---I certainly don’t agree with J-Dub very often, but I enjoy reading all the same.
He and I have a healthy and respectful mutual disagreement, which is rare in these “polarized” times.
Mr. Lindorff
wrote in the Baltimore Chronicle a quick little op-ed predicting a catastrophic climactic shift and openly hoping that it disproportionately affects people in the “red states,” or to put an even finer point on it, conservatives.
While I understand the spirit of the writing, it boggles the imagination that; A. an intelligent commentator would embrace this sort of logic, and B. the Baltimore Chronicle would give him a megaphone to preach from.
“Global warming” as it is sold to the public is a farce, an imaginary statistical bugaboo created by environmental activists with a political agenda that is too radical to openly state and is activated via small integral steps. The American people and scientist in particular are correctly skeptical about people making proclamations about the future climate, as we have been down this road before: a little humility is in order.
The PLANET is a complex system, with thousands if not millions of variables interacting. To claim that our increased emission of CO2 is responsible for increasing the global mean temperature is a deliberate misinterpretation of historical data for the express purpose of advocating a specific regulatory change---namely the forced conservation of fossil fuels—and more specifically an attempt to hamstring the American economy.
To be clear: I believe that we should be good stewards of the planet, I believe that we should pursue alternative technologies, but to abdicate our national energy policies to a small but vocal group of “green” activists would be disastrous.
