--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For a discussion by an environmental expert who > provides an opposing view to that Santosh pushes > visit the University of Virginia web site: > www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/michaels.shtml >
For a criticism of the opinions, views and papers of Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, the environmental expert referred to above, please see the following: http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Patrick_J._Michaels Here are a couple of critical statements about his views and contributions to science from two of his peers: Dr. John Holdren, Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University testified to the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, presumably under oath, in this way: "Michaels is another of the handful of US climate-change contrarians... He has published little if anything of distinction in the professional literature, being noted rather for his shrill op-ed pieces and indiscriminate denunciations of virtually every finding of mainstream climate science." Dr. Peter Gleick, President of Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security made the following public statement, which withstood a legal threat of filing a defamation suit: "Pat Michaels is not one of the nation's leading researchers on climate change. On the contrary, he is one of a very small minority of nay-sayers who continue to dispute the facts and science about climate change in the face of compelling, overwhelming, and growing evidence." > >Unfortunately, anyone who remembers basic chemistry >would know that carbon monoxide cannot stay as carbon >monoxide for "a few hours" in the atmosphere without >turning into carbon dioxide. > The above statement is false. Carbon monoxide can persist in the atmosphere for upto 2 months. It has an atmospheric lifetime of 1 - 2 months. To find out more about this please see the following scientific paper published by the American Geophysical Union by Dr. M. A. K. Khalil, an expert on atmospheric carbon monoxide. http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/khalil.html The current steady-state level of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere is 0.19 parts per million or 0.000019%. This level can go up to more than 30 parts per million or 0.003% in urban areas. Here is a link for this and other information on carbon monoxide pollution provided by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: http://www.pca.state.mn.us/air/emissions/co.html Cheers, Santosh
