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Gore: Moses or Chicken Little?

With An Inconvenient Truth winning this year's Oscar for Best Documentary, the polemicists are staking out the poles. From the Left: Gore is Moses, delivering the truth from on-high. From the Right: Gore is an alarmist Chicken Little.

I would ask the following questions before taking a position:

1) Does anyone have the "right" to pollute?
2) Is the Earth warming?
3) Do climatologists have a superior track record for predicting climate change and its causes?

My answers, based on what I've seen and believe, is No, Yes, and No. The air and waters are commons, and unless and until rights are established, I believe that the people and government can and should police what goes into these commons. Al Gore is to be commended for highlighting the fact that the Earth is warming, and in ways that may be a by-product of polluting behavior. Whether he and the climatologists are correct that the main cause is carbon dioxide seems murky at best. Their position is reasonably coherent, but their theories are built on suppositions and speculation.

Moderation in all things is not perfect counsel, but it seems to work far more than it doesn't. It may not be glamorous or fulfilling, but it does seem to work in most cases. I'm skeptical that CO2 is the cause of global warming, but I'm as sure as I can be that cutting down on emissions into the atmosphere makes a lot of sense, on a lot of levels. We don't need to "split the baby" to conclude that.

-Robert Capozzi

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