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"What I would really like to do is to go down in history as the President who made Americans believe in themselves again." (Ronald Reagan - Ronald Reagan Centennial - 2/6/11)
"He knows so little and accomplishes so much." (Robert McFarlane - National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan)
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So, there was a Super Bowl in Dallas (Arlington) last week and some people noticed the weather. Anne Jolis, who writes for the Wall Street Journal (Opinion Europe), was one of those who noticed: "Some climate alarmists would have us believe that these storms are yet another baleful consequence of man-made CO2 emissions. In addition to the latest weather events, they also point to recent cyclones in Burma, last winter's fatal chills in Nepal and Bangladesh, December's blizzards in Britain, and every other drought, typhoon and unseasonable heat wave around the world."
Jolis points out that there is a "Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project" where super-computers are being used to generate a data set of global atmospheric circulation from 1871 to the present. As it happens, the project's initial findings, published last month, show no evidence of an intensifying weather trend. So, "There's no data driven answer yet to the question of how human activity has affected extreme weather."
I know this will be a great disappointment to Al Gore who took his Nobel Prize as the world's leading alarmist very seriously. Perhaps Al, since he invented the "Internet," could give the folks who are programming the super-computer a hand in figuring out why the data keeps coming up wrong!
If possible, we could all agree to spend trillions of dollars to return to a pre-industrial level of carbon emissions. Then, we would have a pre-industrial level of GDP growth and a worldwide depression. And, the climate will continue to change as it always has.
My vote is to continue to encourage GDP growth.
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Perhaps promoting concerns for "man made" climate change can be good for certain businesses.
ReplyDeleteFor example, "Eco Friendly" companies, organically produced food industries, etc are all taking advantage of the situation.
On a larger scale, internationally speaking, the concept also prevents countries such as China and India to grow industrially, lest they make more carbon pollution.
Hence, i'm presuming that some divisions are interested in using "man made" climate change as a topic to incite fear among the general public. There is usually a reason behind seemingly unreasonable decisions.
Mash: as always, great points! China has committed to huge expenditures on clean technology. While China may be polluting as much as any country, they are spending more to mitigate than any other country. That's a rough analogy - I don't have the exact statistics at my disposal.
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