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Global Warming Skeptics Insist Humans Not at Fault
When Christopher Monckton, who served as a special adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, ponders the current political push to curb greenhouse gases linked to climate change, he thinks of King Canute.
According to Monckton, Canute — the Viking who ruled England along with much of Scandinavia nearly a thousand years ago — took his courtiers to the ocean’s edge one day, set down his throne and ordered the tide not to come in. The tide, of course, came in, and the king got his feet wet.
I can see the connection between the Boracle, and his worshipers, and Canute.
The lesson? The king taught his advisers “humility,” Monckton said, by showing them that even he, a king, could not control nature. In the same way, he argued, modern-day politicians should not fool themselves into thinking that humanity is having a big impact on climate.
Humility seems to be lost on not only on todays politicians, but the vast number of emotional “yes we can” types. We are not in control. We have NEVER been in control, and we won’t be in control in the future. We are insignificant.
Monckton, along with other high-profile global warming skeptics such as University of Virginia professor emeritus S. Fred Singer and Virginia state climatologist Patrick J. Michaels, are gathered in New York this week for a conference aimed at challenging the idea that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank funded by energy and health-care corporations as well as conservative foundations and individuals, the 2 1/2 -day session poses a stark contrast to the near-unanimous chorus of concern expressed by top U.S. politicians and most of the scientific mainstream.
This whole fiasco has never had anything to do with the climate. It’s all about money, power, and control of the world population. This is not a good thing.
Both the Republicans and Democrats are poised to nominate presidential candidates this year who back a mandatory federal cap on greenhouse gases. After years of voicing doubt, President Bush has said repeatedly that he is convinced that humans are contributing to Earth’s warming and that the nation needs to break its dependency on fossil fuels.
Both the Republicans and Democrats are running power hungry weasels, so what’s yer point?
One set of “scientists” have decided because some computer generated program says something, it must be ‘fact’. Another set looks at actual data and decides something else. Y’know what? I’m going to listen to the fact based scientists, NOT the ones who set up the program to get the results they want so they can bilk nations for billions. How ’bout you?
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