Posted on 04/26/2010 11:52:24 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Open Letter:
To: Department of State
Date: 23 April 2010
Re: U.S. Climate Action Report 2010. 5th ed.
Many states around the nation are trying to enact laws to restrict carbon emissions, and industries too numerous to mention have begun making changes hoping to be fully prepared to comply with laws they haven’t seen yet. Congress is considering laws in hopes that they can avoid having EPA impose its own version of CO2 restrictions.
Before jumping on this bandwagon, we should be certain that we understand the science. U.S. Climate Action Report 2010, 5th ed. might be understood by some Americans to be the definitive word; however nary a word in the report even pretends to
establish a link between CO2 and putative global warming
show that the increase in CO2 concentration is due to human activity instead of natural causes (such as natural warming of the oceans)
show that either an increase in CO2 concentration or an increase in temperature is, on balance, bad (or worse than laws restricting CO2 emissions) or
do any science whatsoever.
Despite screams to the contrary, a vast number of scientists dispute the findings of the IPCC. Perhaps the Department of State believes that “the science is settled.” If so, please let us know which of the two dozen models—see Fig. 1 showing a slight disagreement by a factor of 3000 among the models—settled the science so that all of the others can be thrown into the dustbin of failed science and de-funded.
Howard Hayden
The Energy Advocate
www.energyadvocate.com
Vales Lake Publishing, LLC
www.valeslake.com
Mentioned in the comments from this article at WattsUpWithThat?:
Graham comes to his senses, dumps support for climate bill, “Lurch” in a lurch
Don't know that he has seen the Letter!!!
See
Apr 22, 2010
Climate Science In Denial
By Richard S. Lindzen
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Naturally, after the government bilks me out of the largest portion of my income to help fund their various nefarious lie-based projects, there's not so much left to selectively donate to the private sector outfits that do honest research ... but I like to do what I can to help. I will be adding ICECAP to my donation list.
It's a sad state of affairs in America when you have to use the leftovers of your financial resources to fight Big Government dishonesty. Thanx, again !
It is a shame a gropu of conservative oriented Hollywood folks could not gather a large number of scientist, chemist, engineers, geologist of known high standards and create movie to counter Al Gore’s film. So much we have read and seen in the form of graphs, raw data, messaged data sets, showing forced temp rises etc.. It could go a long way at waking up quite a few politicians. The MSM would then most likely to be forced to show all the stuff that went down. Obi and his gang of cut throats could perhaps be stopped dead in the tracks on the AGW issues.
I have almost finished reading this report. We should cut it to pieces and post our findings here on FR.
I was thinking along the line of a full documentary showing all the stuff we read about daily in all it’s respects exposing the global warming issues. Found at every movie house across continents. Much like Gore did with his film.
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