Has the global warming climate change hysteria peaked?
The earth's climate is always changing, sometimes dramatically. During the medieval warming of a thousand years ago, temperatures were much higher than they are now; during the Little Ice Age six centuries later they were much lower.
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The global-warming alarmists have had a good run, as the global-cooling alarmists did before them, but fewer people find the doomsday prophecies persuasive. Scaremongering wins headlines; fact-based skepticism eventually wins arguments.
If it's true that, um, cooler heads have prevailed, it would be nice to think we can move on to demonstrable problems with achievable solutions. But the Sky Is Falling crowd will always find another imminent catastrophe that can be averted only by an immediate and drastic change in human behavior.
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I'm sure the citizens of Joplin will find your words comforting.
I suppose that those who know so little about how storm systems are caused by continuous atmospheric disturbances on Mama Earth are doomed to not comprehend that AGW borders on mythology -- numerology, maybe -- or astrology, even..
The Jacoby article correctly points out that life on earth is all carbon-based and that CO2 provides the exchanges by which living plants and animals can commonly benefit.
Real scientists have found, for example, that when CO2 increases, trees (and other plants) grow faster, converting the excess carbon into wood tissue. The oceans actually convert excess carbon dioxide entering the water into limestone. Most importantly, higher levels of CO2 will speed up the rotting of dead organic tissue -- which spurs the growth of live plants.
According to Michael Crichton, we need to tamp down our egos and broaden our perspective of our magnificent little ball in the universe.
You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years.
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A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
Littlejohn, I would bet if you were to ask any of the survivors of Joplin (you know, in tornado alley) if they think the tornados are caused by global warming they would laugh your presumptuous and pompous ass out of what's left of their town.