Three Questions
Here are three, simple, easy-to-remember questions you can ask those who sing along with Algore and the Live Earth Hystericals.
1) Why is it getting hotter on Mars without any SUVs and private jets emitting carbon dioxide? If it’s the sun that’s responsible for the warming on Mars, then maybe it’s also responsible for the warming of the Earth.
2) How do the alarmists adequately explain past warming and cooling cycles that started long before the introduction of the first internal combustion engine? There was a Medieval Warm Period from 900-1300 and then a Little Ice Age from about 1500-1800. By simply looking at the covers of our most popular periodicals over the past century, these cycles are clearly evident. We worried about a coming Ice Age from 1895 to 1930, then it was the threat of global warming from the 1930s to the 1960s, followed by another imminent Ice Age during the 1970s, and now we’re back to the threat of global warming again. Our great grandkids will likely have to worry about another Ice Age. There’s just no such thing as our planet’s “ideal temperature.” Average surface temperatures are constantly in flux, up or down about a few tenths of a degree every year. These cycles are normal.
3) If man is solely responsible for the increased levels of CO2, then how do you explain the Ordovician Period, 440 million years ago, when the CO2 level was 16 times higher than today? Or, the Cretaceous Period, 140 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and CO2 was 8 times higher? Or, the CO2 levels from 95 million years ago which were about the same as levels today? How can these levels be changing long before the appearance of man?
Someone named Michelle tries to answer them in the comments. The problem is, all three of her answers are wrong. Especially the clichéd claim that any skeptics are oil company shills. That is one of the biggest lies of the GW shills. Besides, it doesn’t mean that the skeptics are wrong.
When the bulk of the GW people’s arguments are based entirely in logical fallacies the only thing they have to sell is scare tactics.
My friends and I tackled the same issues on my blog & got attacked by trolls of the Church of Gore-Gaia. I was even accused of being a puppet of the oil industry, which is sort of an honour. Though it’s always been my contention that the environmentalists are the oil company puppets.
They prevent new oil exploration and block the construction of new refineries, two key factors in maintaining the high price of oil.
Posted by Remulak MoxArgon on 07/15 at 04:29 PMPeak Oil is an Oil Company lie. Its in their interests to raise prices. And You’re correct, these Gorebots are doing the work of the oil companies the same way that many lefties did the work the commies wanted them to do during the Cold War.
Posted by James Hudnall on 07/15 at 05:00 PM
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