If you actually read the “sizzling paper” referred to by this WorldNet report — congratulations! It is highly technical. However, as far as I can tell from a quick reading, it looks very good. Not exactly “sizzling,” though.
The paper by Schwarz brings up some fundamental points about global heat-balance.
There is no doubt that the Global Warming mania has become an industry for grant-writers. You end up with a host of happy researchers working in rather limited areas, all dining off of the proceeds of grants to study “global warming.” Naturally, they must pay lip-service to the alleged threat. Just how much they really believe, we will never know until the movement collapses. It reminds me of all those Chinese who claimed to worship Mao, and the New York Times (in the person of James Reston) proclaimed that no one opposed Mao, and that their reverence was impressive to a good “Presbyterian.” Later, of course, we found that almost no one actually loved Mao, but they are too embarrassed now to lose face by admitting how loathsome he was, and that they all went along out of ignorance or fear.
Global warming reminds me of some of the feeding frenzies of the past, such as the great threat of acid rain. And what about the danger of radon? No one talks about these now unfashionable bugaboos. There actually are some environmental threats, but surely we should be able to tell the real from the unreal. For example, none of the fears I just mentioned are as dangerous as smoking, or human sexual behavior (which is responsible for the spread of AIDS). There is also human political behavior, which has probably caused more harm than all the environmental threats we can imagine.
Very true.
In the 1970s, Russia had thousands of nuclear warheads capable of striking US cities. Liberals saw no threat from the Russian empire. But they found global cooling to be scary.
I think a good definition of wise is knowing what is important. Liberals are foolish, not wise. That is their distinguishing trait.