A Nov. 7 letter decrees global warming is, “…not a matter of belief; it is a matter of physics.”
According to the writer, skeptics aren’t merely wrong, they’re idiots who wear “aluminum hats” and drink “the Kool-Aid served up by multinational corporations.” Wow. I always shake my head when someone thinks they can demonstrate intellectual superiority simply by mocking others as ignorant. Global warming alarmists do not have a monopoly on science or facts.
There is substantial scientific evidence indicating that the Earth is not warming but cooling, and that global temperature trends correlate precisely with regular cycles of solar activity. There is also substantial evidence suggesting that because man-made CO2 emissions account for as little as 0.02 percent of all atmospheric CO2, it’s impossible for human activity to exert the degree of influence on climate that global warming theory presupposes. If nothing else, look at the conspicuous discrepancy between climate modeling predictions and actual temperatures. The climate is not conforming to the theory — so the theory is being conformed to the climate.
There are credible reasons why many prominent scientists either have backed away from their certainty about man-made global warming, or never accepted it to begin with. To disparage them as crackpots or corporate pawns is not “factual,” but the very brand of “belief” that the writer ridicules skeptics for. It exposes as fraudulent the boast of many environmentalists to have cornered the market on objective, dispassionate science.
Reed Purcell
Everett
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