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If .. you must 02/06/2007

If you haven't read A Blog for All's Palestinian Steel Cage Match Continues; you must.

If you haven't read Dr. Sanity's Apocolypse Now; you must.

The degree to which global warming is taken as catechism is evident in this Washington Post editorial, Global Warning

IT'S NOT quite the hurricane-force blow to skeptics of global warming that many climatologists would have preferred, but for a document drafted by hundreds of scientists representing 113 governments, the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released Friday, is nevertheless full of frightening evidence and, we hope, policy-inducing conclusions.

"Hurrican force blow?" An opposing view is the Wall Street Journal's Climate of Opinion

For example, the Center for Science and Public Policy has just released an illuminating analysis written by Lord Christopher Monckton, a one-time adviser to Margaret Thatcher who has become a voice of sanity on global warming.

Take rising sea levels. In its 2001 report, the U.N.'s best high-end estimate of the rise in sea levels by 2100 was three feet. Lord Monckton notes that the upcoming report's high-end best estimate is 17 inches, or half the previous prediction. Similarly, the new report shows that the 2001 assessment had overestimated the human influence on climate change since the Industrial Revolution by at least one-third.

Such reversals (and there are more) are remarkable, given that the IPCC's previous reports, in 1990, 1995 and 2001, have been steadily more urgent in their scientific claims and political tone.

Increasingly dire proclamations in the face of less dramatic predictions? Sounds more like superstition than science.

And check out Dr. Sanity's latest Carnival of the Insanities.

If you haven't read Bookworm Room's Weather Warfare; you must.

While you're at it read George Will's Inconvenien Kyoto Truths

Only the first tenet is clearly true, and only in the sense that the Earth warmed about 0.7 degrees Celsius in the 20th century. We do not know the extent to which human activity caused this. The activity is economic growth, the wealth-creation that makes possible improved well-being—better nutrition, medicine, education, etc. How much reduction of such social goods are we willing to accept by slowing economic activity in order to (try to) regulate the planet's climate?

and Jack Kelly's I vote for Global Warming.

But the planet is always getting either warmer or cooler. The current warming trend began about 300 years ago, in the depths of the Little Ice Age (A.D. 1350-1900).

The Little Ice Age followed the Medieval Warm Period (A.D. 800-1300), when global temperatures were about as warm as the climate-change panel predicts they might be in 2080. In those days Greenland was actually green, and wine grapes grew in Nova Scotia.

Instapundit recommends a practical way to cut down on greenhouse gases.

If you haven't read Good Intentions and sheer stupidity at Elie's Expositions; you must.
A commercial for PATH.

If you haven't read OAR @ MSG take 2 at Penny Stock; you must.
She went to a garden party.

And finally if you haven't read tips forcrossing guards at AbbaGav; you must.
He's back! (I hope.)

Blogdigger tags: Palestinian Civil War, Global Warming, New York City, Crossing Guards.

Posted by SoccerDad at February 6, 2007 2:03 AM