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Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate Files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).
It is definitely worth the time to read the entire entry.
I will take this opportunity to clear up misconceptions regarding my position on ‘Climate Change’. First, I am not a ‘global warming denier’, nor am I an anti-science sort-of guy. Quite the contrary, I have maintained that in general, global warming has been taking place since the last great Ice Age 10-15,000 years ago, and definitely since the more recent Little Ice Age a few hundred years ago. Global warming is a good thing folks, not a bad thing. Please, go pick-up a history book and study what was going on with European agriculture during the Little Ice Age period. We don’t want that again.
Climate Change is a natural part of life on this planet. It has been going on since the planet first formed. It has peaks and valleys in global temps, but in general we are blessed to be on the warming side of things. Currently we are undergoing a period of slight cooling which also seems to correspond to a period of VERY low activity on the Sun. Things started picking up on the Sun at the end of last year and indications it is starting to fire up for what could be an exciting solar max in 2011-2012. That could mean a little more warming, or the current trend in level global temps could hold for another decade or so.
At issue is really two different things. Is the current warming trends man-produced, and if so, is it a bad thing? Since I am a science buff, my examination of the data for myself screams an unequivocal NO! Is there any policy that our government can take to reduce global warming? NO!
I posted earlier about the record snow in Moscow this year. In 2009, the mayor of Moscow promised to use weather control techniques to control the snow, declaring there would be no more snow in Moscow. Reckon it did not work as well as expected.
