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E-mailGlobal warming: Blind (obe)science
If the government running scared dictates more of the nation's economic activity, smart businessmen want to be ready to turn a buck. The ordinary consumer ultimately will pay the price.
As the climate is not utterly static we would be astonished if the planet were not either warming or cooling.
Europe was warmer a thousand years ago during the medieval climate optimum, and the world went through a "little Ice Age" until the 19th century when it began to warm again. Studies of ocean sediment related to iceberg melts indicate 2-4 degrees F cooling events every 1,500 years or so followed by warming.
Changes in solar activity often are linked to cycles of warming and cooling. But the sun has not come under the authority of the Kyoto Protocol, which the United States rejected but whose principles may be insinuated into our energy policy.
Now, assuming everyone does everything Kyoto calls for, the effect on the climate, assuming Kyoto has any effect, would be negligible. The economy that capitalizes new technologies to improve people's lives will be irreparably harmed.
Kyoto is like relieving oneself in the wind of the gargantuan and impersonal forces of sun and Earth, which are barely understood.
