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| Subject: | Re: electric car |
It's good to see the right quoting scientists to make a point.
Of course John Stossell neglected to mention that Sallie Baliunas
works for Exxon Mobil (I do like their oil and filters), the American
Petroleum Institute, and nine or ten other inbred 'think tanks'.
But good for her. Everyone needs to make a living.
Steve
Subject: Re: Re: electric car
From: yourtcfg@aol.com
AMEN!? jb
-----Original Message-----
From: David Owens <dowens@aerialviewpoint.com>
Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:26 am
Subject: Re: Re: electric car
Also... Remember
?
Dr. John Christy, professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of
Alabama
at Huntsville said: "I remember as a college student at the first Earth Day
being
told it was a certainty that by the year 2000, the world would be starving
and out of energy. Such doomsday prophecies grabbed headlines, but have
proven
to be completely false." "Similar pronouncements today about catastrophes
due
to human-induced climate change," he continued, "sound all too familiar and
all too exaggerated to me as someone who actually produces and analyzes
climate
information."
The media, of course, like the exaggerated claims. Most are based on
computer models
that purport to predict future climates. But computer models are lousy at
predicting climate because water vapor and cloud effects cause changes that
computers fail to predict. In the mid-1970s, computer models told us we
should
prepare for global cooling.
Scientists tell reporters that computer models should "be viewed with great
skepticism."
Well, why aren't they?
The fundamentalist doom mongers also ignore scientists who say the effects
of global
warming may be benign. Harvard astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas said added
CO2 in the atmosphere may actually benefit the world because more CO2 helps
plants
grow. Warmer winters would give farmers a longer harvest season, and might
end the droughts in the Sahara Desert.
Why don't we hear about this part of the global warming argument? "It's the
money!"
said Dr. Baliunas. "Twenty-five billion dollars in government funding has
been spent since 1990 to research global warming. If scientists and
researchers
were coming out releasing reports that global warming has little to do with
man, and most to do with just how the planet works, there wouldn't be as
much
money to study it."
By JOHN STOSSEL
April 20, 2007
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