About time.
Well we do know that CO2 is rising.
We also see what extremely high level of CO2 does to planets (see Venus).
All the same, I don't believe we are causing irreparable damage to the environment. Technology is improving emissions output, and increased plant life will filter out the CO2 in the decades to come.
What about the O-Zone layer, the liberal cause back in the 1980s?
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I'm not sure if that's really a middle stance. The argument is over who should pay the economic cost of controlling greenhouse gas. The liberals say the US should pick up the tab. The conservatives say that there are other nations that produce greenhouse gas, and they're getting a free pass.
The position described here is scientifically bankrupt. It is an admission that the science doesn't support the idea of man-made "climate change" (note that the "global warming" rubric seems to have become passe), but that the facist solutions proposed ought to be followed anyway "just in case", as insurance.
That makes the position also morally indefensible. Either there is a problem or there is not. If there is not, then we should get on with things. If there is a problem, then we need first to understand it, for only then can we fashion an appropriate response. Spending money building a solution that may not only fail to work, but which might actually make things worse, is stupid. To do it because it builds the facist infrastructure and molds the population to a facist mindset is evil.
There is nothing middle-of-the-road about the position outlined in this article. It would be more appropriate to term it bottom-of-the-ditch.
I just checked because that name sounded all too familiar. The Slimes and Columbia University did get one very crucial part of the following right. Care to guess which part?
"A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism (M.S.) and Brown (B.S.), Mr. Revkin taught environmental reporting at the School of Journalism in 1989 and 1990."
I humbly suggest the Bravo Sierra after Brown.
*Why, you condescending, supercilious, smug, arrogant, nasty bowtied b1tchpunk.
Serves me right for reading anything with "NYT" in the header.
I'll present a fourth position, there are a lot more pressing problems in the world than if the average temperature rises a degree or two, even.
Let's worry about the growing threat of world wide Islamo-fascism, then we can take on global warming. I'm more concerned with whether our kids will live under sharia law than I am worried about the oceans rising.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! yeeargh!
The sun is presently the major driving force for climate change.Core samples from the ocean floor measuring precipitating plankton over thousands of years support this fact.
Here is the dose:
Al Gore and his enviro running dogs simply want power to remake the world in their own image. What a bunch of petty tyrants!
He quotes Dr. Pielke: We do have a problem, we do need to act, but what actions are practical and pragmatic?
I would say that a better statement would be: Global Warming is real. It is part of a natural cycle of climate change. Man's activity is having some effect, but it is small and civilization and the biosphere can both easily adapt to these changes.
It is fascinating to me that the leftists all want to blame humans for "global warming". Instead of cutting down on SUVs and all kinds of other nonsense, let's talk about REALLY addressing a cause of "global warming" - the global megalopolis'.
Huge metropoliran areas such as LA, Chicago, New York, Houston, London, Paris, Hong Kong, etc., etc., create a "heat island" effect that raises regional temperatures. If the leftists REALLY want to fight against human-induced global warming, perhaps they should start by tearing down some of these megalopolis' and re-locating the displaced populations elsewhere.
Let's see how well THIS idea goes over.
NY Times. All the news that fits we print. Why bother?
There is reason for us to be good stewards of the earth and I agree that there are things we can do - but I do not believe that we are *causing* global warming. It seems to me that those who present this form of apocalypse are just doomers and gloomers from the far left who are sure we, humanity, are such terrible sinners - that we are near the end of the world.
The heretics will be shouted down by the environmental drama queens. Guaranteed.
Boob-bait for the bubbas. Follow the money.