Looks like word is getting out
not until last week, when I sat in on a lecture about climate change and wrote about its potential effects, did I discover how fervently opposed some people are to any admission that global warming exists. I’d describe them as hot under the collar, but that would steam them. They’re certain nothing on Earth is getting warmer.
“Global temperatures have not increased in the last 12 years,” one emailer wrote. “The hottest U.S. temps in recent history were in 1934.”
“Data is being manipulated to attempt to show warming,” another wrote. “The various model forecasts don’t hold up to actual conditions.”
And this: “Perhaps the greater question is why has there been such great effort to promote this factual untruth.”
There were several other messages, more colorful in tone, but they all boiled down to this: A slow-witted simpleton like me should not be allowed to express his opinion publicly. I’m fairly sure that was in reference to the climate change column, but they may have been thinking more generally.
Two of my correspondents identified themselves as Ph.D.s in engineering. One said he’d worked at Livermore Lab. Most emailers directed me to supporting online links, including one site that
listed more than 31,000 American scientists who oppose the 1997 Kyoto global warming agreement (petitionproject.org).
Their petition states: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that the human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouses gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.” So there. End of debate.
Who knew people felt so passionately about climate theory?
Barnidge: Beware of global warming — you know, if it really exists – ContraCostaTimes.com
