In a speech to Indonesian students, civic leaders and government officials, Kerry tore into climate change skeptics. He accused them of using shoddy science and scientists to delay steps needed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases at the risk of imperiling the planet.
This, from our head of Diplomacy?
I'm ashamed.
There seems to be a fairly regular cycle of CO2 in the atmosphere going back about 400,000 years. Although this is determined indirectly, there is no doubt about the cycle itself. It sticks out like a sore thumb.
There are irregularities and significant departures
within and between each cycle, but there's little doubt that this cycling exists.
But from the fairly recent (200 years) of accurate measurements of global temperatures and CO2 content, we impute that the earth is warming and our political people go nuts, mandating things like compact fluorescent lamps and chanting the mantra about global warming.
This, from this very short sampling period... compared to 400,000 years.
Sorry, but I'm not about to panic over this so-called global warming from such a small, albeit accurate, sample. I'm all for conservation, just on general principles, but I dislike it when the compact fluorescent light on my back porch, which I'm being mandated to use, doesn't turn on because it was below zero.
It's the sample size that troubles me.
Terry, 230RN
