Today I had a reader leave a comment/question for me at a story I did recently about how John Kerry and some in Congress have made the claim that our military will be spread all across the globe dealing with issues directly related to man-made global warming if we don’t do something about it. The reader wanted to know:
Have you ever considered whether the people warning of global warming are right?
Of course I have. This is what I have considered. Back in the 70s we were all going to freeze to death because of global cooling. This was all because of evil man’s disruption of the atmosphere as we destroyed, or so they thought, the ionosphere and continued to grow the “hole” in the atmosphere…..of which they knew nothing about. Now we are all going to cook, sea levels will rise, storms will get bigger and Al Gore’s bank account will swell to gigantic proportions.
Soon the idea of global cooling cooled off – no pun intended – and life went back to some semblance of normal until a politician, with about as much background in science as I have, who claimed that he invented the Internet, waved a magic wand and created “An Inconvenient Truth” based on nothing more than speculation and the gathering of a few overly anxious scientists willing to jump on Al Gore’s bandwagon and make a few cool billion dollars by scaring the hell out of people.
The truth is, there is no proven science to support man-made global warming. All this has been hyped from poor computer modeling and no, I repeat NO, scientific fact, proven and tested that shows we are all going to die because man contributes a tiny amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – a gas that IS NOT a pollutant and yet those who stand to make millions from selling their global warming scare, have convinced people it is a pollutant and can be regulated by the EPA and the Clean Air Act.
There is a ton of evidence that shows that climate variations have occurred for millions of years, long before evil man invaded this planet and yet, this person wants to know if I’ve considered that Al Gore is right. There is absolutely no reason why I, or anybody else, should consider that a washed up politician who stands to reap millions of dollars from his scam, is right.
No, no! The burden is on you, the reader who thinks I need to prove that global warming is not man’s fault. First, you have to prove that it is and you haven’t done that yet.
So, get busy and see if you can find proven scientific data that shows us that man-made global warming is real. In the meantime, I will ask, “Have you considered that Al Gore and the rest of the amateurs are wrong?”
Tom Remington
