Posted on 01/23/2007 8:19:19 AM PST by Valin
I'm in an interesting dilemma. I'm just finishing up a book on global warming and nuclear power. The premise is this:
A. Global warming is a serious problem that should be solved.
B. Nuclear power is the only way we're going to solve it.
It's a simple premise that defies both liberal and conservatives -- fair enough. But ultimately it could get both on the same side. Then we might get something done in the country. Environmentalists hate nuclear but they worry about global warming more. Conservatives pooh-pooh global warming but they do like nuclear power. So maybe we could get going on a nuclear economy that would at least free us from coal (the worst polluter) and maybe eventually cut into our imported oil.
When I came to the chapter on global warming, the argument seemed fairly cut-and-dried. I employed the graph put out by the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change in 2000. It shows global temperatures staying on a very even keel over the last 1,000 years until suddenly jetting upward into unknown territory since 1980. What could be simpler? Global warming is real.
Although I didn't know it at the time, this graph is commonly referred, in good Silicon Valley fashion, to as the "hockey stick."
Two months ago I tested the waters by writing a Spectator.org column called "Endorse Kyoto." As I expected, a lot of people wrote in denouncing me for giving in to the liberals on global warming. What I didn't expect was that many alert readers clued me in to something that has emerged over the last five years -- the hockey stick is a fraud.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Interesting read. Again, another debunking of the global warming hysteria and money-generating sham.
I like it; just come up with your own theory so you can write whatever you want in your book.
Like of like what liberals do all of the time!
I like it; just come up with your own theory so you can write whatever you want in your book.
KIND of like what liberals do all of the time!
Interesting
The author assumes liberals are rational people and are really interested in solving problems. Liberals know that nuclear power is an important key to addressing global warming, but they are not interested. Liberals want to tax Americans and other rich countries and re-distribute the money. It is so dumb, their 'solution' does nothing to reduce global warming. They want power, not solutions.
Might as well state that hurricanes are a problem and we must do something stop them!
Nahh.
Liberals aren't interested in finding safe, clean sources of energy. That would just encourage evil capitalists to keep expanding the economy until it overburdens the earth's fragile ecology.
The answer is to cut back on everything and live a simpler life. The government will of course require a great deal more power to enforce this.
FYI, the famous hockey stick graph is fake. The program runs so that any data entered, even random data or data showing a drop in temperatures, causes the hockey stick to appear.
Sorry, posted before reading all the way down.
Not true. Conservatives pooh-pooh the belief that George W. Bush declining to sign the Kyoto protocalls has somehow accelerated the naturally occuring warming that started about 20,000 years ago, bringing us out of the last ice age 10-12,000 years ago. Conservatives recognize that a small volcanic eruption releases pollution worth many years of coal fired power plant and SUV exhaust, and that human effect though somewhat significant locally is very small in the grand scheme of things.
But, if the moonbats insist on believing it, here is a put up or shut up to use on them. Remember, more Americans have died in Ted Kennedy's car than in all the U.S. nuclear accidents to date.
Carbon overload spells doom and it won't go away until the population starts falling.
The dummies' second worst nightmare is realizing that their #1 uncontrollable irrational fear is 'global warming'.
The ultimate realization that they caused it by opposing nuclear power for the last 40 years will make their heads explode.
Al Gore is speaking here in Sioux Falls, SD tonight on the new economy and global warming. It is snowing and temperatures tonight are predicted in the single digits...below normal for this time of year. The irony is delicious.
Doom for whom? Not anybody I know of.
Carbon overload spells doom and it won't go away until the population starts falling.
/Worldclass sarcasm
There I fixed it for you.
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