Or mine. Or Al (manbearpig) Gore’s, even if he does use more than twenty times the electricity and fuel than anyone else.
It’s not even the smelly hippies fault who have turned global warming into some kind of religion.
Before you run out to buy carbon credits for your dog’s farts — watch this video:
The Great Global Warming Swindle from British Channel Four.
Dan from, Riehl World View has this take:
I was able to view the British documentary The Great Global Warming Scandal which, interesting enough, contained more science in debunking Global Warming than I have yet to see produced by the Global Warming crowd. I’ll bullet point the arguments against the Global Warming craze in a later post, but the most amazing revelation was that, indeed, in great part we do have Margaret Thatcher to thank for today’s Global Warming theory.
The original theory was from a fringe scientist and when it surfaced nearly all mainstream scientists found it laughable. Man’s contribution to CO2 in the atmosphere is so small when compared to the contributions from volcanoes, plants and especially the oceans, it’s doubtful man could effect anything, let alone climate, by producing CO2. But Thatcher had a problem and a plan.
The previous government had been brought down by a devastating and violent coal mine strike and another strike came along as she was in office. Being determined to break the cycle of labor, a large part of it being coal miners, reeking such havoc and ultimately dictating terms to the government, she was determined to move the country away from coal as a power source.
Not trusting Middle Eastern oil as a power source that would produce stability , she wanted to move Britain toward nuclear energy in a major way. The strongest selling point was that nuclear energy was clean and she seized upon the CO2 theory, reasoning that if she could increase concern over coal, she’d be able to implement plans to begin building nuclear reactors.
Millions of government dollars were placed on the table at Britain’s National Academy of Science to produce specific science that heightened concerns over CO2 as a serious health and environmental concern. The meme, if you will, and the dollars available to scientists for such work grew, in Britain and across Europe and even in the US. It was the seed of the Global Warming industry we see today.
The film, relying upon several credible scientists, pretty much destroyed the current theory of Global Warming, including Gore’s film, repeatedly citing specific science from MIT to the National Academy that conflicts with the theory and demonstrates how science is being manipulated to support the GW movement today.
Talk about the law of unintended consequences.
I went way beyond fair use and copied his entire post because, well, I had to. He sums up the story very well.
The video is worth watching for it’s common sense approach to the so called “science” of global warming. You’ll know more about both sides of the issue after watching.
Over the past hundred thousand years or so, according to ice core samples, temperatures have risen almost eight hundred years before a corresponding rise in CO2 levels.
What drives our climate change? What huge force has done so for millions of years?
The Sun.
