David Bellamy -- an Australian botanist who was involved in some 400 TV productions, only to see his TV career go south after he questioned global warming orthodoxy -- wrote in The Australian last week, "It's not even science anymore; it's anti-science." Bellamy notes that official data show that "in every year since 1998, world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased." Exhibit B: Richard S. Lindzen, the MIT Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, recently wrote, "There has been no warming since 1997 and no statistically significant warming since 1995."
I sometimes get the impression that the reason global warming advocates want to declare the debate over so badly is because the more time goes on the more scrutiny they fall under. It would seem to me that before we turn the U.S. economy upside down with all of these very costly green energy initiatives that it might be first worth asking a few questions.
Part of me also wonders if this is really a debate about science or a proxy of the culture war, with some on the left using global warming to justify actions aimed at lifestyles they disagree with. After all, if you drive a low-mileage pickup truck there is an increased chance you own a gun and go to church as well.
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