Saturday, April 06, 2013

Tooting Our Horns



A liberal friend of mine, Bill Miller, has, surprisingly, been a global-warming denier for years (as have I).  But now that evidence is mounting to support what has been his unpopular position, he is (rightfully) tooting his horn ... as am I.  He, in the last week, has sent me three references supporting his position … the more important of which was from The Economist (see: This Economist Link).  But, to me, the more scientific arguments and data were contained in this Friends of Science piece (see: This Friends of Science Link)

For those of you who are still convinced that carbon dioxide will be the bane of man’s existence here on Earth … even after reading these two references, I can only offer that you should go back and peruse Thomas Malthus’s or Paul Ehrlich’s predictions of doom and gloom.  Yes, at some point one of these Chicken Little's is going to be right, but it appears that Al Gore has whiffed on his hysterical CO2 predictions … and will take his place in history beside these other two charlatans.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Al Gore will still be living in his $22M mansion and the tax payers will still be out the billions of dollars wasted on government sponsored clean energy experiments.

George W. Potts said...

Governments should be very chary when throwing money at applied research ... particularly when the pure research upon which it is based is so suspect ... and, even more particularly, when the beneficiaries of this largess are contributors to those political poltroons in power. Perhaps a Constitutional amendment?

Reference: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/05/Fisker-Motors-Meltdown-Fires-80-of-Staff

DEN said...

"He who honketh not his own horn, heareth not the toot thereof." Psalms 10:4

You and Bill should be proud.

George W. Potts said...

"In the pride of his countenance the wicked do not seek him; all his thoughts are, 'There is no God.'." -- Psalms 10:4