A couple weeks back, our good friends over at Bahamas Pundit ran a piece titled Good News and Bad News About Oil Prices.It was an excellent piece but the comment section was where the real fireworks took place on the hotly debated topic of Global Warming.
If you have time, please read the comments at this post...
Not long after the 'debate' there I stumbled across the following piece at the Wall Street Journal by Bret Stephens titled Global Warming as Mss Neurosis.
Here are the first three paragraphs of a very interesting piece:
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the mass hysteria phenomenon known as global warming. Much of the science has since been discredited. Now it's time for political scientists, theologians and psychiatrists to weigh in.
What, discredited? Thousands of scientists insist otherwise, none more noisily than NASA's Jim Hansen, who first banged the gong with his June 23, 1988, congressional testimony (delivered with all the modesty of "99% confidence").
But mother nature has opinions of her own. NASA now begrudgingly confirms that the hottest year on record in the continental 48 was not 1998, as previously believed, but 1934, and that six of the 10 hottest years since 1880 antedate 1954. Data from 3,000 scientific robots in the world's oceans show there has been slight cooling in the past five years, never mind that "80% to 90% of global warming involves heating up ocean waters," according to a report by NPR's Richard Harris. [More...]
What are your thoughts?
