Story Created:
May 18, 2009
Story Updated:
May 18, 2009
Since the kids are off school today because of the blizzard, it might be a good time to dust off these awkward questions about climate change:
Annoying Questions for Mrs. Snodgrass (or any other science teacher
who buys Al Gore's line on global warming.)
*Why did the glaciers melt?
*Why were the Vikings once able to farm in
Greenland ? (Could it be that the climate has gone through warming and cooling cycles before... without human involvement/)
*Why were the Middle Ages warmer than the global temperature now? Why did it cool off during the "Little Ice Age" (from 1600 to 1900)? And what warmed us up after that?
*Why are global temperatures now cooler than in the 1930s?
*Why is the polar ice cap on Mars melting? (Are SUVs really THAT evil?)
(Mrs. Snodgrass, are you all right? Why are you getting so red? Is it hot in here?)
*Why are temperatures at the South Pole going down?
*You said that there's a consensus,"that man causes global warming, Mrs. Snodgrass. So how do you explain Richard Lindzen? (He's the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.)
*Why have the "experts" been wrong so often? (they predicted global freezing? , or Hurricanes? Or when they all embraced the bogus hockey stick model of global warming until it was discredited?) So why should we believe them now?
*If we adopted the Kyoto treaty how much would the temperatures actually go down, especially if it doesn't cover countries like China and India?
*Every 10 days China fires up a coal-fueled generating plant big enough to power a mid-sized city. According to George Will, China will construct 2,200 new coal plants by 2030. Should we shut down one our own plants every time China opens another one, Mrs. Snodgrass? And if we did, would that mean we wouldn't have to come to school during the winter anymore?
Mrs. Snodgrass?
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Earlier this month, more than 650 scientists dissented from the UN's position on man-made global warming.....
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