Friends don't let friends deny Global Warming

(Article 4-21-09)

Global Warming proving to be more hype


by Michael Graham
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Tuesday, Apr. 21, 2009

Believing that global warming is a potential problem doesn't make you a kook. But every day it appears harder and harder to be concerned about global warming without catching brain fever. Here are a few examples:

Does one not get the feeling that all this propaganda over the terrifying threat of global warming is beginning ever so slightly to turn people’s minds? Caroline Lucas MEP, the leader of the Green Party, last week agreed on television that flying to Spain was “as bad as knifing a person in the street”, because air travel like this is causing people to die “from climate change”.

Dr Richard Dixon, director of the Scottish WWF, was at the same time claiming that failing to ensure one’s home is “energy efficient” was a “moral crime”, as “anti-social as drink driving”, and “we should be having a discussion as to whether it should become an actual crime”.

This echoed the recent observation of Ed Miliband, our Energy and Climate Change Secretary, that opposing wind farms should be as “socially unacceptable” as not wearing a seatbelt.

Drunk driving, not wearing a seatbelt, flying an airplane....STABBING someone. It's all the same, right?

This stupidity would still be, er...stupid, even if the evidence of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change were solid. But every day there's another story like this one:

Arctic ice is growing not going away:

This is hardly news to the folks stranded in Colorado last week due to a massive mid-April snow storm, nor to the current British "polar ice" expedition that can't seem to make progress because it's, well, so damn cold.

Once again, I'm not saying Al Gore is wrong about everything (though he is certainly wrong about a great deal). I'm just rejecting the idea of shutting down 50 percent of our electric grid, throwing 1 million more Americans out of work, or accusing everyone on the Delta Shuttle of attempted murder. Facts first, panic second. That's my suggestion.

Polar Bears Stranded on an Iceberg. A news story ran on February 2, 2007 showing polar bears stranded on an iceberg. The headline stated that this is what we can expect as the result of global warming. Actually, these polar bears are simply hunting seals that sunbathe on the ice floe as they have done for thousands of years. The bears swim to shore and back to the ice floe as they please. (Arctic Wild Life Photo)

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