St Gore and the Ice Age
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We trial lawyers suffer from the conceit that, with intensive study – a knack we acquire during litigation preparation – we can learn almost anything. My own attempts to learn more about “climate change” don’t make me an expert, but they have persuaded me that the politicians (Mr. Gore included) don’t know enough about the topic to inaugurate major changes in our current social and economic arrangements. The scientific consensus is overstated and any political consensus about large scale carbon regulation proposals is premature to say the least. The views expressed in this article are mine, the articles and sources cited are for comment purposes only – the copyrights belong to them – but the inaccuracies, if any, are mine.
JBG
Saint Gore and the ICE AGE
THE CASE FOR POLITICAL CAUTION
“It is time to make peace with the planet. We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.”
Jay Gaskill
“Take a deep breath. What if the prophet wrong? The trouble with prophesy at this level is the inherent unpredictability of climate. This is not a simple issue, the science is far from settled, and global warming does not define a war, definitely not a religious crusade…”
ABOUT TAKING A HARD LOOK BEFORE LEAPING
Heads up: Aggregate world temperatures seem to be falling.
A PREMATURE BEATIFICATION
The Roman Catholic tradition delays beatification until the candidate is safely dead. This has avoided a great deal of embarrassment over the centuries. In the larger Judeo-Christian tradition, major monuments, parks, bridges and other monuments are only named after someone has passed into history, so to speak, for the same wise reasons.
We are facing a ‘perfect storm’ in the form of four recent developments, the last of which (still under the radar) is the topic of this article.
An energy shortage-driven recession, possibly leading to a severe world-wide economic downturn;
A painfully acute oil and natural gas shortage that spares the well protected elites, while hitting the rest of us for whom higher utility costs, gasoline and other transportation costs actually affect the quality of life;
A growing realization that this energy-cost squeeze has been made much worse than necessary as a result of environmentalist political opposition to new energy development, including nuclear power;
And the breaking news that we may be headed into a prolonged cold period.
The last point, of course, is “pending”. The UK’s Hadley Climate Research Unit has recorded a major temperature decline in 2007, a report mirrored in several other world temperature aggregation research units. To be fair, the Hadley group still fiercely clings to the global warming paradigm
This is a detailed article with graphics and cross references, in pdf format only. Here is the link:
http://jaygaskill.com/StGoreAndTheIceAge.pdf
JBG
