Sink or Swim?

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/index.php?news=3400&output_type=rss

I decided to venture out and look for my own article on global warming and when I found one titled “Certainty of Catastrophic Global Warming is a Hoax” in Capitalism Magazine of all places, I couldn’t resist. When we discuss ideas getting legs and the global warming “crisis” becoming culturally recognized, we also need to see the opponents and their own campaign to legitimate their own claim.

This author attempts to legitimate his point in several ways. First he claims that the science that would support human activity contributing to global warming was flawed from the beginning. He calls it “bad science” and stresses that more recent research discredits the claims made by Al Gore and the extreme environmentalists. He creates a sort of “us vs. them” argument by saying the delegation fighting the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol was composed of eight republicans and that there were no democrats present. The third way the author stresses his argument is my favorite part- economics.

“It is the claim of certainty that is a hoax. It's a dangerous one, too, since using global-warming theory as the basis for extreme policy mandates could plunge the world into a long-term recession or even a depression.” Pretty scary stuff. There is another passage asking how legislation could be so damaging economically when there is no science to back it up?

Maybe the urgency of the economic crisis overwhelms the urgency of global climate change to readers of Capitalism Magazine.