Chill.
I'm very sorry that people feel the need to walk away from the global warming debate with the growing list of global warming skeptics. Frankly I'm quite disappointed. It's frustrating to
realize that apparently it's OK for some people to express their
opinions, but not others - especially if that opinion disagrees with
theirs. I'm sorry if half the country chooses not to walk in lockstep with a false consensus that is not supported by historical facts.
When I discovered my religion and began to absorb its
teachings, I felt liberated and free from the fundamentalism of
institutionalized religion - I certainly don't want to put myself in another setting
where I have to restrict myself to certain topics or cater to other
people's opinions - that's what I was liberated from. People say that
'everything is politics' - I think everything is spiritual on some
level as well.
Frankly, I get tired of hearing that everybody should believe in global warming by now. Why?
Because Al Gore does? Don't make me laugh. Does anyone else deserve any credit for having done
research that just might point them in another direction? Global warming alarmists try to intimidate scientists and others who dare to
speak out against global warming - but don't be intimidated - just let them know your research has led you to a different conclusion - then point them to this article or one of the important links listed below.
I have done a fair amount of research on global warming, claims
have been made by global warming theorists - yet there is no evidence
to support their claims. I have looked at the supposed evidence and it
does not hold up under scrutiny. There is no reason for me to deny
true science, I would be happy to accept it, if only there was evidence
to support it. I and many others are still not convinced.
We have had many discussions about global warming in the past,
apparently this is an important issue for many people, perhaps they have
something invested in it - time, money, who knows. I think the whole global warming thing is a strategic
tactic on the part of liberal democrats. Their strategy might be to
clean up the environment - maybe their previous tactics didn't work, so
they're trying FEAR tactics this time around. Maybe their strategy is
to invigorate the economy while cleaning up the environment. The
global warming industry is set to become the next 'BIG OIL' - the new
black, you know! And people like us are standing in their way! So
what do they do? They try to intimidate us and they get people like
you who fall for this nonsense to help them! Cleaning up the environment is noble and I will do
whatever I can to support a clean environment, boosting the economy is
fine too, if it's done with integrity and honesty.
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Here
are just a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of what's available out
there in terms of people and organizations who for many good reasons
are skeptical of global warming:
Al Gore vs John Coleman -
Coleman is the founder of The Weather Channel:
From Heartland: The world’s largest-ever gathering of global warming skeptics will
assemble March 8-10, 2009 in New York City for
The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change to confront the issue,
“Global
warming: Was it ever really a crisis?”
- http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html
- http://www.heartland.org/full/24814/Former_Astronaut_Says_Earth_Not_in_Peril_from_Global_Warming.html
- http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/PDFs/NationalReviewAd.pdf
- http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/newyork2008-ppt.html
- http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/news.html
ABC News Reporter John Stossel expresses skepticism about global warming:
SENATOR JAMES INHOFE CHAIRMAN, SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
For years, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma has been the global warming skeptic's voice in the senate:
The American Policy Roundtable: The Great Global Warm Up -
"8 Arguments against Global Warming"
Politico.com -
"Scientists urge caution on global warming"
Armed with statistics from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climate
Data Center, D’Aleo reported in the 2009 Old Farmer’s Almanac that
the U.S. annual mean temperature has fluctuated for decades and has
only risen 0.21 degrees since 1930 — which he says is caused by
fluctuating solar activity levels and ocean temperatures, not carbon
emissions.
....At the Cato Institute, senior fellow Patrick Michaels, a contributing
author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
said most of Washington is already too deeply entrenched in the global
warming mantra to turn back.
....Despite the growing science, the world’s leading crusader on climate change, Al Gore, is unconcerned.
“Climate deniers fall into the same camp as people who still don’t
believe we landed on the moon,” said the former vice president’s
spokeswoman, Kalee Kreider. “We don’t think this should distract us
from the reality.”
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People can hold different opinions for very good reasons, and that is
is quite unfair for global warming alarmists to voice their opinions without allowing others
to freely voice their dissenting opinions without fear of intimidation. It doesn't really matter what I
think in the long run, it only matters whether
they are persuasive
enough to change my mind. Intimidation is a poor substitute for facts.
It is my sincere hope that people will consider and accept that
others are free to hold differing opinions, and that we can even be
happy about this. Debates are fun - let's debate and get to the bottom of this whole thing!
Let's chill (no pun intended) and refocus
our efforts on finding the truth about global warming - without fear of intimidation. Surely we can all agree that there's too much pollution in the world - getting rid of pollution will make the world a better place to live and will surely assuage the fears of those who sincerely believe in global warming.
