Monday, April 27, 2009

From On High: A Broken Record
Because the data that continues to pour in proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the planet is not warming, "climate scientists" have to revert to to the old tried and true method of scaring the crap out of people: "There's no actual evidence to support this supposition but here's the catastrophe that is SOON going to unfold according to our computer models ..."

For the love of God...
Robert J. Samuelson - Selling the Green Economy - washingtonpost.com
Here's a typical claim, from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF):

"For about a dime a day [per person], we can solve climate change, invest in a clean energy future, and save billions in imported oil."

This sounds too good to be true, because it is.
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The selling of the green economy involves much economic make-believe. Environmentalists not only maximize the dangers of global warming -- from rising sea levels to advancing tropical diseases -- they also minimize the costs of dealing with it. Actually, no one involved in this debate really knows what the consequences or costs might be. All are inferred from models of uncertain reliability. Great schemes of economic and social engineering are proposed on shaky foundations of knowledge. Candor and common sense are in scarce supply.
"Alice" anticipates some skepticism from her readers: Remember that hot summer six years ago?
In the UK that change means milder, wetter winters; hotter, drier summers (yes, really. Remember 2003?); and more extreme weather like floods and storms.

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