My questions about
Man-Made Warming/Climate Change:
1. What
is the OPTIMAL temperature for human survival and comfort? Is it the climate we
have this year? What about the climate of 1820, during the pre-industrial Little Ice Age? Is it the arbitrary 1990 date selected by Warming Alarmists? Is it 2005? 1750? 1200? 4000 BC? The fact is, our climate ALWAYS changes, and always has changed. There is no "perfect" climate for humanity and never has been. But if there is one, shouldn't Alarmists be required to tell us what date that is, exactly, so we'll have a solid and clear goal?
2. Why
are some scientists attempting to cover up and/or minimize the
Medieval Warming Period - a time during which it was FAR WARMER than today, and
when humans were productive, and actually thrived like they never had before? In fact, it's also been far colder on
Earth - during the Little Ice Age, for instance, or during the 6th
Century, which was the middle of the Dark Ages and is a period of devastating drought and poor growing conditions. Warmer climates often signal greater prosperity for humanity, not doom and extinction. Why, then, should we fear a warming earth?
3. Isn't
adapting to change and accepting change as a constant BETTER than foolishly
thinking humans can change eons of Climate Changes in just a couple of decades
(for good or ill)? If vast swaths of farmland open up in the Dakotas and in
Canada in the 2080's, is that not positive? Who are we to say? The Sahara,
12,000 years ago, was a rainforest. Again, changes happen and always have.
Shouldn't we focus on adapting, rather
than blaming ourselves or our political foes for changes that are clearly far
out of our control?
4. Rising
sea levels have been cited as evidence of warming. But the estimates by the
world’s climate change body (IPCC) for sea level changes have continually been
revised DOWNWARD, from 20 feet (forecast in the early '90s) to just a few inches over 100 years (rising OR falling) in reports from the 2000s. (Most reasonable climatologists now admit they simply do not know, even as the most recent report goes hysterical again with outlandish predictions.) But even if we grant that sea level rise is the default symptom of warming, again, what is the OPTIMAL level of the sea? Today’s sea level? Who
are WE to say this? Do cities like Venice - built IN the water – not to mention people who settled in
nations located on islands in the Pacific Ocean that are at or below sea level - have a “right” to
live there forever, despite the certainty that sea levels in the past were far
higher, and also far lower, than today, and that new islands are ALWAYS forming and old ones submerging back into the ocean?
5. How
much, exactly, are human beings responsible for the climate changing? 10%? 30%?
100%? (that last one being impossible.) If we don't know with certainty – and
no scientist does – how do we know by how much we must decrease our emissions,
and which ones do we decrease? Or is it all guesswork, as skeptics suspect?
6. Are
CO2 emissions the SOLE or MAJOR cause of warming? Or does it have marginal
effects? Or, as some scientists suggest, do CO2 emissions FOLLOW climate
changes throughout history?
7. Why
are the government-funded scientists working on the "Man-Made Warming" Theory ignoring or downplaying
the role of sunspot activity, which directly correlates to past warming/cooling
cycles, and does to this one, too? (In fact, sunspots have been “off” a bit
this cycle – clearly not a man-caused event, but tellingly, the weather
patterns have suggested this change perfectly.)
8. Are
scare tactics the best way to talk about science? Is the phrase "the
argument is over" and the tactic of shutting down debate EVER acceptable
in a scientific discussion? Is it healthy to politicize science, and compare
opponents who question models (which were clearly wrong) to Holocaust deniers? Science isn't a religion, where there are "heretics" who must be shouted down. Why is it even necessary to remind Warming advocates of this basic fact?
9. Why
didn't scientists and Al Gore loudly and persistently condemn the film, "Day After Tomorrow,"
which depicted an overnight change in the Earth's climate, something that is literally
impossible, but which fed into the worst kind of hysteria and panic, especially among
the impressionable young?
10. NO
European nation ever met the CO2 standards laid out in Kyoto. Why, then,
are they seeking to impose NEW, tougher standards on the Western World? And if
limiting emissions of CO2 is critical to ending climate change (and assuming
that this is possible, and that this is, indeed THE problem) why are the
world’s biggest spewers of CO2 and pollutants – China and India –being allowed to
bypass any new standards with which Western nations will be forced to comply,
at a cost of trillions of dollars in lost jobs and productivity as well as
retrofitting costs? Note that this is a time when the West’s economies are
collapsing and China’s and India’s have been growing rapidly.
