Look at this crap on Pournelle's site:
"In the early Eighties, climate alarmists warned us of the coming Ice Age, but it was hard for them to make a plausible case that socialism could prevent it happening, or that Big Brother could help us much when our homes and businesses were buried under a mile of ice. The very same people then switched to claims of global warming, which let them argue that the world was doomed unless individual liberty were curtailed and capitalist societies were subjected to draconian penalties."
We'll start with a simple, factual area.
A handful of scientists argued that we may be entering a new Ice Age a couple of decades ago. This hypothesis *never* gained any traction within the professional community of climatologists.
The scientists who proposed that increases in CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gasses might lead to global warming weren't "the same people". Initially their hypothesis was greeted with the same lack of enthusiasm as had greeted the pronouncements of the Ice Age folks. But then more and more researchers got involved. And slowly the idea gained credibility. Not because of political beliefs but as a result of scientific research. Unlike *real* junk science like, say, cold fusion in mason jars blessed by Mormon elders.
Global warming is an observed fact. Just ask John Christy, who not many years ago said it was not. After asking him, tell him that the fact that he's swung 'round to agreing with the consensus opinion of the professional community of climatologists makes him a socialist who is working to curtail capitalist societies.
And listen to this man, who is not only a NASA researcher but a politically conservative fundamentalist Southern Baptist, laugh in your face.
Good grief. The crap people read in an effort to educate themselves. You think Pounelle's more credible than the National Academy of Science? You really think that?
