The Standard Freeholder published an article that states the obvious.
The current debate about global warming is "completely irrational," and people need to start taking a different approach, say two Ottawa scientists.
Carleton University science professor Tim Patterson said global warming will not bring about the downfall of life on the planet.
Patterson said much of the up-to-date research indicates that "changes in the brightness of the sun" are almost certainly the primary cause of the warming trend since the end of the "Little Ice Age" in the late 19th century. Human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the gas of concern in most plans to curb climate change, appear to have little effect on global climate, he said.
"I think the proof in the pudding, based on what (media and governments) are saying, (is) we're about three quarters of the way (to disaster) with the doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere," said Patterson. "The world should be heating up like crazy by now, and it's not. The temperatures match very closely with the solar cycles."
The article goes on to state that Tom Harris of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project endorses Patterson's findings and that:
"The media takes (inconclusive) information that only suggests there could be a climate problem and turns it into an environmental catastrophe," said Harris.
"They continually say we only have 10 years left, and they've been saying it for 20 years, and it's ridiculous," he said. "The only reason I got involved in talking to media is that I think our resources are being mismanaged.
The so-called skeptics and deniers have been taking it on the chin because we say "slow down, the argument isn't over, as you claim."
I would like to see one of the proponents of global warming layout in simple terms what they want to see happen, e.g., draconian taxes on growth, Chinese-like limits on family growth, doing away with cars, etc.
Let's get the real agenda out there for people to see.
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Comments: 8
In the '70's they were hysterically trying to dupe everyone into this populaiton explosion catastrophe that the hard all knowing science of the day staed that by the 1980's we would be starving and on the verge of extinctiion.
Don't look anything like that now does it.
The comments speak for themselves as a representative of the far left.
Please keep posting, Mr. BlownApart.
She even open talked about supporting banning cars if it became "necessary."
All of a sudden, he was against it. Why? Well, the real reason was he didn't want his view ruined. His public reason was it was a government giveaway of natural resources.
What I believe the planet does as part of its natural cycle and what I think we should do to keep a clean and healthy environment is apart from using these issues as vehicles to destroy our freedom, our capitalist society, our ability to further progress.
Please give me a hydrogen powered muscle car and I will sell off my Corvette, please give me more nuke plants and I will be glad to see coal and oil fired generators go by the wayside.
But don't bother me with politically hidden agendas , that is all this global warming hullabaloo is about, nothing more nothing less
I remember the first time I ever heard of global warming was in 1976 there was a article from some of the same loony scientist and they were pushing that in the year 2000 the global temps would be at highs so great that New York would be at the same as Miami. Well I'm no scientist but it doesn't snow in feet in Miami at any time. The records of past global temps just don't go back far enough to form any such claims nor can they back it up with any science known to man! A scientist let it slip out the temp has move up .001 degrees over the past 100 years. Sounds like global warming to me!