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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Bugs in global warming alarmism
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Pack the kids in the car, Maggie, and let’s flee to the hills of Idaho. Our Southern lifestyle is about to come to a crashing end, an early victim of global warming.
As described by the AJC’s Bob Dart, the picture presented by tourism officials to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has “golfers heading north to escape bug-infested, parched courses. Southern rivers too shallow for tubing [and] beaches from Jekyll Island to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., engulfed by a rising Atlantic Ocean.” The cause? Global warming. What’s a native to do? The same thing, I suppose, when we’re bombarded by what in modern times has become a steady stream of dire warnings on everything from the new millennium disaster that was to befall our computers to the revelation that cul-de-sacs and the suburban lifestyle cause obesity. And yet the worst we got was that a software upgrade crashed MARTA’s new Breeze fare system for a day. And fat kids everywhere.
The problem I’ve always had with global warming alarmists is that while most climate scientists agree that global warming has occurred in the past century,on the order of 1 degree Fahrenheit, predicting the future depends on assumptions fed into computer models. Different assumptions, different outcomes. Are humans causing it? Scientists are split. It’s hard to argue that humans have no impact whatsoever, but my suspicion is that those who say humans are the cause have an agenda, which is to set national energy and environmental policies.
Yes, it’s hot. Yes, there’s a drought. Yes, the weather is peculiar. But current conditions are not evidence of looming environmental disaster.
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