Icey Observations

In spite of some green prognostications to the contrary, previous interglacial periods were warmer than the current one, or so says the ice core evidence. One of the flaws pointed out about Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth was the inconvenient fact that carbon dioxide increases 800-1300 years after warmth, not the best evidence for carbon dioxide being the cause of warming. The delayed CO2 probably comes from widespread melting of the permafrost and subsequent rotting of materials long frozen.

The GRIP and GISP ice cores from Greenland go back 110,000 years, to the last interglacial, then turn into muddled ice the last few meters before bedrock. This indicates previous interglacial warming virtually destroyed the Greenland ice sheet. This warming hasn't, at least, not yet. I doubt the previous interglacial destroyed the ice sheet because Homo Erectus and Neanderthals were driving too many SUVs. I might have difficulty believing the Greenland ice sheet may again be destroyed this interglacial because we are driving too many SUVs.

In previous years, the IPCC report on global warming contained a graphic showing increased global warming. Because of the shape, the graph became known as the hockey stick. It was omitted from the 2001 and subsequent IPCC reports when it was shown to be dubious modeling. A peer-reviewed report in 2005 went so far as to say, input of noise would have produced the shape. Perhaps one could use it for tracking one's bowling scores.

Of course, as some Australians have recently pointed out, greens lie. Unfortunately, governments and those who stand to profit have realized the revenue and profit potential from a carbon tax, by whatever name. They have the momentum and are progressing. It is a tax increase of an indirect kind, where the citizen pays substantially more for goods and services, while the bad polluting capitalist selling those goods and services is being punished. But, then, we already knew politicians lie--and prosper.