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August 7, 2007
The Crux of the Matter on "Global Warming"
So Newsweek now instructs us that anyone who denies what our betters tell us about global warming is on a par with 9/11 truthers and UFO chasers.
Ok, they don't actually come out and say that but it's the clear implication. It's this sort of article that made me cancel my subscription to Time and steer clear of newsmagazines in general over 20 years ago. There's simply no line between what's an editorial and what's a news story.
The real truth is that it doesn't really matter whether the earth is warming or not. If it is, there's nothing we can do about it.
Why, you ask? Mario Lewis sums it up
In 1998, Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a key climate adviser to Vice President Al Gore, published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters assessing Kyoto’s potential impacts on global temperatures and sea level rise. Wigley calculated that even if all industrial countries, including the United States, limit their emissions to the Kyoto target (roughly 5 percent below 1990 levels), and do so in perpetuity (no mean feat, since global energy demand, driven by economic and population growth, is growing rapidly), this would avert only 0.07C of global warming and only 1 centimeter of sea level rise by 2050. Such minuscule results would be too small for scientists to detect.Also in 1998, the Energy Information Administration published a study of Kyoto’s potential impacts on U.S. energy markets and the economy. EIA concluded that Kyoto could lower GDP by tens to hundreds of billions of dollars annually, depending on the extent of emissions trading and other variables.
In short, the leading scientific and economic assessments published in 1998 revealed that Kyoto was all pain for no gain.
Exactly.
Posted by Tom at August 7, 2007 7:36 PM
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It is frustrating when the "Man Made Global Warmers" rush past the important part of what's causing it and start yelling out that we need to switch light-bulbs, pass laws, control people, etc. The fact that nothing we do will affect it is funny because nothing we've done has affected it. It just happens.
From 1940 to 1975, the earth was cooling and we had news stories about a new ice age coming. The earth has been much warmer in the past 1000 years when there were far less human emissions.
To me, it looks like it's caused by the earth's orbit cycles combined with the sun's output. Nothing else matches the data so well. Why is this so difficult for people to figure out? Oh yeah - because it's a huge global control-based power grab, that's why. I forgot.
Posted by: rcronk at August 9, 2007 1:53 PM
