[EMAIL PROTECTED] noted that
Senator James Inhofe today told colleagues of the Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee that the science shows
natural variability, not human activity, is the "overwhelming
factor" influencing climate change.
...
The IPCC panel ... says that atmospheric concentrations of CO2
have increased to a level higher than at any time during the last
420,000 years.
If the Senator is right, this means that it is more important to act
immediately to restrict human-produced greenhouse gases, and to do so
strongly, in order to try to compensate for damaging and costly
natural changes.
The greenhouse gases whose output we can determine to some extent are:
carbon dioxide, methane, the nitrous oxides, and the
chlorofluorocarbons.
If, as the Senator says, current human inputs of these greenhouse
gases do not have much effect, even though they are known to have some
effect, then to protect us against more natural disasters, we will
have to reduce greenhouse gases even more than most scientists
suggest. If the tool is weaker, we have to act more strongly. That
is the best we can do.
Otherwise, people in Sen. Inhofe's home state of Oklahoma, as well as
elsewhere, will suffer from droughts, floods, storms, cold spells, and
heat waves. (I think it is well understood that no one will notice a
small change in average temperature, but everyone will notice, and pay
for, worse weather.)
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Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises
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http://www.teak.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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