That’s given global warming skeptics new ammunition to attack the prevailing theory of climate change. The skeptics argue that the current stretch of slightly cooler temperatures means that costly measures to limit carbon dioxide emissions are ill-founded and unnecessary.

Proposals to combat global warming are “crazy” and will “destroy more than a million good American jobs and increase the average family’s annual energy bill by at least $1,500 a year,” the Heartland Institute, a conservative research organization based in Chicago, declared in full-page newspaper ads earlier this summer. “High levels of carbon dioxide actually benefit wildlife and human health,” the ads asserted.

Source: http://lifeofearth.org/2009/08/2231.html

Does CO2 ‘drive’ global warming or does CO2 merely ‘contribute’ to global warming?

If ‘drives’ is correct, America and the rest of the world must quickly restructure our energy infrastructure to reduce CO2 emissions. But if CO2 merely ‘contributes’ to global warming, we need to rethink our response to global warming/climate change. If Mother Nature actually drives climate, then we should not move precipitously to burden our economy with carbon taxes and alternative-energy subsidies. I, for one, do not want to pay a dollar or two more per gallon or see the blight of wind mills because of faulty science.

Sadly, the United States has out-sourced our scientific opinion on global warming to the United Nations. …an organization more concerned about political influence and funding than conducting good science.

It’s crystal clear. The United States needs our own objective, transparent climate commission to think-through global warming. We need the advice of a ‘Climate Truth Commission’ before we burden our economy with expensive energy. Both sides of the man-made global warming issue should welcome such an approach. …since each is so darn sure of its facts.

– Robert Moen, http://www.energyplanUSA.com

It’s insane and patently false to suggest that humanity, our waste and byproducts, and our general activity do not have a major impact on global systems. It’s just plain insane. Whether or not that impact is entirely negative, and exactly what the severity of that impact is may be subject to some debate. In the cast of C02 emissions, sorry, but there’s much less doubt now, not more, that it’s causing climate change.