Global warming

September 24, 2005

The Guardian Watchblog weighs in with some thoughts on global warming from the conservative viewpoint.

Science — not junk science based on hysteria and ideology, but real science based on data and reason — suggests that global warming is driven more by the sun than anything humans have done. A recent study by Swiss and German scientists indicates that the sun is burning hotter than it has at anytime in the past thousand years. “The Sun is in a changed state,” stated Dr. Sami Solanki, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. “It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently — in the last 100 to 150 years.” Does that time frame sound vaguely familiar? It’s about the same time the Little Ice Age began to end — the same time that Liberals claim humans began to cause global warming. Isn’t it clear that the sun is the real cause? Shouldn’t we at least examine this before ruining our economy for nothing?

Far be it from me to dive into the global warming wars, because I really don’t have a clue, but the last line of the quote seems to me quite reasonable. I believe it impossible to know with absolute certainty, a) whether there is in fact enough global warning to be worrisome, and b) to what degree human activity is responsible.

Dave, happy he won’t be here for the next ice age

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