PrintNovember 27, 2009
Politics and Greenhouse Gases
Advocates and sympathetic politicians claiming that man-made global warming from use of carbon-based energy sources mandates international controls on economically prosperous nations were already worried that their victory is slipping. Now another blow has been struck against the basic "science" used to support their case. Following an extensive theoretical analysis, two German physicists have determined that the term greenhouse gas is a misnomer and that the greenhouse effect appears to violate basic laws of physics.To briefly review, the entire argument for immediate political action on carbon-based emissions rests upon three premises, formulated over the last twenty years by scientists affiliated with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):1. The planet is experiencing worldwide atmospheric warming, threatening life as we know it.2. This warming is unprecedented because average worldwide temperatures for at least a thousand years have shown no...(Read Full Article)
