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Wed 11 Apr 2007 10:06
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
[Media Ochre]
[Nature]
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...and thus, certainly one of the most suspect, in the eyes of devout Global Warming™ proselytizers.
However, I am a skeptic about what is currently called global warming. I have been highly suspicious for years about the political agenda that has slowly accrued around this issue. As a lapsed Catholic, I detest dogma in any area. Too many of my fellow Democrats seem peculiarly credulous at the moment, as if, having ground down organized religion into nonjudgmental, feel-good therapy, they are hungry for visions of apocalypse. From my perspective, virtually all of the major claims about global warming and its causes still remain to be proved.
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Climate change, keyed to solar cycles, is built into Earth’s system. Cooling and warming will go on forever. Slowly rising sea levels will at some point doubtless flood lower Manhattan and seaside houses everywhere from Cape Cod to Florida—as happened to Native American encampments on those very shores. Human habitation is always fragile and provisional. People will migrate for the hills, as they have always done.
Who is impious enough to believe that Earth’s contours are permanent? Our eyes are simply too slow to see the shift of tectonic plates that has raised the Himalayas and is dangling Los Angeles over an unstable fault. I began “Sexual Personae” (parodying the New Testament): “In the beginning was nature.“ And nature will survive us all. Man is too weak to permanently affect nature, which includes infinitely more than this tiny globe.» Camille Paglia: Real inconvenient truths
The excerpted part, which led Drudge to link the article, is actually on this page, in case you don’t want to wade through her commiserations on, for example, George W. Bush’s swaggering cowboy persona (like that’s a bad thing, or something).
As she says at the beginning of the climate-change portion of the column, her opinion about Global Warming™ will surely stir up a hornet’s nest. The Taliban may actually behead those whom they consider heretics, but the True Believers of the Most Holy Church of “We Say the Debate Is Over So Shut Up, Just SHUT THE @#$!! UP!“ will be issuing fatwas left and ... lefter over this.
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