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

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (16941)	10/15/2007 4:19:40 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

and add 100 pounds to one side, it's still going to go down. He needs to make this a little clearer. Get two congressmen strapped on a seesaw, balance them out, place a large tub of 100 deg C cooking oil under each one, point out that they both weigh 200 lbs, and ask which one is willing to take an extra 10 lbs (5%) on his side? I suspect the braindead rightwinger will even figure out that this is not good, although he'll blather nonsense about 5% human carbon addition to the total carbon cycle as being no big deal.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (16941)	10/15/2007 4:45:40 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 36917

Mr. Rohrabacher repeatedly said that hundreds of scientists disagreed with the conclusion that humans were causing global warming. However, when Democrats pointed out that he and his Republican colleagues did not produce any of them as witnesses at Thursday's hearing, Mr. Rohrabacher was at a loss for a comeback. "It was remiss on our part not to have someone here" from that group, he said. In fact, staff members for the committee's Republican minority did invite Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mr. Pielke has criticized some actions by the IPCC in the past, but he agrees with the panel's conclusion that humans have caused much of the recent global warming. The Republicans disinvited Mr. Pielke this week. On his blog, Prometheus, Mr. Pielke posted a message he had received from one of the committee's minority staff members: "Rather than have you testify, they want me to find a witness from industry for the hearing." Kevin E. Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, testified at the hearing that any scientist could comment on drafts of the IPCC's report and that the panel had received 30,000 comments. "There were many well-known, so-called skeptics who participated" in reviewing the IPCC's draft report, he said, "and their comments were all addressed." Nice article, thanks for pointing it out. Guess it's just typical slanted MSM reporting to have noted that the Republicans couldn't come up with a witness to testify for the skeptical POV.