Want to know why us "deniers" are skeptical of the dire predictions?
What was the picture on the cover of An Inconvenient Truth? Hurricane Katrina. We were told that if we didn't do something right away, that we would have many more storms just like it. And yet, not a single cat 3 hurricane in 10 years. Not one. Miami would be underwater by now. The North Pole would be completely ice free. None of these predictions came true, not even close. And yet, we are called names because what we see is different from what we were told we would see, and we dare to ask why.
I wish the issue wasn't so politicized. If it is as serious as a lot of folks are saying then it needs to be addressed, but when the solution always involves some massive redistribution of wealth and overwhelming government regulation, I get a little suspicious.
Then I see the biggest advocates have some of the largest individual footprints and getting rich off of policy changes, I'm even more worried.
If this the number one issue facing humanity , you should not be jetting around the world in private jets like crazy, building huge houses, have multiple houses, and suggest the poor guy driving his pick up to work at a coal mine is the problem and he needs to pay more for gas to compensate some other country, it does not go over well.
When Al Gore moves into a Condo and starts taking public transportation, or Kristoff limits his travel to one continent a month, or the Hedge fund manger gives back his profits he made on the energy industry to working folks instead of Millionaire POTUS candidates that jet around the world, then come talk to me. If you get an exemption from then everyone gets an exemption.
It's like being a sponsor for an AA member yet you show up at the meeting swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniels and lecture against alcohol. Amazing!
Earth Heading for 'mini ice age' Within 15 Years