So Nancy Pelosi wants to create a Global Warming committee. And everyone’s got their own bill they want to introduce. The Gubernator is getting ready to leverage any fiscal security California might have anticpated for the future. TV, newspapers, radio, magazines – Global Warming is everywhere. Is this all the publicity runup to the release of Al Gore’s new movie “An Inconvenient Truth 2: Fuel Cell Boogaloo”?
Abortion is a moot issue and people are bored with gay marriage, so Democrats are picking up the latest trend as their new hot issue. And they’re using the same techniques to rally their constituents that they lambaste the Republicans for so doing with their anchor issue, terrorism: fearmongering and spreading panic.
They’ve picked a great one with which to rebuild their flailing, failing party. An issue with a lot of momentum. With legs. And one that the media will gladly glom onto. It’s sexy and thrilling and urgent and fearful. And it’s a good replacement for war headlines. And the kids dig it, too. Global Warming is trendy like their Uggs, but they don’t have to pay $150 to be cool (unless they want to be carbon neutral).
I like to refer to Global Warming with capital “G/W” because Global Warming is a brand. It’s this year’s Live Strong bracelet. Literally. It’s the latest cause celebre. And in another couple of years, I’ll bet dollars to donuts we no longer hear about it except for maybe in a retrospective look at the first 10 years of the 21st Century.
In January 2009, when whichever Democrat President-elect is sworn in to office, the problem of Global Warming will magically be solved in an instant. Much like the problem of homelessness that was so often front page news during the Reagan and GHW Bush years was miraculously solved once President Clinton was sworn in, rarely to be heard of in any news format for the rest of the 1990’s.
I use the brand name of Global Warming when I proclaim myself an Global Warming skeptic because I don’t believe the hype.
I do believe in small “g/w” global warming. Everything in nature is cyclic. There are warm periods and there are cool periods. Climate change has occured long before we were here and it will continue long after we’re gone. But that’s not sexy, now is it?
I’m interested to read the list of texts you’ve read that prompt you disagree with global scientific consensus on the matter.
e.g., (from the link):
Joint science academies’ statement:
“In 2005 the national science academies of the G8 nations, plus Brazil, China and India, three of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the developing world, signed a statement on the global response to climate change. The statement stresses that the scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action [2], and explicitly endorsed the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] consensus.”
I’ll jump in here Joe and share a couple of my reasons, but I look forward to seeing what Dave’s are.
You can find a short list below but it is certainly not all inclusive. (under: Assertions by opponents of the global warming theory)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy
I don’t doubt climates are changing but I do doubt if we are the cause. And if we contribute to the warming, how much, and what can we really do about it if it is at the tipping point that many say it is?
What causes me to be skeptical, in short, is (a) Climate changes throughout the history of the earth and continents have moved without our help (for example: How did we get out of the ice age without Co2?) (b) A seeming rush to judgment (c) Global Cooling craze in the 70’s (d) we seem to have experienced a similar heat cycle in the 30’s (e) Using Global Warming as a political tool.
In relation to (d) I find the hypocrisy of most Global Warming crusaders to be a bit off-putting. Private Jets, SUVs, etc…They don’t strike me as genuinely concerned.
What is funny is I’m not a disbeliever in Global Warming…I’m just not a believer either.
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I do beleve climats do change. I have lived on the big island of hawaii all my life. When I was a kid the kona side of the island was a desert. In the past 4 years or so I have seen rain begin to fall the grass sprout, and now faild tree plantings begin to grow. I had alway herd people say it was so dry there becouse of over grazing of cattle. Now the cattle herds are growing as well as the greenerey. go figure
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