I was a little kid in school 30 years ago, and can remember the fears of the time were that another ice age was taking place
I remember seeing pictures of the first Earth Day "celebrations" and people were holding up signs that said that the next ice age was coming. That was 1974, so apparently we have completely reversed the global climate trend in the last 32 years.
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny
The global warming theory hasn't been held to any rigorous standards of evidence or scrutiny. In fact, it's been just the obvious. I've heard "scientists" say that they don't know if they're right, but we have to act now in case they are right. This is science?
Twentyfive years from now it will be some new disaster they will be warning about
Remember 10 years ago Ted Danson saying that the oceans would be gone in 10 years if we didn't act right then?
To paraphrase Dennis Miller: So the world's average temperature is about 1 degree higher today than it was 100 years ago...100 years ago people were going to the bathroom outside. Forgive me if I don't trust the temperature measuring devices of 100 years ago.
And this from Stanford: Scientists, including Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, have found that the Earth’s global warming, 55 million years ago, may have resulted from the climate’s high sensitivity to a long-term release of carbon. This finding contradicts the position held by many climate-change skeptics that the Earth system is resilient to such emissions. The work, led by Mark Pagani of Yale University, is published in the December 8, 2006, issue of Science magazine.
For some years scientists have known that an ancient global warming event, called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) beginning about 55 million years ago, was caused by a massive release of carbon. The geologic record shows that the ensuing greenhouse effect heated the planet by about 9° F (5° C), on average, in less than 10,000 years. The temperature increase lasted 170,000 years and caused profound changes to the world’s rainfall patterns, made the oceans acidic, and affected oceanic and terrestrial plant and animal life, including spawning the rise of our modern primate ancestors. But understanding just how much carbon was responsible for the temperature increase and where it came from remains elusive.
Mike
