Subj : To : RACHEL L. AKERS From : TODD HENSON Date : Fri Mar 30 2001 10:50 pm > Greetings All, > > I found an interesting comment in today Occult Chat mail. The insistance that > Global warming was unproven & the claim it's a paganized view of the planet. > I don't know what is shown on the ijiot box on the other side > of the pond but over here Global Warming is a real _&_ documentable problem. Actually, there is no sound documentation for it, only very selected massaged interpretations based more on political agenda than real science. > I've been through one drought there I spent 3 years luging bath water to the > laundry then to the garden because of restrictions. Oz has had more droughts in > the past 50 years than in it's documentable history (including geological). So what? The fact that there are droughts is no where near proving global warming. > & then there's the documentable problem experienced by many low lying nations. > Some island nations who have to daily ship fresh water to inhabited islands for > the past 5 years because the raising sea water level has ruined the drinkable > water on the islands. They are so deperately trying to save their homes from a > loosing battle. Oh ... Sorry but isn't this another form of land stealing? There mere fact that there is a sea level rise (assuming those claims are true) doesn't prove global warming. You need to investigate that further, explore all possible explanations and variables. The problems is that people jump onto the global warming bandwagon and have an almost religious belief in it's dogmas, and tend to adopt whatever buzzwords and blurbs that tend to surround it. So when somene sees a drought, they think "yep, it's global warming" without even thinking. > If I had one crystal ball moment it'd be to see the reactions of today's > myiopic ijiots who think Global warming is some pagan/hippy/(etc) plot. No, the idiots are those who believe in political propaganda without thinking (that is, as long as you want to introduce name-calling into the topic). Here, consider the following, regarding the unscientific tactics used to promote the idea, and how global warming is more about politics and less about science: Junk Science Charged in Clinton 'Global Warming' Report CNSNews.com Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2000 The Clinton administration ignored the law and scientific standards in an effort to complete a "global warming" report and release it later this month, according to a group of lawmakers and advocacy groups. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said the administration circumvented the law for purely political reasons. "The Clinton administration has conspired to overturn the intent of Congress and evade federal laws in order to release a slanted report on global warming in a transparent effort to help the Gore campaign," Inhofe said at a Capitol Hill news conference. That's why Inhofe joined Reps. Joseph Knollenberg, R-Mich., and Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., Competitive Enterprise Institute, Consumer Alert, 60 Plus Association, and science journalist David Wojick in the lawsuit against President Clinton and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The lawmakers and lobbying groups expect to file their lawsuit this month. They say public comment should have been included in the report. Moreover, they accuse the OSTP of using "junk science" to try to substantiate claims of global warming. Breaking Another Federal Law In the suit, they accuse the Clinton administration of breaking a federal law called the Federal Advisory Committees Act that requires policy-making meetings to be open to the public and attended by a designated officer to oversee procedural rules. The journalist involved in the suit claims these rules were violated when he was asked to leave the meetings and denied access to documents given to other meeting attendees. The suit further alleges that the administration broke a federal law specifically requiring that the scientific conclusions presented in the report be first put through legitimate scientific experiments and then published in peer-reviewed journals. "We are asking a court to declare this report unlawful and to require the administration to rewrite it in accord with proper procedures as clearly stipulated in law," said Inhofe. The global warming report is known as the National Assessment Synthesis Report, or "National Assessment on Climate Change." Originally requested by Congress no later than 1994, the report was supposed to explain the science and the uncertainties surrounding the theory of man-made global warming. The suit also alleges violations of the U.S. Global Change Research Act, charging that the OSTP wrongfully directed the council drafting the global warming report to expand its work outside the scope of its legal authority and delve into nonscientific, political areas. The Clinton administration is also accused of violating a law prohibiting the use of taxpayer money for the release or publishing of the report before the underlying scientific work is complete. The White House did not return calls seeking comment. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: BBS Networks @ www.bbsnets.com 808-839-5016 (1:10/345) .