Edited by Patrick Gallagher
Published by Richard Vigilante
Dear Bob,
Featured Story:
If you've been paying even cursory attention to the Global Warming issue this year, you've probably heard some activists claim that this might be the
summer where the polar ice caps completely disappear (for example, check out this story from the Sydney
Morning Herald, or this one from AFP). With all this 'doom speak,' we thought you might want to take a look at the state of the North Pole as of Saturday,
July 12, and judge for yourself:
Arctic
Ice Looking Pretty Solid
From the same site, we find this
graph, which shows that there is, in fact, more ice covering the Arctic Circle than there was last year.
This is only one of many recent examples of global warming activists making bold, frightening claims about the repercussions of global climate
change, with little or no accountability to science or fact. For an exhaustive list of the possible changes some have attributed to global
warming, click here. Just yesterday, Texas University
researchers added another to the list:
Global Warming May Increase
Kidney Stones
(AFP)
Time Magazine called this "some of the most
compelling science to date linking climate change with adverse public-health effects."
Unfortunately, Time Magazine has not noted the real life consequences anti-global warming legislation has had, particularly on the world's
poor.
In England they've been ahead of the curve in enacting this kind of legislation, and subsequently way ahead in observing some of the disastrous
effects of it:
Global Warming Laws Hit
the Poor Hardest
(Janet Daley, The Telegraph)
Why do we so rarely hear about these real life ramifications, when we are so frequently inundated with the purely hypothetical projections that are
so often disproven by science? And why do we so rarely hear about it when they are disproven?
More Headlines:
Global Warming Out, Global Cooling In
(Texas News Analyst)
Global
Warming, Hurricane Link Contested By Same Scientist Who Promoted It
(Curtis Krueger, St. Petersburg Times)
Global Warming: Old News?
(Powerline.com)
Most Egregious Claim of the Week
We here at GreenWatch do not dismiss the possibility of man-made global climate change as just that; a possibility. It seems to us
that science has revealed many many more possibilities as the cause of some of this warming, as well as the possibility that the
earth really isn't warming abnormally at all. We believe this topic deserves a fair and honest debate
on the scientific merits. Instead, we get a United States Congressman
telling a group of high school students that Global Warming caused
everything from a 1993 conflict in Somalia to Hurricane Katrina:
Congressman: Global Warming Caused Black
Hawk Down, Crisis in Darfur, Hurricane Katrina
(Josiah Ryan, CNS News)
It is our goal at GreenWatch to counter the hyperbole of Mr. Markey and activists like him by offering facts and candid analysis. We hope, if
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