Challenging a Liberal Columnist

Eugene Robinson wrote a global warming diatribe that started off with a seriously flawed premise. Here's my response.

Mr. Robinson:

Your quote that "climate change...can be traced to the burning of fossil fuels" is serious misinformed. The entire notion of "climate change" may enjoy POLITICAL consensus, but it certainly does not enjoy SCIENTIFIC consensus, which certainly is the more significant test.

From as far back at the Manhattan Project, serious scientists have been loath to come down on one side of an issue or another UNTIL ALL THE FACTS ARE IN.  This is also true today; many (if not most) of the scientists who have signed off on the UN IPCC proclamations and other similar pronouncements have political, rather than scientific, motivations. Serious scientists, who historically have waited until all (or a significant majority of) the facts were in before taking a side, are still unconvinced that a) climate change even exists and b) if if does, that we can do anything significant about it. The intellectually honest among us will acknowledge that, even assuming "climate change" exists and that humans can do anything to fix it, America can't do it alone: it must be a coordinated, world-wide effort.

Please get your facts straight, consider the conclusions of scientists who don't have a political agenda, and stop perpetuating the myth of man-caused climate change.