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| The Case For Doing Nothing About Global Warming Posted: 09 Jan 2011 12:43 PM PST  Time after time, the public has been harangued by climate change "experts" predicting all form of devastation due to anthropogenic global warming. The Greenland and Antarctic glaciers will melt, as will the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean. Temperatures will rise by 2-6°C, perhaps more in higher latitudes. Weather patterns will shift, there will be droughts and torrential monsoon rains, cyclones will increase in intensity—where will it all end? Here's a thought, we might find the world a nicer place after a bit of global warming. In fact, given the general cooling trend seen over the Holocene (the period since the last glacial period ended around 14,000 years ago) and the Cenozoic (the time since the dinosaurs died, around 65 million years) human CO2 may be in some small way the only thing delaying another devastating ice age.        |
| Relax, it's not the end of the world Posted: 09 Jan 2011 07:51 AM PST  James Hansen giving testimony in 1988 Image via Wikipedia DOOMSTRUCK US scientist James Hansen essentially launched the modern global-warming movement with his 1988 testimony before Congress. Batting on a friendly pitch and facing only the softest of attacks, Hansen scored easy runs and has remained in the opening slot ever since. Against more probing questions, however, Hansen is prone to wild slogging.   |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2011 07:22 AM PST  The other day I noted a "facially stupid" headline, "CHINA: Nation drops energy use by 20 percent". China is in truth spectacularly increasing its energy consumption but, if you're not the U.S. you get the benefit of regularly twisted rhetoric to spin things like a reduction in energy intensity (energy used per unit of GDP), which every maturing economy experiences and at levels not unlike China's.   |
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