Facts are Stubborn Things

In March, 2009, John Kerry wrote an article with the same title dismissing nay-sayers of global warming. His point was that global warming does exist, and the conclusion was that "WE NEED TO ACT NOW." Needless to say, there is no logical connection between the two, as would be evident to anybody who either studied formal logic, or is blessed with having a functioning brain. Global warming may be real, but there is absolutely no evidence that it is man-made (moreover, there is ample evidence that the only culprit is the solar activity), and whether we act now or ever won't make a dent in the natural process at all. Sorry, John Kerry, you can't win not only an election, but even a simple argument.

Notice that now that the whole world is living through the coldest and harshest winter on record, global-warming proponents claim that this does not mean anything - high and low extremes are going to happen even in the overall warming climate, they say. OK, I can accept that. However, just IMAGINE for a second what those same people would have been saying had we been living through the WARMEST winter on record! "Told you! Global warming is HERE! Record high temperatures PROVE global warming, etc." So why doesn't extreme cold disprove global warming then?

I just love hearing them cite the stubborn facts only when they suit them! Hope the inventor of the man-made global warming, Al Gore is keeping his thermostat down in his mega-mansion to save the world from his mega-carbon footprint.