John Stossel Dares To Question Global Warming
Posted on October 21, 2007
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Well done, John Stossel. You are a breath of fresh air on this Global Warming issue. Thank you.
There is a problem here. Freedom of expression and global warming have become the powerful tools of the loud left to silence opposing views. Where are we headed? One global embrace, one repressed globe. Who are these aliens, are they humans?
This is real journalism. All hail Stossel!!!! This country needs more people to search between the lines on issues like this.
Environmental hand-wringers are so egotistical, they now believes that, just because humans think they have stopped evolving, the earth has stopped evolving, too. It just doesn’t work that way.
ithing is no’t the planet has a fever galobel warming cause from who belivein’t ithing
they have very high fever rhey trying to forset on us that no’t good sory
god knows his businese let them create finger of human any way who ar hey
they don’t ownyhank you the planet excuse me they haye they openion but don’t force’t
On the bright side, those kids are going to know they were deliberately lied to by the time they grow up, and they’re going to know which side of the political spectrum did the lying.
this is cool. It makes the denialists look really stupid.
*Has spastic fit, drools in lap*
Extra, extra! History attempts to teach mankind not to repeat itself! Mankind turns deaf ear! Read all about it! http://michaelcrichton.com/essay-stateoffear-whypoliticizedscienceisdangerous.html
in stossel piece no one denies that the earth is warming. the questions are how and why. but is any of that a reason to stop attmepting to use less resources, to reduce the global foot print of an ever increasing population and to find solutions that will allow us to retain and grow an energy rich life style as the amounts of fossil energy is reducing. calling the debate over and calling global warming a hoax seems equally harmful
Substitute “Global Jihad” for “Global Warming” and Stossel along with most of you would eat up every prediction and threat warning as Gospel. Ask that same group of kids to talk about Terror and you’ll get just as many absurd distortions and wild-eyed exaggerations. If only Stossel was as skeptical and as critical when it came to the WMD claims. But it was the Right making the claims so he accepted them as fact.
Debbie,
If man is causing or contributing to global warming, and if global warming will cause major problems, then we need to reduce or eliminate our impact on CO2 levels. That will cost huge amounts of money — $trillions. This will significantly reduce resources available to work on other problems facing humanity. A few thoughts:
1) The U.S. would need to consider replacing most or all of its fossil fuel electric plants with nukes, or (impossible with current technology) wind and solar. A nuclear plant costs about $1.5 million/megawatt-hour of capacity. We’d need to replace about 2.6 billion megawatts of coal/gas/oil plants with nuclear. In other words, the price tag just to replace the existing capacity would be $3.9 trillion. If you want wind or solar instead of nuclear, the cost is even higher. There are a LOT of other things you could do to improve life for the world’s people with that $3.9 trillion.
2) There’s currently NO good replacement for petroleum to power cars. If you make the entire U.S. corn crop into ethanol, you replace less than 20% of the oil we burn in cars. Hybrids make better use of the gas or diesel, but they still burn it.
If CO2 isn’t a major problem, there are some answers. The U.S. could make methanol out of coal. We could build more coal burning power plants and use electric cars. We have more coal than we know what to do with. But if burning the coal is going to cause a climate catastrophe — what should we do? The only answer is to raise the cost of whatever the cars burn through the roof. What impact will that have on the poor? It will be especially awful in the Third World. You can’t get out of poverty in Africa or anywhere else with out a reliable energy source.
Sure, as you say, we should “find solutions that will allow us to retain and grow an energy rich life style as the amounts of fossil energy is reducing.” But we don’t have those solutions right now. Even when/if we find them, it will take decades to bring them online. And if we need to reduce or eliminate CO2 emissions “right now,” to avoid a climate catastrophe, it will be very, very, very painful.
Whether it’s a crisis or not really matters. A lot.
Tree huggers from the 60’s insisted that we always question authority. Now the tree huggers themselves are being questioned on THEIR supposed “authority.” …Ironic eh? How dare anyone question their integrity? Hahahahahah–follow the Benjamins folks.
Using fear to gain power is not new. Using it to this magnitude with so many sheep rolling over for it is–and it’s scary.
Until the tree huggers can explain how mankind can raise the temperature on Mars, they’ve got ZERO CREDIBILITY!
Face it. If global warming is a charging elephant, man’s contribution to it is the mosquito on the elephant’s forehead. Swatting the mosquito won’t do a damn thing to stop the elephant, yet that’s all morons like sore loserman and leo DiCRAPio want us to worry about.
GOREBAL-WARRING
Algore is making war on the people of the world with his nine untruths.
Some of the following information was in a Readers Digest article called, “What’s Wrong with Global Warming?â€, and some was in the Old farmer’s Almanac. The rest is from other sources.
Warm periods are part of this planet’s regular cycle. They are caused by the realignment of the planet with the sun. There were no SUV’s during the last warm period, which ended the era now known as the Dark Ages. That warm period is now known as the Renaissance.
The Renaissance was a time of greatly expanded knowledge, art, exploration, and construction: There were many more artists painting many more pictures, many more sculptors making many more sculptures, hundreds of churches/temples were built in Europe, and the Angor Wot temple was built in Asia. Many sailors sailed around much of the planet.
There was no flooding (not even in Venice) because the sea ice contracted when it melted, and the heat of the sun evaporated much of the ocean water into the atmosphere to provide rainfall where there previously was drought. This increased agriculture around the world. The growing season started sooner and lasted longer, which meant much more food was grown around the world, ending the previous famine.
The poles were warmer and the snow which fell there was wet, not the dry snow which falls in the extremely-bitter cold. This returned much of the atmospheric water to be the polar ice.
One thousand years ago, the Vikings sent groups of people to colonize Greenland, which had farmable land, not ice. This is what the last warm period was like.
Now, Greenland is returning to the way it used to be a millennium ago, farmable land not ice. A glacier in Greenland is melting, revealing the farmable land the Vikings originally went there to till; larger crop yields already are the result, and the codfish have returned to the waters off Greenland.
The polar bear experts in Canada report that the polar bears in Canada are thriving. The polar bears were originally grizzly bears located in the polar regions of the planet when it went into an ice age. They evolved into polar bears when the ice age started, and they can swim 60 miles at a time.
Ice in the oceans contracts when it melts, lowering the water level, the benefit of melting sea ice. This means that the oceans will not rise even one foot, let alone Algore’s twenty feet. When glaciers melt, some of the water will thaw out the ground below where the glacier was and soak in to cause plant growth; some of the water will run into the oceans to fill in space previously filled by sea ice; much of the water will evaporate into the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide is inhaled by trees and other plants which exhale oxygen that we breathe, making the air more breathable. Carbon dioxide also makes the trees and other plants bigger, taller, and stronger. This means that we get more wood and stronger wood which could resist hurricane damage and does resist termite damage.
Crops grow faster and larger.
Warm weather is healthier than cold weather.
Warm weather is safer than cold weather with snow and ice.
Warm weather saves energy that would have gone for heating.
More water is available around the world for crops, less worry about droughts.
Polar routes will cut shipping distances and save fuel.
Seasonal jobs will become year-round jobs.
The heat of the sun and the absence of cold from glaciers will evaporate more water from the oceans, lakes, and rivers into the upper atmosphere where winds will blow it evenly around the world, providing normal rain world-wide, even where there presently is drought and barren land. Moving all this water evenly around the world to become normal rainfall will prevent flooding.
The poles will be warmer and the snow which falls there will be wet, not the dry snow which falls in the extremely-bitter cold. This will return much of the atmospheric water to the poles to be the thicker polar ice.
Future Penguins: They might swim to their breeding grounds, instead of marching 70 miles over ice in subzero temperatures. They might feed while waiting for their eggs to form. The females might not have to march back 70 miles over ice in subzero temperatures to feed while the males tend the eggs. When they pass the eggs back and forth while taking turns feeding, the eggs won’t freeze and die if they touch the ground.
The worldwide rain will cause long-dormant seeds in the barren lands to sprout and grow into new plants. The grasses will be food for livestock, and all the new plants will inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen, which we breathe. There will be so many new plants, that we might have to increase the amount of carbon dioxide we generate, to provide enough for all of them.
Hopefully, we are nearing the end of an ice age that has lasted many centuries; and hopefully, the planet is returning to a normalcy which will also last for centuries. Parts of the world are still experiencing record low temperatures. In Switzerland, a glacier is melting. The receding glacier revealed the silver mine under it, with the mining equipment still in it, waiting for someone to resume mining the silver ore. This is normalcy in Switzerland.
Glaciers still hold the water that is needed as condensation for the lands that are barren. This is the cause of drought which occurred because the water needed for condensation is frozen into glaciers, also the cause of flooding. The melting glaciers will provide water for the land which was previously frozen, and to be evaporated into the atmosphere to become normal rainfall worldwide.
The melting of the glacier on Mount Ararat could enable the finding of the remains of Noah’s Ark, which was crushed by the ice which was not there when Noah landed.
As it was during the Renaissance, the next warm period will be a time of advancement for the world with all the additional agriculture and the end of barren land, drought, and famine. The people will be safer, healthier, more peaceful, and more prosperous, as long as they don’t give control over their lives to Algore, his fellow liberal traitors, and their Islamo-fascist-terrorist-murderer partners-in-crime!!!
The book, “Algore and his Nine Untruths†says that the world will be destroyed by global warming in ten years; but his Islamo-fascist-terrorist-murderer partners-in-crime say that the twelfth Imam will destroy the world in two years. They have the same credibility as Algore. If so, why should we worry about something that will happen eight years after the world is destroyed? We should all enjoy the warm weather as much as we can, as long as we can.