Free Thinkers and Climate Change
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A graph showing the little-talked-about Medieval Warm Period (AD 800-1300) when global temperature rose despite the lack of SUVs. |
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Here’s what bothers me the most about the whole global warming controversy: Anybody who challenges the accepted theory is treated as a radical extremist.
Even after hackers broke into the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and extracted thousands of very suspicious documents suggesting that the global warming crisis is a hoax… anybody who says, “Hey, isn’t this a little incriminating? Shouldn’t we look into this more?” is treated like a “conspiracy theorists” or as “climate change deniers.”
In fact that’s exactly how science reporter, Bob McDonald referred to such people in the opening sentence of his recent article Climate Science is Still Sound.
There seems to be so much emotional identification with issues such as a global warming and peak oil that I think the objective scientific approach has been lost.
Has the earth warmed? Yes. It seems so.
Is it going to continue to get warmer? Hard to say. Maybe. Maybe not. Notice how they’ve stopped calling it “global warming” and started calling it “climate change.”
Is global warming life-threatening? Sure if it gets hot enough.
But what about a slight temperature change? History would suggest it does not signal the end of the human race. From AD 800-1300 temperatures rose significantly. It’s known as the Medieval Warm Period. Atlantic ice melted and the Vikings crossed over to Newfoundland.
Is global warming caused by carbon dioxide? Maybe. Maybe not. Remember that without carbon dioxide there would be no life on earth. Plants live off the stuff. The surfaces of Mars and Saturn’s moons have also increased in temperature. That would suggest that not SUVs but some greater astronomical force is to blame (like the sun!).
Is there big money to be made by global warming? You bet. And people like Al Gore are set to make a ton from various green technologies. (see Al Gore Set To Become First “Carbon Billionaire”).
All I’m saying here is stop giving people derogatory titles like “conspiracy theorists” when all they are doing is asking intelligent questions about this important subject.
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