April, 2008
Oceans Don't Lie
Thomas Sowell
Let’s begin with a simple fact. The World Meteorological Organization, on April 4th, just last week, announced that global temperatures will be lower in 2008 then in 2007. You read that right, lower. So where does all of Al Gore’s talk about climate change and “global warming” alarmism fit in? It doesn’t. There are two main contentions that have been absent throughout the discourse on global warming. The first is that it is actually occurring, but the second, and a more poignant one, is that global warming would be disastrous. In fact, many experts believe that global warming could not only be positive, but necessary.
A 2007 worldnetdaily.com article provides a fascinating, yet often (purposely) overlooked point-during the past century, in its attempt to fabricate a catastrophe to control Americans, the left-wing media has predicting climate catastrophe four times. Out of those four, they hold a flattering zero percent accuracy rate. In 1895 they panicked about in incoming ice age, in 1920 a warming of less than a half a degree led to worry about the current “problem”. Then as if that wasn’t enough, in 1975 the usually inaccurate New York Times made another of its usual mistake, declaring “A Major Cooling Widely Considered to be Inevitable”. In a display of their usual inadequacy, they followed that up with thirty years of global warming alarmism.
So while there isn’t a solid base for supporting the ever wrong hypothesis of global climate change, it is generally conceded, by even those on the right that it is a bad thing. This couldn’t be further from the truth, as much as Al Gore and his eco-destructive mansion depend on it being true. The Spectator, in a 2003 article, points out that global warming may be just what we need to prevent an incoming ice age. Geologically, ice ages come about every 10,000 years, and ironically, the last one occurred almost exactly 10,000 years ago. In fact, Professor Fred Hoyle of Cardiff University contends that global warming is the only thing in the way of another ice age-and potential extinction. Professor Hoyle argues that we should in fact increase our emissions, because of this positive effect.
Even if the left refuses to reach across the table and tone down their rhetoric, there can be a solution to this dilemma. Let Al Gore keep running his mansion on full power, and John Edwards spend 400 dollars on that ridiculous mass of hair he has. In the end, it may be the liberals who continue to power our economy and keep emissions pumping to save us from the “inevitable ice age” their only information source proclaimed just a few years ago.