Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > You are correct, there is still some on-going debate over the issue. > Although it is becoming increasingly one-sided. Yes... propaganda has a way of doing that. > This year GM, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler and Texaco, among others, > have all withdrawn their support, citing the increasingly overwhelming > evidence supporting the facts of global warming. Special interest groups tend to make companies do things like that. It is often easier to do and say what is politically correct then to spend millions arguing over junk science. > The U.S. National Academy of Science agrees. Ah yes, what a suprise. > The U.S. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has revised its 1995 > report to acknowledge it was wrong. Global warming is actually taking place > at a far faster rate than they could have imagined in 1995. A government agency? What a shocker. > The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has declared > that the climate situation is now 'critical,' and has urged the world > governments to immediately take steps to reduce their use of carbon fuels. Another government agency gone bad. NOAA was created to govern maritime transportation, develop and maintain navigational systems, and provide accurate cartography for maps and charts. Later they took on some responsibilities shared with the FAA and the NTSB. Becoming environmental activists was never part of the package. Looks like some stupid group has forced them into another agenda. Seems this is what happened to OSHA too. > The list goes on... Unfortunately. Lest we be reminded that the climate of the planet has never been stable in it's entire 8.5 billion year history. There have been numerous ice ages, droughts, tropical climates have become deserts, deserts have become oceans, etc, etc. Earth's history has experienced massive volcanic activity that has spewed hundreds of times more toxic gasses into the air then all of man's activities combined. This is one of those facts that so-called "green groups" fail to mention. A variance of 2 degrees in fifty years and claiming that the world will come to an end is pure scare tactic politically motivated junk science. Nature has a way of fixing things on it's own. I would imagine that someday within the next hundred years or less alternative energy will make fossil fuels obsolete and oil drilling equipment will become museum displays. The skies will clear and nature will take care of the rest. Then people will wonder why we spent so many billions of dollars scaring everyone into thinking that we are headed into Armageddon. We all need to be responsible with the fuels we use and how we use them. There is no excuse for ignoring unnecessary pollution. However, being dependent on unstable foreign resources instead of taping into our own makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Do you really think that Arabs give a damn if one of their tankers spills a half million gallons of oil into the gulf? Just because the pollution is happening a world away doesn't mean it isn't happening. We have the means of extracting oil in far more environmentally responsible ways than any other nation on the planet, yet we would rather let some irresponsible government do the dirty work for us and then be held hostage at the pump. What's wrong with this picture? Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV
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