So I write to GeoMan, this being the gist of my missive:

You have made a great point of explaining the scientific
process, and yet you accept the shibboleth of global warming as
dogma, when it clearly is not.
Less than five hundred years of temperature measurement exist. Less
than a hundred of that with any real level of calibration of the
instrumentation. All of that measurement has taken place on or near
land, with no data for the oceans, which cover a pretty large portion
of the planet. No knowledge of the temperature variation can be given
before that, except as reasonably educated wild ass guesses based on
any number of factors. We don’t know if the earth is warming or
cooling beyond the last hundred or so years, and what is more
important, we have NO idea if warming trends regularly cycle over the
course of thosands of years and by how much. All that exist are
guesses. Basing a theory of global warming on guesses is the worst
kind of junk science. Pity, your site seemed to show such promise.

The response?

All good points, but consider this: we are returning massive amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels. Will this have an impact? I say yes. What do you think?


What did I think? This is what I thought:

“Less carbon dioxide by far than magmatic gasses and other tectonic activity have in similar time periods. It’s bunk. We cannot have any idea.

Does that mean we should just randomly go around doing everything we can to fuck up the planet? by no means. Every reasonable effort should be made to protect the environment- and by reasonable I mean regulations that allow people to live their lives (which includes motor vehicles, like it or not) and allows businesses to exist and profit.

The earth is ours. We can take care of it, and exist with it, and we can do so without fear mongering pseudoscientific garbage putting unnecessary restriction on people’s lives.

By the way: I live on the front lines, and not in an ivory tower. Stricter and more stringent regulations by the EPA and other state and local agencies have had the effect of driving smokestack industries to push their manufacturing elsewhere. Places like China. Where there are NO restrictions. The net effect has been this: Steel production, which will ALWAYS proceed, has gone from having 90% of it’s emissions scrubbed and cleaned (in the USA) to having all it’s emissions dumped directly into the atmosphere (china, eastern Europe). The primary source for this move has been the tightening of EPA restrictions, the secondary and tertiary being OSHA and Union pressure. So what has this done? taken the business from US industries who were making slow but reasonable efforts to reduce emissions, and handed jobs, business, cash flow to countries where human life is meaningless and where no restrictions on emissions exist.

At the end, the earth will deal with the effect of humans as it has dealt with the effect of every other species; it will carry on. With a planet obviously unchanged in any physical way by, say, the dinosaurs, who generated more carbon emissions than all the cars that ever drove on or off any road, it is not only ludicrous to think Humans can have lasting effects on the planet, it is immeasurable pomposity. “

I didn’t hear anything for a couple of days so I wrote back:

So, are you researching for your response to my last email, or have you chosen to ignore it?

and got this response:

I’m choosing to ignore it – way too much negative energy for an
overworked geologist during a hectic summer.

These are the people educating our children.

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