It’s been a lot of fun watching the contortions the folks invested in global warming have been going through the past couple of years. Begin with the stolen emails that showed severe credibility questions with foundational AGW research, add the recent lack of high count hurricane seasons and double it with increasing studies that tie Earth’s temperature changes to solar activity and you get AGW scientists chasing theories looking like the Keystone Kops chasing a petty thief. Yet, for all the pretzel logic moves employed in an attempt to keep AGW alive, I can’t remember any as wacky as this from Reuters:
Asia pollution blamed for halt in warming: study
According to this study, sulphur from coal burning plants in Asia have offset the increase we nasty humans have created in carbon dioxide. The result is that global temperatures are no longer rising!
Oh, lucky us! Now we don’t have to cut back on our carbon dioxide emissions! Wait, not so fast! The article goes on to say that as the nasty coal plants are cleaned up and sulphur is reduced, we’ll go right back to sending our temperatures towards those of Mercury. Damn, we can’t win!
Let me see if I have this correct:
- If we pollute the world with carbon dioxide, we’ll all burn up…
- If we pollute the world with sulphur, the world is fine…
- But we can’t pollute the world with sulphur because it’s bad? Can it be worse than being burnt to a crisp by our own sun?
I thought pollution was bad but now pollution is good, right? Well yes, but no!
I’m so confused!
Update 7/5 –If the above irony isn’t enough, glance through this article and you can see why the logic has gotten so contorted. Some people will tell you anything you want to hear if their…livlihood depends on it.
