Beam me to Planet Gore !
1500 years ago, there was scientific consensus that the earth was flat. 2000 years ago there was scientific consensus that the earth was the center of the universe. In the Iroquois past, there was scientific consensus that we lived on the back of a great turtle. I dont see where todays scientific consensus is much more advanced than any of that.
My skepticism came from hearing nearly 2 decades of ‘global cooling is going to end civilization.’
Remember the big hole in the Ozone layer?
When ‘global cooling’ wasn’t evident — temperatures seemed to be holding steady or slightly rising — the fear tactic changed to ‘global warming is going to end civilization.’
More recently ‘global warming’ doesn’t seem to be happening, so the new mantra is ‘global climate change is going to end civilization.’
It is all a money gimmick — a way of getting governments and organizations to cough up massive numbers of dollars to fund research projects.
Is it because you have a functional brain?
Does anyone remember the “SPACE BLANKET”? Worked on the same principle as the CO2 global warming hypotheses. It was pitched to keep you warm like a sleeping bag. It lasted lest then one season the market.
Predictions have been made by the alarmists, and so far it doesn’t look like any of them are happening. What do they call that kind of phenomenal failure using the verbiage of science?
We’ve had repeated “Ice Ages” that have lasted thousands of years. What caused the cooling? What caused the ice to finally melt? Whatever it was, it had nothing to do with the activities of humans.
Global-warming is a leftist hoax which is being perpetuated for both financial and political reasons.
Why should anyone need to be a "skeptic" about a humongous scam that is already proven to have been based totally on fabricated data?
That's like being a "skeptic" about Bernie Madoff's investment plan.
It's like being a "skeptic" about Hitler's Jewish resorts (this is a much closer analogy to the Global Warming scam than most folks are willing to even consider).
Even a liberal could understand it! And I think it would even piss them off at the appropriate people, and for the right reasons.
FYI - 76 degrees in Sacramento California. We have not turned our AC on yet this year. Not even close.
I became a skeptic of “big green” when they started using scare tactics on children and the ignorant about twenty years ago.
Sometimes it takes a trip abroad properly to ram home just how screwed your country is. And so it proved when, on the deck of a Baltic cruise ship, I first read reports of Scottish Power’s dramatic gas and electricity price rises. Instead of experiencing a wave of fury, as no doubt I would have done at home, what I felt instead was the sort of detached, sardonic amusement an alien might feel on viewing from outer space a once-great civilisation destroying itself over an issue of immeasurable triviality.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100091710/vote-blue-go-green-ruin-britain/