Aha, but...
Jonathan Adler, an environmental policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, New England did the study of forest density to which I referred...
As for global warming, I present to you this single fact: During the first Earth Day proceedings in 1970 or '71 I believe it was, the problem on everyone's tongue was Global Cooling. Cooling. They used environmental tests done since the 1950s to illustrate that global temperatures were dropping dramatically. What I find most odd about this is that the very same organizations that were on the Global Cooling ticket in '71 explain their theories of global warming today the same way: Carbon Dioxide polluting the air is blah blah - Global Cooling/Warming.
The simple fact that they blame 2 diametrically opposed "problems" on the same thing detracts from their credibility in my mind.
What people fail to realize though it has been proven by the fact that 30 years ago we were getting colder, no we're getting warmer, is that climatic temperatures have a range which fluctuates gradually over many decades. Nature cannot maintain a perfect equilibrium constantly with or without us, the earth is simply far too big, so it has a margin of error in which to operate.
This very fact was backed up by a group of scientific researchers whom I believe worked for National Geographic, though I'm unsure, who took core samples from Antarctica to test climatic properties over past millennia. What they found was quite striking in my mind, this type of cooling/warming cycle is natural and occurs without human intervention.
Now, we may alter it, but Earth is a big ol' place, and I'm sure it has the resiliency to handle us. Am I saying nothing should be done? No, what I am saying is that the wacko ULTRA ULTRA leftist - and I'm not talking your average Joe, I'm talking the screaming lunatic type - segment of the environmentalist movement, who are an incredible fringe-type minority, have, by virtue of its incessant braying has earned the greater public attention over the more moderate segments, and convinced everyone that there's a crisis on our hands and that we have to go back to the stone age to save our home. What a crock.
As for calling people wackos, I don't mean the average guy who disagrees with me, I'm glad to entertain any argument a more liberal sensibility is willing to make so long as it's within reason, I mean the way way not average type who'd rather brand me a bigot Satanist Nazi because I like nuclear power.
Speaking of which, and this is just an aside, don't you find it odd that the environmentalist movement backed the California legislature (every wacko is from California
)into such a corner over the power plant issue that despite the population of California double in the past few decades, no supplement to the power grid was ever added. And now they all whine about rolling blackouts. Everyone is such a me now, I want, I want, gimmegimme, it's sickening.