MC physician decries warming 'hoax'

(The Copenhagen Global Warming Conference) is over and, thankfully, what a bust (except for a huge carbon footprint)! Even the (mainstream media) couldn’t spin a win out of this non-event!

My question to you true believers out there is this: How much new data or how much falsified data will it take to shake your faith, take off the blinders and open your minds to even the remote possibility of several less “fatal” alternative climate scenarios such as natural (non man-made) fluctuations or that dire predictions of global catastrophe and our ability to avoid it may be exaggerated? Does it not even bother you why your leaders changed the theme from Global Warming to Climate Change? Did it make you question for even a second?

This really is the perfect example of liberalism vs. conservatism in that liberals tend to see what they want to believe vs. conservatives who generally believe what they see. I believed the planet was warming in the 90s; I just was unsure why it was happening, skeptical of a significant man-made contribution.

However, I also believed what I saw when a decade of cooling followed, but global warming believers didn’t want to see it so they didn’t. Nothing in their almighty computer models predicted this, yet we are to believe their gloom-and-doom scenarios 25-50 years out.

Al Gore’s hurricanes didn’t happen but no matter. The artic ice has always fluctuated and the north polar ice may be declining,

But the Antarctic ice is increasing and virtually unreported. Accurate data appear to indicate that 1920 to 1940 was warmer than now without global Armageddon nor increased carbon dioxide levels. These same computer “climatologists” predicted a coming Ice Age as recently as 1975, also because of man’s activities and CO2.

Do you ask about the significance of the Medieval Warm Period? Believers, dear believers, please tell me these facts and unpredicted events make you scratch your heads just a little. If not, please tell us Deniers what kind of data will it take for you to jump off the "Gorewagon" or at least debate the issue. It is clearly not “settled science.” "Climategate" alone has to suggest this to the intellectually honest.

Global warming/climate change advocates are part of what will undoubtedly be known as the greatest hoax in modern times and Al Gore as the 21st century’s greatest snake oil salesman. Its demise will be barely mentioned in the (mainstream media), just like the global cooling of the 70s. Note it and remember why and who you trusted and believed and learn the lesson. Take your principled stand but keep your eyes and mind open and don’t fall for the next predicted end of the world so easily.

Believe it or not, I am attempting primarily to speak to the young in high school and college who are the most passionate yet impressionable and easily led astray. Remember now how confident you feel about your convictions and why you believe in global warming and then recall how you feel when you finally figure out that you saw what you wanted to believe rather than believing your eyes and realizing that we are to be good stewards of the planet and that, yes, quite naturally actually, the climate changes and always will.

(Guest columnist Yates Sealander is a Madison County physician. He lives in Graves Mill. Contact him via e-mail at dux4susi@aol.com.)