0.0001 Of A Nobel For The Environment
11/02/07 10:27am
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for it's work on the environment. This is important because the IPCC report is cited by every Socialist liberal (erroneously) that wants to control every aspect of what you do in your life under the rubric of "saving the planet". Well, John R. Christy, a participant in the IPCC and co-recipient of this years Nobel sees Climate Change™ a little differently than Algore. A few of his points:
~ He sees neither the catastrophe nor the "smoking gun" that says human activity is to blame for the present warming.
~ He discounts that everything is caused by human activity because everything observed has happened before. For example, the Arctic ice cap has shrunk before (and Hippos were swimming in the Thames!)
~ The MSM repeatedly reports on the shrinking Arctic ice cap but ignore record ice build-up in Antarctica (a record maximum since measurements began).
~ The net effect of forcing automobiles to average 43 miles a gallon, if pressed world-wide, would decrease warming by 0.05 degrees by the year 2100. Global temperatures vary more from day to day.
~ Like Bjorn Lomberg [Link], he believes that there are other issues (clean water, child health, HIV/AIDS for example) that far outweigh the task of marginally limiting Global Warming™ in both importance and cost.
Mr. Christy makes other just as important points so an entire read of the article [Article Link] is a must for people that wish to be informed.
And Mr. Christy isn't a local news weatherman or some obscure practitioner of some unrelated field. He is director of the Earth Science Center at the U of Alabama in Huntsville.
So once again, I beg the question: With all of the radical temperature fluctuations through the ages, which climate is the best? At one point they were growing wine grapes in Britain (and Hippos were swimming in the Thames!). At one point glaciers covered our (North America) northern tier. At both of these extremes mankind got along quite well as did animal kind. So, what makes this climate so important that it must be preserved at all costs? What makes the climate we have now the right one?
So please, anybody, if you have the answer to that question drop me a line at sprestek50 @ gmail.com and I'll post it unedited (and anonymously if you like).
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