The Human Conspiracy Blog-space

→The Out-Lawyer’s Blog: http://www.jaygaskill.com/blog1  

→The Bridge to Being Blog: http://www.jaygaskill.com/blog2

My full article is posted at this link:
http://jaygaskill.com/SanityHysteriaConvergence.htm .

Since we do not have, as yet, any reliable quantitative data about the fluctuation of atmospheric water vapor, and we have - as yet - failed to explain why changes in CO2 atmospheric concentrations appear to lag about 800 years behind ambient temperature changes[1], how can we persuasively rule out extra-atmosphere solar radiation as the largest single cause of the current warming trend?

We simply don’t know enough to attribute the climate change in the last fifty years to human industrial activity.  A brief correlation, however suggestive, falls short of demonstrating a causal link. 

On the political stage there is a temporary convergence between the global warming skeptics who see a national security advantage in pursuing alternate energy sources and the global warming evangelists.  The meaningful point of potential correspondence, however, is a touchy area: nuclear energy. Sane environmentalists, including Patrick Moore, an original founder of Greenpeace, are on board.[2] 

Moments like these, where sanity and hysteria combine to support reasonable public policy, are as rare as an honest politician…

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/299/5613/1728

[2] Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, now chairman and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd, has advocated nuclear energy in a piece in The Washington Post. Go to at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html .