tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18376180.post115932212115272666..comments2023-12-15T00:28:13.378-08:00Comments on Federalist Society -- University of Washington Chapter: Senator Inhofe Obliterates Global Warming Scare MongersJuvenalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13395140346798161677noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18376180.post-1159390842430369872006-09-27T14:00:00.000-07:002006-09-27T14:00:00.000-07:00Man - always bustin' my [chops].Al Gore did indeed...Man - always bustin' my [chops].<BR/><BR/>Al Gore did indeed make such an utterance, as quoted in this <A HREF="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/REVIEWS/60517002/1023" REL="nofollow">unintentionally hilarious Roger Ebert review</A> of "An Inconvenient Truth." No wonder <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37397-2000Mar18" REL="nofollow">Gore got worse grades than Bush in college...</A>Orrin Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10382255042012493580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18376180.post-1159385350303999512006-09-27T12:29:00.000-07:002006-09-27T12:29:00.000-07:00No - it says outright that the purported consequen...No - it says outright that the purported <B>consequences</B> of the climate change (change fully acknowledged to be occuring) have been exagerated, lied about, and used as the basis for costly and useless legislation. It does <B>not</B> say that <I>current climate changes</I> are nothing more than media sensationalism and leftist propoganda, it says (not implies) that the <I>predicted catastrophes</I> - reported as fact - are. And I think that is beyond dispute.<BR/><BR/>Nothing you've clarified runs counter to the Senator's claims, with the possible exception fo the "science fiction" quote-or-paraphrase question. He says not that Arctic conditions are not warmer than average, but that they are cooler or similar to conditions that existed in the '30s - before Karl Rove started issuing Suburbans to Red Staters. And the Greenland evidence refutes contentions that the ice changes there are either catastophic OR are being caused by artificial means.<BR/><BR/>Nowhere does Inhofe say that we haven't had a warm century - in fact, he points to it as a probably good thing by pointing out that during this period of warming we have seen tremendous gains in human health, food production, etc.<BR/><BR/>It is a Sacred Cow amongst the left that any environmental change from what existed in whatever year they turned 10 years old is per se bad, that global warming is due solely to Republicans in SUVs, that it is necessarily catastophic, and that it is a moral imperative to pass feel good laws like Kyoto whether they do anything or not. The Senator's speech correctly butchers those Cows, without saying that the climate is anything other than what it is - a dynamic force about which we have a lot left to learn, but that we can rest assured isn't going to reduce us all to "a few breeding pairs at the poles" (as Al Gore predicted) any time soon. And that is most definitely NOT nonsense.Orrin Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10382255042012493580noreply@blogger.com