WHY AM I SKEPTICAL ABOUT MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING?

A 21-page report from something called the "Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change" has been released today...in Paris, no less...and as expected, it's predictions are dire. According to the report: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level." Yeah right...we've heard all this before.

But the biggest bombshell here is this one: no matter what we do, global warming will not be reversed. It will go on for centuries, according to this report. The sea levels will continue to rise as polar ice caps melt. So I guess if Al Gore wins his Nobel Peace Prize, we'll still experience global warming. So much for riding to work everyday in your hybrid car...it's not doing a thing. The situation is futile, according to this report.

But really, it makes sense that the global warming crowd would come to this conclusion. After all, global warming is a religion. The anti-capitalist enviro-nazis don't ever want the problem to be solved. After all, if global warming were to be solved tomorrow, what would they blame the United States for? They'd have to find some other reason.

Sorry .. I'm still a skeptic. In no particular order here are just a few of the reasons why I'm not buying this man-made global warming scare:

• The United Nations is anti-American and anti-Capitalist. In short .. I don't trust them. Not a bit. The UN would eagerly engage in any enterprise that would weaken capitalist economies around the world.
  
  
• Because after the fall of the Soviet Union and worldwide Communism many in the anti-capitalist movement moved to the environmental movement to continue pursuing their anti-free enterprise goals. Many of the loudest proponents of man-made global warming today are confirmed anti-capitalists.
  
  
• Because the sun is warmer .. and all of these scientists don't seem to be willing to credit a warmer sun with any of the blame for global warming.
  
  
• The polar ice caps on Mars are melting. How did our CO2 emissions get all the way to Mars?
  
  
• It was warmer in the 1930s across the globe than it is right now.
  
  
• It wasn't all that long ago that these very same scientists were warning us about "global cooling" and another approaching ice age?
  
  
• How much has the earth warmed up in the last 100 years? One degree. Now that's frightening.
  
• Because that famous "hockey stick" graph that purports to show a sudden warming of the earth in the last few decades is a fraud. It ignored previous warming periods ... left them off the graph altogether.
  
  
• The infamous Kyoto accords exempt some of the world's biggest CO2 polluters, including China and India.
  
  
• The Kyoto accords can easily be seen as nothing less than an attempt to hamstring the world's dominant capitalist economies.
  
  
• Because many of these scientists who are sounding the global warming scare depend on grant money for their livelihood, and they know the grant money dries up when they stop preaching the global warming sermon.
  
  
• Because global warming "activists" and scientists seek to punish those who have different viewpoints. If you are sure of your science you have no need to shout down or seek to punish those who disagree.
  
  
• What happened to the Medieval Warm Period? In 1996 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a chart showing climatic change over a period of 1000 years. This graph showed a Medieval warming period in which global temperatures were higher than they are today. In 2001 the IPCC issued another 1000 year graph in which the Medieval warming period was missing. Why?
  
  
• Why has one scientist promoting the cause of man-made global warming been quoted as saying "we have to get rid of the medieval warming period?"
  
  
• Why is the ice cap on the Antarctic getting thicker if the earth is getting warmer?
  
  
• In the United State, the one country with the most accurate temperature measuring and reporting records, temperatures have risen by 0.3 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. The UN estimate is twice that.
  
  
• There are about 160,000 glaciers around the world. Most have never been visited or measured by man. The great majority of these glaciers are growing, not melting.
  
  
• Side-looking radar interferometry shows that the ise mass in the West Antarctic is growing at a rate of over 26 gigatons a year. This reverses a melting trend that had persisted for the previous 6,000 years.
  
  
• Rising sea levels? The sea levels have been rising since the last ice age ended. That was 12,000 years ago. Estimates are that in that time the sea level has risen by over 300 feet. The rise in our sea levels has been going on long before man started creating anything but natural CO2 emissions.
  
  
• Like Antarctica, the interior of Greenland is gaining ice mass.
  
  
• Over the past 3,000 years there have been five different extended periods when the earth was measurably warmer than it is today.
  
  
• During the last 20 years -- a period of the highest carbon dioxide levels -- global temperatures have actually decreased. That's right ... decreased.
  
  
• Why did a reporter from National Public Radio refuse to interview David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma studying global warming, after his testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unless Deming would state that global warming was being caused by man?
  
  
• Why are global warming proponents insisting that the matter is settled and that no further scientific research is needed? Why are they afraid of additional information?
  
  
• On July 24, 1974 Time Magazine published an article entitled "Another Ice Age?" Here's the first paragraph:

  "As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

Hey ... I could go on. There's much more where that came from. But I need to get ready to go on the air. Just know that many of the strongest proponents of this "man-made" global warming stuff are dedicated opponents to capitalism and don't feel all that warm and fuzzy about the United States.

AMERICANS TAKING TERRORISM SERIOUSLY

According to a new poll, most Americans say terrorism should be taken very seriously. That's good, but there's only one problem. Every time we try to do something to stop terrorism, the appeasers react and send Democrats to Congress. Which means we're not taking terrorism very seriously. So why the contradiction?

The answer is simple...most people lack the will to fight a protracted war against terrorism. If we can do it in a week .. maybe a month, that's fine. But if it is going to take years to bring the Islamic terrorists under control .. Americans don't have the patience for it. A lot of people can't be convinced that some people are inherently evil. We like to buy the lie that most people are basically good and that if we were only nice to them or listened to their grievances, that they'll be nice back to us. We try and domesticate Islamic terrorists...legitimize them by trying to negotiate with them. There's only one problem: it doesn't work.

The only way to fight terrorism is to fight terrorism. And the way you do that is by killing them before they kill us. It's messy work, but somebody's gotta do it. So while the polls may show that Americans take terrorism seriously, you have to wonder if they really do when the same poll shows such opposition to the war in Iraq, which is filled with Islamic terrorists.

People can't have it both ways...you can't be against terrorism and for the terrorist. That's John Kerry's job.

SENATE PASSES MINIMUM WAGE BILL

The Senate has passed a minimum wage hike bill...the new wage: $7.25 an hour over two years. The president supports the bill and says he will sign it, after it is reconciled with the House version. My...just $7.25 an hour? Isn't that a bit stingy? How in the world are you supposed to raise a family on $7.25 an hour? And what is a conservative Republican doing supporting the whole idea.

The answer to that one is that it's politically popular. We like to think that there should be a minimum standard for what people should be paid. Maybe that would work if we could come up with a minimum standard setting what every individual should be worth to his employer. The problem is in setting that standard. Why just $7.25? The left has no answer. They just say it should be raised. Which leads to the question, why not raise it more. Let's do the math.

If a minimum wage worker works 52 weeks a year, (vacations are for rich people) multiplied by 40 hours a week (no overtime, gotta raise those 4 kids sometime) equals 208 hours. Multiply that by the new minimum wage and you get just $15,080 a year. That's not very much. How about doubling the minimum wage to $14.50 an hour. Give people a fighting chance!

The reason the Democrats say it can't be that high is because it will kill jobs. Exactly.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Florida's new Republican governor wants to get rid of all the new electronic touch-screen voting machines and replace them with paper ballots that can be scanned in. His reasoning: they should have something to recount. But what about the scanners? Can't they be wrong too? .

Al Gore has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on global warming. Will he win? Hard to say...we'll known in October. Oh, and Rush Limbaugh has been nominated too....no, really he has. His odds of winning? Much smaller.

President Bush has announced that he won't immediately pardon the two Border Patrol agents sitting in prison for shooting a drug smuggler. The president says there is a process for pardons and they have to stand in line like anybody else. So who's right? Read on to find out more.

A new poll says voters are most comfortable with Rudy Giuliani as president. Problem is, can the socially liberal Rudy get through the Republican primaries? Hard to know because it's so early, but people do seem to be interested in his candidacy.

President Bush says he's concerned about protectionism and isolationism. But Pat Buchanan says he's not buying that, since he says Bush himself is the one that isolated us with the war in Iraq. Never one to pull any punches, Pat lets the president have it.

ExxonMobil has posted a record $39.5 billion annual profit....more than any other American company in history. The left is going to be most upset at this, but we should rejoice. That's almost $40 billion flowing into this country and not out of it to some government-run oil company in the Middle East.

It seems like every so often, somebody comes up with a new term for "amnesty" when it comes to illegals.f The latest comes from Senator Mel Martinez, who's calling his plan "earned citizenship." How nice...but the problem is either you're here illegally or you're not. No in between.

Tens of thousands Iraqis have died in the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which leads many to ask: who's responsible for the killing? Charles Krauthammer takes a look at that question...and finds the answer is well, complicated.

David Limbaugh is worried that an anti-war leftist could occupy the Oval Office after the 2008 elections. He concedes anti-war protesters have always been around, but he says this time is different. He says they shouldn't be so easily dismissed.

The conventional wisdom right now is that Democrats, perhaps Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, are going to walk to a White House victory in 2008. Douglas MacKinnon says the one Democrat that could've won has dropped out of the race and Democrats taking over both Houses of Congress isn't going to help them either.

It's done. All the editing is over. "Somebody's Gotta Say It" will appear on your bookstore shelves on Tuesday, February 20, 2007. The autographed first editions have sold out so if you want my mark on your book, you'll need to catch me at one of my book signings. Or if you just want to get to reading, order it online here.

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