At American Thinker, Thomas Lifson observes that the heat is now being turned up on the proponents of anthropogenic global warming theory:
Warmist hysteria is starting to become brittle in the face of freezing cold weather, and 11 years of falling global temperatures. Even the BBC is asking awkward questions. Al Gore and the Society of Environmental Journalists cuts off the mic when Gore can't deal with the weakness of his drowning polar bear thesis under questioning [here].
It’s getting downright embarrassing to be a warmist. Thus Stanford University's Stephen Schneider, a leading warmism advocate must be doubly humiliated to find his 1978 appearance on the television show ‘In Search of...’ appearing on YouTube. Back then the good professor was alarmed about the coming ice age.
And doubtless will be again ere long...
You’d have to have a heart of Arctic ice not to laugh.
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Thatcher-right
October 14th, 2009 12:00amIn geological terms we're overdue for another ice age.
C. Gee
October 14th, 2009 12:05amYet the juggernaut of regulation rolls on...
Roger K
October 14th, 2009 12:44amAt last real science begins to break through and the myths and witchcraft of the dark ages starts to break up. Hooray!
But will this change the agenda? I think not. There has been too much invested in the false science with reputations and large corporations have bought into it now as away of furthering profits. More significantly governments and politicians have used both the fear factor and the religous ardore as a means of control in every aspect of our lives. Read Michael Crichton's "State of Fear"
The emissions taxation will still be delivered by Copenhagen in December as way of ultimately funding the U.N. by taxing the populace directly with out recourse to an individual country's government. The fight will go on.
mcmrjp
October 14th, 2009 12:07pmYesterday Poland had its first snows of the winter. No doubt due to global warming!
JohnW
October 14th, 2009 4:55pmI have a book "The Climate Threat", published in 1978 and which examines the then-current theory about Global Cooling.
I guess these things (as in the climate itself) go in cycles. Maybe the reprint will come out in 2038. Of course the tax-you-till-you-drop climate alarmists have it covered both ways, having now morphed from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" warriors!
Augustus
October 14th, 2009 10:37pmBack in the early 1990s, when the Earth was going through of period of warming (1979-1998), it may have been a reasonable question to ask: Is there a risk of damage from human-caused
climate change? But after spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and nearly two decades researching the matter, we now know that the answer is that any effect on global warming caused by humans is immeasurably small and possibly imaginary. But what is a certainty is the gross socio-economic damage which is already resulting from widespread global warming activism. Should we all become foolish enough to give in to the
warmaholics demands real doom and gloom scenarios will indeed come true. It is simply not possible to run modern industrialised societies on airy-fairy energy sources such as wind power and solar power, futile and expensive carbon taxation measures and suchlike. The increasing cost of energy which this global warming rhetoric causes - while planet Earth's climate simply continues on its majestic and merry way - are slower rates of economic growth, and less prosperity (especially for poor people), than would otherwise be the case if the whole global propaganda campaign had never been started.