Posted on 11/26/2007 5:25:19 PM PST by milwguy
The scare over global warming, and our politicians' response to it, is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded.
This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.
On the other hand, we had Gordon Brown last week, in his "first major speech on climate change", airily committing his own and future governments to achieving a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 - which is rather like prime minister Salisbury at the end of Queen Victoria's reign trying to commit Winston Churchill's government to achieving some wholly impossible goal in the middle of the Second World War.
Mr Brown's only concrete proposal for reaching this absurd target seems to be his plan to ban plastic bags, whatever they have to do with global warming (while his government also plans a near-doubling of flights out of Heathrow).
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Don't you mean "Piece" (of work) Prize winner?
Buy stock in Long John manufacturers. Maybe all the "undocumented" immigrants from points south (but still north of the equator) will find the new climate not to their liking, and their place in the south and southwest, including southern California, can be taken by the people of Northern European ancestry displaced from the "northern tier" states, not to mention the Canucks. Maybe we'll have to illegally immigrate to Mexico, maybe about 100,000,000 of us.
You don’t understand. Global warming is a proven fact, regardless of which way the temperatures go.
Banning plastic bags... sounds perfect... the so-called renewables are made from agricultural products, and we have a few acres in corn here in the US. :’)
Pseudo science rules our culture these days. Start with a theory and then interpret all facts to fit into it, ignoring the facts that don’t and demonizing those who want to talk about those facts.
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