Stream: What’s True and What’s False in Obama’s Latest Global Warming Claims
by Briggs
Today’s post is at The Stream: The Stream: What’s True and What’s False in Obama’s Latest Global Warming Claims.What’s True and What’s False in Obama’s Latest Global Warming Claims.
There is so much hyperbolic language surrounding the topic of global warming that it is becoming nearly impossible to distinguish points that are true, those that might be true or false, and those that are false. So let us take a gentle approach in the hope that we may reach what the philosopher David Hume called “the calm sunshine of the mind.”
President Obama unveiled his global warming plan yesterday. In it, he said that the earth’s climate has been changing. I am an actual climate scientist and can verify that this is true. And not only that, it always has changed. There was never, not ever, a point in the history of our planet in which the climate was static. This is such an important but always-forgotten point that it must be repeated. So let’s do that: the earth’s climate has always changed.
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