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Submitted by John House, Dec 18, 2007 22:45

While I appreciate statistics and consider them within a context. My overwhelming experience is that global warming is real. Mr. Steyn's concern about dropping birthrates in Europe are legitimate also. However, I resent his chaining statistics and exotic left wing opinions, then giving them a reality equal to the case for tobacco use causing cancer.

I do not believe a careful thinker would chain together birthrates in Europe, the rate of increase in carbon emissions form very dissimilar countries, the most popular name for baby boys in the United Kingdom, and so on, and call it reasoning.

Mr. Steyn also seems to believe elites are groups of popular or influential people who disagree with him.


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I live in a big city, like most of us probably. Hundreds of city classrooms stand empty but schools remain... [MORE]

Gary Miller 

Dec 20, 2007 23:01

John House. Steyn is a very opinionated columnist , and without question infuriating to those who disagree with his viiews,... [MORE]

neil gaffney 

Dec 18, 2007 00:26

While I appreciate statistics and consider them within a context. My overwhelming experience is that global warming is real. Mr....

John House 

Dec 18, 2007 22:45

I am intrigued by the claims of John 'Green' House to have certain "overwhelming experience" that "global warming is real".

Does... [MORE]

Geraint Roberts 

Dec 19, 2007 17:38

Cheer up, Mr. Steyn. There may be a purpose behind the mental illness gripping the world's elites.

In "Anatomy of Criticism"... [MORE]

Robert Arvanitis 

Dec 17, 2007 21:35

I try to read news from around the world. My readings reflect little currency for the opinions Mr. Steyn fears.... [MORE]

John House 

Dec 17, 2007 20:35

Mr. House, your argument that global warming must be true based on your personal experience is absolutely absurd. "Obvious, if... [MORE]

Lynn 

Dec 19, 2007 10:50

Lynn, I remember when cattle egrets were seldom seen in Central Illinois. I now see many. I remember when trees... [MORE]

John House 

Dec 19, 2007 23:46

Mr. House,

I would argue that rather than using reason, which would see an individual's personal experience as insigificant in the... [MORE]

Lynn 

Dec 20, 2007 10:55

Lynn, thank you for your correction of my typo. Thank you also for the reference. I have book marked it... [MORE]

John House 

Dec 20, 2007 22:36

While your story about faith is indeed moving, it is not what I mean when I say that your view... [MORE]

Lynn 

Dec 21, 2007 10:20

The real question, of course, is whether global warming is anthropogenic in nature, or just a repeat of the macro-trend... [MORE]

john twinem 

Dec 21, 2007 10:58

I think Thomas Malthus and Paul Erlich were fundamentally incorrect, and Western thought is pathetically slow to catch it.  I... [MORE]

John House 

Dec 24, 2007 23:05

There are some statistics you can argue over, but the basic numbers tell the story. In 2004, the last year... [MORE]

Neil 

Dec 17, 2007 17:09

I believe that we will soon (less than 10 years from now) use solar energy to make fuels in significant... [MORE]

Wilm E. Donath 

Dec 17, 2007 12:38

•Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.

A plurality of the world's emmissions come from the United States - with 25% of... [MORE]

Ethan 

Dec 17, 2007 01:09

Ethan might be more convincing if he could spell emissions.

Carbon dioxide emissions are not poison, but fertilizer for the plant... [MORE]

tarkus 

Dec 17, 2007 03:08

I think (correct me if I'm wrong) the Kyoto protocol was to reduce emissions by percentage amounts. So by showing... [MORE]

Keith 

Dec 17, 2007 10:03

Sirs,

Whether Mark Steyn's right or wrong matters not. It's the basic premise of the global ecochondriacs that's erroneous. On page... [MORE]

Boris Bell 

Dec 17, 2007 14:53

Regardless of the fact that the US is the leading source of emissions, Steyn's point is simply that the US... [MORE]

jon 

Dec 17, 2007 15:20

Regardless of the fact that the US is the leading source of emissions, Steyn's point is simply that the US... [MORE]

Jon 

Dec 17, 2007 15:21

Ethan,

Your rounding seems to only work in one direction. While it may be nit picking:

US pop = 4.57% of world... [MORE]

David 

Dec 17, 2007 16:00

According to the World Bank figures for 2006, The US economy accounts for 27.4% of the world economy.

siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/GDP.pdf

So what we... [MORE]

Deluded By Dawkins 

Dec 20, 2007 08:13

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