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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Wayners who wrote (685503)6/14/2005 10:42:55 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
This is the part of that that I don't understand:

"John Stewart, the chairman of Transport 2000, a pressure group, said the proposal was a step forward as the aviation industry was undertaxed. 'Aviation is a great contributor to global warming and it is African countries which will be the greatest sufferers from it,/b>,' he said."

Whomever this dweeb 'John Stewart' is, he seems rather ignorant of the basic science behind this issue.

He doesn't seem to even be familiar with the fact that if average temperatures rise just a fraction of a degree, or a degree or two, near the equator... that they will have risen TENS of degrees at the poles.

This dweeb doesn't seem to know that the *least* amount of temperature change will be at the equator! (Duh! Doesn't the equator run right through Africa?)

As far as 'who's ox could get gored the worst' in the event of seriously rising average world temperatures... My vote would be lowlying islands in *any ocean* (which could be involuntarily slated for rezoning as new coral reefs....)

Those, or the center-most portions of the largest continents - (Gobi desert, Great Plains, Sahara) which (subject to the 'continental effect') could be expected to experience the widest temperature ranges. (Ignoring for now the unknown of how rainfall patterns might alter... to the benefit of harm of various places....)
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