...but when it's crazy hot, not a peep about climate change!***
*Nevermind that the issue is "global climate change"
**Nevermind how childish it it is to use a single season to try and negate a long term trend.
***Did I mention Matt Drudge is a smug asshole?
I've never been a believer in global warming...at least that humans have anything to do with it. I think humans can create small ripples in the climate...short term changes, but nothing long term.
ReplyDeleteWe've only been recording temperature in this country for about 200 years, nothing long enough to show any kind of meaningful trend on a planet as old as this one.
Lets also not forget that just 20 years ago the same folks claiming global warming, were talking global cooling and stating the same reasons that they use to justify global warming today.
It's all political. As with everything on this planet, follow the money.
Are the ice caps melting? Yes. Should they be melting? Yes. This planet has been in a constant state of change since it's birth. Species have been dieing off, and new ones evolving forever. Does it suck that we might lose some rare breed of sea lion...sure. Is that necessarily a bad thing? I don't think so.
That's my two cents on the subject.
The biggest mistake scientists have made was to call it Global Warming way back when. That term is no longer used. It's Climate Change, noting that some areas will be warmer, and some cooler. The key point is that this change is happening much, much faster than long term historical patterns would suggest. I can follow the money, too: back to oil companies and other MNC's whose interests are threatened by the science of climate change and the prospects of tighter regulations.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to side with the scientific community on this one:
National and international science academies and scientific societies have assessed the current scientific opinion, in particular on recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed or endorsed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) position of January 2001 which states:
An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system... There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.[1]
No scientific body of national or international standing has maintained a dissenting opinion; the last was the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, which in 2007 updated its 1999 statement rejecting the likelihood of human influence on recent climate with its current non-committal position.[2][3] Some other organizations, primarily those focusing on geology, also hold non-committal positions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change