Monaco Ocean Colonies and Global Warming

Word has just come that Monaco is considering reclaiming some of the Mediterranean to add to its 1-square mile size, a la Dubai.  This comes soon after PayPal co-founder and hedge fund manager Peter Thiel went ahead and funded The Seasteading Institute, which aims to build floating libertarian cities beginning soon with a pilot in San Francisco Bay. Their slogan: “Mark Twain, 1800′s: ‘Buy land. They’ve stopped making it.‘ Seasteading Institute, 2008: ‘Production resuming.‘”

Perhaps someday the UN will have to monitor and regulate these intrepid Seasteaders, especially if they start using up large swaths of sea.

Also, I came across an interesting article from the Hamilton Spectator:

Global warming hysteria challenged

An American TV reporter compared those who question the Kyoto Protocol to Holocaust deniers, which prompted a hippie into rethinking global warming. He wrote a book detailing those who stood up against climate pseudo-science called The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, And Fraud (And Those Who Are Too Fearful To Do So). The author, Lawrence Solomon, debunks the garbage science and hideous methods used by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, noting that the panel was banned from investigating the sun (the biggest determinant of our climate) as a culprit, and was therefore designed to produce a biased finding.

My question to you: do you believe that climate change is natural, and largely solar-driven, or do you find yourself in agreement with the IPCC and believe that greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for the global temperature rise from 1965-1998?

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