Questioning Global Warming -- further evidence
Moonbattery
has a nice post on the current backlash happening with the Global Warming doomsayers:
Global Warming Backpedaling
Global warming cultists have gotten so carried away with their Chicken Little rhetoric that they're going to have to start backpedaling if they expect people to take them seriously.
Even the hardly conservative Houston Chronicle observes that two of the events that helped win over the gullible — Katrina and last year's warm summer — hardly constitute proof of Al Gore's hysterical predictions. If global warming caused Katrina, where were all the hurricanes last year? Whose SUVs caused summers to be even hotter in the 1930s?
Inevitably, the hyperbolic hype is falling in on itself. As climate scientist Kevin Vranes of the University of Colorado puts it:Some of us are wondering if we have created a monster.
Despite stern insistence by leftist fanatics that there is no debate, scientists who won't drink the Kool-Aid are raising their voices. Says Judith Curry, an atmospheric scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology:I think the rank-and-file are becoming more outspoken, and you're hearing a broader spectrum of ideas.
A broad spectrum of ideas is the last thing Al Gore wants. He recently canceled an interview with Denmark's largest newspaper Jyllands-Posten, apparently because the paper would also publish the views of global warming skeptic Bjorn Lomborg.
Avoiding contradictory views is a priority for Gore, who is standing on thinner ice than any polar bear. His grand scheme to remake human civilization would make the average person 30% poorer by 2100, and cost $553 TRILLION over the next century. People might start to wonder if it's worth it, once they consider that Gore's threatened 20-foot rise in sea level is exaggerated by a factor of 20, that his tale of global warming causing malaria in Nairobi is simply a lie, that only 2% of Antarctica has actually gotten warmer over the last 35 years, that global warming would save 10 times more lives than it would end in the UK, and that the computer models they use to invent scary scenarios could just as easily prove that the world is turning into a lump of Velveeta.
I have no doubt that the Earth may well be warming (although last Fall and this Winter do not seem to agree) but the idea that #1) - humans are the cause and #2) - humans can reverse it and #3) - warming is a bad thing is hubris and downright dain-bramaged.
Looking at history, there are cycles of warming and cooling and we seem to be at the end of a 400 year period of cooling. An increase of a few degrees will not kill us...
Hat tip to the excellent
Maggie's Farm for the link.
Posted by DaveH at January 24, 2007 8:07 PM
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