Finally, the question of human-caused global warming will be subjected to a rational discussion (hopefully).

Finally the voice of doubters will be heard over the ignorance of the media in simply repeating but not understanding.

Finally, the views of the 100 prominent scientists who wrote a letter to the UN questioning human-caused-global warming may be heard.

Finally, the convential wisdom is beginning to be challenged.

Finally, the tide of blindly following the falsehood of Mr. Al Gore’s conclusion that correlation between CO2 and global warming is causation will be exposed. Obviously Mr. Gore is unable to differentiate the two, and therein lies the foundation of the mass hysteria about human-caused global warming. On with the debate! May science win!

Gary Schwendiman, Ph.D.

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who the heck wrote this climate change event invitation (http://janera.com/?p=363)? I thought you considered your forum to be cosmopolitan, young, and progressive? “imposing “greener” demands on carmakers and utilities”, “green crusade” – what weird terminology! “wean ourselves off fossil fuels in just four decades” – in light of a paek of oil that we might well have passed already and oil and gas prices going through the roof in the next 5 years (wanna bet?), what alternative are you offering?

“China and India, meanwhile, balk at Obama’s big push and may simply keep growing and polluting, unrestrained by any restrictions.” – What big push? And what blind rhetoric this is! China (one fifth of US per capita emissions) and India (one twentieth!) have ALREADY reduced more tons of greenhouse gas emissions (if you count in the measures they are currently implementing) than the reductions the US ENVISIONS in both the House ans Senate bills until 2020; there are stronger policies in place and more money goes into new renewable and efficiency investments in China than in is even under consideration in the US; the 7th richest Chinese is a producer of photovoltaics and while more than half of the Indian population doesn’t even have access to electricity yet, wind and biomass is booming there and expanding at a faster rate than in the US.

And who told you that the ““global warming” (…) trend abated in recent years”? – Despite the fact that “climate change” is indeed a better term – since it captures a wider range of the severe weather disruptions that are already happening and 99% of scientists expected to grow both in number and intensity in the future (there has not been ONE peer-reviewed journal article in the last 15 years doubting the adverse effects of human behavior on the climate system) – the average worldwide temperature effect of climate change is of course one of warming. The warming effect has in fact intensified over the last decade, not abated. If you seriously doubt this, please look up the reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN advisory council bringing together the 2000+ leading climate experts – but please do NOT call people following their scientific reviews “alarmists” anymore.

And finally: is climate change “a threat imminent enough to require drastic measures now, when the world’s still-ailing economies can least afford it?” Oh jee, ever heard about the opportunities of a 3rd industrial revolution, pioneers’ advantages, new markets, green growth and green jobs, and the competitive advantages of more energy-efficient economies? Germany, home to automakers BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, and Opel, will employ more people in the environmental than in the automobile sector as early as 2015. And while you hear these success stories from all over the world, the US is still complaining that it might have to give up its fossil life style.

While you plan to have proponents and opponents of climate legislation on your panel, your invitation from its title (“Will Green Put Us in the Red?”) to its very end reads more like one sent out by CATO or the Heritage foundation – or a commentary by Glen Beck.

I am shocked.

Best,
Alex