself a little higher which was very difficult as he had thrown his back out with all the bowing that he had been doing lately, and his aides held on tighter than ever, and proclaimed the Global Warming which did not exist at all.
MB4 on November 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Ed clearly thought that he cleaned Varney’s clock.
jay12 on November 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM
No, he quit using paper towels too. When in Paris he discovered the bidet.
Americannodash on November 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I do not care what people say, Fox IS fair and balanced! I saw this and was about to put a foot in the tv. This ed needs to be in a home where he can be all green around him.
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letget on November 24, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Varney has been pounding the faithful lately.
d1carter on November 24, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Peer reviewed is their last line of defense. If that starts crumbling it’s all over.
Howcome on November 24, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Actually, he does considerably more than that.
Slublog on November 24, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Wow that was disappointing. I assumed for years that Begley was that way until recently when he was on NPR . In that interview he was even keeled and he was non-judgmental. He essentially said to do what you can to help the environment .
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Also regarding peer reviews from
http://www.linfo.org/peer_review.html
CWforFreedom on November 24, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Good for Ed being green. Now how many of us have the green to buy the solar panels, hybrid cars, windmills, new windows, or even insulation. Many home owners struggle to make these upgrades.
If they want us all to go green then they need to lower the cost of going green. It makes no sense to me that to do it we have to subsidize it or force our citizens regardless of whether they can afford it to do so.
When I lived in DC, stuck in traffic everyday due to the congressional employees I would yell, “want me to go green, you first.” When Congress requires all of their employees to take the metro then we can talk about going green.
sjramos on November 24, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Besides being in some really sucky Comcast commercials?
I think I saw where he had one of those recumbent bicycles..
That really rocks….
Snicker….
BigWyo on November 24, 2009 at 7:27 PM
I don’t know about his clock but Varney definitely got a spit shower. Begley should have provided a towel.
Oldnuke on November 24, 2009 at 7:27 PM
The whackadoo religion is strong in this one.
Speakup on November 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM
I wonder how many evolutionists read this, but are blind to the possibility that the same shenanigans are going on with science that supposedly supports evolution theory.
RightWinged on November 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Hey Ed,
WTF is wrong with you???
nickj116 on November 24, 2009 at 7:30 PM
This is a failed actor attempting to make a retirement on green technology and AGW hokum. He probably cries in adoration when he see AlGore (ManBearPig).
ExpressoBold on November 24, 2009 at 7:31 PM
I admire Ed’s tenacity but he’s merely delaying the inevitable here.
Realizing all those wasted years of powering his home with potatoes is bound to wreak havoc on anyone’s psyche.
The Ugly American on November 24, 2009 at 7:31 PM
It seems a little ironic that Begley rejects the opinion of a PhD physicist, but he’s perfectly qualified as an actor.
Someone made the point that staticians are more vital to climate research than the specialists because they have to sift through and analyze mountains of data. They don’t have to understand the inner workings of climatology to construct a temperature record, etc. I agree: wasn’t the hockey stick graph debunked by a mathematician?
GW on November 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM
I don’t really mind Ed. He does practice what he preaches. But this:
is why his whole outlook is toxic. Seriously.
I don’t even mind if it was proven a hoax 12 times over and he still wanted to crusade for global warming and do his thing. I wouldn’t feel the need to argue the point with him. But when he wants the government forcing me to essentially line the peddlers pockets, he can shove his carbon credits where the sun don’t shine.
BakerAllie on November 24, 2009 at 7:33 PM
OMG…what does airbags and seatbelts have to do with air pollution or global warming….typical loony lefty.
ihasurnominashun on November 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Most of you only whine about the global warming theory because Al Gore is the poster boy for it.
Before then, you had never heard of it and you couldn’t care less. Al Gore didn’t invent global warming, you know.
Ed Begley said in so many words that if the science doesn’t add up, it will be proven eventually. That is true. He also said don’t listen to actors, broadcasters, weathermen and anyone else but scientists. Makes total sense because they know more about it than we do. There isn’t 100% agreement on anything anyway.
Just because conservatives can find the occasional skeptic doesn’t mean the entire global warming theory is bogus. Especially when most of the skeptics are not climate scientists. Do I ask a chiropractor about heart surgery?
Those screaming about some global HOAX have their tin foil wrapped too tight. If it is bunk, that will be proven as time goes on.
Yeah, some do use the global warming thing to attack capitalism. They use most anything for that, though.
Moesart on November 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Wow! Somebody needs to drop some zanax in his kool-aid. I thought he was gonna drop right there in his chair. All those veins popping out of his neck was scary.
LSUMama on November 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
New drinking game…every time this puppet says “peer reviewed studies”, take a drink.
ynot4tony2 on November 24, 2009 at 7:35 PM
And to think that some people look down on the people of the Middle Ages and call them stupid.
MB4 on November 24, 2009 at 7:35 PM
That is one angry Pacifist!
He wants peer review from the same people that used fake data and are caught in e-mails saying they manipulated the data, and reviewed by the same folks that provide manipulated data.
But don’t you dare publish those emails that prove this is a fraud.
Sanmon on November 24, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Saint nowhere.
faol on November 24, 2009 at 7:36 PM
since old Ed think carbon dioxide is a pollutant, why doesn’t he just kill himself and save the planet?
right4life on November 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM
every last one of them. because evolution, like AGW, is a religion.
right4life on November 24, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Come on. I heard about this crap before I had heard of Al Gore, and I’m from Tennessee to boot. Before that, I remember my biology teachers talking about the impending war with Canada over acid rain.
ddrintn on November 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Begley talks like he has a mouthful of spit. Clearly he has an emotional attachment to the issue and has lost all objectivity.
echosyst on November 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM
He reminded me more of John Gibson, at least appearance-wise. When he was younger, he did resemble Spinal Tap drummer John ‘Stumpy’ Pepys (the one who died in the bizarre gardening accident).
Sure, Ed…don’t take the word of a physicist, but take the word of Al Gore. Moron.
ynot4tony2 on November 24, 2009 at 7:43 PM
Unless he recycles his used toilet paper or holds his breath to limit CO2 emissions, I don’t want to flippin hear about it.
Go be a kook ST. Elsewhere.
HornetSting on November 24, 2009 at 7:43 PM
Actually, where Ed lives in SoCal, he absolutely doesn’t need A/C in the summer or heat in the winter.
Ed, living his rarified existence by the beach where it is cool even in summer and hardly cold in winter, can afford to be a cap and trade enthusiast. Begley has no idea how much the rest of the country pays for utilities.
marybel on November 24, 2009 at 7:44 PM
I remember the first “earth Day” when I was in high school. I asked my english teacher what is was about. She said saving the earth. I said: From what? She frickin hated me.
faol on November 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Begley coo coo!
MCGIRV on November 24, 2009 at 7:48 PM
The left sure do get angry when their gods are challenged.
roux on November 24, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Wash your mouth out! Hopefully that’s Beck’s future spot!
;-)
Oink on November 24, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Oh and he kept saying “don’t take my word for it”…. Then why should we take AlGore’s word?
roux on November 24, 2009 at 7:49 PM
isn’t earth day also Lenin’s birthday? my what uh ‘coincidence’
environmentalists are watermelons, green on the outside, comrade RED on the inside…
right4life on November 24, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Bah! I was deriding the theory before Gore became the poster boy for it.
But then again, I’m not tobacco farmer/photo journalist/reporter/divinity school drop-out/law student without a license/Representative/Senator/multiple failed Presidential candidate/crusader for censorship/paid public speaker/investor/television channel owner/concert producer like Al Gore. What could I possibly know about global warming? I’m just one of those physicists who, as Ed Begley says, isn’t fit to talk about science.
ynot4tony2 on November 24, 2009 at 7:53 PM
I hate to disagree in such a trivial matter, but Amazon Women on the Moon was much better, & two years later.
fronclynne on November 24, 2009 at 7:53 PM
I remember laughing about the coming Ice Ace in the early 1980s (& yeah, I was about 7 years old, & I still knew an idiot scam when I heard one), & almost a full decade before Gore became the figurehead of the ridiculous warmist cult I was rolling my eyes at their “carbon dioxide is a pollutant” nonsense. You know that Limbaugh was talking about this stuff in c.1993? Well, did you, punk?
So who are you accusing of being born yesterday, child?
fronclynne on November 24, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I’m convinced this is a SNL parody, What a maroon.
davo on November 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Don’t tell him that or you will break his King Midas heart.
Occasional skeptic? You have got to be kidding.
Global warming is regarded by the sheeple as true, by those who can think for themselves as false and by the power mad and money grubbers as … … useful … … very useful in their pathological quest to filch ever more money and power to themselves.
As dumb as that would be it wouldn’t be nearly as dumb as asking Al Gore about the climate. Best not to ask him about the temperature a few miles below the surface of the earth either.
It is a hoax on a far grander scale than Charles Dawson’s Piltdown man ever was.
Ten years now and no Global Warming and actually a bit of Global Cooling. If that has not registered with someone then they are comatose.
MB4 on November 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM
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