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Jewish World Review
Dec. 22, 2009
/ 5 Teves 5770
A Cool Wind Braces the Hot-Air Crowd
By
Debra J. Saunders
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For years, global warming alarmists have pointed to every drought and heat wave as
proof that global warming was a real environmental threat. They had few qualms about
blurring the line between weather and climate to make a PR point. Perhaps, then, it
was karma that brought a blizzard and freezing temperatures to the U.N. climate
change Conference of Parties confab in Copenhagen (or COP-15 for short) last week.
You may have read about the 1,200 limos and 140 private planes commissioned to
transport COP-15 dignitaries in style. Critics love to point to the hypocrisy of
world leaders such as Prince Charles and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
touching down in separate private planes to a conference ostensibly dedicated to
curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
But it's the Flying High Lords of Greendom's air of unreality that concerns me. If
world leaders truly believed that global warming will lead to famine, rising sea
levels and melting of the North Pole ice along with countless deaths surely
they would want to set an example by flying commercial.
Instead, they travel like pooh-bahs of the stratosphere, then justify their excesses
by tossing $100 or so into a carbon-offset fund.
In that godlike spirit, President Obama lauded the COP-15's pact to limit global
warming to a rise of only 2 degrees Celsius by 2050 as "an unprecedented
breakthrough."
What's the next trick? An eclipse? Now I am fairly skeptical about global warming
alarmism largely because it's hard to heed true believers when they fail to
behave in a way that addresses their big issue.
My advice to true believers: If you really believe global warming is caused by man
and threatens Earth, stop supporting treaties that don't mandate greenhouse-gas
reductions.
For too long, the issue of global warming has hinged on whether politicians said
they believed in global warming, not whether they worked to reduce their nation's
greenhouse-gas emissions. If the alarmists are correct, then it doesn't matter what
people believe if they don't act on those beliefs.
Instead of pretending that critics don't exist, debate them. Stop pretending that
consumers can fight global warming simply by using politically correct light bulbs,
and recycling. Environmentalists have argued that developed nations will have to cut
emissions by 80 percent and that requires bigger changes than sorting your trash.
Don't support treaties with untenable goals that are to be met decades into the
future. Enough with the worst-case scenarios. Al Gore has a penchant for repeating
the most dire predictions on global warming and not always accurately. As the
Times of London reported last week, Gore told a Copenhagen audience, that according
to a Dr. Wieslaw Maslowski, "there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north
polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to
seven years."
Except Maslowski told the Times he had no idea where Gore got that idea. "I would
never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this."
Polls show Americans are cooling on global warming. It could be that voters don't
buy into the all-bad scenarios predicted by Gore and company.
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