Sunday, May 15, 2005

My latest little blast is against the (global) warmists, who might also be called globalarmists. In what should have been a legitimate scientific article, I ran across propaganda such as this:

Overall, the reports say, Earth's climate has warmed by about 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900. In the Arctic, where a number of processes amplify the warming effects of carbon dioxide, most regions have experienced a temperature rise of 4 to 7 degrees in the last 50 years.

That warmth has reduced the amount of snow that falls every winter, melted away mountain glaciers and shrunk the Arctic Ocean's summer sea ice cover to its smallest extent in millennia, according to satellite measurements...

These changes seriously threaten animals such as polar bears, which live and hunt on the sea ice. The bears have already suffered a 15 percent decrease in their number of offspring and a similar decline in weight over the past 25 years. If the Arctic sea ice disappears altogether during the summer months, as some researchers expect it will by the end of the century, polar bears have little chance of survival.

This immediately brings to mind the question: What happened to polar bears 1000 years ago, when the earth was warmer than today? What did they do 5000+ years ago, when the earth was even warmer? And how many "millennia" of satellite measurements really exist?? It's political, folks; science is being perverted!

In response, I'd like to direct honest inquirers to a decent site such as this.