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October 21, 2008
We have to do something! Fast!
It's getting colder! That's what Lorne Gunter says in a piece headlined "Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof": In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the environmental movement.No wonder they were in such a hurry to implement Kyoto protocols, the carbon caps and the rest of it. Just think! If they'd gotten the restrictions they wanted when they wanted them, and the planet had cooled as it is now, they'd already be claiming credit! This all begs the question, though.... What are we going to do about Global Cooling? posted by Eric on 10.21.08 at 12:21 AM
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Last May my wife and I were at our son's Little League game in Northern California. It's usually pretty balmy that time of year but we were freezing our a**es off. I said to her "Let's drive our cars around for a while and warm things up." Gary Rosen · October 21, 2008 04:30 AM What to do about cooling, indeed. Cold kills more people than heat, and cold removes farmland, while heat increases it. Climo-tards. Sheesh, they don't even understand the cause they embrace. Hucbald · October 21, 2008 05:15 AM "What are we going to do about Global Cooling?" No matter what the climate does, the progressives will call for a massive bureaucracy controlling every aspect of our lives. Al Gore, though, has no intention of being a bureaucrat: He's studying for the role of Savonarola. pst314 · October 21, 2008 08:18 AM "If they'd gotten the restrictions they wanted when they wanted them, and the planet had cooled as it is now, they'd already be claiming credit!" I hadn't thought of that. It is meant as humor, but that possibility would have been quite likely. We would then have extra expense and behavior management for warming followed by extra expense and behavior management for cooling. The die would have been cast, and we would be doing expensive, useless things to jiggle the climate for the foreseeable future. We dodged the bullet by having just enough skeptics this time around. That's a little scary. Assistant Village Idiot · October 21, 2008 08:45 AM I didn't take it as humor, it seems obvious to me that they would have claimed credit. Fending off the Global Warming crowd may go down as George Bush's greatest acheivement. With defeating Al Queda and bringing Democracy to the Middle East a close second (although if Obama wins the presidency, I imagine he will get an oversized share of the credit for Bush's work there). tim maguire · October 21, 2008 11:03 AM The only reason they're NOT claiming credit is because they haven't completely achieved their goals. If the planet is "saved" by a small percentage of Americans and Europeans making small voluntary lifestyle changes, they can't make EVERYONE give up cars and meat and air travel and babies. (Not to mention developing nations building electric grids to replace dung fuel and encouraging industry and 20th-century farming methods to raise the average standard of living--can't allow that, it's "bad for the Earth.") Heather · October 21, 2008 11:39 AM What are we going to do about Global Cooling? The same thing we were supposed to do about global worming, reduce industrialization and lower our standard of living. Climate change is all people's fault, nevermind the cycles of sunspot activity that correlate with the temperature cycle, it's all about enviro-luddites and people-haters. Veeshir · October 21, 2008 12:32 PM I've been saying for a while we should take a page out of IMAO's book and nuke the sun. ;) Portia · October 22, 2008 12:24 AM Post a comment
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PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!!
The past two years the wheels have begun coming off AGW. That's probably the reason for the increasing, nearly hysterical agitation to DO SOMETHING. But iver ten years ago Al Gore was claiming the situation was os dire we had to take immediate and decisive action even if we didn't have all the data. So what would have happened, as you suggested, had we run off before the data were in? The end result regarding global climate would be the same, but we would have trashed the global economy.