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Bush Administration Blames Humans for Global Warming
Yahoo News (Reuters) ^ | 06/03/2002 | Tom Doggett and Chris Baltimore

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.


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I know this is not new news per se. However, I don't believe this particular article has been posted. In the true spirit of fairness, I thought the content herein ought to be given a sporting chance at being refuted, diagnosed, debunked, etc...
1 posted on 06/03/2002 11:50:06 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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Wow. Gee whiz... kinda makes all that hulabaloo over hanging chads redundant, when you think about it...
2 posted on 06/03/2002 11:56:02 AM PDT by Darth Sidious
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
It's been stifling HOT here all weekend...
3 posted on 06/03/2002 12:03:44 PM PDT by miamimark
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Not to worry. We can just stay in our SUVs with our big ol'
American flags on' em and just kick up that fine AC a notch...
Ohh--is that right?? The exhaust will just make it worse?

Hmmm...

Alright, just turn up Rush on the radio.
That'll keep us from thinking too much.

5 posted on 06/03/2002 12:07:46 PM PDT by KenPhil
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
"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,"

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...

6 posted on 06/03/2002 12:07:49 PM PDT by Map Kernow
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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…)

7 posted on 06/03/2002 12:10:16 PM PDT by dead
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Point one: The Earth started as a hunk of hot, molten rock.

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.

8 posted on 06/03/2002 12:10:20 PM PDT by Henchster
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
The removed comment was not meant for you. It was meant towards Bush.
9 posted on 06/03/2002 12:14:17 PM PDT by Satadru
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Why does the article say "...the Bush administration" said this when it was the career employees of the EPA who released it? The folks at the EPA are notorious for the BS they emit and have been fighting daily fights with the Bush people.
10 posted on 06/03/2002 12:15:48 PM PDT by Deb
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Actually, here in Texas, where it would normally be blistering by now, we've had such cool weather, it's already June and I haven't even been able to get into my swimming pool yet because the water is too darn cold.

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!

11 posted on 06/03/2002 1:00:59 PM PDT by HHFi
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I hate to say this, but it makes me wonder what else Bush is going to cave on before 2004.
12 posted on 06/03/2002 1:10:34 PM PDT by Vladiator
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
I'm more interested in the government report from a few years ago about how cow flatulent increases greenhouse gases and global warming.
13 posted on 06/03/2002 1:13:46 PM PDT by rintense
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I was more interested in posters pointing out inconsistencies in the content of the article and the actual report, but I guess I didn't make that clear enough.

Oh, well.

14 posted on 06/03/2002 2:06:27 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
February 13, 1998

Scientists blame sun for global warming

Duh!

15 posted on 06/03/2002 5:33:40 PM PDT by StopGlobalWhining
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Thanks. Amazing how the sun has gotten so little respect ...
16 posted on 06/03/2002 5:39:17 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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There isn't much science to decide one way or the other or how much. One way to reduce CO2 and H2O emissions and not break the bank -- nuclear power plants. Solar cells ought to be getting almost reasonable in price in the next few years, too.

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.

17 posted on 06/03/2002 5:42:26 PM PDT by RightWhale
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
I was more interested in posters pointing out inconsistencies in the content of the article and the actual report, but I guess I didn't make that clear enough.

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?

18 posted on 06/03/2002 5:42:37 PM PDT by StopGlobalWhining
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
blah blah blah,it was cool enough last night for the furnace to kick on,last time this year we were already running the A/C if this is global warming bring it on...
19 posted on 06/03/2002 5:44:55 PM PDT by linn37
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To: RightWhale
In the late 1600's through early 1700's the sun went "quiet" and the observed sunspots fell to only a few, even during the active part of the cycle. This is now known as the "Maunder Minimum".

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.

20 posted on 06/03/2002 6:02:23 PM PDT by StopGlobalWhining
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