Timberwolf
12-30-2002, 10:36 PM
Tech Central Station
By Sallie Baliunas, Tim Patterson, Allan MacRae
12/12/2002
SOURCE (http://www.defensecentralstation.com/1051/envirowrapper.jsp?PID=1051-450&CID=1051-121202C)
The Bush Administration last week finished a three-day conference on the science and potential risks posed by climate change. The Administration's critics wasted no time. They pounced Monday and called for the U.S. to push ahead with the Kyoto Protocol and condemned the White House for being "in denial on warming" (Boston Globe, 12/9/02), for trying to "stall any meaningful action" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/9/02) and saying that the U.S. must stop being "unilateralist" and "must listen to others" (Los Angeles Times, 12/9/02).
What the debate over climate change needs today are fewer uninformed assertions and accusations in major newspapers, and a more sober assessment of the science. Here are just of few of the most relevant facts often ignored by Kyoto's proponents.
The Kyoto Protocol assumes human activities - such as burning fossil fuels to power automobiles or electricity generators - cause global warming. Here are the facts.
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Over the last 150,000 years, CO2 levels have closely paralleled temperatures. However, detailed analysis indicates that CO2 levels often rose and peaked several hundred years after temperature did. That means climate change drives major changes in CO2, not the reverse.
Climate has been both warmer and colder in the past, before significant fossil fuel use. From about 900 to 1300 AD, for example, the climate was warmer than it is today. A 500-year cooling followed, then a warming trend since the mid-1800's.</p>
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So...900 to 1300 years ago, LONG BEFORE the use of fossil fuels became widespread, global temps were higher than they are today.
Hmmmm...looks like global warming is just another "scare the crap outta the general public" tactic to deprive them of certain freedoms and rape them of more of their hard-earned money.
By Sallie Baliunas, Tim Patterson, Allan MacRae
12/12/2002
SOURCE (http://www.defensecentralstation.com/1051/envirowrapper.jsp?PID=1051-450&CID=1051-121202C)
The Bush Administration last week finished a three-day conference on the science and potential risks posed by climate change. The Administration's critics wasted no time. They pounced Monday and called for the U.S. to push ahead with the Kyoto Protocol and condemned the White House for being "in denial on warming" (Boston Globe, 12/9/02), for trying to "stall any meaningful action" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/9/02) and saying that the U.S. must stop being "unilateralist" and "must listen to others" (Los Angeles Times, 12/9/02).
What the debate over climate change needs today are fewer uninformed assertions and accusations in major newspapers, and a more sober assessment of the science. Here are just of few of the most relevant facts often ignored by Kyoto's proponents.
The Kyoto Protocol assumes human activities - such as burning fossil fuels to power automobiles or electricity generators - cause global warming. Here are the facts.
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</font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />
Over the last 150,000 years, CO2 levels have closely paralleled temperatures. However, detailed analysis indicates that CO2 levels often rose and peaked several hundred years after temperature did. That means climate change drives major changes in CO2, not the reverse.
Climate has been both warmer and colder in the past, before significant fossil fuel use. From about 900 to 1300 AD, for example, the climate was warmer than it is today. A 500-year cooling followed, then a warming trend since the mid-1800's.</p>
[/ QUOTE ]
So...900 to 1300 years ago, LONG BEFORE the use of fossil fuels became widespread, global temps were higher than they are today.
Hmmmm...looks like global warming is just another "scare the crap outta the general public" tactic to deprive them of certain freedoms and rape them of more of their hard-earned money.