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Global Warming? No Need To Panic

By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jan. 27, 2012

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... say 16 scientists, who have signed this open letter.

 

 

Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow. Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system, and a lure for big donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet. Lysenko and his team lived very well, and they fiercely defended their dogma and the privileges it brought them.

Speaking for many scientists and engineers who have looked carefully and independently at the science of climate, we have a message to any candidate for public office: There is no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to "decarbonize" the world's economy. Even if one accepts the inflated climate forecasts of the IPCC, aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically. 

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  1. RuleOfLaw - Jan 27, 2012 8:24 AM

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    Oh come on, there is no way Al Gore lied to me, not a chance. He won a Nobel Prize for crying out loud, just like Obama. What's wrong with you people..............oh

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  2. marvk - Jan 27, 2012 8:51 AM

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    Oh c'mon Rule. No liar could have invented the Internet.

  3. Tuerqas - Jan 27, 2012 10:02 AM

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    This is how we know global warming is true. Al Gore realized that the heavy band widths in the air from the internet are the real causes of global warming. After doing all the work to virtually singlehandedly invent and deliver the internet to the public, he tried to show those evil industrialists the costs of the internet on our world. Unfortunately he had already signed a confidentiality form, and being such an honest and honorable man, he knew he could not directly spill the beans on the problems the internet created. So, he quickly researched other root causes of global warming and began a campaign of desperate redemption to regain the honor that no one had ever known he lost.

    It is a tragic and heroic tale. After global warming knocks us back to the middle ages, still there will be ballads of Gore the Virtuous. And that's the whole truth. Now you know.

  4. downtownman - Jan 27, 2012 11:11 AM

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    "A 2010 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) reviewed publication and citation data for 1,372 climate researchers and drew the following two conclusions:

    (i) 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC (Anthropogenic Climate Change) outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers."

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