This gentleman responded to my most recent post in a very civil manner, and I thought it deserved a civil response. I also thought it was perfect as a follow-up to yesterday’s post.
Lewis,
I appreciate your civility in your comment and will try to be equally civil. There is no room for argument here, this is a statement of fact with no room for interpretation. I do get pop-up ads from Carbonfund.org AT LEAST twice a week every week when browsing on Firefox… This is not an item for discussion, I wouldn’t even know they existed if I didn’t get a pop-up asking me to donate.
On my next point, you DO have the freedom to disagree, I will just think you are wrong. I don’t believe in anthropogenic (man-made for those who don’t know) global warming. Therefore I believe that companies who sell carbon offsets are the snake oil salesmen of the 21st Century. There is no conclusive proof that the earth is warming due to human activity.
I am not a scientist, however, there are scientists who have proven that there were higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at times during the ICE AGE. Using common sense, that says to me that there is no causal link between the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the temperature of the earth. Also, do remember that Greenland has Nordic farmers, Vikings as many know them, buried in what was once fertile soil. Today, even though the earth is dangerously warm, that portion of the earth is covered in ICE!
That sounds to me like an Inconvenient Truth for the case of those that believe planet Earth has a fever.
-Common Sense Guy
PS – Check out this book by Ian Plimer, an Australian Geologist who is also a professor at the University of Adelaide. The book is Heaven and Earth: Global Warming the Missing Science. While you will find many articles throughout Teh Internets, you will find that the VAST majority of them are ad hominem attacks and do not address the science SPECIFICALLY but prefer generalities like the Wiki which makes a point of placing high on his profile his directorships at mining companies (only one of which mines anything related to CO2 production). I will write more in-depth when I finish reading the book and have time to digest it all.
