--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The above assertion is utterly bogus. No scientist > disputes the post-industrial increase in CO2 or the > scientific validity of the physical phenomenon > called the Greenhouse Effect. No scientist disputes the > atmospheric physical chemistry and thermodynamics of > CO2 as revealed by laboratory experiments and > climatological observations. > Mario responds: > There are SEVERAL scientists who believe that whatever global warming is taking place cannot be blamed on human activity. Other scientists report opposing research findings. Nature Magazine recently reported one scientific study that Europe was facing a mini ice age over the next hundred years, while another article warned that Europe was going to warm over the next hundred years. This should amuse everyone who is not a scientist looking for grant money from gullible donors to do more research on the subject. > Charlatans abound on this issue. British "scientist" Sir John Law embarrassed himself recently by blaming the severity of Hurricane Katrina on global warming in the Gulf of Mexico. Then other scientists pointed out that the most severe hurricanes in that area occurred between 1880 and 1900. Furthermore, during this hurricane season there were 26 named hurricanes in the area and only 5 reached the mainland. Apparently no one told the other 21 that they were supposed to be fierce due to global warming in the Gulf of Mexico. > There were recent reports in the media that ONE Pacific Island in a chain of islands was experiencing higher sea levels due to global warming, which any schoolchild learning physics would find amusing. There was another report that some glaciers are melting while other nearby glaciers are not. > There is no common sense or scientific sense whatsoever in the claim that the percentage of a gas, CO2, that is only 0.036% of the Earth's atmosphere can be appreciably increased or reduced by destroying the economies of the west while exempting the two fastest growing economies of India and China, both of whom have no environmental controls to speak of. > The web site www.junkscience.com is an excellent source of information from several sources showing the lack of common and scientific sense in the claims of the extreme environmental activists. > There are other scientists who believe that any global warming withing the predicted range of 1 degree within the next 100 years will, in fact, be good for the world. > There are others who believe that the extreme environmental movement is the latest refuge of the socialist movement, whose goal is to bring the western economies down to the least common denominator, which they failed to do when communism collapsed from the weight of it's inherent lack of common sense. They argue that this can be the only reason that India and China were exempted from the bogus Kyoto Protocols. How can any rational person, even one who believes the nonsense that CO2 levels can be appreciably affected by curbing human industrial activity, honestly believe that exempting the two booming economies in the world that have NO environmental controls to speak of can lead to an effective system of worldwide environmental controls. > This is like arguing that two bathers in a swimming pool do not have to go to the bathroom to relieve themselves, while all the others must, and the pool will still be fine.
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