There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

[JBMoney]

Telegraph (UK) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html) - For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

...In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say "how silly to judge climate change over such a short period". Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming. Tosh. Our devotee will also pass by the curious additional facts that a period of similar warming occurred between 1918 and 1940, well prior to the greatest phase of world industrialisation, and that cooling occurred between 1940 and 1965, at precisely the time that human emissions were increasing at their greatest rate. - Whole Story (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html)

[BCP]

Shhh, questioning global warming is crimethink.

[Spaz59]

No facts.
No sources.
Complete Bull trotted off by someone so he can get his name in the papers.

[JBMoney]

Yeah!!! Why isn't he running for office?

[Merch]

Telegraph (UK) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html) - For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Whole Story (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html)
I suggest that everyone read Michael Crichton's State of Fear, an excellent read. In spite of the book being a fictional adventure story (a real page turner) State of Fear examines the entire global warming hoax. It shows that 1) global warming approaches are about control, not amelioration; 2) the word global has never been globally supported by world-wide measurements but rather is pick-and-choose junk science, e.g., heat islands in growing city population centers are purposely chosen to confound rather than edify; and local phenomena of rising temperatures is land-use-overdevelopment rather than being caused by world-wide greenhouse gasses. The book makes it clear that, the CO2 level in the atmosphere could double, triple, quadruple what it is now, and still not create global warming.

Furthermore, if there is a crisis, it is one of overpopulation rather than energy usage. Both the Left and Religious Right do not wish to grapple with overpopulation--the Left wants overpopulation because the Left wants mob rule, and the Religious Right wants overpopulation because it believes in the divinity of the human being, so wants to flood the earth with humans.

If we do not curb overpopulation, all these controls by the elites to limit the non-elites’ energy usage will be like re-arranging the seats on the Titanic.

[Ether_Elemental]

well, lets just hope that its both of those extremes that find themselves in a titanic. i'm pretty sure they'll find they feel much cooler when their ship sinks in iceberg-cold water. :nolike:

thinking about it, IF they both found themselves on the same ship, that'd constitute some paradox in nature wouldn't it? wouldn't something like that tear a hole in the fabric of space and time?

[shotglass]

Thanks for reminding me of that book, Merch. Been meaning to read that one. I love Crighton books.

[mark717]

...it is a conspiracy by petroleum companies to get rid of competition...get these greenies and hippies behind environmental groups to lobby the government to maintain their monopoly by not allowing the building of new refineries and constrict supply...also the uneconomical production of bio fuels...which guess what? Cost 2-4 times more, even use fossil fuels in their production and still produce CO2