Nothing unusual in this at all. You can find this kind of over-the-top zealotry in the leadership of any developed nation. I don't understand it. I don't trust it. I assume there is some objective I don't like behind it -- like taking more taxes from me, like asserting more power over me, like taking away further freedoms from me -- because it does not make sense.
I saw an interesting article by George Will on-line today.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will100109.php3
It is discussing a New York Times article about global warming. It sounds as if the NYT article acknowledges that global temperatures have plateaued out over the last 10 years (I've heard, in fact, that global temperatures have declined somewhat over the last 10 years) and that chances are good that global temperatures may decline over the next 10 years to 20 years. That would be -- count it up -- a period of 30 years over which global temperatures did not increase. The point of the NYT article, as reviewed by George Will, is that this is an unfortunate turn of events, because it is liable to decrease public committment to combat global warming by reducing CO2 emissions! Pretty preposterous -- as is Will's point. My take away is that the NYT -- an outrageously unbalanced liberal rag -- is saying global temperatures have not increased over the last 10 years (which I've heard in other places) and are likely to decrease for the next 20 years. Where is the CO2 caused global warming? Time lag? I understand time lags, but a 10 year time lag? And why a time lag, we have seen a continuously increasing (accelerating even) injection of CO2 into our atmosphere, why would temperature stop raising due to a time lag? Any time lags were lagged out well in the past, sometime after the start of the Industrial Revolution when CO2 emissions began increasing dramatically. We have much increased CO2 emissions over the last 10 years; surely the experts predict continued substantial increases in CO2 emissions over the next 20 years as China and India continue to build coal fired electric generating plants apace as they vault from 3rd world economies to 1st world economies that will be the number 1 and number 2 economies on the planet . . . but global temperatures are going to decline?!!!! That sure sounds challenging to the doctrine and orthodoxy of "CO2 emissions from human activity cause global warming" religion. The global warming priesthood better get on the stick with some new inquisitions to stifle this heretical information.
The point is that the "global warming is caused by human activity" zealots do not base their position on data and evidence and science. The science is speculative (sometimes science is speculative, in the beginning of a new discipline or in addressing a new phenomenon it could be argued science is necessarily speculative -- but science as truely understood is self-aware of its own limitations and the immaturity of its provisional conclusions) and immature.
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