Sounds cool doesn’t it, the kind of thing a supervillain would say as he reveals his dastardly plot and promises to destroy us all? With obligatory maniacal laughter, of course. Sadly, the truth isn’t nearly so cool: I don’t get……

Which leads me to something else that has been bothering me. Why is it these Obama supporters don’t keep up with the things that this man is saying?? So many I talk to tell me they don’t keep up on politics like people like me. I am beginning to believe that the Founding Fathers were right, if you are not a land owner, and I am willing to add veterens to that list, you should not be able to vote. – Lorica

As a teenager I read “Analog” science-fiction mag., edited by iconoclast John W. Campbell.
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I wonder what Mr. Campbell would have thought of all this hysteria dealing with climate, considering especially that we have only about 30 years of real data.

I suspect that he would have written essentially my comments above, only FAR, FAR better. The very notion of a science being considered as “settled” would certainly have set him off.

The only reason I don’t go beyond “suspect” is that he also enjoyed high-class trolling (long before the term was invented) with some of his articles; he LOVED to stir things up and force his readers to exercise (and sometimes exorcise) their mental facilities.

I have a bunch of Analog issues that I will NEVER part with because of his editorials.

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Which of course creates a vicious circle.

I wonder what Mr. Campbell would have thought of all this hysteria dealing with climate, considering especially that we have only about 30 years of real data.

As P.T.Barnum said, there’s a sucker born every minute, and it’s morally wrong to let them keep their money.

Carbon dioxide is present in the atmosphere at about one tenth the ratio of water vapor, the main greehouse gas.

Pratt the reason they don’t want to deal with water vapor is then they would have to deal with jet travel. And that is just not about to happen. – Lorica

I keep asking, and I’ll ask your readers here: has anyone heard or seen published ANY ONE, POSITIVE BENEFIT THAT MIGHT POSSIBLY OCCUR DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, EITHER COOLING, OR WARMING? ANY BODY? JUST ONE?

Well, climate constantly changes, it always has, and always will. The very idea of a “stable” climate that we are deviating from is the utmost lunacy and stupidity. The earth’s climate constantly oscillates.

As for what is best, warm is better than cold, especially as the population goes up. Cold can be very bad, think Ice Age. How much better would it be if we had ice sheets down to Kansas again? But, even mild cold is a problem, it affects crops, food supplies, and more people freeze to death during cold waves than ever die during heat waves. The oft held up deaths in France one hot summer say a lot more about the French and their attitude towards taking care of their old and weak citizens and lack of air conditioning than it does about the dangers of heat.

If you go back and plot global temps vs. human civilization, and look where the warm periods occur, you find that they line up with the rise of Babylonian and Egyptian civilization, the rise of the Greeks, then the Romans, and then the Renaissance. The temp downturns like up with things like the Dark Ages and plague and famine. People do better when it’s warm.

And it doesn’t matter, warm or cold, without affordable, and plentiful energy, both are bad, and life is brutal, short, and uncomfortable.