Del, first of all, let's see if you will answer this question. Do you support the immediate approval and implementation of the Kyoto Protocols for the United States?
Second, the Citizens of Concerned Scientists believe in the following:
1. Quit driving SUV's
2. Shift to solar power.
3. Stop funding missile defense system.
4. Stop population growth.
5. Sign the nuclear test ban treaty.
6. The United States should fully fund the U.N.
I've copy and pasted below a couple of their alarmist warnings. What I can't figure out is why you bother listening to them, when all you have to do is read what Greenpeace has to say instead?
Third, have you bothered to find out who funds their research? Of course you haven't, because they agree with what you have to say. Demonstrating once again how flawed your methodologies are.
On the one hand, you're willing to completely ignore over 17,000 american scientists (many of which have specific knowledge of climatology), because the site which has posted their signatures (might have been given a research grant by Texaco or Mobile Oil. But on the other hand, you can't even be bothered with finding out who funds every grant given to the Citizens of Concerned Scientists foundation. One wonders why? And the answer is fairly simple. Because they agree with you, so it doesn't matter whether they were given grants from Greenpeace, Earth First, the U.N. Stop population growth network or for that matter the Chinese communist government, who have NO requirement to reduce emmisions under the Kyoto Protocols.
You simply aren't interested in finding that information out are you Del? Yet, you're more than willing to dig and dig through the net for a web-page which proclaims 17,000 american scientists have been duped by a 10K dollar donation to a web site they probably had very little to do with.
The only thing you've proven is a bunch of Nobel prize winners can be leftist alarmists proclaiming doom and gloom over man's effect on the environment.
Big earth shattering discovery there Del.
"The Union of Concerned Scientists notes that passenger vehicles and light trucks account for 20 percent of the carbon dioxide spewed into our air each year. Just imagine: each gallon of gasoline produced and burned produces 25 pounds of carbon dioxide".
"Pressures resulting from unrestrained population growth put demands on the natural world that can overwhelm any efforts to achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt the destruction of our environment, we must accept limits to that growth. A World Bank estimate indicates that world population will not stabilize at less than 12.4 billion, while the United Nations concludes that the eventual total could reach 14 billion, a near tripling of today's 5.4 billion. But, even at this moment, one person in five lives in absolute poverty without enough to eat, and one in ten suffers serious malnutrition.
No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished." |
