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Scientists doubt global warming
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The real deal?
Against the grain: Some scientists deny global warming exists

by Lawrence Solomon, National Post

Published: Friday, February 02, 2007 -- Astrophysicist Nir Shariv, one of Israel's top young scientists, describes the logic that led him -- and most everyone else -- to conclude that SUVs, coal plants and other things man-made cause  global warming. 

Step One   Scientists for decades have postulated that increases in carbon dioxide and other gases could lead to a greenhouse effect. 
                      
Step Two   As if on cue, the temperature rose over the course of the 20th century while greenhouse gases proliferated due to human activities. 
                                            
Step Three    No other mechanism explains the warming. Without another candidate, greenhouses gases necessarily became the cause.

Dr. Shariv, a prolific researcher who has made a name for himself assessing the movements of  two-billion-year-old meteorites, no longer accepts this logic, or subscribes to these views. He has recanted: "Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media.
                      
"In fact, there is much more than meets the eye."

Dr. Shariv's digging led him to the surprising discovery that there is no concrete evidence -- only speculation -- that man-made greenhouse gases cause global warming

So, there you have it.  Doubt.  Perhaps Dr. Shariv was sitting there at his telescope one day, and suddendly recalled 'scientific method.'  The preceeding two words are the foundation of the modern world.  Everything from the operation you had last year to your automobile to your television set is based on them.  E=MC2, the formula which predicted the nuclear bomb, the mother board that is running the computer you are using to read this text, the cell phone, the DVD -- all rely on the process called 'scientific method.'

What is it? It is a statement that a scientific concept proposed by somebody remains a theory until science proves its premises are true by tests which other scientists can duplicate, and get the same results, themselves.

In a word, if a man says he knows of a place where cows can fly, nobody has to believe him until he proves it.

Your mainstream media here in Oregon, being composed of liberals (a political philosophy which denies Scientific Method in deed if not in word) has long promoted the view that if you don't go back to living in a cave, or at least a commune, you will destroy the Earth.

We at Oregon Magazine have long called for proof of this claim.  Liberals believe that when they say a thing, no additional justification is required.  They are people who believe that what they believe is fact just because they believe it -- that is, their motives are so generous and pure that their method of logic leads only to the truth.  And -- get this -- they believe that your money should be spent, your life altered, based on their vision of things.   

If this strikes you as being a bit arrogant, give yourself a gold star.

In conclusion, the actual facts available say that there is global warming.  All geological evidence indicates that the polar ice cap that used to stop just north of Salem melted back because of global warming.  If it hadn't, human civilization would not have begun, and all the damned liberals who infest our largest city, Portland, would be hunting wooly mammoths around Eugene.

But, there is no evidence that our current climate -- which is typical for this part of the planet in between ice ages -- was brought to its current stage (whatever that actually is) by the way we live, these days.

I wonder how many of you out there understand that at the heart of this global warming business are people who don't like capitalism?

(LL)

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