McCain on Global Warming

P.S.: Anyone who might be interested in an excellent rebuttal of the AGW myth, please do see the article Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, by Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson, and Willie Soon of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.

I'm excerpting the article's Abstract, Summary, and Conclusions here:

ABSTRACT
A review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth’s weather and climate. Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased plant growth. Predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in hydrocarbon use and minor greenhouse gases like CO₂ do not conform to current experimental knowledge....
SUMMARY
Political leaders gathered in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 to consider a world treaty restricting human production of “greenhouse gases,” chiefly carbon dioxide (CO₂). They feared that CO₂ would result in “human-caused global warming” — hypothetical severe increases in Earth’s temperatures, with disastrous environmental consequences. During the past 10 years, many political efforts have been made to force worldwide agreement to the Kyoto treaty. When we reviewed this subject in 1998, existing satellite records were short and were centered on a period of changing intermediate temperature trends. Additional experimental data have now been obtained, so better answers to the questions raised by the hypothesis of “human-caused global warming” are now available....
CONCLUSIONS
There are no experimental data to support the hypothesis that increases in human hydrocarbon use or in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing or can be expected to cause unfavorable changes in global temperatures, weather, or landscape. There is no reason to limit human production of CO₂, CH₄, and other minor greenhouse gases as has been proposed.
We also need not worry about environmental calamities even if the current natural warming trend continues. The Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without catastrophic effects. Warmer weather extends growing seasons and generally improves the habitability of colder regions.
As coal, oil, and natural gas are used to feed and lift from poverty vast numbers of people across the globe, more CO₂ will be released into the atmosphere. This will help to maintain and improve the health, longevity, prosperity, and productivity of all people.
The United States and other countries need to produce more energy, not less. The most practical, economical, and environmentally sound methods available are hydrocarbon and nuclear technologies.
Human use of coal, oil, and natural gas has not harmfully warmed the Earth, and the extrapolation of current trends shows that it will not do so in the foreseeable future. The CO₂ produced does, however, accelerate the growth rates of plants and also permits plants to grow in drier regions. Animal life, which depends upon plants, also flourishes, and the diversity of plant and animal life is increased.
Human activities are producing part of the rise in CO₂ in the atmosphere. Mankind is moving the carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas from below ground to the atmosphere, where it is available for conversion into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of this CO₂ increase. Our children will therefore enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life than that with which we now are blessed.

The article is well-researched and copiously referenced. It is effectively a rebuttal of the basic assumptions of the Left progressive AGW myth, and of the "conclusions" drawn therefrom.

Alarmist... just an old nutty alarmist...

I’d like tread what was sent to him.

to read...
Posted to fast.

Where are the “vote for the lesser of two evils” scaremonger contingent?

If that asshole told me “Climate Change” was a hoax, I’d probably have to start wondering if it were real.

Another of our great American leaders speaks. One reason this country is going to hell so fast is that we keep reelecting idiots like this.

My granddaughter (and her grandfather) vigorously agree with Robinson, et al...

Thank you so very much for the excellent article, dearest sister in Christ!

Senator McCain is a perfect example of the surrender of Science to ideology.

Indeed.