[ RadSafe ] Re: The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindle

[Kai Kaletsch]

Ah, yes... I forgot about the Great Age of Volcanism from 1940 to 1970, 
which blocked the sun, blew the trees off Easter Island and caused acid 
rain. The puny humans had nothing to do with any of that. And besides, it is 
a well known fact that acid rain does not pollute lakes, all the dead fish 
do.

Maybe we can teach this to kids in history class, to 'counterbalance' seeing 
An Inconvenient Truth that they were shown a few minutes earlier in science 
class.

All joking aside, I am not a fan of trying to counterbalance nutty 
statements from one side of the political spectrum with even nuttier 
statements from the other side of the spectrum. This is not a healthy way 
for society to make decisions. Eventually, we are left to choose between 2 
extreme lunatic positions.

I think we have a duty to point out inaccurate and misleading statements, 
even if they support our political positions. When I go out looking for 
information about the effect CO2 has on climate, I don't appreciate being 
mislead about the cause and effect relationship between CO2 and warming that 
the ice core data presents and I don't appreciate being lied to about the 
correlation between solar activity and global cooling. To me, it is 
absolutely insane that anyone can support this stuff.

Regards,
Kai

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Dapra" <sjd at swcp.com>
To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:18 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Re: The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindle


> March 19
>
>         If we are to believe the Independent it looks like someone is 
> playing fast and loose with the truth.  (Did anyone note the pro forma use 
> of the pejorative "right-wing" Washington think-tank to describe the 
> George C Marshall Institute?)  I have no views either way on the GCM 
> Institute.
>
>         Pollution blocking the sun -- well it's only a hypothesis.  How 
> much pollution is produced by volcanoes and forest fires as compared to 
> that of humans?  We humans could well be more puny than we like to think 
> we are.
>
> Steven Dapra
> sjd at swcp.com
>
>
>
> At 09:14 AM 3/19/07 -0600, Kai Kaletsch wrote:
>>Friends,
>>
>>it looks like the film The Great Global Warming Swindle [see 
>>http://video.google.com:80/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831 ] may 
>>itself be a fraudumentary [ see for example 
>>http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece
>>]
>>
>>I was wondering why all the data presented stopped in the 1980s. It turns 
>>out that was when the data sets were discredited. It turns out that 
>>neither solar activity or CO2 do a very good job of explaining the cooling 
>>observed after 1940 [ see 
>>http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/aerosol.gif ]. One hypothesis is 
>>that pollution was blocking the sun. --- So much for the assertion that we 
>>puny humans can't possibly affect the climate.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Kai
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