Get real about global warming - The Reporter

There are many things that President Barack Obama is doing now that upset me greatly, but I wish to address the issue of "man-made global warming" and his stated intentions to take actions that will supposedly ameliorate the situation through carbon off-sets, re-tooling the automobile industry to produce cars that no one will want to buy (all in the name of fuel efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions), so-called "smart electrical grids," and whatever else he and his misguided advisers are dreaming up. These and other such measures will further cripple the American economy and put our country in grave danger.

Man-made global warming is a gigantic hoax, and the president knows it. Since he is not an ignorant man, I must assume that he has chosen to embrace this global warming hoax on purpose. Which begs the question: To what purpose?
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Tom Chalk
Fairfield

WORLD Magazine | Weather vain? | Mark Bergin | Apr 25, 09

Geddes of FREE says the geoengineering debate carries the potential of separating out such environmental extremists from those solely interested in avoiding climate-change harms: "Let's say we came up with a way to scrub carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere that works and is cheap. That would mean we could go on emitting carbon. The environmentalists' reaction, I think, would be, 'No, that's unacceptable, because what we really have to be doing is reducing our fossil fuels and use of energy.' That's just ridiculous. People would lose all sorts of faith in environmentalism."

Indeed, if geoengineering can produce plausible and tested ideas for cooling climate in the coming years, politicians still bent on capping emission alone may face a similar credibility crisis.
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MONCKTON: The private sector is imploding under the waste and cost of regulatory intrusiveness of government. Climate change, if you believe in it, on any view is not going to cause economic recovery. If it's all true, then it's going to be terrible and we're going to get storms and plagues of locusts and boils and pustules and all the other 10 plagues of Egypt.

There is a sort of apocalypticism on the left in politics worldwide at the moment, where they like to say, like some sort of itinerant preacher of old, oh it's all going to be terrible, fire and brimstone raining down upon you. Um, it isn't.

Newsmax.com - Global Warming Alarmists Off the Mark

A recent publication by Collegians for a Conservative Tomorrow (CFACT) compares warm and cold periods of the past:

"If we look at the historic record — let's say the last 3,000 years — we see that people really suffered during the cold periods. During the ‘Little Ice Age,’ from around 1400 to 1850, things were really cold in Europe. Harvests failed. Food became scarce. People starved. There was much disease.

"Before that, however, we had a 'medieval warm period' around 1100 A.D. Temperatures then were at least as hot as they are now, maybe hotter. During this time the Vikings were able to discover and settle Greenland (they actually grew crops in Greenland). Life was good in Europe. Cathedrals were built. Wars and violence decreased. People prospered. There was plenty of food, even a surplus."