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Editor Scientific American
Sir:
Michael Shermer should rename his colum The Credulous Inquirer. To rely on Professor Al Gore, whose PhDs in chemistry and physics, along with his world-famous expertise in climatology, make him the preeminent authority on global warming, to flip ones opinion certainly ranks right up there in the world class of credulity.
Mr. Shermer forgets the fact that 30 years of satellite measurements--corroborated by weather-balloon data--fail to reveal any warming whatever. Worse, he ignores the brevity of human lifetimes. Climate moves on geological timescales. A true skeptic would reply to Mr. Gore's fatuous maunderings, "show me 10,000 years [or better yet 100,000 years] of anchored satellite data, and then we can begin to discuss the question of whether human-caused global warming is taking place."
As for Mr. Sachs' companion piece, "sustainable" is one of those words which should cause a sane man to reach for his six-gun. Both global-warming doomsayers and "sustainability" salesmen are pursuing hidden agendas. The "solutions" to the "problems" they advertise always include bigger government, less freedom, higher taxes, more regulation, and more and bigger bureaucracies. They are attempting to panic governments into taking actions which would never succeed if subjected to a popular vote.

--Boris

"The "solutions" to the "problems" they advertise always include bigger government, less freedom, higher taxes, more regulation, and more and bigger bureaucracies. They are attempting to panic governments into taking actions which would never succeed if subjected to a popular vote."

Astute, profound and extremely relevant!!! He's still "reinventing/re-engineering government!" He's the leading GovernMental EnvironMentalist of the era and a whacko of the new world order!!!

Hey Boris: just one note about your letter. The lowest warming trend from the satellites is 0.13 C /decade. Other groups analyzing the same data find 0.2-0.24 C per decade. The claim that the satellite data doesn't show warming is about four years outdated.

You should have said something about the hockey stick from Mann et al. 1998. Most skeptics are using that now.