Is there Evidence on Global Warming?
Evidence on Global Warming is Manipulated by Elites. The New World Order Rulers Have Twisted Facts About Climate Change to Create Another Means of Mass Control.
There is no evidence on global warming. John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all promised massive new regulations that will cost trillions of dollars to combat global warming.
Reliable and objective scientists say there is no proof. After consulting with Al Gore, Barack Obama feels that the problem is so imminent that he did not want to wait until he became president.
Paradoxically, this political agreement is occurring as global temperatures have been cooling dramatically over the last decade.
Global temperatures have now largely eliminated most of the one degree Celsius warming that had previously occurred over the last 100 years.
Hundreds of climate scientists have warned that there is not significant man-made global warming.
Yet, we just keep on heaping on more and more regulations without asking the difficult questions about whether there is a reason for them.
New mileage per gallon regulations were signed into law in 2007 that will require cars to get 35 MPG.
The rules will make us poorer, forcing people to buy products that aren’t the best fit for them.
More people will die because lighter cars are less safe, but it’s all worth it because of global warming.
But much of what gets passed is haphazard. Was there anything scientific about picking 35 MPG instead of, say, 30 MPG other than the desire to do more?
And how do these regulations fit in with all the gasoline taxes we have that are already reducing gas use?
To see if all this makes any sense there are really four questions that all have to be answered in the “affirmative”.
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- 1) Are global temperatures really rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but “there has been no net global warming since 1998”. Indeed, the more recent numbers show that there is now evidence of measurable cooling.
- 2) Even if the answer to the first question is “yes,” is man responsible for a significant and noticeable portion of an increase in temperatures? Mankind is responsible for just a few percent of greenhouse gases, and greenhouse gases are not responsible for most of what causes warming, the sun. Over 100 leading climate scientists from around the world signed a letter in December 2008 stating: “significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming”.
- 3) If the answer to both preceding questions is an “affirmative,” is an increase temperature changes “terrible”? That answer is hardly obvious. Higher temperatures could increase ocean levels by between seven inches and two feet over the next 100 years.
No Evidence on Global Warming
Although some blame global warming for everything, others say higher temperatures will increase the amount of land that we can use to grow food, it will improve people’s health, and increase biological diversity.
Even the UN says that a mild increase in temperature would be good for many regions of earth.
- 4) Finally, let’s assume that the answer to all three previous questions is “yes”. Does that mean we need more regulations and taxes? No, that is still not clear.
If we believe that man-made global warming is “bad,” we still don’t want to eliminate all carbon emissions.
Having no cars, no air conditioning, or no electricity would presumably be much worse than anything people are claiming from global warming.
You want to pick a tax that just discourages carbon emissions to the point where the cost of global warming is greater than that of cutting emissions.
Too little tax can be “bad” because we would produce greenhouse gases when their costs were greater than the benefits.
Too much tax also makes us poorer because we won’t be getting the benefits from cars or electricity even when the benefits exceed the costs that would be produced from global warming.
No Evidence on Global Warming
What is often ignored in the debate over global warming is that there are already substantial taxes on gasoline, averaging 46 cents per gallon in the U.S.
Even if one believes that gasoline use should be restricted to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the question is whether our taxes are already restricting use “too much” or “not enough.”
Saying that carbon dioxide emissions are bad just isn’t enough.
No Evidence on Global Warming
William Nordhaus, an economics professor at Yale and former member of President Carter’s Council of Economic Advisers, puts the “right” level of gasoline taxes at around 10 cents a gallon today, reaching 16 cents per gallon in 2015.
Nordhaus’ analysis assumes that the answers to the first three questions are “yes”.
If anything, while gasoline taxes are partially used for such things as building roads, it seems quite plausible that, even accepting Nordhaus’ assumptions, current gasoline taxes are much too high to deal with the harm from global warming.
However good the intentions, the debate over global warming is much more complicated than simply saying that the world is getting warmer.
It is too bad that these questions don’t get a real debate this election.
The Irony, No Evidence on Global Warming
The irony is that those who sell themselves as being so caring aren’t careful enough to investigate the impact of their regulations.
The evidence on global warming is simply not available.