An Alien View of Global Warming

Global Warming With Pancho the Alien

Sticks and Stones has a special guest for the day, Pancho the Alien, and together they review an article from the 'The Globe and Mail' on the subject.

It's a fun read no matter where you stand on the issue, but a deeper read shows that even the smallest bit of analysis - even when it's done with a smile on your face - causes the "proof" of global warming to fall apart.

I go back to the 1980's when "many scientists" (probably the very same ones) were absolutely certain - using the very same historical data - that we were pushing the planet into an impending Ice Age that would wipe out all life as we know it. So they used to think it was an Ice Age and now we're cooking the planet: seems to me that the median position between the two is that we can pretty much expect not much to change one way or the other. When all else fails, try common sense...