The Global Warming alarmists consistently refuse to publish/release _all_ of the details of their research so that all of the assumptions and details of the analysis can be examined for factuality/reasonableness. It's very easy to create a computer model (which is what this climate research is) and input assumptions to obtain any answer you want. There is great difficulty obtaining meaningful measurements of temperature (and other aspects of climate) going back more that a couple of hundred years when fractions of a degree are important.
Determining the real cause of temperature/climate change is even more difficult. The statement that we should hastily act on a premise that climate change is caused by anthropomorphic atmospheric carbon dioxide, and can be halted by reducing the CO2 in the atmosphere, is very speculative. We run a huge risk that climate change is going to happen anyway, and our economic resources should be spent developing accommodation to the climate change that will occur no matter what. It's quite possible/likely (note that I do not say proven) that the climate change scare is being promoted by those who will profit from the development of alternative sources of energy. The latter is good, if it can be accomplished such that the alternative energy is competitive, but not as an absolute. "Follow the money." We will never become "energy independent." It's not possible. For the same reason that it's not possible to buy our way out of poverty (lift every impoverished person out of poverty by giving him/her money from the government obtained by taxing the rich). The economy is never static. And if we were to become energy independent, we would impoverish those parts of the world whose economies now depend on exporting oil. Why do we want to do that? Fred Holmes At 07:23 AM 3/26/2009, Chris Dunford wrote: >"The global warming alarmists refuse to engage >in the debate, that's how I know it's a hoax." Since climate scientists >consistently respond at length and in detail to GW critics, the decoded >meaning of that comment was, "The global warming alarmists refuse to agree >with me, that's how I know it's a hoax." ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
