Moonbat environmentalists, Hollywood elitists, and the mainstream media continue to peddle man-made global warming theories like a snake-oil salesman, but there is no scientific consensus on these matters. In fact, a substantial number of scientists who had previously embraced positions supporting a link between human emissions and the current warming cycle and have now reversed their position.
For instance, 60 scientists wrote to the Canadian prime minister last year to express their misgivings. “If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate,” the Kyoto Protocol to combat climate change “would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary,” the scientists wrote. Moreover, numerous peer-reviewed studies released in recent months show that natural variability, as opposed to human carbon dioxide emissions, are primarily responsible for altering the earth’s climate.
Unlike many of his fellow Republicans, Fred Thompson has demonstrated a willingness to confront elite opinion. While Thompson is sure to antagonize the news media with his stand on global warming, I think he will find a receptive audience among average Americans.
Back in March, during a radio broadcast, Thompson took issue with those who claim there is a scientific consensus in favor of human-induced global warming. “Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever,” he said. “Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.”
Some of Thompson’s recent commentaries have picked up on these latest findings and indicate he will not submit to false notions of a “scientific consensus.” Thompson does, however, seem intrigued by new discoveries that suggest there is a strong correlation between solar activity and warming cycles.
Thompson also invoked the name of Galileo, the Italian astronomer who was criticized when he used his telescope in 1610 to argue that the earth and other planets orbit around the sun. His ideas were considered heretical at the time. What passes for conventional wisdom, often collapses in light of new evidence, said Thompson.
Many Republican and Democratic leaders, as well as leading Presidential contenders continue to push for legislation that would shut down America in the name of misguided alarmism. The true Conservatives need a nominee for President who is willing to tell the truth, and so far the one out there with the most courage is Fred Thompson. He is aware of all the issues raised on global warming, and right now he’s the only one I see who is willing to take this on.
What has your Presidential candidate said publicly about man-made global warming?
Kyoto Protocol, climate change, Republican, global warming, Democrat, Conservative, Fred Thompson
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1 Steamy // Sep 17, 2007 at 3:54 pm
The national academies of science agree, as does the royal society, but wait somebody wrote a letter!!
And Fred falls for the dumbest argument out there. Let’s measure the sun by looking at Mars, or Pluto! The guy’s a genius. All this time we’ve been measuring the sun by looking at the sun. How stupid!