More on Global Warming.

• Author: Lowe, Stephen
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

In his article, "Global Warming: An Introduction to the State of the Science and a Survey of Some Legal Responses" (October), Dominick Graziano makes the now-common mistake of blind faith in the thin science (principally assumptions and computer modeling) upon which the prevailing environmentalist view of "global warming" is based. In fact, there is anything but consensus among climate experts, and the claims of environmentalists are often easily refuted when actual evidence is brought to bear. To take but a few:

* Environmentalists assert that their climate science is reliable. Yet as recently as 30 years ago (a mere blip on the timeline of history), the same scientific community was writing of the "ominous signs" of global cooling. Indeed, in 1974, the National Science Board concluded that the temperature decline in recent decades signaled "the next glacial age."

* Environmentalists argue that human production of carbon dioxide is inextricably linked to warming temperatures. But notwithstanding the fact that some 80 percent of the human-produced carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been added since 1940, average temperatures are lower today than they were in the 1930s. Moreover, most studies of temperature history have found 50-year periods prior to the 20th century that were warmer than any 50-year period during the 20th...