Posted by
Bert Chapman on Friday, December 21, 2007 11:17:30 AM
Al Gore's climate change scaremongering took another hit yesterday when the Minority Staff of the Senate Environment and Public Affairs committee released a report documenting how over 400 influential scientists from over two dozen countries had disputed human-caused global warming claims during 2007. This report is available at
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport Although this report will not be approved by Committee Democrats, including the committee's bird-brained chair California's Barbara Boxer, it contains a lot of useful information including biographical information on these scientists and links to their research. Examples of findings from these scientists is that fluctuations in the earth's climate have occurred throughout history and that there is nothing unprecedented in recent climate change, the silliness of the idea that one can change the earth's climate as if it were the temperature on their home thermostat, that solar winds and cosmic radiation affect global temperatures, that global warming has happened several times in the past, that claims of carbon dioxide increases being climatically harmful are absurd, that water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas, and that the media should think about the psychological damage it is doing to inviduals, particularly children, with its hyperbolic reporting on climate change issues.
This report's release on the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere is particularly appropriate and we can only hope it pours cold water on the demagogic hysteria being perpetrated by Airhead Al Gore and his pseudo-environmental and pseudo-scientific hucksters in the media, certain sectors of academe, and in some governmental policymaking circles. Another useful piece of information recently announced by Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, the ranking member of the Environment & Public Works Committee, is that the Congressional Budget Office
http://www.cbo.gov/ has recently released information showing that the emissions cap and trade schemes favored by Gore and his ilk are essentially fraudulent and will have the effect of redistributing financial resources from poorer individuals to more affluent ones.