THE HILL
By Andrew Restuccia
12/29/10
This weekend’s massive blizzard in the Northeast has fueled the fire of climate skepticism that’s pervasive in many parts of the United States. If we’re still getting major winter storms, skeptics say, how can the planet be warming?
E2 Wire put that question to Tom Peterson, chief scientist at the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration’s National Climatic Data Center.
Peterson said the latest climate change data indicate increases in global temperature result in more intense weather events, including winter storms.
As the planet warms, “frequency of storms will stay the same, but the intensity will increase,” he said.
“Multiple peer-review papers indicate that strong storms are likely to increase. So the climate change is changing the probability of a strong storm occurring,” he said. […]
The climate warming issue pits science against business and neocon politics. The neocons entered the fray on the side of business. The neocons are said to be “business friendly”.
Business is responsible for its bottom line only. And a blogger over at the Wall Street Journal stated The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility. One might easily think that the owners of America’s economic engine have no social responsibility to America the country. And American consumers of business products are nowhere near as organized as business.
Having business and neocon politics team-up against science in the domain of science is probably stupid. But what’s new in the world of neocon politics?
Tags: business, business friendly, climate warming, neocon politics, science
