Global Warming
Posted Mon Jul 7, 2008 in
Science
Everyone who knows me understands that I have this “thing” about global warming. It isn’t really about climate change so much as it is all of the alarmism of the rabid environmental community1. It isn’t that I think climate change doesn’t happen. I just have a real issue with the logic behind “we use fossil fuels to create energy — fossil fuels put carbon into the atmosphere — carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas — the global mean temperature appears to be rising2 — therefore, humans are the problem.
So, to climb off my soapbox for a bit (yes, it is my soapbox to climb aboard if I so choose), I found the image to the left funny.
1 Environmentalism is something that only works in developed countries with a wealthy population who can afford it. Try explaining to some poor subsistence farmer why he shouldn’t cut down a few trees so he can feed his family.
2 I say appears to be rising because the signal is so weak and the natural variation is so great. It’s a difficult problem.