"Paul Cassel" wrote in message
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Tom Kunich wrote:
At the basis of the global warming hysteria is the idea that man is
causing it and that therefore man is evil.

No. The basis of the concern is that the contribution man makes is
accelerating the warming. Nobody thinks that man alone is the sole cause
of this.

Paul, the earth started warming about 1880 long before man had any input
into the situation. It seemed to peak about 1940 and started back down at
the point when man's increasing use of energy was at it's highest growth. By
1970 the hysterics were claiming Global Cooling would kill the majority of
mankind.

I cited a New York Times article from 1932 telling the world how we were
going to burn up and drown by the 21st century. The article actually said
that.

Then another article was published in 1970 proclaiming that we were about to
enter an ice age. The New York Times has only shown consistency in one
area - leftist political propaganda.

Shortly after the greenies were screaming about the coming ice age the
temperature started back up again. And lo and behold but now WE'RE the cause
of the heating.

There is one point I've been trying to make here and elsewhe The earth
isn't something that is easily effected by man. While I'm certain that we're
having some effects, most of them are highly localized and the sum of them
is buried in the noise of natural climatic variation.

While man probably is having the sum zero effect on climate change he most
certainly could have a serious effect if he starts fiddling with the
climate. One suggestion is that we build a more efficient carbon fixing
plankton and release it into the oceans. While the amount of carbon in the
atmosphere CAN'T rise too much (it will level off around 400 ppm) cutting
too much CO2 out of the atmosphere COULD be done and would have some very
serious consequences.