Sitting here in Connecticut watching the snow fall on the first day of the baseball season, I was struck by the bizarre nature of the 2600 page report issued by the IPCC on global warming (excuse me, climate change). The UN agency has once again sounded the alarm bell for man made global warming which will affect all of humanity unless something is quickly done to stop it. It's pretty amazing. The report goes on for 2600 pages; it is even longer than the bill that passed Obamacare. Even so, in all that verbiage, the IPCC never explains how it is possible that atmospheric temperatures have stayed steady for the last 15 years despite the computer models that all predict rising temperatures due to increasing greenhouse gases. This is not a minor point that the panel forgot to address. The computer models which have failed to work are the same computer models on which the entire prediction of global warming is based.
Let me put it in the simplest terms: the basic scientific evidence shows no relationship between the level of so called greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the world temperature. The computer models are all projections based upon the theory that higher carbon dioxide levels result in higher temperatures, but that theoretical relationship has not appeared in actual data. That means that the computer models are wrong, flawed, and failing.
Remember, we just ended the coldest winter in the USA since 1899. That is 115 years. While we certainly could see cold in the USA and heat elsewhere, that has not been the case. Oh there are areas of the globe that have been warmer than normal during the last three months, but that is always the case. What we have not seen is widespread global warming for 15 years now.
Because global warming became a political issue rather than a scientific one, the federal government is still acting as a cheerleader to promote huge taxes and regulatory burdens to stop the discharge of carbon dioxide. Left unchecked, the feds would impose major burdens on our economy which would guarantee decades of slow or no growth. The last five years should have made clear the consequences of that sort of economy. If there were actually scientific proof to support global warming theory, then considering the various remedies might make sense. Absent scientific proof, indeed with proof to the contrary staring us in the face, the idea that America should hobble its economy to satisfy a quasi-religious political view of global warming enthusiasts (can you say Al Gore) is pure nonsense.
Let me put it in the simplest terms: the basic scientific evidence shows no relationship between the level of so called greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the world temperature. The computer models are all projections based upon the theory that higher carbon dioxide levels result in higher temperatures, but that theoretical relationship has not appeared in actual data. That means that the computer models are wrong, flawed, and failing.
Remember, we just ended the coldest winter in the USA since 1899. That is 115 years. While we certainly could see cold in the USA and heat elsewhere, that has not been the case. Oh there are areas of the globe that have been warmer than normal during the last three months, but that is always the case. What we have not seen is widespread global warming for 15 years now.
Because global warming became a political issue rather than a scientific one, the federal government is still acting as a cheerleader to promote huge taxes and regulatory burdens to stop the discharge of carbon dioxide. Left unchecked, the feds would impose major burdens on our economy which would guarantee decades of slow or no growth. The last five years should have made clear the consequences of that sort of economy. If there were actually scientific proof to support global warming theory, then considering the various remedies might make sense. Absent scientific proof, indeed with proof to the contrary staring us in the face, the idea that America should hobble its economy to satisfy a quasi-religious political view of global warming enthusiasts (can you say Al Gore) is pure nonsense.
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