Global Warming
Objection from an unlikely Source

What an unlikely source to express doubt about global warming…Camille Paglia. She describes herself as a Clinton Democrat and a radical ‘60s libertarian. She is all in favor of the neo-paganism that exhibits itself as unbridled sexual conduct. She is in the vanguard of the so-called second wave of feminism. Yet in her on-line column in www.Salon.com on 11 April 2007, in answering a question on Global warning, she says this:

… I am a skeptic about what is currently called global warming. I have been highly suspicious for years about the political agenda that has slowly accrued around this issue. As a lapsed Catholic, I detest dogma in any area. Too many of my fellow Democrats seem peculiarly credulous at the moment, as if, having ground down organized religion into nonjudgmental, feel-good therapy, they are hungry for visions of apocalypse. From my perspective, virtually all of the major claims about global warming and its causes still remain to be proved.
Climate change, keyed to solar cycles, is built into Earth's system. Cooling and warming will go on forever. Slowly rising sea levels will at some point doubtless flood lower Manhattan and seaside houses everywhere from Cape Cod to Florida -- as happened to Native American encampments on those very shores. Human habitation is always fragile and provisional. People will migrate for the hills, as they have always done.
… when I tried to watch Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" on cable TV recently, I wasn't able to get past the first 10 minutes. I was snorting with disgust at its manipulations and distortions and laughing at Gore's lugubrious sentimentality, which was painfully revelatory of his indecisive, self-thwarting character. When Gore told a congressional hearing last month that there is a universal consensus among scientists about global warming -- which is blatantly untrue -- he forfeited his own credibility.
Environmentalism is a noble cause. It is damaged by propaganda and half-truths. Every industrialized society needs heightened consciousness about its past, present and future effects on the biosphere. Though I am a libertarian, I am a strong supporter of vigilant scrutiny and regulation of industry by local, state and federal agencies. But there must be a balance with the equally vital need for economic development, especially in the Third World.

Al Gore has not silenced everyone on the left. And, not only those on the right see his “blatant untruths”. It is amusing to see the neo-pagan diva decry the apocalyptic desires of those grinding down organized religion [read Christianity]. What else does she expect? And, how about a libertarian who wants “vigilant scrutiny and regulation of industry”? Cannot she see that her “noble cause” environmentalism taken to its logical end is the dogmatism of the greenies she detests with Gore as its high priest.

Well, in spite of her inconsistencies, it is refreshing to see one of Gore’s own standing against the new political correctness. Maybe there will yet be a serious debate on global warming that considers the contribution of the sun and cyclical climate change. Who knows, maybe global warming may yet be determined to be natural and not man made.