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Don't Be Very Worried (Global Warming)
Opinion Journal ^ | 5/23/06 | Pete Du Pont

Posted on 05/23/2006 10:03:47 AM PDT by BlackRazor

Don't Be Very Worried
The truth about "global warming" is much less dire than Al Gore wants you to think.

BY PETE DU PONT
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

Since 1970, the year of the first Earth Day, America's population has increased by 42%, the country's inflation-adjusted gross domestic product has grown 195%, the number of cars and trucks in the United States has more than doubled, and the total number of miles driven has increased by 178%.

But during these 35 years of growing population, employment, and industrial production, the Environmental Protection Agency reports, the environment has substantially improved. Emissions of the six principal air pollutants have decreased by 53%. Carbon monoxide emissions have dropped from 197 million tons per year to 89 million; nitrogen oxides from 27 million tons to 19 million, and sulfur dioxide from 31 million to 15 million. Particulates are down 80%, and lead emissions have declined by more than 98%.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: globalwarming

1 posted on 05/23/2006 10:03:49 AM PDT by BlackRazor
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To: BlackRazor

But,,Al Gore is serial man! Serial!


2 posted on 05/23/2006 10:09:16 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: BlackRazor

Good source of global warming debunking info.


3 posted on 05/23/2006 10:09:24 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: BlackRazor

I sure wish folks in the administration would point this stuff out regularly.


4 posted on 05/23/2006 10:11:40 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: BlackRazor
This global warming crap has gone beyond tedious.

There has always been global warming and cooling.
For hundreds of thousands of years.
The ability of man to affect climate is totally unknown by the foremost experts, thousands of them, and if they can't find a way to know, I'm sure Al (the Retard) is beyond hope of ever knowing.

The constant din of ignorance is not about climate change, but about man's role in it.
Picture the Pacific Ocean. Now visualize man as one individual on the beach with a three-gallon bucket.

Is the man affecting the Pacific Ocean in any meaningful sense?

5 posted on 05/23/2006 10:24:18 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Publius6961

"I'm sure Al (the Retard) is beyond hope of ever knowing."

He knows he can frighten people and attack Bush with it.
I think that is all they really look for in a cause these days.


6 posted on 05/23/2006 10:30:02 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: BlackRazor

Anything we do to Mother Earth, she'll correct, make the best of or incorporate into her allover plan for her own well-being ; I have no doubt about that. Grand Canyon, anyone? How about Crater Lake which was caused by a huge meteor hitting us eons ago? How about the gorgeous forests in northern Wisconsin? They weren't always forests, you know. They used to be covered in ice, LOL! ;)

We're so absolutely insignificant in the Grand Scheme of things. It just amazes me that these Enviros have never understood how huge our planet is! Doesn't Algore look out the window of his Gulfstream when he's burning fossil fuels while flying coast to coast?

Junk science with an agenda. I don't take global warming seriously at all. It's getting to the point where it's laughable.


7 posted on 05/23/2006 10:37:35 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Its all about the money. Get a good government grant, roll another one, and man, you're really cooking !


8 posted on 05/23/2006 11:09:02 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: BlackRazor

"Emissions of the six principal air pollutants have decreased by 53%. Carbon monoxide emissions have dropped from 197 million tons per year to 89 million; nitrogen oxides from 27 million tons to 19 million, and sulfur dioxide from 31 million to 15 million. Particulates are down 80%, and lead emissions have declined by more than 98%."

But have the emissions of C02 gone down? THAT's the gas that the whackos care about right now-- all the other stuff be damned.

That's why such a report will fall on deaf whacko ears-- they see C02 as the greatest threat of them all.


9 posted on 05/23/2006 11:09:16 AM PDT by agooga (Less of the stuff that is bad for you / more of the stuff that is good for you.)
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10 posted on 05/23/2006 12:34:16 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Poor Al applied for the job of POTUS, but was not hired. There just isn't any work for an ex-vp, Love Story role model, internet inventor or "Package" model. The only thing left is global warming guru. The guy has have something to do.


11 posted on 05/23/2006 1:06:52 PM PDT by hdstmf
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To: BlackRazor

bttt


12 posted on 05/23/2006 3:57:17 PM PDT by petercooper (Cemeteries & the ignorant - comprising 2 of the largest Democrat voting blocs for the past 75 years.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
How about Crater Lake which was caused by a huge meteor hitting us eons ago?

Crater Lake was formed by a volcanic eruption.

Not that I disagree with your basic premise.

13 posted on 05/23/2006 7:14:25 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Twenty years in the Navy. Never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
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To: austinaero
But,,Al Gore is serial man! Serial!

Where did 'serial' come from??? Heard it before, and still clueless.
14 posted on 05/24/2006 10:44:39 AM PDT by proud_yank (A liberal's 'generosity' is limited to the funds available in someone else's account.)
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