What do we know about climate changes?

The only current "evidence" for blaming carbon emissions [for global warming] are scientific models (and the fact that there are few contradictory observations). Historically, science has not progressed by calculations and models, but by repeatable observations. Some theories held by science authorities have turned out to be spectacularly wrong: heavier-than-air flight is impossible, the sun orbits the earth, etc. For excellent reasons, we have much more confidence in observations by several independent parties than in models produced by a small set of related parties!

I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train, by David Evans.

The Lesson is: Abolish State subsidies!

When I read a story like this I can't help thinking: Thank god my attitude is towards freedom, and not towards statism.

Whatever is necessary

The environmentalists and their stooges in the media were not, and are not, concerned with logical consistency. That requires holding the context and making distinctions between different contexts. What they are concerned with is whatever can be used to strike fear in people: warming, freezing; flood, drought; it’s all the same. If it provokes fear, their tactic is to use it and play on it.

Quoted from Environmentalist Bugaboo Loses Support, by George Reisman.

Very few, if any, cut so easily through the environmentalist inconsistent incoherent apocalypse-propaganda and statist agenda than does George Reisman. The Right should give him some kind of reward for his non-stop battle against the ever-growing power of Green Socialism. Read this for example - very inspiring!

Is Global Warming a Religion?

Unlike most traditional religions that have historically been content to function without the strong arm of the state behind them, the global warmingists want to turn theirs into a state religion. In the very nature of human beings as producers of carbon dioxide, they have found an “original sin” to be eradicated. [...] I suspect that their version of the “Ten Commandments” greatly exceeds that number. - The Global Warming Jihad

Does this not make perfect sense? Those who cast doubt on the "human induced global warming" meet intense criticism, much more intense and widespread than those who promote the agenda of man-made Apocalypse. Those who call for the destruction of human life and well-being are tolerated, even respected, and their word gets the positive attention of many.

Or so i see it.

Not to say that criticism is a bad thing. In fact, in the field of science it is a crucial thing. As a rule of thumb, as soon as anything reaches a "consensus" (like the propaganda/religion of human-induced global warming has via the IPCC and others), it is not very unlikely that it is further from the truth than anything under dispute. Newton was superseded by Einstein, who again is being challenged with new theories. Darwin's theory of evolution enjoys great popularity, but his theory of evolution remains just that - a theory. The same can be said about the human-induced global warming theory.

Nevertheless I tend to lean towards the attitude of Mr. Reisman an others and say that if and even though mankind is having a significant impact on Earth's climate, then this is not a reason to fear, because CO2 is a byproduct of capitalism and industrialisation, just like wealth and welfare of mankind. So what if Siberia grows a littler warmer and Sahara a little dryer? As long as mankind benefits, this is a small price to pay.

Greed is good

"The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for a lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed in all of its forms. Greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked an upward surge of mankind, and greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
- Gordon Gekko, in the movie Wall Street

Gordon Gekko is surely one of my all time favorite movie characters. He hits the spot with his greed-speech, in a way that is hard to deny (giving a certain ability to think rationally).

It seems strange to make a movie character speak with such economic wisdom, clarity and rationality in one scene, and then say some complete nonsense a little later in the movie, like his following words about the capitalist free-market: "Its a zero sum game. Somebody wins, somebody looses." Here he says something that couldn't be further from the truth! The free market is not a zero sum game, not by a long-shot! It's the very opposite. It's the expansion of the cake, not the division of it. Politics is the division of the cake. Perhaps Oliver Stone got confused?

Nevertheless, I strongly recommend that everyone watch Gordon Gekko's speech about greed and get inspired!

Lets do nothing

I am not the biggest fan of weather forecasts. I will observe them from day to day to see if I should wear my big winter jacket or my small summer jacket the following day, but that's about it. But I will quote those who say that doing "something" about the weather is a hopeless quest:

It's hardly news that human beings have had a hand in the planetary warming that began more than 30 years ago. For nearly a century, scientists have known that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide would eventually result in warming that was most pronounced in winter, especially on winter's coldest days, and a cooling of the stratosphere. All of these have been observed. ... However, actually 'doing something' about warming is a daunting endeavor. The journal Geophysical Research Letters estimated in 1997 that if every nation on Earth lived up to the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol on global warming, it would prevent no more than 0.126 degrees F of warming every 50 years. Global temperature varies by more than that from year to year, so that's not even enough to measure. Climatically, Kyoto would do nothing. (#)

So what if humans are having an impact on global climate? So are animals that die and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So are volcanoes that erupt. So is the sun that varies in energy release all the time. Humans need energy to continue raising their standard of living. If this need for energy changes the climate, so be it! I am anti-green because I am pro-human. That pretty much sums it up for me, and no fooling around with temperature records will change that.