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Monday, October 02, 2006

Global Warming, a Senator, and South Park

Senator Inhofe has gone off on the global warming racketeers (original speech is here and the follow up is here) with a very detailed account refuting many of the claims made by global warming propaganda experts. To me the main point is not about whether the earth is getting warmer, since that can obviously be done relatively simply by comparing temperature data from around the world, but whether we are causing it and is it really that bad and can we afford to radically change our way of live to enact a solution?

Trying to maintain that humans are the sole cause of global warming is where people get in trouble: they blindly assume a single cause for a situation that operates in a complex system with countless uncontainable variables. This is not to say that scientists can not theorize on cause x, y, or z, but, to say that humans are the single cause for any temperature rise and therefore governments must enact draconian rules to prevent further increases is just way too much for me to handle. It seems that global warming fanatics represent the height of egoism believing that they can single handedly change the world and make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race.

As is true with most subjects, it takes South Park to break it down for us:



1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

here in beautiful boulder, co, we are voting on a local sales tax increase to institute the kyoto accords! it looks as though it will pass. i just hope all that money can help stop global warming somehow...

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