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My colleague visiting from Brazil posited at lunch today that he was really afraid of global warming. He’d just seen some stuff on TV showing the ice shelf melting, or some such garbage, and he was afraid that the earth was becoming a place where human life was in danger of being extinguished in the not too distant future.

My other colleague, visiting from the Netherlands, agreed, until I told him that Al Gore has identified cigarette smoking as a prime contributor to global warming. Like almost all Europeans, he smokes, and pooh-poohs the anti smoking movement, seeing it as an offshoot of American hysteria.

Neither of them had heard of Michael Crichton, which surprised me, so I suggested that they buy “State of Fear” and read it on their flights home. The take home lesson is this, Truthites. Like Michael Crichton, we must try to educate, but we must do it tactfully. I personally do not dismiss the threat posed by global warming, but I have serious doubts as to the role of man as the primary cause.

As a matter of fact, my colleague from Brazil pointed out that he read an article by a scientist who believes that if it weren’t for the increased emissions of greenhouse gases, we would be entering a very damaging era of periodic global cooling, as witnessed throughout the existence of our planet since prehistoric times. I hope everyone agrees that global cooling would really suck.

Remember the late ’70’s through mid ’80’s in Chicago? For those of you who are too young, let me assure you that winters in those years were nothing like we’ve experienced before or after. I remember a wind chill factor of an astounding 84 below zero in 1980. 84 freakin’ below zero, for heaven’s sake. And I remember having my car buried in a snow drift in the parking lot of my apartment complex for three days in 1978. So, I guess the thought of global warming scares me a lot less than the thought of an oncoming new ice age, which is what the junk scientists were pushing back then. And, that reminds me, what happened to that hole in the ozone layer?

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Heartland Institute, CFP, Myths of Global Warming, Green Myths on Global Warming - Debunked