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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: YlangYlangBreeze who started this subject6/7/2001 8:52:55 AM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (6) of 82486
 
And more on climate change, for those who still choose to deny it's real: the report commissioned - presumably in hopes of denial or at least delay - has been delivered...

news.bbc.co.uk
US President George W Bush has been told by leading scientists that climate change is real and getting worse.
Their White House-commissioned report is now being reviewed by the president as he prepares to face European leaders angered by his attack on the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
A panel from the National Academy of Sciences said a leading cause is emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
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The panel of 11 scientists produced its 24-page report in less than a month. One scientist who reviewed a draft the report for the academy told The New York Times newspaper that the White House should not be surprised at the speed or the conclusions of the report.

"They asked a string of questions that might have been appropriate in 1990," the unnamed scientist said. "Where have you been the last decade?" he asked the administration.

Well, given that politically this administration's about 1964, or maybe '82, I suppose even comprehending 1990 enviro-science isn't bad.

Who knows? Maybe they'll soon work out that existing forests do nothing to *reduce* CO2 levels... they stabilise them absent other increases. (If that's too obscure a point, do say... I can explain). So Bush can't count existing forests as counting against future CO2 increases, nor take credits offsetting them.
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