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December 17, 2006
So Much For Consensus
Anyone who believes there really is a consensus among scientists that people are causing disastrous global warming might want to take a timeout from the MSM's hysterical shrieking and visit the Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - Global Warming Petition Project.
The Project's summary:
World leaders gathered in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 to consider a world treaty restricting emissions of ''greenhouse gases,'' chiefly carbon dioxide (CO2), that are thought to cause ''global warming'' severe increases in Earth's atmospheric and surface temperatures, with disastrous environmental consequences. Predictions of global warming are based on computer climate modeling, a branch of science still in its infancy. The empirical evidence actual measurements of Earth's temperature shows no man-made warming trend. Indeed, over the past two decades, when CO2 levels have been at their highest, global average temperatures have actually cooled slightly.
To be sure, CO2 levels have increased substantially since the Industrial Revolution, and are expected to continue doing so. It is reasonable to believe that humans have been responsible for much of this increase. But the effect on the environment is likely to be benign. Greenhouse gases cause plant life, and the animal life that depends upon it, to thrive. What mankind is doing is liberating carbon from beneath the Earth's surface and putting it into the atmosphere, where it is available for conversion into living organisms.
Al Gore and friends really ought to go back to fretting about the next ice age; it was a lot scarier. Scarier still are real threats to our environment: Iran getting nukes, for example.
On a tip from Don H.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 17, 2006 10:15 AM
Comments
It doesn't matter whether there's a consensus or not. Scientific issues are decided by dispositive data, not by a show of hands. One man with such dispositive data trumps 100,000 wankers with opinions.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2006 12:08 PM
On a related note, the Gult of Gaia demands that Global Warming Skeptics, be called and treated like Holocaust Deniers. No, not in the sense of being feted at an International Conference in Teheran, but "professional ostracism, belittlement, ridicule and, even, jail."
I think V the H may have had a thread on "Global Warming Deniers" earlier this year.
Posted by: V the K at December 17, 2006 12:38 PM
