global climate change Negative Effects on the Daily Lives of Humans

Subject: Negative Effects on the Daily Lives of Humans
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> In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever made waves when he
> publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS). In an explanatory
> letter, Giaever focused on the APS's inexplicable belief that the existence
> of global warming was "incontrovertible." In so doing, Giaever joined a
> growing sect of scientists that has doubts about climate change, says an
> editorial signed by 16 scientists in the Wall Street Journal.
> •Strikingly, data over the course of the last decade shows no evidence that
> the globe is gradually warming.
> •Further beyond that, in the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental
> Panel on Climate Change, warming has consistently been below projections. The
> immediate question then becomes apparent: if there is little data to support
> the global warming claim, why would certain communities of scientists
> continue to insist on its existence? The answer is that, though there is
> little evidence to suggest global warming's impact, many concentrated parties
> continue to benefit from a public that believes in it:
> •Academic research teams garner public funding to find effective solutions
> to the global warming "problem."
> •Businesses that specialize in maneuvering complex governmental tax and
> regulatory structures thrive in those environments while competitors
> flounder.
> •Nonprofit foundations can pull enormous private support for crusades
> against a nonexistent global force. So long as private interests exist that
> benefit from this deception, and so long as scientists exist who will
> perpetuate its continuation with little data, this false alarmism will
> continue.
> Furthermore, the costs of this ruse are not isolated to small private
> interests, but are diffused among the nation at large. Politicians, who are
> pressured by the aforementioned private interests, demand costly policy
> solutions to a non-problem.
> However, a recent study of a wide variety of policy options by Yale economist
> William Nordhaus showed that nearly the highest benefit-to-cost ratio is
> achieved for a policy that allows 50 more years of economic growth unimpeded
> by greenhouse gas controls. This speaks to the lack of compelling data for
> the existence of global warming or its negative effects on the daily lives of
> humans.

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