Posted on 01/29/2009 5:12:59 PM PST by Vendek
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas that is triggering runaway global warming.
How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?
The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle. He served with the Navy in World War II. After the war he became the Director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla in San Diego, California. Revelle saw the opportunity to obtain major funding from the Navy for doing measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls where the US military was conducting atomic bomb tests.
He greatly expanded the Institutes areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels.
Revelle tagged on to Suess studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957. The paper raises the possibility that the carbon dioxide might be creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming. It seems to be a plea for funding for more studies. Funding, frankly, is where Revelles mind was most of the time.
(Excerpt) Read more at kusi.com ...
“How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?”
Because marxists will sieze on anything to enslave you.
posted, poster, posted, and um.. posted.
Thanks for posting. Well worth the read.
Interesting read, thanks.
Thanks for posting this...
K-UUUUUUUUUU-S-I!
Point taken...
Then again, the truth bears repeating :-))
or just bandwidth wasting?
The start and cause of it all.
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