This comes from this webpage, which spouts the typical right-wing anti-science position. Here are some selected quotes.

Funny how you don’t hear the phrase “global warming so much any more. There is a new phrase, you know. Perhaps you didn’t get the memo .. but what was once continually referred to as “global warming” is now just becoming “climate change.” Why? Well, I suppose a few record cold winters around the world have made it a bit harder for the left and the eco-cultists to push the “warming” bit. Besides, as more and more is written more people come to understand that we’re in a period of increased solar activity, and even those educated in government schools understand that increased solar activity might somehow cause a bit of warming here on Earth.

First, I hadn’t noticed the change from “global warming” to “climate change”. I’ve previously discussed this in the difference between climate change and global warming. Climate change and global warming are two seperate and distinct things - both of which are different than anthropogenic climate change. To summarize, global warming is a rising of the mean temperature of the earth; climate change is, obviously, a change in the large-scale climate of the earth (climate includes, but is not limited, to temperature, precipitation, and wind); anthropogenic climate change is simply climate change caused by human actions.

This is interesting. The solar activity is increasing. I’ve heard this argument before from the anti-science crowd, and you’d think that it would only take one figure (perhaps the one below) to show that total solar irradiance has decreased since 2000! And has remained relatively unchanged since satellite measurements started in 1980. Surely this is the cause of global warming - I mean climate change. See also the trouble with sunspots, and the lure of solar forcing.

Glaciers are retreating! Did you know that! Yup, retreating! It’s that pesky climate change thing. But something rather odd is happening as the glaciers retreat. We finding evidence of civilization where those glaciers once stood! In Switzerland they’re finding silver mines. That’s right, silver mines. As the glacier retreats they’re finding the mine shafts and the mining tools stacked up and waiting … (sic) waiting for the mine workers to return as the winter snows melted. It seems that one year those winter snows didn’t actually melt. Then year upon year passed and the snows grew deeper. Finally, a glacier. It was the little ice age! Now the little ice age is ending, the glaciers retreating, and evidence of civilization emerging where we’ve known nothing but ice. We’re also finding water management structures built by man where glaciers are retreating elsewhere. In other words .. yes, it’s warmer. One whole degree in the last 100 years. But we’ve been there before. Warmer than this. And we did it without SUVs and the industrial revolution.

Psst. The little ice age ended a long time ago. See medieval warm period, and the little ice age.

Maybe … (sic) just maybe .. (sic) the tide of hysteria is turning. Thank the new media. While mainstream newspapers and media outlets regurgitate the global warming and climate change mantra, people remain free to log on to the Internet (for now) where they’ll find more than enough to read from scientists who were once global warming alarmists but who are now skeptics.

This doesn’t even need a retort other than - “I saw it on the Internets! It must be true!.”

Take Dr. Nir Shaviv, an Astrophysicist. has recently recanted his belief that man was warming up the earth. He recently wrote: “Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media. In fact, there is much more than meets the eye.” Shaviv adds that “Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming.”

Dr. David Evans is a mathematician and engineer. This is the man who did the carbon accounting for the government of Australia. He spent six years building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions. He’s now a global warming skeptic. Evans says that “By the late 1990s lots of jobs depended on the idea that carbon emissions caused global warming.” He adds: “The science of global warming has become a partisan political issue, so positions become more entrenched.”

Wow. To refute global warming this guy found an astrophysicist and a ‘mathematician and engineer’. Two people - not even two climate scientists, but we’ll ignore their qualifications. Here’s just the list of contributers to Real Climate: Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann, Eric Steig, William Connolley, Ray Bradley, Stefan Rahmstorf, Rasmus Benestad, Caspar Ammann, Thibault de Garidel, David Archer, and Ray Pierrehumbert. Eleven. I win! Woot! The fact that you could find two people that do not think that humans are causing global warming is not surprising. The fact that you think it disproves global warming does prove you’re an idiot.

And there’s the curious question. Global warming, or climate change, if you will, has indeed become a partisan political issue. But there’s more to it. It’s an issue for the left; for the world’s anti-capitalists and socialists. And just why would that be? Could it possibly be because these anti-capitalists and leftists see the religion of climate change as a way to bring down or harm powerful nations with economies based on capitalism and free enterprise?

Global warming is not a partisan issue. The same people who decried the link between passive smoking and lung cancer, and CFCs and the ozone hole are now saying there is no link between CO2 and global warming. How can you still trust these people? They have no credibility. The list: Sallie Baliunas, Patrick Michaels, Steven Milloy, Fred Singer, Fred Seitz, Timothy F. Ball, Richard Lindzen, Fred Seitz, Michael Crichton, Michael Fumento, and of course the Cato Institute. Anyone on that list should not be listened to about anything. They are nothing more than a shill.

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