Paul Krugman, New York Times, has an column up on anthropogenic global warming. As usual, Krugman is less than rational. But heck, it is the Times, the sane need not apply.
In Washington Monthly, Kevin Drumm, takes up Krugman’s cause:
As Krugman notes, the extent to which conservatives have turned opposition to global warming science into a personal jihad against Al Gore is breathtaking.
So few words. So many mistakes. Climate change is a fact, just as are tides and sunsets. Rational people do not take political positions on geophysical events. The Earth is what four billion years old, and there is no indiacation that the climate has ever been stable.
What Gore, and Krugman, are pontificating about is antropogenic global warming. That is climate change caused by man. That the climate is changing is just a fact. The ideas that one, mankind is driving climate change, and two, can somehow control the World’s climate is absurd.
In the case of Gore, the belief is not even a scientific one but rather a religious one. Would a rational person who believed that carbon footprints are driving climate change fly around in a private jet, or personally consume massive amounts of energy?
Gore is not a scienctist. Rather Gore is a former politician turned filmmaker, and not even a good one at that.
Heck, I am fighting anthropogenic global warming. I use far less energy than does Gore. Color me green.
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