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Now that we’ve all been warned
we should prepare for global warming and that it’s imperative to cut down on
greenhouse emissions, and now that even the opponents of such theories have
started to agree with them, scientists came again to break the myth and say it’s
not human activities, but nature’s own actions that provoke climate changes.
According to a report published
by the Heartland Institute and written by S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of
environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, and project leader for the
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), we are far from
being able to sustain theories that at the cause of global warming lie anthropogenic
causes, rather than natural ones.
“Our concern about the
environment, going back some 40 years, has taught us important lessons,” the
report says. “It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic
penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is foolish
to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by
observations.”
In the three day-conference
sponsored by the Heartland Institute, over 500 people from all corners of the
world attended to talks on global warming and its probable causes, all of them
advocates of natural, rather than human ones.
One thing scientists, economists
and policy advocates at the conference complained about is the lack of
tolerance from various journals and newspapers on other theories than what
seems to be a global issue at the moment – how to cut down on greenhouse
emissions.
“The claim that man is the
primary cause of the recent warming is not supported by science,” the report
says. The study highlights the fact that there could be many causes for climate
change on a global scale, but one that can’t be ignored and with a major influence
is most certainly solar variability. “There are also natural oscillations of
internal origin, especially on a regional scale, that do not appear to be
connected to human causes either.”
As an overall conclusion, the
report finds that their findings, “if sustained, point to natural causes and a
moderate warming trend with beneficial effects for humanity and wildlife.” This
could perhaps make us look at things from a different perspective. For now,
there is only one ‘conclusion to all the conclusions’: the debates will go on.
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