19th
VIVE LA RESISTANCE!
City’s Indoor Smoking Ban Grows Hazy Inside Some Clubs - NYTimes.com
What Heaven And Earth sets out to do is restore a sense of scientific perspective to a debate which has been hijacked by ‘politicians, environmental activists and opportunists’. It points out, for example, that polar ice has been present on earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time; that extinctions of life are normal; that climate changes are cyclical and random; that the CO2 in the atmosphere — to which human activity contributes the tiniest fraction — is only 0.001 per cent of the total CO2 held in the oceans, surface rocks, air, soils and life; that CO2 is not a pollutant but a plant food; that the earth’s warmer periods — such as when the Romans grew grapes and citrus trees as far north as Hadrian’s Wall — were times of wealth and plenty.
- Let me say once again, “global warming” is garbage. Now, if only the truth will out on second-hand smoke, my faith in science and reason will be restored. Now, I’ll drop the subject.-jm