It's Getting Hot in Here

That darned Al Gore. For more than twenty years he has been telling us that global warming is a real problem, and he even made that scary movie about it that I talked about the other day. And now, another group of goverment scientists has concluded that he is right. Global warming is real.

What is interesting about this report in the current political climate is that this government report was commissioned by a Republican Congressman after another Republican Congressman had launched an investigation of government scientists after he didn't like the "facts" they were reporting:

The report was requested in November by the chairman of the House Science Committee, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-New York, to address naysayers who question whether global warming is a major threat.

Last year, when the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, launched an investigation of three climate scientists, Boehlert said Barton should try to learn from scientists, not intimidate them.

Boehlert said Thursday the report shows the value of having scientists advise Congress.

"There is nothing in this report that should raise any doubts about the broad scientific consensus on global climate change," he said.

Here is what the report said:

It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since Earth has run such a fever.

The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia."

The sad fact is that even if the current administration took science seriously, they have created so many other messes that need our immediate attention that there is no way global warming is going to get the attention it needs right now.