Idaho Senate Concurrent Resolution 128 is supposed to be coming up to a committee vote in the Senate Resources & Environment Committee Wednesday afternoon. As regular readers of my blog know (or, for that matter, almost any other blog that pays attention to this question), anthropogenic global warming involves at least two highly arguable points:
1. Is there actually clear evidence of global warming? I'm inclined to think that there is, but the evidence is far from certain--and some of the data on this has experienced significant revisions of late. This is an especially troublesome question because many of the U.S. weather stations that feed data on the supposed warming--when inspected--turn out to have serious repeatability problems--such as 22 air conditioning compressors next to the station or a station at the end of a jet aircraft runway, or five feet from a burning barrel put in place when a condominium complex was built in a rural setting.
2. There is clear evidence that Mars has warmed since 1976--and by 0.5 degrees Celsius--an amount not much different from the claims of the AGW crowd. There is far less certain evidence that Neptune is getting more illumination as well--and again, roughly in parallel with the AGW claims. Pretty obviously, if, as some astrophysicists claim, the warming we experienced from the late 1970s to a couple of years back, is primarily the result of solar output changes, we're going to burn an enormous amount of money, impoverish a lot of people--and accomplish nothing.
It's time to let members of the committee know that this "settled science" is far less settled than they want to believe. Here are the email addresses:
gschroeder@senate.idaho.gov
mpearce@senate.idaho.gov
dcameron@senate.idaho.gov
blittle@senate.idaho.gov
jandreason@senate.idaho.gov
ccoiner@senate.idaho.gov
jsiddoway@senate.idaho.gov
stennett@senate.idaho.gov
dlanghorst@senate.idaho.gov
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