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Strassel: The Climate Change Climate Change – WSJ.com — This is disappointing a lot of people. Perhaps this trend is a plot by the oil companies. Personally when I started hearing that ALL scientists are in agreement and everyone should shut their traps, I got immediately suspicious. How does that work especially with a new theory that cropped up in 1988 and was then popularized by Al Gore, a know-nothing politico. Then the smear campaign seemed odd.
Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations with an assist from the media, did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.
The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. .. Joanne Simpson, the world’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak “frankly” of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming “the worst scientific scandal in history.” Norway’s Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the “new religion.” A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton’s Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists’ open letter.)
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#60 – Common_Sense,
I consider it to be a fact that the science of global warming/climate change is muddier than a larger group of people would like us to believe.
I agree with your conclusion about environmentalism. So, if I were better at debates, I’d probably let this slide. However, I’m just way too anal-retentive to do so.
“I consider it to be a fact” is semantically equal to “it is my opinion”.
I’m curious why you chose to make your opinion sound like fact when it so clearly isn’t.
Other than that, yes, environmentalism just makes sense for a whole host of reasons. Ocean acidification is a huge one. Desertification is another. Fresh water supply is another. There are no shortage of problems for which environmentalism will, of necessity, be part of the solution.
Of course, for all such problems, human population reduction must also be a tremendous part of the solution. The planet simply can’t support so many people, with or without global warming. With global warming, the problem is orders of magnitude worse.
#61, scott, what I don’t understand is how you and I are in such strong agreement about there being too many people, but you are also such a strong supporter for giving everybody low to no cost access to healthcare, which will only aid people in living even longer.
#61 – Sea Lawyer,
It’s a good point, and one that I’ve been asked before, for obvious reasons.
I support giving people good health care and education and other things that actually do result in lower birth rates.
I want to reduce population by attrition rather than by actively killing off those who are here.
That said, I fear that this will not happen. Collapse is likely imminent. With collapse will come the Great Human Die-Off. I expect 90% mortality within the first decade of whenever the die-off begins. I’d probably expect half the remaining to die over a slightly longer period. Whether any will survive beyond that is beyond me.
Of course, that’s just a guess. And, I won’t be proven wrong in my lifetime because I intend to make sure that if the die-off begins, I’m in the first wave. I can’t survive without modern medical technology and the logistics to get it to my door.
#37
Dang, I had a bonfire/cookout last night.
My bad!
…sorry for the ‘carbon’ offset.
# 64 Rick’s Cafe said, “Dang, I had a bonfire/cookout last night. My bad!
…sorry for the ‘carbon’ offset.”
Aha! So THAT’S why I had to use the air conditioning last night. I’ll send you the bill.
…and I drive my SUV with the windows down, sun roof open and the air conditioning on – I’m such a heathen.
i dont like people who drive with their sunroofs down!
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