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Alaskan
The 1st Round Pick
Yes, I have spent considerable time in Barrow which is the farthest north city in Alaska.
There is evidence (both scientific and anecdotal) that the polar ice is thinning. On the other hand there is evidence that the ice pack over the Antarctic is thickening.
The reality is that even the entire industrial age has is too short a time period to come to any conclusion about any trends much less conclusion about causes. Is the rapid conversion of stored CO2 in the form of carbon based fuels into the atmosphere problematic? Perhaps but we don’t know its relative effect into climate change (which is occurring and has always occurred) compared to other factors such as solar activity.
The problem I see around the Climate Change hysteria (and there is no other word for it) is that the proposed cures are often worse than the assumed decease. For example, our use of bio-fuels has been an economic and environmental disaster that even Al Gore has been forced to recognize. When you ask global warming alarmists what the environmental impacts of large scale use of wind and solar power is they think you are nuts but have no answers.
I even asked a so-called solar expert (and global warming acolyte) what impact snow would have on the ability of a solar panel to absorb UV rays he said it is water and would go right through it. I guess he had never gotten a sunburn after laying on an air mattress in a swimming pool. When I pointed this out he started calling me an idiot.
Alaska used to be the home of cold blooded dinosaurs. The polar bear evolved from the brown bear as an adaptation to a colder climate. (They are still close enough related to breed successfully.) So things change. So we need to react in a measured way, recognizing that we don’t in fact know the answers and we need to make sure that any proposed cures are not worse than the disease. We also need to understand that climate scientists are not necessarily unbiased when they study climate change. Look up Spotted Owl and Eastern Barred Owl and old growth forests and ask yourself why they only “discovered” the Barred Owl’s impact on the spotted owl after logging in old growth forests was stopped.
There is evidence (both scientific and anecdotal) that the polar ice is thinning. On the other hand there is evidence that the ice pack over the Antarctic is thickening.
The reality is that even the entire industrial age has is too short a time period to come to any conclusion about any trends much less conclusion about causes. Is the rapid conversion of stored CO2 in the form of carbon based fuels into the atmosphere problematic? Perhaps but we don’t know its relative effect into climate change (which is occurring and has always occurred) compared to other factors such as solar activity.
The problem I see around the Climate Change hysteria (and there is no other word for it) is that the proposed cures are often worse than the assumed decease. For example, our use of bio-fuels has been an economic and environmental disaster that even Al Gore has been forced to recognize. When you ask global warming alarmists what the environmental impacts of large scale use of wind and solar power is they think you are nuts but have no answers.
I even asked a so-called solar expert (and global warming acolyte) what impact snow would have on the ability of a solar panel to absorb UV rays he said it is water and would go right through it. I guess he had never gotten a sunburn after laying on an air mattress in a swimming pool. When I pointed this out he started calling me an idiot.
Alaska used to be the home of cold blooded dinosaurs. The polar bear evolved from the brown bear as an adaptation to a colder climate. (They are still close enough related to breed successfully.) So things change. So we need to react in a measured way, recognizing that we don’t in fact know the answers and we need to make sure that any proposed cures are not worse than the disease. We also need to understand that climate scientists are not necessarily unbiased when they study climate change. Look up Spotted Owl and Eastern Barred Owl and old growth forests and ask yourself why they only “discovered” the Barred Owl’s impact on the spotted owl after logging in old growth forests was stopped.
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