Thursday, April 20, 2006
How Stubborn these Conservatives Are
In the Los Angeles Times for Thursday, April 20, conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg writes an article belittling Al Gore's recent campaign to alert the American Public to the reality and danger of global warming. Goldberg's column contains the usual put-downs and denigration of environmental scaremongers.
Now, there has been a question, even among reputable climate scientists as to why global warming hasn't been more pronounced, considering the increasing amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO-2) that we humans have been putting into our atmosphere. Conservatives (or some of them, at least) have seized on this question to express doubt and scorn on the whole concept of human activity having any effect on the climate. Then, Tuesday night, April 18, PBS stations broadcast an episode of the program NOVA that dealt with the effect of particulate pollution in reducing the amount of solar energy that reaches the earth. "Dimming the Sun" was the name of the program.
Well, "dimming the sun" provides the answer to the puzzle. Two effects of human activity have been having opposing effects on the earth's temperature. For more details, go to Google and type in the phrase "dimming the sun" to see links to various articles. If Jonah Goldberg has seen the NOVA program or has seen any of the relevant articles, he's in denial. He's a stubborn man.
Now, there has been a question, even among reputable climate scientists as to why global warming hasn't been more pronounced, considering the increasing amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO-2) that we humans have been putting into our atmosphere. Conservatives (or some of them, at least) have seized on this question to express doubt and scorn on the whole concept of human activity having any effect on the climate. Then, Tuesday night, April 18, PBS stations broadcast an episode of the program NOVA that dealt with the effect of particulate pollution in reducing the amount of solar energy that reaches the earth. "Dimming the Sun" was the name of the program.
Well, "dimming the sun" provides the answer to the puzzle. Two effects of human activity have been having opposing effects on the earth's temperature. For more details, go to Google and type in the phrase "dimming the sun" to see links to various articles. If Jonah Goldberg has seen the NOVA program or has seen any of the relevant articles, he's in denial. He's a stubborn man.
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Good job, Al, in pointing out the stubbornness of the conservatives. If they would read something other than the American Standard
listen to someone other than Rush Limbaugh and watch PBS instead of Fox News, they might get a grip on reality. There have been so many mainline publications that have provided scientific evidence of global warning and man's impact on it (see TIme magazine of about 3 weeks ago (April 10?), National Geographic of Sept. 2004, etc, etc. No informed, intelligent person (without an agenda) today can deny that global warming is here, human activity has contributed and its effects are and will continue to be devastating.
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listen to someone other than Rush Limbaugh and watch PBS instead of Fox News, they might get a grip on reality. There have been so many mainline publications that have provided scientific evidence of global warning and man's impact on it (see TIme magazine of about 3 weeks ago (April 10?), National Geographic of Sept. 2004, etc, etc. No informed, intelligent person (without an agenda) today can deny that global warming is here, human activity has contributed and its effects are and will continue to be devastating.
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