Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Cause Global Warming

A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don’t cause global warming. Leighton Steward is on Capitol Hill this week armed with studies and his book Fire, Ice and Paradise in a bid to show senators working on the energy bill that the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade scheme could actually hurt the environment by reducing CO2 levels.

“I’m trying to kill the whole thing,” he says. “We are tilting at windmills.” He is meeting with several GOP lawmakers and has plans to meet with some Democrats later this week.

Global warming: a confederacy of dunces

The activist response has been to up the ante with ever fiercer claims of catastrophe, up to the point where they have more or less jumped the shark. (Polar bears might be cute when young, but they've survived greater climate changes than any anticipated here.) They speak of increasing frequency and strength of tropical storms--but frequency hasn't changed and strength has decreased. They make impossible claims of Greenland melting, forgetting that most of the ice there lies within a basin and isn't going anywhere for 3,000 years. They say that temperatures will rise 7 to 9 degrees Celsius this century, when the IPCC reviewed science says between 1.5 and 4. Activists say flooding will reach 20 feet this century, when it won't even be 2--just a bit more than last century, and much less than most centuries since the end of the Ice Age.

It's been a sorry, sorry performance by all concerned.

Farmers Should Embrace Climate Change Bill - Report - WSJ.com

"The costs of legislation to protect farmers against crippling drought, volatile weather and increased pest and disease outbreaks are so small that they would be lost in the background noise caused by annual swings in farm income from yield variation, crop prices, and the cost of seed and chemicals," Cox said.

[Maybe Pelosi should go to Iowa and pitch this idea to a random sample of 100 farmers:  Will you pay serious money for federal drought prevention?]

Many farmers and ranchers don't believe climate change is happening at all, or if it is, they're skeptical that humans have anything to do with it.