Saturday, February 13, 2010
'Global warming’s snowball fight’
Dana Milbank rightly criticizes fellow global-warming believers who have “undermined the cause with claims bordering on the outlandish” and urges a different strategy in the wake of the D.C. snowstorms:
Dana Milbank rightly criticizes fellow global-warming believers who have “undermined the cause with claims bordering on the outlandish” and urges a different strategy in the wake of the D.C. snowstorms:
For those concerned about warming, it's time for a shift in emphasis. Fortunately, one has already been provided to them by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has done more than any Democrat to keep climate legislation alive this year. His solution: skip the hurricanes and Himalayan glaciers and keep the argument on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent annually on foreign oil, some of that going to terrorists rather than to domestic job creation.After the way meteorologists blew this week’s next-day snowstorm forecast in Boston, I’d say Dana’s advice is sound, for it’s awfully hard to imagine that global-warming scientists, advocates and insurers know exactly how the climate and weather will change in coming years, decades and centuries, let alone calculate how many inches the sea level will rise in Boston and the exact cost ($463 billion – and there goes East Cambridge). They need to broaden their arguments and rely less on hysteria to advance dubious remedies. … Past rants on the issue here, here and here. …
