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America’s Al Gore, author of “Earth in the Balance”, has called the internal combustion engine, a primary contributor to greenhouse gasses that cause “global warming”, a worse threat to the Earth than nuclear weapons.
Australia’s Cooperative Research Center for Greenhouse Accounting has recently suggested that the Earth may be more resilient to global warming than first thought.
Sir David King, Britain’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Office of Science and Technology, described the “global warming” threat worse as than terrorism.
Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London said, “The notion that human activity is the controlling factor (of climate change) is inherently bogus. To believe that, you would have to believe that the sun, the oceans, the clouds, volcanic activity, and countless other factors do not play a major role in the weather.
Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman (D) said, “The question of how and when we deal with the threat of global warming is one of the great tests for our generation of elected officials. The question is do we have the courage to begin to bring about the changes to protect us, our children and grandchildren?”
Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe (R) said, “Global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry (D) said, “Global warming is America’s biggest threat since the Cold War.”
The Bush White House has said there was not enough scientific evidence to blame industrial emissions for global warming.
Okay, what do the experts at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) think?
Professor Ronald Prinn, Head of MIT?s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and Co-Director of MIT?s Joint Program on the Policy and Science of Global Change, said that, “global warming is the most difficult and important environmental problem that we face this century, and that it is a problem that we are going to have to solve, and we need to start forming solutions now.?
However, Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, said in a paper titled, Scientists’ Report Doesn’t Support The Kyoto Treaty, “There is no serious evidence that man-made global warming is taking place. The computer models used in U.N. studies say the first area to heat under the ‘greenhouse gas effect’ should be the lower atmosphere – known as the troposphere. Highly accurate, carefully checked satellite data have shown absolutely no such troposphere warming. There has been surface warming of about half a degree Celsius, but this is far below the customary natural swings in surface temperatures.” (Published in The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2001.) Professor Lindzen has also pointed out that, “Claims that scientific opinion is nearly unanimous on the subject of global warming are wrong. The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine received signatures from over 17,100 basic and applied American scientists, two-thirds with advanced degrees, to a document saying, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”
For argument’s sake, let’s concede that the Earth’s surface has warmed a bit (a very little bit) over the past century. But is that warming caused mainly by humans or by natural cycles?
Is all this man-caused “global warming” propaganda real or imagined? What do you believe, and why? Who do you believe, and why? And the $64,000 question, therefore what?