Slashdot Mirror
Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ
An anonymous reader writes "According to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, there's 'no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy'. From the article: 'The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2. The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle.'"
its rather nice having 62 degree days in the last weeks of January when it should be -3, let our children's children figure it out, they need to have something to do anyway as we keep doing it all for them as it is
That's how I removed myself from this jackassery.
Personally, I think that the preponderance of the scientific evidence suggests that we ought to be worried about climate change. However, there are people who seem to have a chip on their shoulder about this, and they seem to be centralized in the very states that are going to have it worst if they're wrong. Frankly, I hope they're right and that their already-sun-belt homes don't wind up in the middle of a new desert, and that their kids don't end up with some kind of mutant skin cancer.
But if they do? I don't care. Maine could use an extra degree or two, and it'll be funny to watch all the Red States run around begging the federal government for disaster relief like they do when a river floods or there's a hurricane in the gulf. "Oh, noes! Hotness! Who could have guessed! Please help us, evil socialist elitists. Our kids can't play outside and we're all so THIRSTY!!!! Waaaaaah!"
I'm smiling just thinking about it.
god is just pretend.
Obligatory cartoon
The fact that water is not a pollutant.
Beware of dihydrogen monoxyde though.
"16 Marketing Managers,HR Directors, and First-Level Help Desk Technicians have decided that routinely testing backups is a waste of effort and not needed at all".
Place one hand in the ice bath and the other in the boiling water. On the average, you are comfortable!
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
But they're all taking money from the ultra-wealthy Sierra Club and PETA members, while scientists associated with the hard-working middle-class, main street job creators at Exxon and Shell are ignored just because their PhDs are in political science and mechanical engineering instead of pseudo-sciences like Physics, Math, Geology and Climate Science.
It's just not fair, I tell you. The left-wing bias of the so-called "hard" sciences is the reason I home-school my children The only textbook publisher we need is King James. If King James was good enough when Joseph and Mary home-schooled Jesus, it's good enough for me and my kids.
I swear, those liberal elites are living in a different world than those of us who are reality-based.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Nope. What says it all is: "The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us"
Lie. Lie, and um Lie.
I'd like to give the authors of that a sniff of pure CO2 to see how odorless it is.
No sig today...
remember, the threat is the liberal media pushing a liberal agenda
not a murdoch financed opinion piece pushing a corporate funded agenda
right? the threat to you is the liberal media, right?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
If the Sno-Caps melt, it would be a nonpareil-ed disaster!
The only surefire protection against Microsoft infections is abstinence. - The Onion
As a statistician, I can assure you that this is perfectly reasonable and safe.
weinersmith