India Issues Report Challenging Global Warming Fears

Inhofe EPW Press Blog ^ | July 9, 2008 | Marc Morano

[calex59]

Well, add India to my countries with courage list.

[djsherin]

“India Vows Not To Reduce Emissions”

Nice.

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[Telepathic Intruder]

India would rather save its people from poverty than global warming

Well they just have no heart. Don't they know the polar bears drowning by the trillions?

[Ingtar]

They would have made my list but for “India joined four other nations to call for “much steeper reductions” for developed nations.”

[CarrotAndStick]

Well, it’s the G8 that’s been screaming for cuts, to India, in the first place.

[CarrotAndStick]

One of India's leading geologists, B.P. Radhakrishna, President of the Geological Society of India, expressed man-made global warming skepticism in 2007. "We appear to be overplaying this global warming issue as global warming is nothing new. It has happened in the past, not once but several times, giving rise to glacial-interglacial cycles. We appear to be now only in the middle of an interglacial cycle showing a trend toward warming as warming and cooling are global and have occurred on such a scale when humans had not appeared on the planet,” Radhakrishna wrote in an August 23, 2007 essay. Radhakrishna said that there is doubt about “whether the steps that are proposed to be taken to reduce carbon emission will really bring down the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere and whether such attempts, even carried out on a global scale, will produce the desired effect. Warming of the climate, melting of glaciers, rise in sea levels and other marked changes in climate - these do not pose immediate threats and there is besides, no way of controlling such changes even if we want to. Exercises at mitigation of these likely disasters are, however, possible and mankind, in all likelihood, will gradually adjust itself to the changed conditions. This has happened before; men and animals have moved to greener pastures and adapted themselves to the changed situations," he added. (LINK)

VK Raina, India's leading Glaciologist, questioned the assertion that global warming was melting glaciers in India. "Claims of global warming causing glacial melt in the Himalayas are based on wrong assumptions," Raina told the Hindustan Times on February 11, 2007. The paper continued, "Raina told the Hindustan Times that out of 9,575 glaciers in India, till date, research has been conducted only on about 50. Nearly 200 years data has shown that nothing abnormal has occurred in any of these glaciers. It is simple. The issue of glacial retreat is being sensationalized by a few individuals, the septuagenarian Raina claimed. Throwing a gauntlet to the alarmist, he said the issue should be debated threadbare before drawing a conclusion."

[beebuster2000]

file: consensus, woopsie

sub file: settled science

[DB]

That’s the Washington Post’s quote that is disputed in the rest of the article.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[NormsRevenge]

“What makes the Indian report so interesting is that unlike our (Australia’s) Ross Garnaut, who just accepted the word of those scientists wailing we faced doom, the Indian experts went to the trouble to check what the climate was actually doing and why. Their conclusion? They couldn’t actually find anything bad in India that was caused by man-made warming. In fact, they couldn’t find much change in the climate at all.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It had to happen. For years, the U.S. is the bad boy for staying out of Kyoto. Now, just as the U.S. seems to be buying into the whole global warming scam — it’s going to be the bad boy for pushing poor countries to reduce emissions. Ha, ha — the U.S. can’t win. Either way it’s your fault. If I were an American, I’d be beating my head against the wall.

[CarrotAndStick]

Oops, #8 was for you.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Growing up I always thought of India as a third world backwards country. Now they seem to be leading the world in common sense.

They are helping the Dalai Lama which those people need a lot of help at the moment. They are the only country with a Fast Breading Nuclear reactor using thorium which produces uranium from nuclear waste. Now this.

I have a new found respect for India.

[El Cid]

Well, it’s the G8 that’s been screaming for cuts, to India, in the first place.

And when they're right, they're right.
If some 'overdeveloped' gang of nations is telling me to put the breaks on my development because they perceive some potential concerns about polar bears getting perturbed - I'd tell them to pound sand also... I.e., if the G8 is in love with the Global Warming dogma - then feel free to turn off their lights and enter the Dark Ages -- but leave me alone while I work to try and advance my Country.

I also liked those quotes from the Geologist fellow, Mr. Rahnakrishna (I probably misspelled his name). Basically - if you are going to create this kind of economic upheaval -- you darn well better have proof, and not whimsical conjecture.

[CedarDave]

Well they just have no heart. Don't they know the polar bears drowning by the trillions?

Not happening:

[webheart]

It even dismissed the panic Al Gore helped to whip up about melting Himalayan glaciers: ‘While recession of some glaciers has occurred in some Himalayan regions in recent years, the trend is not consistent across the entire mountain chain. It is, accordingly, too early to establish long-term trends, or their causation, in respect of which there are several hypotheses.’

Yes, but there is no snow on Kilamanjaro! (sob)

[alrea]

Well, add India to my countries with courage list

add India to countries trying to shake socialism list

[swarthyguy]

>>India won’t stop its per capita emissions (now at 1.02 tonnes) from growing until they match those of countries such as the US (now 20 tonnes).”

...India needs to substantially increase its per capita energy consumption to provide a minimally acceptable level of wellbeing

Oh, my! Well, India can now join the villians list, along with China.