Via Dennis Gartman
We have never hidden our antipathy toward those who believe in global warming, for we find their thesis illogical at worst, poorly based on ill-advised facts, and antiprogress.
We have never hidden our antipathy toward those who believe in global warming, for we find their thesis illogical at worst, poorly based on ill-advised facts, and antiprogress.
As we said last week, and as we have said for years, however, we do indeed believe in global climate change. The climate always changes. The world is malleable and its climate has always changed… radically… and it will continue to change into the future. Man’s “imposition” on that change is minimal at best, made all but insignificant when compared to the effects of the sun, gravity, ocean drifts, tectonic plate shifts, et al.
However, what really bothers us are the egregious economic consequences of the demands being made by the likes of Al Gore and other global warming alarmists. The damage they shall wreak upon the US… and the global economy… is shocking, and none of it is good. According to the American Enterprise Institute, as reported in Newsweek magazine this week in George Will’s column, the Waxman-Markey “global warming” legislation, the goal is just slightly more than 1 billion tons of greenhouse-gas emissions in 2050. The last time this nation had that small an amount was 1910, when there were only 92 million Americans, 328 million fewer than the 420 million projected for 2050. To meet the 83 percent reduction target in a nation of 420 million, per capita carbon-dioxide emissions would have to be no more than 2.4 tonnes per person, which is one quarter the per capita emissions of 1910, a level probably last when the population was 45 million--- in 1875.
Forcing the US to accept such nonsense is the very worst of the Luddite-like, anti-business posture of the Left. It is reactionary to the highest degree imaginable, and it is what we call the illogical arch-conservatism of the eco-Left that must be stopped before very real damage can and will be done to the US and the global economy. What do these people smoke? And how often?
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It is amazing to me how many otherwise intelligent people, even engineering types, believe in the man caused climate change propaganda. It just takes a little science to know that the climate is not static, and why do we think that today's temperatures are the best and aught to be maintained at all cost, as if we could maintain them anyway.
My favorite question is always what caused the many ice ages the earth has seen when they certainly can't be blamed on man caused effects. They never answer, they just have these huges numbers of tons of CO2 being released in the atmosphere by evil coal and oil. The numbers sound impressive until you look at the weight and composition of the atmosphere and then they dwarf.
I think the basic problem is lack of belief in God. It causes fear and sets people up for manipulators to prey on the innocent and scare children who love polar bears.
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