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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (157269)	7/2/2001 11:58:56 PM
From: ThirdEye	Respond to of 769667

Amen to that. Also easier said than done.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (157269)	7/3/2001 12:59:26 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

To all my friends, now the report I'm attaching is basically saying what I've been saying all along based my own analysis as a long time engineer. I know also that several others have said the same as I. But fear not I will remain my same soft spoken civil self and not become a fathead. To all the my vacant liberal minded friends. I told you so you techno retard stupid ninnyhammer idiots. The Fake Consensus on 'Global Warming' During President Bush?s recent trip to Europe, he was incessantly pressured to implement the Kyoto environmental accords. Bush was repeatedly harangued by European politicians and the liberal U.S. press, which claimed that the theory of global warming is an established fact supported by a consensus of scientists, and unless we take immediate action to limit CO2 emissions, the environmental consequences would be disastrous - including deadly temperature rises, flooding of coastal cities and devastating climate changes. To his credit, Bush demurred and insisted that alleged global warming requires more scientific study, that the economic costs for the U.S. of Kyoto would be too high, and that exemptions in Kyoto for Third World countries such as China would negate the benefits of any cuts by advanced industrial countries. Give the man an A+ for science and political courage. Bush was right on all counts. Contrary to the insistence of the mainstream press and career bureaucrats, there is no scientific consensus on "global warming" or that - if it exists at all - it is caused by human activity. A Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "consensus? as "1) general agreement: unanimity; 2) group solidarity in sentiment and belief.? There is no unanimity or even general agreement among scientists that global warming is even taking place. For instance, no less an authority than MIT meterology professor Richard S. Lindzen who was named in a recent National Academy of Sciences study purporting to "prove? global warming - in fact disagrees with most claims about global warming. As commentator Thomas Sowell has pointed out, "as the [National Academy of Sciences] report itself stated clearly, these scientists not only did not write the report, they didn?t even see it before it was published - and were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release.? (Thomas Sowell, "Global Hot Air,? Jewish World Review, 6-21-01.) How can a major government think tank, such as the National Academy of Sciences, claim there is now "consensus on global warming? when the very people supposedly making up that consensus have even never read or necessarily endorsed their studies? The shocking answer is that the entire modern process of "scientific consensus building? repeatedly cited by the establishment press is a fraud concocted by political hacks, to bamboozle the public and unsympathetic politicians - while stifling dissenting scientific voices. Civil Defense Perspectives newsletter describes the process: "Consensus building is carried out by trained ?facilitators? who ask questions designed to elicit silence or to force individuals who might be opposed to a policy to identify themselves. "If the facilitator is unable to quiet objections, the process can be delayed until troublemakers are replaced by more cooperative individuals. "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared that a consensus by 2,000 scientists had determined that global warming was caused by human activity. The consensus stands in the public perception despite the vocal disagreement of thousands of scientists. "Head-to-head debate is increasingly being characterized as ?childish? and as leading to ?gridlock.? It is frequently being replaced with the consensus process, which predetermines outcome and removes accountability to the people affected by it.? ("Consensus v. Agreement,? Civil Defense Perspectives, July 1997.) According to the free-market environment organization PERC (Political Economy Research Center) in Bozeman, Mont., a majority of climate scientists have never endorsed the notion that human activity is causing global warming or that warming is a crisis that requires immediate urgent action, such as that demanded by the Kyoto Protocol. Implementing the Kyoto accords in the U.S. - which requires the approval of the U.S. Senate, not a decree by the president, and was rejected 95-0 by the Senate - would be a real disaster, not an imagined one. Drastically reducing CO2 emissions in the U.S. (7 percent below 1990 levels is mandated by Kyoto) would curtail auto use, cause major reductions in industry, and bring industrial development and prosperity to a screeching halt. However, while mandating drastic reductions in CO2 emissions in developed, trade-deficit countries such as the U.S., rapidly industrializing Third World countries such as China, India and Mexico (which have much weaker environmental laws than the U.S.) are exempted from any CO2 reductions. The bottom line: Implementing the Kyoto Protocol would give us the worst of both worlds: a de-industrialized America and a polluted world. Fortunately, Bush has - so far - had the courage to reject the fake "global warming consensus.? newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee