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The Video Anthony Watts Doesn't Want You to See

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dentate7/31/2009 9:26:04 pm PDT

Let us suppose that anthropogenic global warming is documented, real, and proven.

Why is it “bad?” Bad is a moral judgment. Why pass a moral judgment on a climate fluctuation. No one can deny the enormous changes that have occurred in Earth’s climate through its history. There were rapid climate changes between the glacial and interglacial periods of the Pleistocene. Was the melting of continental glaciers “bad?” Was it due to human CO2 emissions?

Should we ban all future volcanic eruptions and sunspot cycles?

Or should we figure out how to use the open NorthWest Passage, and areas where agriculture will now be more productive?

I am not saying that we need to engage in free-for-all pollution of the environment with reckless abandon; I am suggesting that the decision that the earth, a few degrees warmer than it is today, is “bad” because it is different from the earth in the year 1800, is nonsensical.