alt.politics.usa

In article <1t49j3da4l3q7346i8bfi7ocr0fvtjgrm2@4ax.com>,
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net says...
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 09:35:21 -0600, "Doorman"
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Captain Compassion" wrote in message
> >news:vot8j3lf4j2q86nsst8jqnkdr1fkm42tre@4ax.com...
> >> How to stop climate change: the easy way
> >> Mark Lynas
> >> Published 08 November 2007
> >> http://www.newstatesman.com/200711080026
> >>
> >> We have about 100 months left. If global greenhouse gas emissions have
> >> not begun to decline by the end of 2015, then our chances of
> >> restraining climate change to within the two degrees "safety line" -
> >> the level of warming below which the impacts are severe but tolerable
> >> - diminish day by day thereafter. This is what the latest science now
> >> demands: the peaking of emissions within eight years, worldwide cuts
> >> of 60 per cent by 2030, and 80 per cent or more by 2050. Above two
> >> degrees, our chances of crossing "tipping points" in the earth's
> >> system - such as the collapse of the Amazon rainforest, or the release
> >> of methane from thawing Siberian permafrost - is much higher.
> >
> >
> >Taking aim at Al Gore and other "climate change" activists, the founder of
> >the Weather Channel says the campaign to promote the theory of man-made
> >global warming is "the greatest scam in history."
> >
> >NOT ALL SCIENTISTS AGREE. That should be the key statement when trying to
> >spread fear and despair.
> >
> Don't buy the "settled science" and "consesus" arguments eh?

Uh No. First, who settled it, and second, a consensus, isn't that about
as relevant as conventional wisdom, which BTW is almost always wrong?

The only thing true about global warming is that they are going to tax
the living crap out of you to combat it. Isn't it nice to have such
caring people controlling the debate? I am touched.

>
> "This discussion is behind us. It's over. The diagnosis is clear, the
> science is unequivocal -- it's completely immoral, even, to question
> now, on the basis of what we know, the reports that are out, to
> question the issue and to question whether we need to move forward at
> a much stronger pace as humankind to address the issues." -- Dr. Gro
> Harlem Brundtland, UN special envoy on climate change.
>
> Dr. Brundtland is a public health professional and former Norwegian
> Prime Minister so she should know. :)
>
>
>

--
Daniel L Bergman
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