Leland (my friend):
I read the IPCC's "report". I was unimpressed. Frankly, it reeks of
left-wing politics. From notes on page 18:
"B1... The emphasis is on global solutions to economic, social and
environmental sustainability, including improved equity, but without
additional climate initiatives.
"B2... While the scenario is also oriented towards environmental
protection and social equity, it focuses on local and regional levels."
"economic, social, and environmental sustainability"..."improved
equity"..."social equity"... This is science? Please. It's the same
visceral reaction you and others have to supposedly objective reports
with words like "freedom" and "individual responsibility" and
"liberty" in them. ;)
All this is at bottom is an attempt to use half-clever statistical
ruses and scientific-sounding speculation to make a particular
political platform look like the solution to an imagined boogeyman.
It's neither a new technique nor a particularly hard one to decipher.
The left has simply got the political football after a fumble, and
are pushing hard for the goal line now, is all.
Like I said, I do not deny the "warming" trend ("A truth that's told
with bad intent, beats any lie you can invent."). But I'm not sold on
the "science" behind the theory involving CO2 levels, and I am
alarmed at the tendency to group think these kinds of propaganda
pushes entail. Just looking back over history indicates many periods
of dramatic warming (and cooling) without any input from man. I'm not
saying we aren't a factor; i'm not even saying we aren't a big factor
(esp now that countries like India and China have billions of people
(and millions of cows, who by the way emit more greenhouse gasses
than cars)), but I note that the allegedly "hard" science behind this
is skewed by having only a handful of decades of more-or-less
consistent data. Taking a wider view, we can expect things to even
out. Why, for that matter, it's almost a certainty at some point
we'll suffer another extinction event. So what? Such is life in a
universe where life is very, very rare.
At the end of the day, if this is all the evidence we have to go on
in making huge decisions affecting millions if not billions of
people's livelihoods, then I suggest we recall the last time "almost
everyone agreed" that the intelligence pointed to a gathering, if not
immanent threat.......
So I guess all you global warming people now agree with the policy of
pre-emption as long as it's promoted by the UN and aimed at the US
economy, eh?
Too funny.
<Personal>
BTW, how have you been, Leland? Hope you are well. I've been drowned
in work and in an effort to improve my situation, I'm taking a new
job at the end of this month with ostensibly more humane hours. The
position will be Domain Architect in charge of Application Design &
Frameworks at Publix IS in Lakeland, FL. I might even get to see my
kids once in a while...
</Personal>
;)
- Bob
On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote:
> Below is an article form the Washington Post Bob for your education on
> global warming: In particular you should click on the link towards the
> bottom for the IPCC's report, which is in pdf format.
>
> #--------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Science: Global Climate Report
>
> Juliet Eilperin
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Monday, February 5, 2007; 12:00 PM
>
> There is no longer any reasonable doubt that human activities are
> warming the planet at a dangerous rate, according to a new worldwide
> assessment of climate science released by the authoritative
> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
>
> With at least 90 percent certainty, the IPCC's "Summary For
> Policymakers" concludes human-generated greenhouse gases account for
> most of the global rise in temperatures over the past half century.
> Hundreds of scientists from 113 countries prepared the report, which
> represents the most comprehensive overview of scientific climate
> research since 2001.
>
> http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/
> climate_report_020207.pdf
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2kqdrg
>
> Link to the Washington Post article:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/02/02/
> DI2007020200882.html?referrer=email
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2uvvvb
>
> Regards,
>
> LelandJ
>
>
> Robert Calco wrote:
>> http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm
>>
>> - - -
>>
>> It's nearly impossible to have a rational debate with anybody about
>> this anymore. Personally I don't see any point (and never did see
>> any point) in denying a warming trend lately; but to jump from that
>> point of common ground to Ceterum Censeo about its cause and needed
>> measures to "reverse" it (assuming such a thing is even in our power
>> short of inducing nuclear winter, let alone necessary) is to make a
>> big, huge, monster leap of faith (actually, of two orders of
>> magnitude) based on propositions that are hardly proven and facts
>> that are statistically insufficient to prove them.
>>
>> As with the middle east conflict, all sense of proportion and
>> historical perspective is lost. And so it goes. It is politically
>> expedient to embrace the farce. I'm becoming increasingly anti-
>> political, not just apolitical, as I grow older, and (hopefully)
>> wiser. I don't want to slip into nihilism, but it's hard to take
>> anybody seriously anymore.
>>
>> It's hard to avoid the sense that 'global warming' is just a scare
>> tactic for the old left to regain its political footing and put our
>> wallets on the table for demagogues to snatch. Meanwhile the real
>> menace, radical Islam, gets a morale booster courtesy of our
>> Congress, rushing into the military equivalent of Kyoto with their
>> insane seppuku posturing on Iraq.
>>
>> Oh well. As with every disaster, natural or man-made: "And this too
>> shall pass."
>>
>> - Bob
>>
>>
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