Posted on 03/01/2007 5:03:35 PM PST by etradervic
I must confess no small reluctance to address the mania surrounding global warming since it rightly belongs to the purview of science. But since the Ecophobes, who have eagerly fabricated this red herring, have misused Science (assuming it was used at all) to advance a cause that will serve as a distraction from the Left’s failings everywhere else, I thought that I might be forgiven if I broached the subject.
The most notable aspect of the Gore film is that its premise is based upon a lie which is then followed by several deceptions. The film begins by bilking its unfortunate audience into believing that CO2 is the cause of global warming by correlating graphs of CO2 and temperature increases over time. Although increases in CO2 levels have been attendant to increases in global temperature (but not always), science indicates that CO2 increases have lagged increases in global temperature. It is, therefore, more likely that CO2 is an effect of and not the cause of global warming.
After real scientists point to such “inconvenient truths,” one would think that this apostle of an apocryphal apocalypse would pack up his trunk of alchemy and snake oil and hightail it back to Tennessee. Instead, when faced with facts and the lack of their own evidence, Ecophobes will descend to even lower depths of puerile hysteria. Gore has connived in his film to delude its audience into believing that they (and of course evil corporations) are responsible for global warming. Once the causality between CO2 and temperature is debunked, however, the Ecophobes do not have a legitimate argument. Indeed, the warming period that we are enjoying today actually began approximately 18,000 years ago while Al Gore’s Neanderthal ancestor was still laboring to invent the square wheel in an Alpine cave. Like many aspects of nature, climate change is cyclical. Whether it is initiated by Sun Spot volatility or volcanic activity, our planet has, over time, experienced natural cycles of cooling and warming long before the first human appeared.
Your typical Ecophobe will then argue “surely all of this CO2 that we are spewing into the atmosphere must be having some effect!” Maybe, but it does not seem to be causing global warming. Don’t claim that it does unless you have evidence. The burden of proof belongs to those with the preposterous claims - hysterics are no substitute. A casual glance at the graph supplied from the National Center for Atmospheric Research illustrates that the current inter-glacial period appears very similar to the last.
The next graph from NASA demonstrates temperature fluctuation over a very narrow range during the past century. The increase from 1900 to 2000 is a negligible increase of approximately 1 degree. Any Ecofreak who would lose his mind over an increase of 1 degree Fahrenheit during the entire 20th century while the Earth is in an 18,000 year warming cycle could hardly be expected to engage in logical inquiry in order to formulate an objective opinion. Conversely, the puppeteers of global warming propaganda are targeting the weak-minded, gullible minions - the same people who watch Oprah and answer spam email from the Prince of Togo.
My main disappointment is with the scientific community. It is a sorry state of affairs when America's most renown "scientist" is a political reprobate like Al Gore. There has been an ever-growing trend for science to become more and more politicized. The vast majority of climatologists who know that Gore is full of CO2 are largely quiescent. Scientists have been conditioned, whether in the face of the Left’s last lie about AIDS decimating the American population or it's the new fad in String Theory, into compliance. If you are riding the latest wave of Leftist hysteria or amenable to the latest theoretical fancy, you are more likely to be funded. Besides being a corruption of science, it is also a considerable waste of resources – scientific and otherwise.
Another great deception is that global warming is inherently bad. Global warming is evidently, as mentioned previously, a natural phenomena characteristic of the planet’s long-term climate cycle which alternates between glacial and inter-glacial periods. Today, we are thankfully in an inter-glacial period. One day the Earth will be in another glacial period which will send glacial sheets down to Berlin. This will be followed by another warm inter-glacial episode and so forth. What is dangerous and irresponsible is not the Earth’s climate cycles but arrogant bureaucrats who purport to manipulate the Earth’s climate and deviate the Planet from its natural cycle.
The UN attempt to employ the drivel emanating from their shill scientists as a pretext for mandating their ludicrous “global temperature ceiling” betrays the UN as a pandering, corrupt, vacuous organization desperate to control the economies of other nations and the lives of their citizenry. The true purpose behind the global warming Ecophobia is to rouse the leftist rabble. The Left is a failure when it comes to protecting Americans from terrorism, fixing the school system or social security, but they can surely save us all from an AIDS epidemic or a global warming crisis that do not exist. As Rush Limbaugh accurately posited, "the anti-capitalist Left has found a home in the environmental movement." The solutions that the Left proposes to dispel their fanciful visions of cataclysmic climate disaster consists of punishing American business and forfeiting control to central government – all Leftist goals.
No, the con is pretty straightforward.
Is there a reputable online source for "The global temperature has actually DECREASED since 1998."
I don't doubt it, I just need a source, so I can rub some Lefties' noses in it.
Source? Thanks.
Thanks.
"The increase of CO2 is still 95+% natural"
"Source? Thanks."
You can find charts to fit most any argument, but here is one for you:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
There have been numerous charts posted here on FR.
Thanks.
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