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| | The two sides are divided on whether this warming is a benevolent and natural recovery from the [[Little Ice Age]] or a man-made [[environmental]] "[[climate crisis]]" (see also [[runaway greenhouse effect]]). | | The two sides are divided on whether this warming is a benevolent and natural recovery from the [[Little Ice Age]] or a man-made [[environmental]] "[[climate crisis]]" (see also [[runaway greenhouse effect]]). |
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| − | Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. are evenly split on the issue. ''Boston Globe'' writer [[Ellen Goodman]] wrote:
| + | Liberals and conservatives in the U.S. are evenly split on the issue. ''Boston Globe'' writer [[Ellen Goodman]] wrote: |
| | * 23 percent of college-educated Republicans believe [[anthropogenic global warming theory|the warming is due to humans]], while 75 percent of college-educated Democrats believe it. <ref> [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/09/no_change_in_political_climate/] </ref> | | * 23 percent of college-educated Republicans believe [[anthropogenic global warming theory|the warming is due to humans]], while 75 percent of college-educated Democrats believe it. <ref> [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/09/no_change_in_political_climate/] </ref> |
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| | + | As we learn more about climate, the "settled" conclusions of global-warming [[alarmist]]s appear more and more ridiculous. |
| | + | "Clinging to alarmist scenarios for which there is no evidence, is simply exploitation of public gullibility." <ref>http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:A0llnpZ71lMJ:www.physics.harvard.edu/~motl/lindzen-nature-of-arguments.pdf+warming&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us</ref> |
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| | Oddly enough, even though 82% of US climate scientists refused to support the global warming theory then, liberal activists were already claiming a scientific consensus for [[Anthropogenic global warming]]. (It's hard to understand how 18 percent credence in ''any'' global warming translates into "consensus" support for ''human-caused'' global warming.) | | Oddly enough, even though 82% of US climate scientists refused to support the global warming theory then, liberal activists were already claiming a scientific consensus for [[Anthropogenic global warming]]. (It's hard to understand how 18 percent credence in ''any'' global warming translates into "consensus" support for ''human-caused'' global warming.) |
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| | + | The campaign to convince the public (and their elected representatives) that the "science is settled" began in 1988 or 1989, shortly after the left lost the Cold War. So possibly the new leftist issue became global warming (see [[Kyoto Protocol]] and [[emissions trading schemes]]). |
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| | ==The Hockey Stick Temperature Reconstruction== | | ==The Hockey Stick Temperature Reconstruction== |