The Cold Hard Facts (from Canada)

A scientist from Canada is speaking out against the new Global-Warming-trend sweeping across the world. This isn't the first time that Canadian scientists have spoken out against the idea that humans are causing the Earth to heat up, and this latest article in the Canadian Free Press is more than just a bunch of hot air.

The article, Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?, is written by Dr. Tim Ball, one of the first Canadian P.h.D. in Climatology. "Believe it or not," he writes, "Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification."

Ball doesn't deny the fact that the Earth has, in the past, heated up and cooled down; however, he doesn't attribute this to CO2 emissions from humans:

"I was as opposed to the threats of impending doom global cooling engendered as I am to the threats made about Global Warming. Let me stress I am not denying the phenomenon has occurred. The world has warmed since 1680, the nadir of a cool period called the Little Ice Age (LIA) that has generally continued to the present. These climate changes are well within natural variability and explained quite easily by changes in the sun."

His reasoning behind the current popularity of human-caused Global Warming is that it's a scientific theory that was declared true before it was ever tested. The line of argument behind the theory assumes that CO2 released into the air is a greenhouse gas that causes temperatures to rise, and since humans are creating more CO2 than ever before, clearly we are at fault. Scientific theories are based off of assumptions of scientists, but if those assumptions are false then so are the theories.

According to Ball, the entire Global Warming debate has been politicized far past the point of scientific theory and testing. It was accepted before it could be proven, and now politicians (and former ones, like Al Gore) are talking about it more than scientists. It is generally understood, at least by conservatives, that politicians never know more about a subject than the people directly related to it. Trust the generals on the ground during war and trust scientists during times of theoretical testing. In the case of Global Warming, environmentalists are taking the ball and running before anyone can decisively prove the theory one way or another. People are going along with it all because "no sensible person seeks conflict, especially with governments, but if we don't pursue the truth, we are lost as individuals and as a society. That is why I insist on saying that there is no evidence that we are, or could ever cause global climate change." Ball writes that passive acceptance avoids conflict and advances careers. Unfortunately, this passive acceptance is leading to legislation and unnecessary environmental spending on a scientific theory that isn't proven.

Posted by MikeRubino at February 7, 2007 11:13 PM