We are not in climate crisis.

• Author: Gray, William
• Position: GUEST

Implementation of the cap-and-trade carbon dioxide policies presently before Congress on greenhouse gas reductions would lead to a substantial slowdown in the world's economic development and, at the same time, have no significant impact on the globe's future temperature.

The renewable energy sources of wind, solar, hydro, etc. are too expensive and will never be able to adequately replace fossil fuels in the coming decades.

The global climate is not in crisis as Al Gore and so many others of his like-minded associates have repeatedly stressed. The evidence presented by the global warming advocates has many flaws. There has not yet been an open and fair scientific dialogue on this topic. The much-trumped "scientific consensus" on global warming is bogus. There are thousands of scientists who disagree with the greenhouse gas warming scenario being a serious threat to humankind. But their voices have been largely ignored and/or their motives often denigrated. Many younger warming skeptics concerned about their future careers refuse to confront the issue.

It's always hard to fight an entrenched lobby with its wealthy and powerful governmental and international global warming proponents. A form of Mc-Carthyism has developed toward those scientists who do not agree that human-induced global warming is a great threat to humankind. The normal scientific process of objectively studying both sides of a question has not occurred. If our government were really interested in getting an accurate evaluation of the warming threat, it would have called for and made research funds available to skeptics and would have encouraged open dialogue between the warming skeptics and the warming believers. Such dialogue has been purposely suppressed.

The human-induced global warming scenarios that have been so much in the headlines since the hot summer of 1988 have repeatedly been exaggerated by a broad spectrum of scientists and environmentalists who have a vested interest in having and maintaining such a global warming scare. Most of these global warming advocates do not have sufficient backgrounds in meteorology and climatology to be able to realistically evaluate CO2's potential influences on global temperature.

The many Global Circulation Model simulations of 2 to 5 degrees Celsius rise in global temperature by the end of the 21st century, for which the warming scenarios are based, have basic flaws. These global models do not correctly model the globe's...