January 5, 2006

The Carbon Dioxide Fear

By Jason Katz Cooper
A new report in the prestigious British journal Nature shows how greenhouse gasses (normally associated with global warming) are now slated to cause global freezing as well.  This has led me to throw in the towel and admit, as liberals have been arguing for the past 25 years, that CO2 really is the main problem confronting humanity.  As Al Gore succinctly summed it up, 'global warming is more serious than terrorism.' After all, it causes so many calamitous things (whereas terrorism only kills people)... John Roach reporting for National Geographic News  reports that the world's surface temperature has warmed 1°F (0.6°C) in the last 100 years. This is a calamity in and of itself to be sure.  The Nature report adds to this tragedy that in addition to warming, greenhouse gasses will cause the earth to cool at the same time — quite a trick. But this is just the beginning of the horrors of greenhouse gasses.   Let us take a quick look spanning the...(Read Full Article)