Le "réchauffement climatique" vu par Alexander Cockburn, poster boy de l'extrême-gauche anglo-saxonne:
In a couple of hundred years historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the tenth century as the Christian millennium approached. Then as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet's rapid downward slide. Then as now, a buoyant market throve on fear. The Roman Catholic Church sold indulgences like checks. The sinners established a line of credit against bad behavior and could go on sinning. Today a world market in "carbon credits" is in formation. Those whose "carbon footprint" is small can sell their surplus carbon credits to others less virtuous than themselves.
The modern trade is as fantastical as the medieval one. There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend. The greenhouse fearmongers rely entirely on unverified, crudely oversimplified computer models to finger mankind’s sinful contribution. Devoid of any sustaining scientific basis, carbon trafficking is powered by guilt, credulity, cynicism and greed, just like the old indulgences, though at least the latter produced beautiful monuments.
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4 commentaires:
Il n'y a pas *que* le CO2 qui engendre une déstabilisation environnementale.
Tu vois au moins y a une musulman qui critique les islamistes donc fini les arguments dans le genre : on entend pas les moderes... j'espere que tqs et tva vont arreter d'iniviter le fou d'aljazirri!!!!
En passant xyz ! ca remonte a quand un membre du peuple élu qui ose critiquer sa religion ou israel sans se faire lyncher ?
regarde juste les hassidiques anti- sioniste comme le prof YAkov rabkin ! chaque qu il parle c'est un anti si un pro ca ....
j'ai hate que tu bitche TOUT LES EXTRMISTES et non seulmenet que tu sois a la mode du muslimbaching
Je suppose que tu t'es trompé de message...
Les membres du "peuple élu" ne sont pas condamnés à mort s'ils changent de religion et n'essaient pas d'imposer la leur par la violence au monde entier.
C'est pas du Muslim bashing, c'est de l'Islam bashing.
Te sens-tu menacé par les extrémistes lithuaniens-orthodoxes?
"In an essay on Counterpunch, Alexander Cockburn makes a number of claims about climate science that indicate a dismissal of the scientific consensus. He claims there is "zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend," for example. But the mechanism by which atmospheric CO2 causes warming ("the greenhouse effect") is well understood. So is the fact that anthropogenic production of CO2 is increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. And so, too, is the current warming trend, which Cockburn acknowledges. Cockburn seeks to break the chain of reasoning (from CO2 causing warming, to anthropogenic increases of CO2 in the atmosphere contributing to warming) by suggesting that anthropogenic emissions of CO2 do not change atmospheric CO2 levels. He does so by referring to some data on CO2 emissions and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere from the 1920s and 1930s that say when anthropogenic emissions were low due to the Great Depression CO2 in the atmosphere did not change. He interprets this to mean that "it is impossible to assert that the increase in atmospheric CO2 stems from human burning of fossil fuels." But it is the very fact that CO2 is long-lived in the atmosphere (compared to water vapour, for example) that makes emissions of it such a serious problem. Even if the data he presents are accurate (the most reliable records of atmospheric CO2 begin in the 1960s) they cannot be taken to mean what he says they do. They could, instead, simply mean that there is a lag between changes in CO2 emission and changes in atmospheric concentration. One analogy a reader of the article at realclimate.org suggested was this: if you are filling a bathtub and turn off the tap, the bathtub does not instantly empty, nor does the fact that it doesn't empty make it impossible to assert a connection between the tap and the amount of water in the tub.
Cockburn was also answered in more general terms by Monbiot, who cautioned against dismissing an entire body of science with a series of fairly random assertions. Some of Cockburn's specific scientific claims were answered by climate scientists at realclimate.org. Cockburn was using his scientific claims as part of a larger argument that the market in CO2 emissions was like the market in papal indulgences during medieval times - a release for people's consciences that made profits for elites (the church in medieval times, corporations today) while exploiting people's guilt (for sin then or emissions now) without fundamentally changing anything. This valid point about carbon markets is thus combined with a dismissal of climate science and global warming as a serious problem using a number of false and discredited claims as evidence. This is too bad, because it will make readers doubt his other insights, and it abets the climate deniers. "
Justin Podur, Zmagazine
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