I’m not a scientist. Many times have I wished to have studied Science instead of Finance. I saw this post today and thought it very interesting.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/03/a-response-to-the-ipcc/
Is Global Warming caused by human activity? As someone speaking as a non-scientist, I think it is very arrogant of us humans to think we can control something so huge. But many people think we do and can–like Mr. Internet inventor himself, Al Gore.
This portion of the post caught my Finance/Economics attention:
While the scientists reported on a vast array of peer-reviewed literature that cast doubt on the causes and severity of global warming, the economists produced data that showed the cap-and-trade scheme not only wouldn’t halt the release of greenhouse gases, but would add huge costs to business activity that inevitably would be passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices.
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June 4, 2009 at 2:40 pm
tamino
The denial of global warming by Anthony Watts and others is a crock. I strongly urge you to view some of the videos on this site:
http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610
June 4, 2009 at 3:30 pm
putaruffleonit
Thanks for your comment. I did look at a video created by greenman, who has an MFA. He is no Phd as the people associated with Climate Change Reconsidered. He makes the presentations and cartoons. It doesn’t appear to me that he is a scientist.
And the people from Climate Change Reconsidered did not say that global warming wasn’t happening, just that humans are not the cause. We’ve gone through Ice Ages and then had “Global Warming” without the big human production we have today–back then there were no cars, electric plants, etc. So what caused us to warm from an Ice Age without our human output?
I’m no scientist. But I do have my doubts about the human cause of global warming.
June 4, 2009 at 3:52 pm
putaruffleonit
Also, in the video I watched by Greenman, it is speculated that co2 is bad because the plants that received more CO2 attracted more Japanese beetles. I was raised on a farm and I’ve seen many Japanese beetles, and after watching his video, I concluded that CO2 must have put something in the plant to make it more “attractive” to the beetle like, maybe, nutrients?
But I’m no Scientist.
June 4, 2009 at 8:28 pm
tamino
If you want the REAL authorities go to the blog about climate science run by actual climate scientists:
http://www.realclimate.org/
It’s easy to find PhD’s who will deny global warming, just as it was easy for the tobacco industry to find plenty of PhD’s who would deny the dangers of cigarette smoke. Ironically, some of those PhD’s who denied the danger of tobacco, are the SAME scientists who deny the reality of global warming. But the overwhelming majority of the world’s medical researchers agreed, and still agree, that smoke is bad for your health and that of those around you, just as the overwhelming majority of the world’s climate scientists, and EVERY MAJOR SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY IN THE WORLD, including the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, are unequivocal: global warming is real, it’s caused by human activity, and it’s bad.
Double irony: the Heartland institute, which organized the conference and issued the report you refer to, is also heavily invested in denying the dangers of tobacco smoke — their other main political push is “smoker’s rights.”
It’s nonsensical to buy the propaganda spread by an ultraconservative political organization (the Heartland Institute) but deny the clear warning from the national science academy of every country on earth. You’ve been hoodwinked by some very slick professionals.