Two years ago, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
held hearings and produced a document quoting anti-global warming
scientists. Among the conclusions was this: "Earlier this year, a group of
prominent scientists came forward to question the so-called 'consensus' that
the Earth faces a 'climate emergency.' On April 6, 2006, 60 scientists wrote
a letter to the Canadian prime minister asserting that the science is
deteriorating from underneath global warming alarmists: 'Observational
evidence does not support today's computer climate models, so there is
little reason to trust model predictions of the future. Significant
(scientific) advances have been made since the (Kyoto) protocol was created,
many of which are taking us away from a concern about increasing greenhouse
gases. If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate,
Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it
was not necessary.'" (See
here.)
Among the noted converts is Claude Allegre, a member of the French Socialist
Party and a former Minister of National Education. Allegre is also a member
of the French and U.S. Academy of Sciences. He once was a believer in the
"science" behind global warming, but no more. He, too, wants a debate and
his ranks are growing.
If global warming alarmists are right, they will only strengthen their
position by having robust debates, not between politicians who seek votes,
but among scientists who seek truth. The issue is too important to allow
politicians to decide it for us because it has the potential to drastically
change the way we live.
Sen. McCain may win a few votes from some "moderates," who mostly are uneasy
about having convictions about anything that matters, but if he persists in
embracing the global warming cultists, he risks experiencing a temperature
drop from the conservative base that could cast him out in the cold when the
weather and his election prospects turn chilly in November.