Bad science fuels global warming fears

A Dec. 23 Fence Post headline states, "Global warming is real, immediate." This is a dangerous and uninformed statement of opinion - not fact - akin to falsely shouting "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater. Consider the following: Major agencies tracking earth's temperature (including the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain and others) have reported "the earth cooled 0.7 degrees Celsius in 2007, the fastest decline in the age of instrumentation, putting us back to where the earth was in 1930." The same agencies concluded, "The mean global temperature, as measured by satellite, is the same as it was in 1980. In the last few years, sea level has stopped rising, hurricane and cyclone activity in the Northern Hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980."

Al Gore's film - the "holy gospel" among global warming alarmists - was deemed "propaganda" in a court of law in the U.K. as many points could not be substantiated by scientists. For example, it was revealed that some of the "documentary" footage was created by a graphic artist - the ice shelf collapse was from the movie "The Day After Tomorrow." According to author Christopher Horner, Gore's biggest fallacy is based on "the cause and effect relationship of CO2 and temperatures. The scientific literature is fairly clear and fairly uniform. Temperatures go up, and then CO2 concentrations go up. CO2 does not drive temperature."

Anthropogenic Global Warming is an unproven theory, and 31,000 scientists have signed a petition against it. More than 600 scientists on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - frequently cited as the definitive experts by the alarmists - recently came out against earlier conclusions that man is causing global warming. Global warming is a political issue today, driven by some of the worst "science" since the conclusion that lobotomies would cure mental illness.

Roger Willis

Naperville