--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bogus Claim 1 > > > >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. > Mario responds: > Such comments by Santosh must be taken in the context of his ideological framework and bias. He is clearly an extreme environmental activist who wants to blame human activity for whatever global warming is taking place, whereas I agree with those scientists who believe that blaming human activity is nonsense. > My opinion is based on three simple common sense issues. > 1. Global warming and cooling of significant magnitudes have taken place before human activity could be blamed, even by Santosh. 2. The dreaded CO2, at a miniscule 0.036% of the Earths atmosphere, is far too small a percentage to have any significant effect on anything, leave alone a "greenhouse effect", which is a clever advertising image the activists like to promote to scare the rest of us. 3. The computer models that supposedly tell us what is going to happen decades from now, cannot even predict the weather NEXT WEEK accurately as we all know. > All this is far too iffy as a basis for demands of mandatory curbs on the industrial economies of the western world, especially when the ideologues then turn around and demand that the two fastest growing economies of India and China, who have NO environmental controls of any significance, be exempted. Sounds more like a ploy to bring the western economies down to the lowest common denominator to me. Why else would any rational and serious group exempt India and China if the situation were so perilous? > Regarding Santosh's biased claim that my comment above is bogus, here is an independent view of the Nature Magazine article from a major British newspaper which can hardly be described as "right wing", as one of Santosh's tactics is to attack the source of information he dislikes: > "The British newspaper The Independent, for example, reported in its Nov. 30 article about the Nature study that the real evidence does point to a possible one degree Centigrade cooling over the next two decades. But the newspaper reported in another same-day article that, the [record hot] summer of 2003 was triggered by global warming caused by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases. Such contradictory reporting casually ignores the reality that greenhouse gas emissions cant simultaneously cool and warm Europe." Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177380,00.html > Santosh continues: > > Bogus Claim 2 > > > >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. > Mario responds: > Goanetters should visit the aptly named www.JunkScience.com and see how they debunk the Junk Scientific claims of the extreme environmental activists, now desperately trying to achieve through the back door what the socialists and communists failed to achieve through more direct means, bringing western economies down.
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