A recent Gallop pole conducted in July 2009 indicates that 59% of Americans now believe Global Warming is real. This compares to
I’ve read articles recently such as “More Doubts about Global Warming” , “Nature Responsible for Global Warming and many others being pushed by conservatives. A growing number of people think the entire Global Warming issue is a huge scam to fleece 100’s billions dollars from tax payers, what do you think?
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July 29th, 2009 on 8:17 am
I think that the ‘disconnect’ within the debate is because there are actually two issues at work here:
Global Warming and Anthropogenic Global Warming.
This “…Nature is responsible for global warming..” that you claim is being “pushed by conservatives” is also being “pushed” by the proxy climate data. It is undeniably true that the earth’s climate has warmed and cooled before (many times) prior to man’s ascendancy into the industrial age. It is, therefore, quite plausible that nature (and nature alone) is responsible for our current warming trend. A trend, by the way, that may prove to be ephemeral at best.
To attempt to induce a tax penalty regime with global reach that could effect every man, woman and child in the entire world is serious business, imo. That the end effect of this “protocol” (estimated at a cost to be in excess of $16 Trillion for Kyoto #1) for a projected reduction in temperature that is ten times smaller than our ability to measure as an ‘Average Global Mean’ simply smacks of politics….not science.
Add to this the subtle change in the talking points from “global warming” to the far less descript “climate change” (at about the time that the temperature increase began to level off and trend the other way) and you’ve just pegged the needle on any rational person’s “bullsh*t meter”.
Clearly there is too much of politics and not enough of science from both sides of the debate. Your depiction of a known scientific fact as being something that is simply being “pushed by conservatives” is a clear demonstration of this. That alone should be a warning sign.
There is credible evidence that the planet is warming. Most people are convinced that this may actually be the case. There is no credible evidence that measures such as Kyoto can stop it…or….that man is actually responsible for a warming signal above and beyond natural variation. More than this….there is no credible evidence that a 2 degree rise in temperature (should it occur)would be a bad thing.
Regardless…before we surrender the entire world’s economic future (and our personal liberties) to a bunch of politicians at the U.N., we had damn well better find out for certain whether we caused it, is it a bad thing and, more importantly, if we can turn it back.
And..those answers are not going to come from politicians.