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CLIMATE CHANGE? OR JUST A STRETCH OF BAD WEATHER?
I am a retired geologist with a Ph.D. I am skeptical of anthropogenic global warming. Here are first ten reasons why:
1. It has all the marks of a religion; skeptics are treated like heretics and the spokesman is a Baptist lay preacher.
2. Global warming is now called climate change so it can embrace global cooling, also.
3. It is anti-American since America is biggest producer of CO2.
4. I've been through this before in the 1970's with Global Cooling.
5. As I geologist I know that climate changes take a long time since the earth has a very large thermal mass.
6. Humans have adapted to colder and warmer conditions. Manhattan's average temperature has increased 7°F in the last 50 years but New Yorkers are not wilting.
7. The data for the earth's temperature for more than 100 years in the past are very sparse and unreliable.
8. The data for the earth's temperature for the last 100 years is not much better and practically all of it has to be compensated for the urban heat island effect, vide Manhattan.
9. Other measurements of the earth's thermal condition, for example, shrinking growing season lengths, are not consistent with global warming.
10. Concomitance is not causation.However, unless everything freezes solid and a continental glacier obliterates Washington, D.C., I'm afraid we're stuck with it. Particularly, since there's money to be made from it as Al Gore has clearly demonstrated.
Comment Posted By Ross On 2.03.2008 @ 10:12
