FrontPage Magazine: Global Warming’s Real Danger: Taxation

Not all students of climate favor legislation and some point out the dangers of over-regulation. Here are a few points by Arthur Robinson from the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: First, man-made carbon dioxide is an insignificant greenhouse gas; water vapor is the major factor. Second, the sun’s cosmic rays have the most significant influence over global temperature and weather. Third, if all nations’ carbon dioxide emissions were halted the impact would not be significantly measureable. Fourth, the imposition of control would be catastrophic, adversely affecting the emerging nations of the world. Finally, climate alarmists are motivated by politics and finances, and if the controversy would end, thousands would be unemployed.

Americans may find the reality of additional taxation more painful than the questionable threat of global warming.

I’m loving this climate change - Lee Hart

Yes, I am all over this global warming thing. I would just like to talk to a couple people who lived through the last two million years to find out what sort of trends they observed before and after the “series of ice ages”. You can read all you want, but it is listening to that first hand experience that really counts.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: How Fast Could It Collapse?

In a News & Views story on Pollard and DeConto's findings, Huybrechts (2009) states that "the amount of nearby ocean warming required to generate enough sub-ice-shelf melting to initiate a significant retreat of the West Antarctic ice sheet ... may well take several centuries to develop." And once started, he says that the transition time for a total collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet would range from "one thousand to several thousand years," which time period, in his words, "is nowhere near the century timescales for West Antarctic ice-sheet decay based on simple marine ice-sheet models," such as have been employed in the past.

What it means
Once again, the specter of 21st-century sea level rise being measured in meters -- as hyped by Al Gore and James Hansen -- can be seen to be receding ever further into the distance of unreality.