Global Warming Skeptics Getting a Hearing, Maybe, Finally

Last year, I dared on the editorial page of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News to question global warming zealotry. The response was, shall we say, demurrers from tiresome whelps who fervently believe that Mother Earth is being date-raped by Big Carbon--carbon, by the way, that fuels House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's air force jet. Oh, and that provided the fuel that produced the estimated 13,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide released at this month's UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Poland.

For years, skeptical scientists were pooh-poohed as kooks and crackpots. They couldn't get research funding. Global warming deniers were dismissed as "willfully ignorant," as latter-day flat-earthers, for the debate about global warming was proclaimed "over." Now all that remained was the task of taxing and regulating people to death, destroying jobs and the economy, and returning to a medieval way of life--when, by the way, it was markedly warmer than it is now, according to a growing number of researchers who contradict assertions that the earth's putative warming is "unprecendented."

Let's revisit this issue, for sane people should be happy to note that the worm is turning...

BBC NEWS |Telescopes allegedly 'worthless' by 2050

Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an [alleged] expert says.

Aircraft condensation trails - known as contrails - can dissipate, becoming indistinguishable from other clouds.

If trends in cheap air travel continue, says Professor Gerry Gilmore, the era of ground astronomy may come to an end much earlier than most had predicted.

Aircraft along with climate change will contribute to increased cloud cover.
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You either give up your cheap trips to Majorca, or you give up astronomy. You can't do both
Gerry Gilmore, University of Cambridge

Note that it's just the cheap air travel that allegedly must stop, in order to keep the rabble at home. Of course, the Gores/Obamas/Friedmans/etc retain the freedom to fly.