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you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Certainly there has been a documented increase in the overall temperature of the earth over the past few hundered years (an infantesimal time frame). What the green crowd has neglected to do is relate this to the longer-term warming and cooling cycles of the earth's climate that have nothing to do with man-made "emissions," but might well have plenty to do with things like solar radiation patterns, volcanic activity, and random cosmic events over which NOBODY has any influence.

There is also the matter of emissions from emerging nations like China. Here we have a roaring economy that is unconcerned with curbing carbon dioxide if it gets in the way of economic growth. Even worse, there are huge underground fires in China's coal mines that produce uncounted quantities of noxious gasses that are thus far uncontrolled.

Meanwhile, the polar-bear hugging crowd in the USA and Europe is busy capping off every industrial smokestack and automotive tailpipe they can find domestically. Yet NOTHING OF ANY CONSEQUENCE to the earth's climate is likely to result. Any mandated carbon dioxide reductions will be more than offset by uncontrolled and unregulated growth elsewhere.

The all-over patterns of global temperature rise and fall still lie outside the influence of our science, and are totally oblivious to man-made politics.

Posted by: dmennie   Posted on: 10/02/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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