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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (11283)	4/8/2007 3:44:09 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36921

Well rat brain, will all that alarmist bullshit being thrown around, you must be up to your eyes. Is this data misreported. Are these observations in error. cato.org Patrick J. Michaels, a professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia The most recent scientific findings published in the refereed literature prove the validity of my testimony of nearly a decade ago. Those studies document the following: 1 Observed warming is only a fraction of the amount predicted by the climate models that served as the basis for the Framework Convention on Climate Change. 2 Observed warming is most pronounced in winter in the very coldest continental air masses of Siberia and northwestern North America. 3 The variation, or unpredictability, of regional temperatures has declined significantly on a global basis while there has been no change in precipitation variability. 4 Drought in the United States has decreased while flooding has not increased. 5 Carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere at a rate below that of most UN scenarios, because it is being increasingly captured by growing vegetation. 6 The second most important human greenhouse enhancer --methane-- is not likely to increase appreciably in the next 100 years. 7 The direct warming effect of carbon dioxide was overestimated. 8 The Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will have no discernible impact on global climate within any reasonable policy time frame. 9 In toto, those findings lead inescapably to the conclusion that the magnitude of the threat from global warming is greatly diminished. They should provoke a reexamination of the need for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the subsequent Kyoto Protocol.