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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT |
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Environmental veterans like Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, and Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute, have developed a sort of "litany" of four big environmental fears:
None are cooberated by evidence. |
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GLOBAL WARMING - "Climate Change" in case it cools |
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The climate cooled for much of the 20th century, between 1940 and 1975, even while carbon dioxide was increasing rapidly. Well, what about some 20 greenhouse climate models, all predicting warming from 11.5 C to 1.4 C for a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide? No one can tell us which of these models is correct, if any. None of these models can explain why the climate cooled between 1940 and 1975 without special assumptions. In any case, model results are never evidence. Only actual observations count. Crucially, greenhouse models cannot explain the observed patterns of warming: temperature trends at different latitudes and altitudes. These data, published in a U.S. government scientific report in May 2006, lead us to conclude that the human contribution is not significant. Most of current warming must therefore stem from natural causes. It may well be part of an unstoppable solar-driven 1,500-year cycle of warming and cooling that's been documented in ice cores, ocean sediments, stalagmites, and so forth going back a million years. Bad news sells advertising and begets government grants, but you should know the truth. The following five pages is the most concise rendition I've seen. A Brief History of Global Warming The claims do not correlate with the data of the global warming advocates. Fabricated data is found in addition to cherry-picked data. Erroneous NASA data is twice corrected, making 1934 the hottest in recent history. Stephen Schneider, Al Gore and Jim Hansen admit to fraud. Global Warming: A closer look at the numbers If you don't like to read, see Climate Change Videos: Bushvision Climate Change Videos: The reality is that we are in a cooling trend that will likely make the winter of 2009 look like those of the 1900s - long and deep. While many will demand we burn all our coal to delay or mitigate the cooling trend, it will happen regardless of the amount of carbon dioxide humans inject into the atmosphere.
Climate computer models do not include the Isis effect among other things.
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CORN ETHANOL |
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Corn Ethanol is the one subsidized by the U.S. government. Considering all the petroleum used to grow and refine corn ethanol, one gallon of petroleum (gasoline, diesel, etc.) yields 1.7 gallons of corn ethanol, but ethanol yields one-third the energy of gasoline, so one gallon of petroleum yields 0.57 gallons of equivalent energy ethanol, i.e. you can only go one-third of your normal distance on a tank of ethanol. Ethanol production requires 70 to 400 times the amount of water required by petroleum production. When the carbon released by third-world peoples slashing and burning to compensate for the corn lost to fuel production is included in the equation, corn ethanol is a very bad deal. CONgressmen should not sell themselves so cheaply to Archer Daniel Midland. |