Washington Examiner
Take recent history for example. In the 1970s, the hypothesis was that the globe was potentially headed for the next ice age.
I know this not only because of pronouncements from popular press at
the time, but also because, as an undergraduate student at one of the
top schools of meteorology, Penn State University, the buzz I heard was
that the global climate was moving toward seriously colder conditions.
To substantiate this claim, professors referenced not only recent
climate trends and observations but also the work of respected
scientists, such as astrophysicist Milutin Milankovitch, who had investigated long-term climate cycles. ......................
Today, it is fashionable to expect
disaster from too much warmth. So the smart money is on promoting dire
predictions and consequences of rising thermometers, even in the face of
no global warming for more than 15 years.
From my own 35 years of experience in the atmospheric science
profession as an air-pollution meteorologist, air quality program
administrator and science educator, I can attest the fact that
long-range, global climate-change outlooks are nothing but insular
professional opinion.
Such opinion is not worthy of the investment of billions of dollars
to avoid the supposed catastrophic consequences of abundant, inexpensive
fossil fuels and, subsequently, to impoverish U.S. citizens with
skyrocket energy costs."
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