Scaremongering won't help us deal with climate issue
- Source: Global Times
- [21:12 December 20 2009]
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The e-mails suggest that some scientists were doctoring research data to fit their own global warming theories.
A recent Rasmussen poll found that 59 percent of Americans believe it "somewhat likely" that the climate warmists were cooking the books in advance of the Copenhagen summit.
The Earth's atmosphere has gone through cycles of global warming and global cooling since time began. There's some evidence that if it gets too hot, the Earth will shift on its axis by a tiny fraction, restoring the fragile balance of temperature.
Weirdly, the climate bullies have turned the Tilt-a-World theory around to suggest that global warming will spin the Earth in a lopsided orbit, leading to the apocalypse.
Instead of explaining climate science in a way global warming dummies can understand, the media pander to the lowest audience IQ.
No wonder the Climategate whistle-blower is being hunted down with more manpower than the US is spending to find Osama bin Laden.
The Copenhagen crowd seems to be divided into several camps:
Eco-terrorists screaming "Stop the world! I want to look at it."
Developing world shakedown artists trying to use global warming as a pretext for a massive redistribution of wealth from richer to poorer nations.
Green industry "visionaries" who smell big money in greenhouse gases.
Responsible statesmen who see the need for a measured reduction in the world's overwhelmingly carbon economy to avoid catastrophe.
But they also want to ensure that poor Chinese kids are not freezing without electricity and children in India are not horribly burned by kerosene lanterns due to a lack of coal
Of course, this takes money. But to paraphrase the legendary US Senator Everett Dirkson, "A trillion here. A trillion there. Pretty soon you're talking about real money."
The author, an Emmy Award-winning TV news correspondent, is a copy editor with the Global Times. barrycunningham@ globaltimes.com.cn
