My stance with global warming is thus:
1) There was global warming and it looks as though we are now in a cooling trend. All that Arctic Ice that was suppose to disappear this year all came back and then some. BTW: Polar bears can swim very, very well. 30 - 80 km.
2) I do not believe that it is a man-made phenomenon. If we have any impact it is minimal. The Sun is our ONLY heat source and 99.9% of the mass in our galaxy. When it stops no amount of cow farts will fight off the glaciers.
3) There are so many charlatans about pumping the hysteria and selling their snake oil. Al Gore, bio fuels, overblown wind farm and solar power energy production, and carbon credits....stage front please.
4) Leading eviro-loonies say really
stupid things:
Porritt’s call will come at this week’s annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron.
The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably.
- Cut the population how? Forced migration? Culling? Why don't they put a gun to their own heads and save us their stupidity.
5) Top
climate scientists, along with the
media, are habitual "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE AND IT IS ALL OUR FAULT" screamers.
1970's -
Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A.
Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
James Hansen a year ago (now advisor to Obama) -
On June 23, 1988 I testified to a hearing, organized by Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado, that the Earth had entered a long-term warming trend and that human-made greenhouse gases almost surely were responsible. I noted that global warming enhanced both extremes of the water cycle, meaning stronger droughts and forest fires, on the one hand, but also heavier rains and floods.
6) Hypocrites: David Diesel (I own 2 mansions) Suzuki and Al "My house and private jets rock" Gore.
7) Dogma Nazis: Yes I am a skeptic but that does not mean I am shoving crude oil down my drains. Being a skeptic doesn't make you environmentally unfriendly.