2007 was a great year for raising awareness for the issue of human contributions to global warming. Of course, Al Gore was front-and-center with all he's done.
As a direct result of the increased awareness about global warming, we have seen an escalation in the rhetoric being pumped out by the skeptics. To honor their tireless efforts, I'd like for DU to officially catalog the Dumbest Global Warming Comments of 2007.
Everyone gets a chance to submit their nomination. When the list is complete, we'll see how it goes. It might be Letterman-style Top Ten list or a top 100 or maybe we'll make a Quote of the Day Calendar for 2009.
I'll get it started:
What theses idiots don't realize is modern agriculture was made possible because of global warming.
At the end of the last ice age, CO2 levels spiked. The glaciers had entrapped the majority of the atmospheres CO2 and that was not enough of it in the air to support large scale agriculture of the types that we see today.
This is also why we corelate the rise of civilization to the end of the last ice age. With the release of CO2 into the atmosphere, agricultural plant life was capable of being supported, so more food was capable of being grown. It was easier to feed more and more people, so more and more time was being able to be spent by our ancestors in developing things like writing, currency, mathematics, etc...
Heavens. Spiking CO
2 was more important than melting continental ice sheets, thawing soils, and drastically increasing temperatures.
There's your challenge, kids. Beat that one!
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