Warming is challenged

Congress has narrowly passed an energy bill of 1,500 pages. The purpose of which is to ration carbon emissions. This will make products and services that utilize petroleum and coal more expensive.

This is being done to combat global warming, which is assumed to be caused by carbon “greenhouse gases.” This rationing of carbon is coincidentally like the rationing that will be the result of the Medicare extension.

However, what if the science on global warming is not holding up? Australia is preparing to kill its own carbon emission scheme. The Polish Academy of Sciences has published a report challenging man-made warming. New Zealand’s new government suspended their newly approved cap and trade scheme. Seven hundred scientists now disagree with the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary and Dr. Kimminori Itoh, who worked on the U.N. report, now calls man-made warming, “the worst scientific scandal in history.”

A group of 54 physicists, led by Professor Happer of Princeton, has demanded the American Physical Society revise its position that the science on man-made warming is settled. This collapse of consensus has been driven by an inconvenient truth. The Earth’s temperature has stayed the same since 2001 despite growing amounts of carbon dioxide. Has Congress been listening?

John A. Peterson

Spokane