Posted on 11/17/2005 7:59:13 AM PST by SmithL
THERE IS A MYTH in the American media. It goes like this: The good scientists agree that global warming is human induced and would be addressed if America ratified the Kyoto global warming pact, while bad heretical scientists question climate models that predict Armageddon because they are venal and corrupted by oil money.
A Tuesday Open Forum piece in The Chronicle, written by a UC Berkeley journalism professor and a UC Berkeley energy professor, provided a perfect example of this odd view that all scientists ascribe to a common gospel: "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a U.N.-sponsored group of more than 2,000 scientists from more than 100 countries, has concluded that human activity is a key factor in elevated carbon-dioxide levels and rising temperatures and sea levels that could prove catastrophic for tens of millions of people living along Earth's coastlines." The piece also cited research by "Naomi Oreskes, a science historian at UC San Diego, who reviewed 928 abstracts of peer-reviewed articles on climate change published in scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 and could not find a single one that challenged the scientific consensus that human-caused global warming is real."
The authors then attacked best-selling author Michael Crichton because Crichton accepted an invitation to testify from Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., "who is heavily supported by oil and gas interests" and who -- horrors -- dared to ask whether the global-warming scare is a hoax. That is the sort of McCarthyist guilt-by-association that one would not expect to encounter in the name of science.
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If we believe that we had an ice age on this planet we have had "global warming" for what, 1 Billion years now?
There's nothing quite like the opportunity to make more money on less production.
we've been warming for 12 to 15 thousand years, with several small dips back towards glaciation - the most recent such cool spell ended in the 1800's IIRC
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The scientific theory surrounding Kyoto is like shark science.
We know there are sharks out in the sea. What are the odds that one person wading in the water will be bitten by a shark, when millions of other people are swimming in the ocean at the same time?
There are so many variables in the models surrounding the global warming theory the odds of impending doom cannot be verified with any accuracy.
But be forewarned once again....... costal areas are dangerous places to live. Mankind has known of countless dangers since the beginning of time. Does alleged global warming increase the odds of peril enough to justify the knee jerk reactions science says are necessary to prevent danger?
Nope.
Carbon Dioxide emmissions in the US are going down, and have been for years. Can the same be said for any Kyoto signitory country? Besides Russia, of course, which is an economic basket case...
I was there. Crichton and William Gray rocked on Tuesday night.
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