On June 23, the Supreme Court
laid down a small speed bump on the highway leading from
"carbon pollution" control to climate nirvana. Yet there is still much bluster from the Obama
administration and one of its political enforcers, the Environmental
Protection Agency, on the "certainty" of
human-caused climate change and the urgency of saving the earth from
prosperous people and cheap energy. Of the high court's ruling, Janet McCabe,
acting assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, said her
agency is "very pleased with the decision." So hold on to your
wallets.
But, how certain are predictions of climate
change? Well, like the climate itself, the hypothesis of man-made climate
change cycles through history. 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……To Read More…..
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