A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences seems to confirm at least part of what critics of global warming have been saying for years, namely, that climate changes are irreversible by human endeavor.
(Of course, we've known this since our climate is largely controlled by the sun and oceans, and human activity has little impact, but the enviro-kooks are rolling out newer and better versions of their same old horsecrap calling for government action. Let's hear her out and have some fun with it)
The study, co-authored by Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and reported on by NPR, says that certain (localized) environmental hazards can be impacted by human effort, such as reducing smog by minimizing the particulate matter emanating from vehicles.
"We're used to thinking about pollution problems as things that we can fix," Solomon says. "Smog, we just cut back and everything will be better later. Or haze, you know, it'll go away pretty quickly."
However, in what surely must be a blow to Al Gore and the activist-government-can-fix-everything crowd, Solomon claims that impacting climate change on a global level just isn't gonna happen.
"People have imagined that if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide that the climate would go back to normal in 100 years or 200 years. What we're showing here is that's not right. It's essentially an irreversible change that will last for more than a thousand years," Solomon says.
Leading her to believe this are the oceans, which she says acts as a dampening agent... cooling and heating the earth on its own and taking as long as 700 years to reflect temperature change due to the amount of water covering the planet.
The bad news is that, of course, she doesn't back off the claim that global warming is happening, or the sci-fi predictions made by so many of her colleagues (can't lose that funding!). Her arguments must be pretty entertaining, because they feature the latest in cutting-edge envirofascism... the idea that we can't fix it but we can cause it could give rise to an entire generation of government activity designed to prevent global warming... but never held accountable for any results. The good news is that the argument is starting to sound nuttier and nuttier. The basic logic seems to be that we can't fix it... but we must have caused it.
"I guess if it's irreversible, to me it seems all the more reason you might want to do something about it," she says. "Because committing to something that you can't back out of seems to me like a step that you'd want to take even more carefully than something you thought you could reverse."
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