The Regeneration Project
and the Interfaith Power and Light campaign
"A religious response to global warming"
Donate and feel "very happy" about your life.
Posted on 11/10/2009 10:09:35 AM PST by Lorianne
Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.
Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" -- man-made climate change to you and me -- and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.
It is, of course, not new to have a highly qualified scientist saying that global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon with many precedents in history. Many have made the argument, too, that it is rubbish to contend human behaviour is causing the current climate change. And it has often been well argued that it is totally ridiculous to suppose that changes in human behaviour -- cleaning up our act through expensive slight-of-hand taxation tricks -- can reverse the trend.
(Excerpt) Read more at vancouversun.com ...
As if we didn’t already have enough problems with the old ones.
Would someone please send a copy of this to each member of congress, in order to clue them in to why they are not going to be re-elected?
Hubby read this book,”Heaven and Earth”, and said it had some really good science in it, but could have been improved, and the point made more clearly, with better editing.
ping for later
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