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You may remember how GE and other fluorescent bulb makers lobbied successfully to force consumers to switch to their earth-saving bulbs.  Well, now the EPA has come out revising their recommendations for where homeowners should use the bulbs, because mercury levels in the bulbs could put your little ones at risk if they break the bulb and are exposed to the mercury in the bulb.  (There’s a story about this report on www.thebostonchannel.com)

I don’t know about you, but I get the sick feeling that energy saving bulbs, ethanol and the rest of the long list of earth saving technologies are actually going to do more damage than produce any carbon offset.  It’s what we deserve when we allow bad science and a big government approach to helping us be good stewards over our private property and natural resources.

I think one of the things that bugs me most as I talk to those advocating for adoption of the Al Gore enviroment plan is that I constantly hear them say that the science is settled or that the only discussion left is what we now do about it.  To me that is intellectually dishonest and prevents any sort of real dialogue about what we should or shouldn’t be doing about climate change. 

For those thinking the science and scientific community is settled, I recommend taking a look at this website: http://www.globalwarming.org/research.

Also, global warming is another one of those “wars” that I referred to in my post quoting Joseph Story.  Advocates are following the pattern perfectly at present.  Makes you wonder how much freedom we lose when they win.

For global warming advocates, history only works one way, meaning when it’s helpful.  But I’ve often noticed that when it’s inconvenient, either they ignore history or talk about it’s irrelevance.

The Case of the Mystery “Warming Island”

In early 2007, the greenland “mystery” island made headlines and was seen as the global icon for the movement.  The island was clear and convincing evidence the global warming was real and we were causing it.  (See http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/23/greenland.melting/index.html?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail or http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/16/news/warm.php).

There is one small problem with all their assertions.  The “Warming Island” was actually an island back in the 50s, but Greenland got colder for the next 30-40 years, and so the waterway froze over again as it had in past weather cycles.

It is time we start holding these scientists to a far higher standard of research and stop giving them the benefit of the doubt until they begin to prove they are respectable scientists willing to submit their research to the highest of standards and critiques.

Here’s the ppt (http://politicalcivility.com/warming_island.ppt) which outlines the coast line of Greenland and the history of Warming Island and another hole in the dam of the global warming advocates.