Thomas Gale Moore,Senior Fellow,Hoover Institution (1995) (More)
Raising the specter of disaster as well, Vice President Al Gore has called the
threat of global warming "the most serious problem our civilization faces."[3] In fact, he has styled those who dispute
it as "self-interested" and compared them to spokesmen for the tobacco industry
who have questioned the relation of smoking to cancer. But Gore is misinformed;
many disinterested scientists, including climatologists with no financial
interest other than preventing wasteful expenditures of society's limited
resources, question the evidence and the models that underlie the warming
hypothesis.
In fact, the evidence supporting the claim that the earth has grown warmer is
shaky; the theory is weak; and the models on which the conclusions are based
cannot even replicate the current climate. It is asserted, for example, that
over the last hundred years the average temperature at the earth's surface has
gone up by 0.5deg. Centigrade or about 1deg. Fahrenheit. Given the paucity of
data in the Southern Hemisphere, the evidence that in the United States, with
the best records, temperatures have failed to rise; the British naval records
that find no significant change in temperatures at sea since the mid-1800s; and
that the reported increases occurred mainly prior to 1940 -- before the rapid
rise in CO2 -- the public is entitled to be wary. Moreover, even the National
Academy of Sciences is skeptical of the validity of the computer models and
warns that the modeling of clouds -- a key factor -- is inadequate and poorly
understood.[4] " (A Must Read)
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