tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post154673702825608690..comments2023-09-22T11:53:44.341-06:00Comments on CARE: Comments About Responsible Energy: Pollution TariffsCitizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-41360664488420163232008-01-28T23:03:00.000-07:002008-01-28T23:03:00.000-07:00Amazing!! Insanity does not reign supreme. Finally...Amazing!! Insanity does not reign supreme. Finally a voice that isn't in the herd-panic-stampede mode. I agree with most of your conclusions for a couple of reasons:<BR/>1. A climatologist at the University of Calgary has pointed out a huge discrepancy in the main theory propounded by the humananity-caused global warming crowd. The increase in temperature levels to not correlate with the increase in industrial output.The correlation, in fact, shows an ever greater discrpancy since the onset of the industrial revolution. They do, however,track perfectly with the decrease in sunspot activity. The match is astounding. For the life of me I can't find his paper on the web and I can only presume his findings have been censored by the hysterical global warming crowd.<BR/>2. Many years ago (late 60's early 70's) I read an article by an astronomer that pointed out that our sun was moving into a gap between two of the spiral arms in our galaxy. He noted that since this region was relatively clear of space dust that there was a stong possibility that the earth would be subject to more intense solar radiation and therefore increased warming. In fact, he theorized that this movement from dirtier to cleaner regions of our galaxy was the cause of intermittant periods of global warming.<BR/>Now, both of these may be far fetched...I do not posses the technical know-how to make any judgement. I do feel, however, that in our headlong rush to blame the obvious warming trend on human activity that these possibilities have been shunted aside.<BR/>I can't dispute that we are warming. Living here in Canada we are constantly inundated with news about the effects on our populations living in the high Arctic and on the sea ice cover in the polar regions. In addition, there is sufficient evidence to support global warming. This does not,however, support any theory that the problem is man made. The scientific conclusions only reinforce the fact that the climate is changing, not what the principal cause is for that change. Do our activities have some affect on the warming? I am sure they do. Do they have enough of an effect to be the main cause of the warm up? I'm not convinced. <BR/>I am more concerned about the visible effects of pollution brought on by burning fossil fuels. Dirty air, polluted water and damaged soil concern me more that increasing levels of CO2. The latter we can ameliorate without bringing society to a screeching halt...the former we can't. I would like to see more effort placed on cleaning up the visible and obvious than to lose sleep over something that I don't think we have much control over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com