Occasionally, surprising things happen. In The Nation magazine, one of America's premier Leftist publications, one of America's premier Leftist commentators, Alexander Cockburn, writes:
In a couple of hundred years historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the tenth century as the Christian millennium approached. Then as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet's rapid downward slide. Then as now, a buoyant market throve on fear. The Roman Catholic Church sold indulgences like checks. The sinners established a line of credit against bad behavior and could go on sinning. Today a world market in "carbon credits" is in formation. Those whose "carbon footprint" is small can sell their surplus carbon credits to others less virtuous than themselves.
The entire article is filed with scientific facts and figures that apparently Al Gore never read; or, if he read such, he didn't understand. Go to Cockburn's article in The Nation online (a subscription site, however; to get the whole article you have to sign up).
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Posted by: Rubik's | November 20, 2013 at 11:35 PM
honestly, theres nonithg u can do, its truely out of the individuals hands, the only thing we are doing by recycling and using less energy and shit is buying a small fraction of time,id say 20 yrs at the most, its up to industries and governments to save the planet, not us, and i dont see that happening, nasa will keep launching popping holes in the ozone,factories are still gonna make whatever they have to to keep the economy going, Ala chanting ragheads are still gonna set oil fields on fire, and we are still gonna fly our jet fighters over to blow them up, our planet is fucked, it will never stop, the best thing i have thought of to do is not to reproduce and have children that will suffer in the future, dont get me wrong, im all for saving the planet and do my best to not waste but at the same time im a realist and accept the planet earths fate, sad but true so when u wanna know what u can do i guess the only thing i can seriously suggest is prayer
Posted by: Auth | May 03, 2012 at 08:41 PM
Actually, it's Cockburn who misunderstands the science. According to his logic, the earth should start cooling the day after the summer solstice and warming the day after the winter solstice. He doesn't seem to understand heat balance or aggregate effects at all.
All global warming deniers have to in order to be credible is come up with a plausible mechanism whereby CO2 levels can rise without causing warming. But in the 17 years since the first IPCC report, they have monumentally failed to do this.
Posted by: pianoguy | June 23, 2007 at 05:24 PM