In fact, he gets a minute and a half to answer Nurse Ratchet’s “show of hands” question. Here, by way of Don Surber, is what he told Radio Iowa in a phone interview.

We don’t know the extent to which it’s warming. We don’t know whether or not it’s part of a cycle. We’ve had cooling periods in our country. We don’t know the extent to which man-made causes are contributing to it. We don’t know what the long-term effect of it is going to be and what we can do about it. … If we unilaterally do things precipitously, not only will we damage our economy but we won’t be doing very much good at all unless countries like Russia, or mainly China and India, participate. … Before we start rushing off and having United Nations countries, you know, big as a postage stamp telling us what to do and what we must do and so forth, let’s double-down and make sure we understand the ramifications and the significance of what we know and let’s improve on what we don’t know.

Global warming, and what contribution man makes, has more questions than answers. The thing that concerns me is that rushing to action without fully understanding the problem could lead to consequences that are far worse than if we do nothing. Given what has happened in other similar situations (DDT, Alar, etc.), that’s not an unreasonable conclusion. Or, as Don put it,

We don’t know enough about the subject to have a definitive answer and without such, we do not really know what to do — and the UN is untrustworthy anyway. Let’s find out more.

Just because we are conservative and skeptical does not make us idiots or unscientific. As a matter of fact, it means we are more scientific. We want more information, more experiments and more study by actual climatologists — experts in that field.

Now, by a show of hands. Who thinks that’s a reasonable answer.

Whoops. Sorry.