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The claim that we need to clamp down CO2 generation to save the planet relies on three alleged statements of fact:
1) The earth is warming;
2) Man caused it; and
3) We can do something about it.
Of the three, until recently only the first item was truly not debatable. Today, ALL of them are debatable.
In the first place, global temperature readings have shown no warming at all since 1998, and temperatures plunged in 2007.
In the second place, the alleged warming in the 1990s was almost certainly the result of the loss of the Soviet Union's temperature stations. The Soviets provided a huge percentage of the world's cold-weather readings, and when the Soviet Union collapsed, they stopped reporting. It would be like measuring average height in an elementary school over several years, and the school stopped serving Kindergarten and 1st grade halfway through the study.
In the third place, temperatures were artificially inflated due to a Y2K error, making the 21st century...
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