Watch as politicians and liberal media work together to pretend they know something which they do not, in fact know. Watch as they confuse themselves:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Anyone doubting the effects of human activity on global climate change should talk to the people it affects in Alaska and the Yukon, U.S. Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.
Fresh from a trip to Barrow, America’s northernmost city, McCain said anecdotes from Alaskans and residents of the Yukon Territory confirm scientific evidence of global warming.
“We are convinced that the overwhelming scientific evidence indicated that climate change is taking place and human activities play a very large role,” McCain said.
Let’s review: The story begins “Anyone doubting the effects OF human activity ON global warming should talk to the people it AFFECTS.”
So global warming is affecting PEOPLE—not the other way around. But nice try, confused Senator and media accomplice. Or I should say, nice try at trying to confuse people.
Then they seem to offer as proof that humans are the cause of global warming by repeating the contrived mantra over and over: “McCain said anecdotes from Alaskans and residents of the Yukon Territory confirm scientific evidence of global warming.” Anecdotes FROM residents.. confirms (confiirms?) evidence OF global warming.
Then the Senator informs that he has some un-named “overwhelming scientific evidence” which indicates climate change is taking place (that’s scarcely the question —he’s simply establishes that we’re all still alive and this whole “earth” thing is in fact real, since variations in temperature have always taken place), AND that “human activities play a very large role.” What’s a “large” role to the Senator? All the scientific evidence I’ve read says that humans contribute at most 5 percent to global warming, as hard as we try.
Naturally, as most politicians from the left do, he then goes on—with leftist Hillary Clinton’s help and that of failed presidential candidate Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, to propose various regulatory measures that would hit “industry” (read business) rather than, say, “you” and “your family”, directly. It’s much easier to sell that to the masses.
McCain and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., are sponsoring legislation that would limit greenhouse gas emissions from utilities and industry. The Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act would cap U.S. emission levels at levels recorded in 2000.
If they really wanted an honest debate, and were really honest about this even to themselves, and they really wanted to score points in reducing ozone levels and reducing the consumption of carbon-based fuels, why wouldn’t they introduce a law restricting the number of hours people can run their cars? No—that’s not very happy sounding! And it doesn’t have the popular appeal that anti-business rhetoric has, does it? And yet hitting business is a stupid concept because you can’t really—you are only hitting people ultimately. Common sense dictates that, and there’s no room for any of that here.
Perhaps ration personal gasoline sales? Maybe force the installation of automatic shut-offs in cars that would be activated after driving three hours in a week? Maybe restrict house-warming to 68 degrees in the winter and ban air conditioners? Maybe ban the products that those nefarious “industries” are building and assembling—like the newspapers the Senators so strongly rely upon to get their mugs displayed and their ingenious new business-restricting protocols advertised across the nation? Stop it at the source of demand, rather than those who are satisfying the demand?
Let’s start with restricting government officials from constantly flying all over the world in their fleets of jets to make useless speeches—that would reduce pollution more than just about any other human activity-induced global warming.
While we’re at it, read more of our columnist Steve Milloy and his views, which are actually based on real documented scientific evidence, intelligence and smarts, not a whole lot of fluff and hot air. His latest column is called “Global Warming Doubt Dispelled? Not Really”, and it’s in our Columnist section. Here’s a snippet:
[…] Climate expert Dr. Fred Singer of the Science and Environmental Policy Project says the temperature adjustments are “not a big deal.”
“Greenhouse theory says (and the models calculate) that the atmospheric trend should be 30 percent greater than the surface trend—and it isn’t,” says Singer. “Furthermore, the models predict that polar [temperature] trends should greatly exceed the tropical values—and they clearly don’t … In fact, the Antarctic has been cooling,” adds Singer.
Singer also had some related thoughts concerning the gloom-and-doom forecasts concerning future temperatures. […]
Read the rest in the Columnist section.
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