By Robert Farago
March 28, 2008 -
Although this story about the fracture of the Antarctic's Wilkins ice shelf isn't strictly car-related, TTAC's Best and Brightest are well aware that global warming is the intellectual justification for draconian CO2 tailpipe regulations. As far as The New York Times is concerned, the "broken ice" is proof positive that humans are warming the planet. Needless to say, something must be done (but not about the fracture, silly reader)! "Nothing dramatizes the urgency of global warming quite like a fracture of this scale. There is nothing to be done about a collapsing polar ice sheet except to witness it. It may be too late to stop the warming decay at the boundaries of Antarctic ice, yet there is everything to be done. Humans can radically change the way they live and do business, knowing that it is the one chance to find a possible limit to radical change in the natural world around us." Make no mistake dear Pistonheads, your non-hybrid anything is directly in The Old Gray Lady's– and like-minded regulators– crosshairs.
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March 28th, 2008 at 8:07 am
So a localized event provides proof of a global phenomenon. Well, in response, I say that Eastern Ontario and Quebec have had more snow this winter than any other time in the past 3 or 4 decades. So, using the same logic as the NYT, I guess global warming must be untrue, because we have so much snow.
If the tree-hugging fear-mongerers can use a specific incident to prove a general effect, why can’t anyone else?
March 28th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Whether we are causing global warming or not (I’m 90% for the “we are”), how we are living isn’t helping. But I’m kind of annoyed that the automobile is the sole scapegoat for this. Home heating and power are the major culprits also.
In Germany (I saw this on PBS) the government actually pays people to put up solar panels that contribute to the grid on their property. Not just a tax credit. Yes, the up front cost can be somewhat terrifying depending on how big you wanna go, but the rate for power in Deutscheland is fixed for like the next 20 years, so you do make your money back and then some. As a result the cost of developing the solar tech has come down.
We don’t have to do the same thing, but I believe our gov’ment can do better to foster alternative tech instead of stifeling the development of the ICE.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Actually, if all the politicians (government AND otherwise) would shut tf up, there’d be a lot LESS hot air around.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:17 am
“Whether we are causing global warming or not (I’m 90% for the “we are”), how we are living isn’t helping. But I’m kind of annoyed that the automobile is the sole scapegoat for this. Home heating and power are the major culprits also.”
Automotive is 8% measured by direct emmission alone
March 28th, 2008 at 8:18 am
The MSM chooses to ignore the extremely cold winter in the Arctic where the ice is back to what they consider normal levels or above and choose one isolated incident occuring at the end of the Antarctic summer to prove their point. The NY Times will never be confused with ‘Fair and Balanced’ reporting.
Abe Lincoln
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
March 28th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Global warming seems to be more of a political ideology rather than a scientific issue.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:26 am
The ARGO Buoys have shown a slight COOLING over the last five years, but you don’t hear about this on the news. If there had been even a billionth of a degree of warming, though, you can bet your cars would have been confiscated *for your protection*
March 28th, 2008 at 8:29 am
We learned in grade school the the Great Lakes were made by glaciers thousands of years ago. If warming is so bad then what can we do so that Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and the other states bordering the Great Lakes are covered in ice? Wouldn’t that be the optimum outcome for the global warming crowd?
March 28th, 2008 at 8:31 am
If it’s enough to break off ice helves, then the world is simply doomed.
I think I’m going to go out and buy a Sequoia to travel along this flooded wasteland.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:34 am
As a scientist once pointed out, it’s not global warming that’s the problem. It’s rapid climate destabilization. In other words cold where it used to be warm and vice versa. Which will mean flooding, tsunamis, screwed up crops, etc. After having the warmest winter ever in nyc which was preceded by the warmest winter ever last year, I am a bit concerned that this city may find itself under water in the next 50 years. I mean there were only a couple days below freezing this whole winter, and when I moved here in the 80s it would be below freezing most of Dec. through Feb. You won’t find any actual scientists who view climate change as a political ideology, however you will find most reporters have no idea what they’re talking about.
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