I had written this huge piece on Global Warming today because of this article. I have written about this topic ad-nauseam because so many people believe that climate change is a problem without even questioning it. Normally when there is an issue filled with so much ignorance it never goes anywhere. However, extreme environmentalists have made great strides in convincing most of Europe that the problem is real. In one chief example Tony Blair is going to make the issue one of the major topics during the next G8 meeting. Hope still remains the people will finally wake up and see how much disinformation exists on Global Warming.
Michael Crichton, author of “Jurassic Park,? has written a book that cast doubts on the danger of global warming. Obviously the book is fiction so its impact on those that believe in Global Warming will be minimal. Nevertheless the book will do something no one really else has done; challenge the widespread accepted belief.
Speaking on January 28 to a full house at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think-tank, Crichton said he was “very disturbed” by what he learned during three years of researching his book. He said he regretted “how science is being manipulated by political motivations,” how scientific studies are accepted without proof, and how the media prefers alarmism to fact.
Hopefully the book will be successful. Not because of the content of the book itself, but because it will force people to debate the issue. An educated assessment of Global Warming will reveal how flawed and fragile the science is behind the entire theory. There are so many more environment issues that need attention more than climate change. Hopefully with education we can start to get more emphasis on environmental issues that matter.
Although Crichton insists he has no political agenda, the book closely parallels the views of the administration of US President George W. Bush, which also has dismissed scientific reports of global warming and has refused to ratify the Kyoto against climate change.
One last note, here is other great example of political bias injecting itself into an article. What about the scientific reports that say Global Warming is a myth? Mr. Crichton sums this up by stating “the media prefers alarmism to fact.”
Yeah, I’m alarmed alright.
Well ladies and gentlemen the end is truly nigh. According to a new report titled Meeting the Climate Change the global warming threshold may be reached in ten years. I woke up this morning freezing; I wish this whole process would move quicker. I guess we all should just forget about life and plan for the end of the world. Just like people did for global cooling, Y2K, Thomas Malthus, the 7th day Adventist, and the Branch Davidians. Here is just a sample of the madness:
The report says this point will be two degrees centigrade above the average world temperature prevailing in 1750 before the industrial revolution, when human activities – mainly the production of waste gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), which retain the sun’s heat in the atmosphere – first started to affect the climate. But it points out that global average temperature has already risen by 0.8 degrees since then, with more rises already in the pipeline – so the world has little more than a single degree of temperature latitude before the crucial point is reached.
No word on how they account for the higher temperature that scientists know existed two thousand years ago, or larger fluctuations in the Earth’s temperature that have occurred in the last three thousand years. What about the threat of hot air?
The US has already pledged 15 million dollars to the disaster relief in Asia. Obviously this is not enough for those people, but it is twice as much as any other nation will give. The European Union is giving 7 million. So how does the United Nations respond?
“It is beyond me why are we so stingy, really,” the Norwegian-born U.N. official told reporters. “Christmastime should remind many Western countries at least, [of] how rich we have become.”
“There are several donors who are less generous than before in a growing world economy,” he said, adding that politicians in the United States and Europe “believe that they are really burdening the taxpayers too much, and the taxpayers want to give less. It’s not true. They want to give more.”
There you have it. A Norwegian knows exactly how much tax the average American wants to pay. This is another example of how out of touch the UN is with the US. If these people had their way Americans would pay more taxes for everything that they see is damaging. All of these problems can be attributed to the US according to them; Global Warming, petroleum use, wars, and famine. If only we paid more taxes. It does not matter that the US is by far the largest contributor to foreign aid, we excused many third world nations of their debt, and we practically pay for the UN.
Update:U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland backed down from his previous remarks about the United States. Colin Powell laid the smack down ealier today stating Washington was “the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.” We already knew that though didn’t we?
Here is some more rational thinking about global warming. The article also outlines why the Kyoto protocol is such a horrible treaty. While I was in college I used to get strange looks and people thought I was crazy that I did not buy into Global Warming. For the life of me I cannot understand how this issue has become so accepted when there is no scientific proof that the world is at risk. The environment is an important issue, but this gloom and doom has to stop.
Global temperatures were higher in the Roman times when grapes were grown on British islands and Hannibal’s elephants walked through the Alps into Italy. They were higher in the medieval period when the Vikings found and colonised the island that they have called Greenland and when Norwegians grew grain on the fields that are 300m in altitude higher than it is possible to do today.
France’s ‘Little Iraq’
France is having problems in the Ivory Coast their former African colony. They are going in alone and are not asking for help from any other nation. While the French try to impose democracy on the chaotic state they lambaste the President of the United States for doing it in Iraq. France is having it both ways. One wonders what they are really trying to accomplish.
Indeed, a letter from a resident of the Paris region to the editor of the French daily ?Le Figaro? says, ?France is doing in the Ivory Coast what we reproach the Americans for doing.? It is, the writer says ?none other than the unilateralism which we denounce (in Iraq), but of course France loves to give lectures to others.?
Hot Under the Collar
John McCain is making noise again. This time it is about climate change. He obviously feels strongly that something should be done about the suspected problem. I give him props for tackling an unpopular issue amongst his party, but this is the wrong issue to be doing that on. Hopefully he makes more noise about fiscal discipline, taxes, and campaign finance reform. His maverick style can be a greater asset in those areas.
After a McCain climate hearing in September, for example, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian group opposed to regulations as a solution to most environmental problems, described the gathering as “another pep rally to build support for his energy rationing legislation” and said it had “focused on junk science.”
My opinion of climate change is this; there is not enough reliable scientific information to justify radical regulations on our economy. Those that believe steadfastly in global warming have almost created a religion. There can be no reasoning with these advocacy groups that believe global warming is the greatest threat to mankind. The Earth?s temperature has fluctuated up and down for centuries and there is no proof that the continued fluctuations are ?abnormal.?
So we needn’t worry about human use of hydrocarbons warming the Earth. We also needn’t worry about environmental calamities, even if the current, natural warming trend continues: After all the Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without ill effects.
Quote of the Day:
“Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup poll, always feeling one’s pulse and taking one’s temperature. I see [it said that] leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.”
Winston Churchill – 1941
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