Global warming creationism
Posted by Josh Friedlander | 2 Comments
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Teaching Climate Change
A California legislator wants the state’s science cirriculum to teach climate change. Climate change is a documented fact. Within recorded human history we have gone through two 1500-year warming / cooling cycles. There’s evidence on every continent of this. But human-caused global warming is bullshit. Basically, we’re being asked to believe that the inevitable warming is *more* warm *now* than it *should* be. We have zero evidence of that. Nobody can say with any precision how quickly the earth warms when it warms. It was warmer during the Roman Warming than it is now. Fig trees grew in northern Italy where they don’t grow now.Yeah, teach climate change, but teaching global warming is as bad as teaching creationism. They’re both faith-based education.
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February 27th, 2008 @
The publication is right on point but it goes too far. We should be teaching about how the planet is going to change because of the warming of the climate. The problem with the American discussion of the subject has been the mania about assessing guilt for what is happening. We should be figuring out where people are going to go when the rain stops falling in their homelands, or the sea rises and inundates them. We need to plan and to do that we need to know what we are facing. There is nothing faith-based about the problem and to call it that is to needlessly engender hostility on one side or the other.
February 27th, 2008 @
Thanks for the post and for recognizing my problem with the religion of global warming. My problem is not and never has been with climate science and the investigation of the world we live in. My issue is with the very unscientific tactics used by those who what to advance their belief that human generated CO2 emissions will cause catastrophes of biblical proportion.
Through the distorted lens of the global warming faith, all weather events and climate changes can be viewed as caused by CO2 emissions. This is simply a ridiculous and untenable viewpoint, which leads stupid politicians to claim that even the record low temperatures in India, Russia, and China this year were caused by global warming.
Check out this excellent commentary from Berkeley, CA resident Edna Spector. She suggests that “The city and residents of Berkeley should be on the leading vanguard of the voluntary extinction of the human race.” Adopting a No Child policy and supporting voluntary suicide are the first steps she proposes.