Facts don't support global warming: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

With an overly fawning media going ga-ga over the "global warming" film by Al Gore, you'd think that his conclusions of a "Chicken Little" disaster looming are quite believable, but in reality, was contrary to existing scientific facts.According to the director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield, who testified before the Senate Commerce Committee last year, it is ridiculous to claim that global warming is responsible for the increase in hurricane activity the past year. He shrugged off the notion that global warming played any role, saying instead it was a natural cycle in the Atlantic Ocean that fluctuates every 25 to 40 years.According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global average surface temperature increased about 0.6 degrees Celsius over the entire 20th century. If fossil-fuel burning is responsible for global warming, something doesn't add up. According to research done by John Stossel, of ABC's 20/20, "half of the global warming of the past century happened from 1900 to 1945. If man is responsible, why wasn't there much more warming in the second half of the century?" The environmental extremists cannot answer that question.Remember back in 1975, the prevailing opinion of the environmentalist movement was that we were entering into a mini-Ice Age due to global cooling. That wacky prediction didn't pan out, so now the extremists are claiming global warming. Which is it?In 1997, during the Clinton administration, with strong advocacy of then Vice President Al Gore, the Senate voted 96-0 to turn down the Kyoto protocol. What did the 95 senators, both Republicans and Democrats, know that both Clinton and Gore didn't know, when they voted not to take part in the Kyoto protocol?Maybe the hidden agenda of the vociferous advocates of global warming isn't really climate change but is anti-capitalism and anti-free enterprise? It makes one think, doesn't it?