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..... Earth's temperatures and weather patterns are cyclical.
They could be mildly and temporarily affected by volcanic
eruptions or thermonuclear war. But global temperatures are
not set by man and can not be changed by man. Al Gore is
nothing more than a doomsday prophet.
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It is laughably arrogant for puny man to imagine he has the
power to compete with the forces of nature. It reminds me
of the joke about the masturbating flea floating down the
river on his back, shouting, "Raise the drawbridge!"
Rodan.
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_____________ Coconuts in Wyoming?
_____By Steven Milloy, publisher of JunkScience.com
_______________ June 17, 2004
As natural summer seasonal temperatures rise, global-warming
activists dramatize their cause. Global-climate worry-warts met
this week to convulse about the Bush administration's refusal to
embrace the Kyoto global-warming treaty which clamps down on
emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2. They hope to
pressure politicians into policy changes. Harvard geochemist
Daniel Schrag said, "It depends on the next election. We can't
expect to change the minds of this administration.
Schrag gave alarmist factoids about atmospheric CO2. He said,
''The current CO2 concentration of 380 ppm is higher than it has
been for 430,000 years. In the next 100 years, unless immediate
action is taken, CO2 levels will rise to 800-1,000 ppm. The last
time CO2 was that high was the Eocene Period, 46 million years
ago. Then there were palm trees in Wyoming, crocodiles in the
Arctic and sea level was at least 300 feet higher than today."
IS ATMOSPHERIC CO2 all that separates us from Eskimo crocodile
wrestling? Hardly. The greenhouse effect (atmospheric warming
from trapping of solar energy) keeps Earth's average temperature
at about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Without the greenhouse effect,
the Earth's average temperature would be about zero degrees.
About 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is due to WATER VAPOR
of natural origin. Naturally occurring CO2 contributes another 2.39
per cent. Methane, nitrous oxide other gases contribute about 1.5
per cent. Human-caused gases contribute about 0.3 per cent,
including human-caused CO2 at 0.11 per cent.
so about 99.7 percent of the greenhouse effect is due entirely to
nature and about 99.89 percent of the greenhouse effect has
nothing to do with CO2 emissions from human activity.
If human-caused CO2 levels were to triple or quadruple they would
have little effect on global climate. If the CO2-reductions called
for by the Kyoto treaty were implemented, human greenhouse
contributions would be reduced by about 0.03 percent. Atmospheric
physicist Fred Singer says, ''This would have an imperceptible effect
on future temperatures - 1/20 th of a degree by the year 2050."
The Kyoto protocol requires cutting energy use by 30 percent by
2010, with inestimably bad economic impacts. It is easy to see
why U.S. politicians run away from the Kyoto protocol. We don't
need to worry about coconuts in Wyoming so much as the nutty
global warmers who meet each summer in Washington, D.C.
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