Posted by
Bill Crawford on Monday, November 23, 2009 10:25:19 PM
The Kyoto accords were feted wildly by the Clinton administration ten years ago, but when the Senate told them almost unanimously that it was the work of lunatics, even Al Gore saw fit to let it slide. Sometimes the best of intentions run into a wall when you try and make it national policy.
Which is what might be happening now, when all the Senators and Congressmen who face the ungodly tax increases they would be dumping on their voters with "Cap and Trade" can't seem to gather a simple majority, even though the left poses it as the future.
Global warming has been running into the same reality wall here, now that it is close to becoming a basis for actual policy.
Here is the problem: the science isn't there. Not even close. It's being presented as a consensus, but when you dig into it empirically, it is a joke. It is talking points. It is conjecture. It is "Doctor Venkmann" science (Ghostbusters reference alert).
That is the tragedy of environmental science today. It is not science anymore. At best, it is politics. At worst, it is demagogic religion. The worst parts of it are an outgrowth of the limits to growth, anti-sprawl movement.
It is sad to see educated people stoop to this, and to then label my skepticism as some sort of depraved, indifferent, uncaring ignorance, as Al Gore often does.
I wasn't intimidated by that garbage when I started. What do they think they will get in response now?