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Human role in climate change is the debate Date published: 3/21/2010
Human role in climate change is the debate
In their laudable attempt to present a balanced view of the "climate change" issue, our "Amelia Street Sages" have missed the salient point ["Climate report: Murky with opposing fronts," March 4]. The real issue is not whether the Earth is heating up--it may or may not be, the data are inconclusive--but whether or not the change is anthropogenic. In the "Editor's Note," the editors correctly identify this as a critical question if we are to try to do something about it. But in their selection of contributors, they neglect this aspect in favor of intellectual change merchants and policy wags, without noting that they are arguing about the wrong thing. Further, they do not cite any of the real scientists on either side. Granted, they are hard to identify (see "Climategate"), but they are out there. This is certainly a subject on which we need a real scientific debate. While that is proceeding in an orderly, un-doctored-data-driven fashion, the policy people need to sit down and pay attention (you too, Al), instead of driving the economy over the cliff. I look forward to following that debate in the pages of The Free Lance-Star. William E. Richardson Stafford
Yes, there have been many warming and cooling trends in the history of the earth. Yes, many of them occurred through natural cycles, some through intense disasters. The problem with THIS trend is that there is no data or evidence of natural cycle to support this trend for this moment in Earth's history. Everyone who has proposed this has ONLY cited data from the past events and they do not have any sort of data to support these ideas for mankind''s history. That's where I'll leave this letter.
It must have been all that exhaling and passing gas that caused all that warming that ended the ice age.
But which ice age is being talked about here? We had hundreds of them, as a matter of fact I remember one where the entire planet was buried under ice including the Himalayas. If you have some doubt here...do research by looking at writings by geoelogists..not socialistweenies.
how we got out of the last ice age? Oh that's right, the earth heated up naturally....
that greenhouse gases do not cause global cooling. It's useless to stand under a shade tree to attempt getting warmed up...
Around 10k years ago man began to cultivate farms, domesticate animals, and veer away from nomadic lifestyle. Once this became widespread throughout the race, increased levels/concentration of CO2 occurred. There is no way we can STOP man's global warming (without the extinction of the human race of course) but we can slow it down. We can also be the leaders in new technology that can catapult us ahead of Asian and European markets who are already vying for this position. Wake up, capitalists!!!
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