Posted on 06/03/2002 11:50:06 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time in a new report that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will increase significantly over the next two decades due mostly to human activities, but again rejected an international treaty to slow global warming.
The report released by the Environmental Protection Agency was a surprising endorsement of what many scientists and weather experts have long argued -- that human activities such as oil refining, power plants and automobile emissions are important causes of global warming.
The White House had previously said there was not enough scientific evidence to blame industrial emissions for global warming.
"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing global mean surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise," the administration said in its report.
Hmmm...
Alright, just turn up Rush on the radio.
That'll keep us from thinking too much.
So GW's buying this unsubstantiated BS, and at the same time rejecting Kyoto. Sounds like embracing a "lose-lose" proposition just to look more "environment-friendly." Kind of like when Bush Sr. broke his promise on taxes to look fiscally responsible, and then let the Democrats bust the budget and put the economy into recession.
Yep, GW's a Bush all right...
The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time in a new report that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will increase significantly over the next two decades due mostly to human activities,
Aren’t all “US greenhouse gas emissions” due to human activity, by definition?
(I mean other than the random dog fart…)
Point two: The Earth's core will someday completely cool, like the moon, and be a cold, desolate rock.
Therefore, the Earth is COOLING, and there is no such thing as Global Warming.
Oh well, previous generations of politicians only complained about the weather, but at least this generation of politicians is determined to DO something about it!
Oh, well.
Scientists blame sun for global warming
Duh!
The Kyoto Treaty also should wait for another 10-20 years of data before they jump off the cliff without looking. It's more politics than science.
I would ask President Bush: Sir, who do you believe is responsible for the catastrophic global warming of about 18,000 years ago that ended the last ice age?
The effects of this warming were indeed catastrophic, causing massive floods, obliterating flora and fauna, and making massive geomorphological changes still visible today. If it happened then without human causes, don't you think it's possible that it could happen again today?
In the book "The Little Ice Age" by Brian Fagan, (ISBN 0-465-02271-5), on page 120 he lists the years of the Maunder Minimum as from 1645 - 1715. On page 113 he calls 1680-1730 the coldest cycle of the Little Ice Age, and the growing season in England was about five weeks shorter than it was during the twentieth century's warmest decades.
Just a coincidence?
Anyone who thinks erratic climate shifts are human caused should read "The Little Ice Age". We are in an unusual period of climatic stability these days, and the horrors of the suffering that occurred from cold and famine just a few hundred years ago are something mankind should fear for the future.
Then again, the Medieval Warm Period from around 900 to 1200 was pretty comfortable, about 3 degrees C (5.4 F) warmer than today. Warm enough for the Vikings to sail from Iceland to Greenland and Labrador. And raise grapes in Greenland.
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