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There is a report that just came out that global warming is close to it's critical point. If nothing is done to slow/stop this, the effects of global warming will be unstoppable after this point. That scares me! I've written to James Connaughton, who is the chair on the Council on Environmental Quality. Please write to him also, if you feel as strongly as I do! Here is the link.
http://www.nrdcaction.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=52346

You shouldn't have voted for Bush - he won't do anything about it; in fact, he is doing his best to speed it up. Connaughton won't do anything about it either; this admin. has no interest in our environment.

The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame

Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research.

And to make the issue more complicated:

Politics Tilts Global Warming Debate, Book Says

A potentially informative and constructive debate about the costs and benefits of global warming has been lost to "political dramatization," argue the authors of a new Cato Institute book.

This is all smoke-screening...no such thing. It has been clearly demonstrated that fossil fuel use is contributing to global warming. Read National Geographic Sept. 2004 issue. These are real scientists, not politicians trying to cover for an administration that will not sign the Kyoto Accord! Good grief! That in and of itself is a simple, even minor agreement to *not pollute* and Bush can't sign it. Perhaps he wants his children to contract cancer and die in a landfill...

There was just a science article about how the fossil fuel emissions are actually protecting us from increased global warming.

B*ll Sh*t! Fossil fuel emissions are not protecting us from global warming! They are causing global warming! Get with science and get INFORMED!!!

The science of climatology is this. The Earth has historically gone through various warming and cooling cycles over the eons. Global warming is perfectly NORMAL and so is global cooling. The debate is whether this warming period is caused by man or nature. NO ONE KNOWS. No one can prove it is anything but a natural occurence. In the end it doesn't matter as this has happened in the past and the world did not end then and it is NOT ending now. This is a political ploy to frighten you into voting a certain way. It is about money and someone's attempt to get it out of your wallet by making you feel like Chicken Little and the sky is falling. Don't be so gullible. Relax. Read the history of climate change and you will feel better.

And don't think scientists don't have an agenda on this. Their funding comes in large part from the government. What better way to get more funding than by inventing a "crisis" from a perfectly natural occurence. People fear change, even GOOD change, so this is not surprising.

I've often wondered why so many Americans are so totally ignorant and uninformed about this subject.

but this story might shed some light on this issue.....

should I be surprised that the chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality is a former lobbyist for the oil industry?

you couldn't make this stuff up....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4075986.stm


Bush aide 'edited climate papers'

A White House official edited government reports in ways that played down links between global warming and emissions, the New York Times reported.

Philip Cooney removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that had already been approved by government scientists, the newspaper said.

The White House denied Mr Cooney, a former oil industry advocate, watered down the reports.

It said the changes were part of a normal inter-agency review process.

The reports were "based on the best available science", spokesman Scott McClellan said.

Mr Cooney is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which helps devise and promote the administration's policies on environmental issues.

The administration of President George W Bush has consistently questioned the need for quick action on climate change, and the US has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting down greenhouse gas emissions.

'Uncertainties'

Before working at the White House, Mr Cooney was a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil industry trade group.

He is a lawyer by training, with no scientific background.

The New York Times said he made dozens of changes to reports issued in 2002 and 2003, and many appeared in final versions of major administration climate reports.

They included the insertion of the phrase "significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties", and tended to produce an air of doubt about findings most climate experts say are robust, the paper reported.

In another instance, the paper said Mr Cooney added the word "extremely" to the sentence, "The attribution of the causes of biological and ecological changes to climate change or variability is extremely difficult."

The newspaper obtained the documents from the Government Accountability Project, a non-profit group that provides legal assistance to whistle-blowers.

The project is representing Rick Piltz, who resigned in March from the office that co-ordinates government climate research and which issued the documents that Mr Cooney edited.