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1 "Christy, a veteran climatologist who refuses to accept any research funding from the oil or auto industries, was a lead author of the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as well as one of the three authors of the American Geophysical Union's landmark 2003 statement on climate change. “Christy is actually the environmental lobby's worst nightmare - an accomplished climate scientist with no ties to Big Oil who has produced reams and reams of data that undermine arguments that the earth's atmosphere is warming at an unusual rate and question whether the remedies being talked about in Congress will actually do any good.” Birger: What about the hysteria in the media about melting glaciers? Christy: “Ice melts. Glaciers are always calving. This is what ice does. If ice did not melt, we'd have an ice-covered planet. The fact is that the ice cover is growing in the southern hemisphere even as the ice cover is more or less shrinking in the northern hemisphere. As you and I are talking today, global sea ice coverage is about 400,000 square kilometers above the long-term average - which means that the surplus in the Antarctic is greater than the deficit in the Arctic. Birger: "What about the better-safe-than-sorry argument?" Even if there's a chance the global warming alarmists are wrong, "shouldn't we still take action in order to protect ourselves from catastrophe, just in case they're right?" Christy: “The problem is that the solutions being
offered don't provide any detectable relief from this so-called
catastrophe. Congress is now discussing an 80% reduction in U.S.
greenhouse emissions by 2050. That's basically the equivalent of
building 1,000 new nuclear power plants all operating by 2020. Now I'm
all in favor of nuclear energy, but that would affect the global
temperature by only seven-hundredths of a degree by 2050 and fifteen
hundredths by 2100. We wouldn't even notice it. |
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