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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (6712)	6/19/2006 10:35:15 AM
From: Triffin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36921

Maybe you two can settle the debate from the data presented here .. realclimate.org Triff ..

To: Rock_nj who wrote (6712)	6/19/2006 11:29:21 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Calamity Al "To his credit, Al Gore sheds the wooden persona of the 2000 presidential campaign in his newly released documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth.' In making the case for immediate action to stop global warming, the former vice president is articulate, concise, and even winsome, at times. "But Mr. Gore's radical political agenda and tendency for half-truth have undergone no such makeover. "In what amounts to a filmed slide show, interspersed with indulgent autobiographical footage and voiceovers, Mr. Gore employs stage tricks, straw men, and well-rehearsed rhetoric to contend that opposition views on climate change are rooted in callous profiteering. The dissents of such distinguished climatologists as hurricane expert Bill Gray of Colorado State University and former NASA scientist Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville are provided no airtime. "Conflating the undisputed fact that the earth is warming with more controversial speculation that such warming is human-induced and will destroy civilization, Mr. Gore claims scientific consensus for his doomsday scenarios. Mr. Gore explains with solemn certainty that the threat of flooding in downtown Manhattan poses greater potential for calamity than the terrorist acts of September 11. Few scientists would endorse such an extreme contention." -- Mark Bergin, writing on "Convenient spin," in the June 17 issue of World

To: Rock_nj who wrote (6712)	6/19/2006 8:33:13 PM
From: Jagfan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36921

I think Wikipedia is full of baloney........ Of the 186 billion tons of CO2 that enter earth's atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants. At 368 parts per million CO2 is a minor constituent of earth's atmosphere-- less than 4/100ths of 1% of all gases present. Compared to former geologic times, earth's current atmosphere is CO2- impoverished. If we are in a GLOBAL WARMING crisis today, even the most aggressive and costly proposals for limiting industrial carbon dioxide emissions would have a negligible effect on GLOBAL climate! geocraft.com