Bush administration pressured scientists to lie about global warming.

[uberreiniger]

http://www.alaskareport.com/reu77640.htm

Man, I almost wish mr_dark were still here. I would be most entertained by a ten page essay beginning with "First of all..." and then followed by forty-five pieces of evidence revealing this news article to be completely untrue... nearly all of them coming from Rush Limbaugh or the like.

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[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I love how instead of addressing the topic at hand you drop it and bring up new, unrelated ones and believe that by doing so you have proved your point. You seem to think I'm advocating a return to the stone age. I'm advocating responsible use of resources. Since we all seem to agree that industry needs to act responsibly I think we can put that aspect of it to rest. The trouble is that industry does NOT act responsibly and neither do consumers.

As for the Kyoto protocols, I don't know enough about them to address them. Which is why I wasn't. I'm a bit too young to recall the acid rain scare very well either so I'd have to do some research before I addressed that, although I can say I have seen it reported that manmade chemicals returning to earth in percipitation do have detrimental ecological effects.

The climate heats up and cools down in cycles. The sun heats up and cools down in cycles. (Giant nuclear reactor. Go figure.) No one denies any of that. The question is how human activity affects those cycles' long-term effects on the planet.

So oil breaks down in seawater over time. Does it change the fact that ecosystems are affected in far-reaching ways by the loss of life generated in oil spills? Absolutely not. So lightning strikes burn down trees. That's nice. What does that have to do with anything? So volcanos emit the same toxic gases we do. Does that mean we should emit more than all the volcanoes on earth put together? I don't think so.

To use a comparison that's near and dear to your heart, that's almost like saying we shouldn't care whether partial birth abortions are performed because late-stage fetuses sometimes miscarry and are expelled from the womb naturally anyway.