Bret Stephens of the WSJ wrote a compelling piece on the most obvious issues with the global warming group-think. Here’s a taste…
The Arctic ice cap may be thinning, but the extent of Antarctic sea ice has been expanding for years. At least as of February, last winter was the Northern Hemisphere’s coldest in decades. In May, German climate modelers reported in the journal Nature that global warming is due for a decade-long vacation. But be not not-afraid, added the modelers: The inexorable march to apocalypse resumes in 2020.
This last item is, of course, a forecast, not an empirical observation. But it raises a useful question: If even slight global cooling remains evidence of global warming, what isn’t evidence of global warming? What we have here is a nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God. This doesn’t mean God doesn’t exist, or that global warming isn’t happening. It does mean it isn’t science.
Compelling. Read the whole thing.
I love this planet. I have always wanted to take care of it. I remember walking along woodland drive as a kid and picking up garbage along the street as I was walking. I enjoy going into the wilderness. I believe that most people feel this way. Liberals are desperate, I know. They will dream up any story to get people to follow along, like global warming. I need to do alot more to take care of this planet, like most of us, but I’m not going to do it because of global warming. I think it would be too little too late already. Don’t we have only a decade maybe two before the planet catches fire. Anyway, I’m not going to do it for that reason. I need to do it anyway and regardless.