Warming Up Again
No, I’m not talking about the fact that my house is no longer freezing cold. I’m talking about the continuing Global Warming controversy, fueled even more by THIS sort of thing.
Claude Allegre, one of France’s leading socialists and among her most celebrated scientists, was among the first to sound the alarm about the dangers of global warming.
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In the 1980s and early 1990s, when concern about global warming was in its infancy, little was known about the mechanics of how it could occur, or the consequences that could befall us. Since then, governments throughout the western world and bodies such as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have commissioned billions of dollars worth of research by thousands of scientists. With a wealth of data now in, Dr. Allegre has recanted his views. To his surprise, the many climate models and studies failed dismally in establishing a man-made cause of catastrophic global warming. Meanwhile, increasing evidence indicates that most of the warming comes of natural phenomena. Dr. Allegre now sees global warming as over-hyped and an environmental concern of second rank.
His break with what he now sees as environmental cant on climate change came in September, in an article entitled “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” in l’ Express, the French weekly. His article cited evidence that Antarctica is gaining ice and that Kilimanjaro’s retreating snow caps, among other global-warming concerns, come from natural causes. “The cause of this climate change is unknown,” he states matter of factly. There is no basis for saying, as most do, that the “science is settled.”
Talk about “inconvenient.” (Sorry, couldn’t help myself.)
THIS isn’t helping, either. More “inconvenience.” (Sorry, couldn’t help myself again. And HERE is the trailer.)
The Anchoress has a nice COMPILATION of things on the matter.
I was talking about this very issue with a friend of mine over the weekend. And I am increasingly frustrated by how political this whole thing has become. I’m not against the notion of Stewarding the Earth, by any means. That’s been “in the cards” since Genesis. And I do think it’s fair to say that there is more that we could do on that particular front. (Of course, that’s true about pretty much everything.)
But the amount of dishonesty in this issue is appalling. And it makes it nearly impossible to think clearly about the matter. I react strongly to folks who say that “the science is settled,” since it’s not. And I react just as strongly to folks who want to make it the “moral issue of our times.” Those are simply not true.
(Oh, and my house is no longer freezing cold, which is really, really nice.)
