---------------------------------------------------------- Commander-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 12/13/07: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 02:44 PM - Re: Re: electric car (Steve at Col-East) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 02:44:43 PM PST US From: "Steve at Col-East" Subject: Re: Commander-List: 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 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 ? ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message commander-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Commander-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/commander-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/commander-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.