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To: hamsandwich who wrote (140758)	4/27/2001 12:24:35 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

On the Fed: If I pay them taxes they better damn well do something for me. Nice bumper sticker, though! My favorite is don't argue with your wife, dicker. As for CO2 you lose: From The Daily Telegraph, 15 August 2000 telegraph.co.uk Rethink by global warming expert By Mary Sheridan and Roger Highfield THE scientist who alerted the world to the consequences of the greenhouse effect admits today that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was not the main cause of rapid warming of the Earth in recent decades. Dr James Hansen is also more optimistic that global warming can be prevented "without any economically wrenching actions" because of the growing realisation that too much emphasis has been placed on the effects of burning fossil fuels. Dr Hansen, of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, told a congressional committee in 1988: "It is time to stop waffling . . . the greenhouse effect is here." Today, he argues that warming over the past century was not mostly driven by carbon dioxide, from burning fossil fuels, but by other gases, such as methane and chlorofluorocarbons, so it should be "more practical to slow global warming than is sometimes assumed". The growth rate of these non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases has "declined in the past decade". When combined with measures aimed at curbing carbon dioxide and soot, this "could lead to a decline in the rate of global warming, reducing the danger of drastic climate change". He says in a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: "We suggest that a strategy to slow global warming focus on reducing air pollution, especially tropospheric [ground level] ozone, methane and black carbon particles. "Human health and ecological costs of these pollutants are counted in billions of dollars in the United States, and impacts are reaching devastating levels in the developing world. A strategy focused on reducing these pollutants, which are not essential to energy production, should unite interests of developed and developing nations." The report adds: "In the long run, fossil fuels will be the issue," so greater energy efficiency and more reliance on renewables will be needed. Copyright 2000, Daily Telegraph