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Climate Change - A Falling Doctrine
Cal Thomas
Climate Change: Global Carbon Footprint
(c) M. Ryder
A familiar philosophical question goes like this: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Here's another: If a doctrine falls, will enough believers admit they were wrong and withdraw support for policies associated with it?
The "doctrine" of global warming, now euphemistically called "climate change," suffered a severe blow last week as much of
Writing Sunday in
During last month's climate summit in
The scientists challenge 10 of the main claims of the global warming-climate change true believers and write, "...there is no sound reason to impose expensive and restrictive public policy decisions on the peoples of the Earth without first providing convincing evidence that human activities are causing dangerous climate change beyond that resulting from natural causes. Before any precipitate action is taken, we must have solid observational data that recent changes in climate differ substantially from changes observed in the past and are well in excess of normal variations caused by solar cycles, ocean currents, changes in the Earth's orbital parameters and other natural phenomena."
That seems more than reasonable, but politicians in
Should we do nothing about our consumption of petroleum? No, we should use this window of opportunity to decrease our reliance on petroleum; not because of "climate change," but to deprive the oil-producing nations of money too many of them use to underwrite terrorism. This should satisfy both the global warming disciples and deniers and make America and
The falling doctrines now make so much noise that only those without hearing fail to notice.
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Kenneth T. Walsh
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Oh, Yes, The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
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The other day a friend asked if I'd written about the Copenhagen conference on climate change, carbon control, environmental technology, the ecological future of Spaceship Earth, cabbages and kings, and the 101 other Very Important Things covered by that huge, long-awaited and now suddenly fizzled international gabfest. No, I hadn't written about it, until now. Maybe because it ended not with a bang but with a whimper heard 'round the world
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Climate Change - A Falling Doctrine | Cal Thomas
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