Go find another planet to pollute and have a big money and sex orgy. shempmcgurk wrote:
>Chill out over global warming >By David Harsanyi >Denver Post Staff Columnist > > > > > > > >You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent >in a free society. > >Why not give it a whirl? > >Start by challenging global warming hysteria next time you're at a >LoDo cocktail party and see what happens. > >Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts >me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists >who want to craft public policy around global warming fears. > >The only inconvenient truth about global warming, contends Colorado >State University's Bill Gray, is that a genuine debate has never >actually taken place. Hundreds of scientists, many of them prominent >in the field, agree. > >Gray is perhaps the world's foremost hurricane expert. His Tropical >Storm Forecast sets the standard. Yet, his criticism of the global >warming "hoax" makes him an outcast. > >"They've been brainwashing us for 20 years," Gray says. "Starting >with the nuclear winter and now with the global warming. This scare >will also run its course. In 15-20 years, we'll look back and see >what a hoax this was." > >Gray directs me to a 1975 Newsweek article that whipped up a >different fear: a coming ice age. > >"Climatologists," reads the piece, "are pessimistic that political >leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic >change. ... The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will >they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become >grim reality." > >Thank God they did nothing. Imagine how warm we'd be? > >Another highly respected climatologist, Roger Pielke Sr. at the >University of Colorado, is also skeptical. > >Pielke contends there isn't enough intellectual diversity in the >debate. He claims a few vocal individuals are quoted "over and over" >again, when in fact there are a variety of opinions. > >I ask him: How do we fix the public perception that the debate is >over? > >"Quite frankly," says Pielke, who runs the Climate Science Weblog >(climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu), "I think the media is in the ideal >position to do that. If the media honestly presented the views out >there, which they rarely do, things would change. There aren't just >two sides here. There are a range of opinions on this issue. A lot >of scientists out there that are very capable of presenting other >views are not being heard." > >Al Gore (not a scientist) has definitely been heard > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >----------- >Advertisement > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >----------- > > > > >- and heard and heard. His documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," is >so important, in fact, that Gore crisscrosses the nation destroying >the atmosphere just to tell us about it. >"Let's just say a crowd of baby boomers and yuppies have hijacked >this thing," Gray says. "It's about politics. Very few people have >experience with some real data. I think that there is so much >general lack of knowledge on this. I've been at this over 50 years >down in the trenches working, thinking and teaching." > >Gray acknowledges that we've had some warming the past 30 years. "I >don't question that," he explains. "And humans might have caused a >very slight amount of this warming. Very slight. But this warming >trend is not going to keep on going. My belief is that three, four >years from now, the globe will start to cool again, as it did from >the middle '40s to the middle '70s." > >Both Gray and Pielke say there are many younger scientists who voice >their concerns about global warming hysteria privately but would >never jeopardize their careers by speaking up. > >"Plenty of young people tell me they don't believe it," he >says. "But they won't touch this at all. If they're smart, they'll >say: 'I'm going to let this run its course.' It's a sort of mild >McCarthyism. I just believe in telling the truth the best I can. I >was brought up that way." > >So next time you're with some progressive friends, dissent. Tell 'em >you're not sold on this global warming stuff. > >Back away slowly. You'll probably be called a fascist. > >Don't worry, you're not. A true fascist is anyone who wants to take >away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike. > >David Harsanyi's column appears Monday and Thursday. 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