The Global Warming Debate

Is over, right?

The True Believers position is best summed up as: “I wonder if your time might be better spent — and the public better served — if you were to critique policy as regards energy & conservation rather than the problems (and global warming is only the most worrisome) that stem from long-term profligate and inefficient energy use.”

And in fact, it would be more convenient for the Luddites if we accept their underlying assumptions and limit ourselves, as Vin Suprynowicz says, to “critiquing policy as regards energy & conservation.”

Just as, in 1500, it would have been judged MUCH safer to study how best to DISCOVER and DESTROY witches than to challenge whether the old crones had any demonic powers in the first place. Remember, challenging the EXISTENCE of the supernatural powers of witches was prima facie proof that the challenger was HIMSELF a witch (“warlock,” whatever), which was likely to get you burned.

Amazingly, under those circumstances, publicly expressed opinion — holding that the demonic powers of witches was real — was NEARLY UNANIMOUS! Surely they couldn’t ALL have been wrong. Ain’t sealed systems grand?

The mechanism of global warming is well established. It’s primarily solar, and has nothing to do with the tiny amount of “greenhouse gas” mankind produces. Now, light the fires on the Village Green.