Posted on 07/30/2003 3:34:18 PM PDT by demlosers
Some media reports, in particular by Cox News Service, have also found the Soon and Baliunas research was underwritten by the American Petroleum Institution - an industry trade association
Don’t pay attention to the study funded by a trade guild interested in making a buck, when we have access to a study from an organization with the nobler goal of ruling the world.
Makes sense that the American Petroleum Institutions members have some interest in remaining in the peoples’ good graces, though many will doubt the institute’s understanding of market based solutions. The U.N. has no intent, or interest in the American People’s graces so by all means, they are the ruling authority we should trust, in all matters concerning our daily lives.
Inhofe said today's hearing was an attempt to hone in on "sound science" as the Senate considers the implications of climate change. "It is no secret that we are not scientists up here, so we look at things logically," he said.
Natural variability is a large factor in climate change, Mann said, but it can not explain the warming of the past two decades.
Maybe the last two decades are the recovery from the 'ice age' of a couple of cold winters when Jimmy Carter had us all wearing sweaters. ;-)
And two decades is more like weather than climate.
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