Global Warming Hype, Part 2

I've come to believe (very strongly) that what might ultimately destroy the world is not supposed global warming, but the consequences of policies created in order to fight supposed global warming. If you get the impression that I don't believe in global warming, you are correct. It basically doesn't exist, at least not in the Al Gore sense of global warming. Fortunately more and more scientists are stepping up to make this argument. And they are using science as their weapon, rather than fear and emotion. What we are in store for if the global warming zealots (yes, it is a religion) get their way is unbelievably heavy regulation and taxation on energy that will certainly stifle our economy, if not destroy it. People like Al Gore will get rich at our expense. Huge amounts of money will go toward alternative fuels that are unproven and/or inadequate to provide for our energy needs. Can we become more energy efficient? Sure. Should we? Sure. I mean, why not? I'm all for conserving resources, living simple, and being good stewards. I like for things to be clean. But where the zealots are wanting to take this country (and the world) is getting a bit scary. Their data is largely wrong. Their interpretation of the data is largely wrong. And yet their interpretations are preached about and blindly accepted in schools, in the media, and in Washington. Can you handle a counter argument? Here is a piece about William Harper, Physics professor at Princeton. Below is one of his statements to the U.S. Senate on February 25, 2009:

"The climate is warming and CO2 is increasing. Doesn't this prove that CO2 is causing global warming through the greenhouse effect? No, the current warming period began about 1800 at the end of the little ice age, long before there was an appreciable increase of CO2. There have been similar and even larger warmings several times in the 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age. These earlier warmings clearly had nothing to do with the combustion of fossil fuels. The current warming also seems to be due mostly to natural causes, not to increasing levels of carbon dioxide. Over the past ten years there has been no global warming, and in fact a slight cooling. This is not at all what was predicted by the IPCC models."