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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2896)	3/23/2007 8:33:44 AM
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At a 2002 climate-change conference in Seattle, University of Washington scientist Philip Mote offered a compelling presentation on how global warming could play out in the Northwest. With slides projecting mountain snow accumulations in the Columbia River Basin, from the early 20th century through the 2040s, Mote observed, "As warming progresses, the lower elevations are no longer snow-covered, and even the Cascades and Rockies lose snowpack." The Global Warming Denial Lobby Harper: Canada is key to defeating Kyoto The people out to 'poison the debate on climate change.' By Donald Gutstein Published: May 2, 2006 TheTyee.ca In early April, the Financial Post published a letter addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and signed by 60 "accredited experts in climate and related scientific disciplines," as they describe themselves. They want Harper to begin a debate on the Kyoto Protocol. Begin a debate? What do they think has been happening since 1988, when US National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist James Hansen testified before the US Congress that he was "99 percent certain that global warming was here." That statement has been subjected to extensive, prolonged and worldwide scrutiny ever since. The point of their letter is to deny "alarmist forecasts" of global warming and to attack "the confident pronouncements of scientifically unqualified environmental groups" whose goal is to capture "sensational headlines." The letter is classic climate change denial and among the 60 signatories -- only 19 of whom are Canadian -- are the most prominent climate change sceptics, as they are frequently called. The deniers' letter was followed two weeks later by one from 90 supporters of Kyoto. This group calls itself "climate science leaders from the academic, public and private sectors across Canada." No foreigners, no weasel phrases like "related scientific disciplines" (economics? agronomy?). Their point? The evidence is conclusive that warming has occurred and most of it is attributable to human activity. These conclusions, they say, are supported by the vast majority of the world's climate scientists. Harper's assignment is to get on with developing an "effective national strategy" to deal with climate change