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On 1 Feb 2007 09:01:15 -0800, "Soundy" <soundy106@gmail.com> wrote:

>You know, I seem to recall about 25-30 years ago, reading in all the
>papers and Popular Science and National Geographic, about how the
>earth was cooling and we were headed for another ice-age... now it's
>the opposite?  30 years is worth a matter of seconds on the
>geological, climatological timeline.
>
>Is the earth getting warmer?  Right now, yes.
>
>Is this a bad thing?  Maybe, maybe not.
>
>A year after we were told a record hurricane season was our own damn
>fault for causing global warming, the next hurricane season almost
>didn't materialize (by comparison).
>
>I don't disagree that it's happening... I just don't buy all the
>panic.

It is real, it is serious, and because the greenhouse gases we are
putting in the air now will effect the climate for hundreds of years,
we must take timely action to minimize the consequences. Anyone who
tells you otherwise -- and note that it is not the scientists
themselves who are doing that, but an assortment of political hacks --
is acting with grave irresponsibility.

'The world's leading climate scientists, in their most powerful
language ever used on the issue, said global warming is ''very
likely'' man-made, according to a new report obtained Friday by The
Associated Press.

'The report provides what may be cold comfort in slightly reduced
projections on rising temperatures and sea levels by the year 2100.
But it is tempered by a flat pronouncement that global warming is
essentially a runaway train that cannot be stopped for centuries.

' ''The observed widespread warming of the atmosphere and ocean,
together with ice-mass loss, support the conclusion that it is
extremely unlikely that global climate change of the past 50 years can
be explained without external forcing, and very likely that is not due
to known natural causes alone,'' said the 20-page report.

'Human-caused warming and rises in sea-level ''would continue for
centuries'' because the process has already started, ''even if
greenhouse gas concentrations were to be stabilized,'' said the
20-page report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.'

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-France-Climate-Change.html?pagewanted=all


Scientists charge White House pressure on warming

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
Reuters
Tuesday, January 30, 2007; 4:43 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists were pressured to tailor their
writings on global warming to fit the Bush administration's
skepticism, in some cases at the behest of a former oil-industry
lobbyist, a congressional committee heard on Tuesday.

"Our investigations found high-quality science struggling to get out,"
Francesca Grifo of the watchdog group Union of Concerned Scientists
told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

A survey by the group found that 150 climate scientists personally
experienced political interference in the past five years, for a total
of at least 435 incidents.

"Nearly half of all respondents perceived or personally experienced
pressure to eliminate the words 'climate change,' 'global warming' or
other similar terms from a variety of communications," Grifo said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013000985.html


Energy Research on a Shoestring; 30 Years After Opening, a Lab for
Alternative Power Goes Begging 
 
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Published: January 25, 2007

Thirty years after it was founded by President Jimmy Carter, the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the edge of the Rockies here
still does not have a cafeteria. 

Evaporation chambers for new solar energy systems look like they
belong in an H. G. Wells movie. Technicians had to knock out a giant
door from a testing facility to fit modern wind turbine blades, which
now stick out like a bare toe from an old sock. 

The hopes for this neglected lab brightened a bit just over a year ago
when President Bush made the first presidential call on the lab since
Mr. Carter and spelled out a vision for the not-too-distant future in
which solar and wind power would help run every American home and cars
would operate on biofuels made from residues of plants. 

But one year after the president's visit, the money flowing into the
nation's primary laboratory for developing renewable fuels is actually
less than it was at the beginning of the Bush administration. The
lab's fitful history reflects a basic truth: Americans may have a
growing love affair with renewables and the idea of cutting oil
imports and conserving energy, but it is a fickle one. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/business/25lab.html?ex=1170478800&en=141d3e700091f83d&ei=5070


-- 
Josh

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