Saturday, August 09, 2008

Expect the Gorean Inquisition

Global warming is a pet peeve of mine. I just can't get worked up about it.

I don't accept that temperatures are going up in anything meaningful in the long run (temperatures rise and fall over the decades and centuries).

I don't accept that man is necessarily to blame for the rise measured since the late 1970s. I suspect the big hot thing up in the sky, actually.

And I sure don't accept the socialistic solutions that the global warming true believers insist are the only thing standing between us and doom.

And funny enough, the global warming nonsense is showing cracks, perhaps much like the new Ice Age belief showed cracks in the 1970s:

In a May issue of Nature, evidence about falling global temperatures forced German climatologists to conclude that the transformation of our planet into a permanent sauna is taking a decade-long hiatus, at least. Then this month came former greenhouse gas alarmist David Evans's article in The Australian, stating that since 1999 evidence has been accumulating that man-made carbon emissions can't be the cause of global warming. By now that evidence, Evans said, has become pretty conclusive.

Yet believers in man-made global warming demand more and more money to combat climate change and still more drastic changes in our economic output and lifestyle.

The reason is that precisely that they are believers, not scientists. No amount of empirical evidence will overturn what has become not a scientific theory but a form of religion.


Superstition and enthusiasm. That pretty much sums up the global warmers. Now that is scary.

Don't say we weren't warned about the nuts.