Friday, March 13, 2009

Global Warming: The New Temperance Movement?

This is the best fisking of Gorebal Warming I've ever seen. Princeton physics professor William Happer testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, systematically dismantling everything the AGW advocates. Here's a taste:

... Deeply sincere people thought they were saving humanity from the evils of alcohol, just as many people now sincerely think they are saving humanity from the evils of CO2. Prohibition was a mistake, and our country has probably still not fully recovered from the damage it did. Institutions like organized crime got their start in that era. Drastic limitations on CO2 are likely to damage our country in analogous ways.
But what about the frightening consequences of increasing levels of CO2 that we keep hearing about? In a word, they are wildly exaggerated, just as the purported benefits of prohibition were wildly exaggerated....

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