Columnist Responds To My Big Question™
02/16/08 10:27pm
Well, I finally got a Global Warmest (Human Induced variant) to answer my Big Question™. For those of you who are not familiar with my Big Question Quest™, I have distilled, what I believe to be the seminal question about Global Warming™, into a few easy to understand sentences that most any moron can answer. If they know the answer that is (I sure don't know what it is). No mind numbing twenty-five cent words from academia. Just some common sense. I have been asking this question around quite a bit, to different journalists and pundits, through postings on blogs or direct communication vie e-mail. And have yet to get an answer . . . until a few days ago from a columnist working for Seattle’s preeminent leftist daily - the Seattle P.I. From none other than (drum roll please) politics and public affairs columnist Joel Connelly. Mr. Connelly has written a number of times about Human Induced Global Warming™ and frankly, the guy doesn’t really get it, apparently parrotting whomever/whatever sounds good to him. But the important part is that he thinks he gets it. Without further ado, my e-mail to Joel:
Joel, The climate has been warming and cooling since the dawn of time. Nothing we are experiencing today hasn't happened before. At one space in time they were growing wine grapes in the UK. At another space in time the Brits were skating on the Thames. Through it all mankind, human kind and plants got along just fine. It is also fact that humans, animals and plants survive warmer weather much better than cold.
So, knowing that long term variations in climate are a given what makes present day environmentalists like yourself, so sure that this climate we have right now is the right one? Knowing that nothing we are experiencing today climate-wise hasn't happened before, what facts show that this climate should be preserved at all costs?
Sincerely,
Lo and behold, Mr. Connelly (quite quickly, must have got him at a good time) responded in typical leftist fashion, not with facts or logic but name calling (I'm a “new Holocost denier”):
Extreme arrogance does not excuse ignorance. Just take a look at our forests and glaciers, at recent fires and heat waves and early season storms, at the melting of the polar ice cap and the movement of species. Global warming deniers are the new Holocaust deniers, but more dangerous . . . One group denies what's about to happen, the other refuses to acknowledge what has happened.
Jc
Some of you may notice that Joel didn’t answer the question. I responded directly:
It seems that you cannot read. Or if you did read it you did not understand. I have not denied anything about global warming. We have also had the coldest temperatures on record. The Antarctic ice pack is the thickest since records keeping began. Any scientist will tell you that wild fires have little to do with global warming. You need to use proper examples. Will you answer the question or not?
Regards,
So here I sit. A few days now, waiting for Mr. Connelly to respond. When he does I will update this post. I'm hopeful. Maybe he'll get some big wig at the university to give him some ammunition.
UPDATE: As of today, 6/20/08, Mr. Connelly hasn't replied. Not that I really expected him to at this point. As soon as I get some spare time I will pester him again and see what he says.
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