The intensity of hurricanes increases every 40 years. The fact that there are more people living in these areas now is just a testament to our own inability to identify CYCLES, and think of the climate as a static element in our earth-bound reality.

Clearly, this is not the case. Understanding cycles is important to this discussion of GWT. If one looks back at historical cycles, and one looks at much larger pictures, it is almost silly to think that just because we have come along THIS time it is going to be dramatically different. Even if it is, our knowledge of systems theory with regard to climate is so limited that we don't actually know if we are hurting or helping with this particular cyclic turn.

That is Crichton's point, and it is a perfectly valid perspective. [Political comments removed]

If 17,000 scientists (meteorologists, climatologists, chemists, physicists, etc) involved in the field can conscientiously say it's bunk, then there must be at least something materially wrong with GWT as it is propagandized today.

In fact, the occasionally frantic measures taken to accomodate GWT proponents is causing more harm than good. The big push for biodiesel in Europe, a noble effort in itself, is causing South American farmers to slash and burn thousands of acres of rainforests to grow the soybeans necessary to satisfy the biodiesel demands. Oops.


Climate change is very real, but this is not the same as man-made "Global Warming". Correlation is not causation... otherwise climate change can be shown to be directly linked
to my body weight, since it "began" in the early 1960's and continues to get larger to the present day... (I call it GWT... Guinness Weight Theory... think it'll catch on?)

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.



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