"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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I also remember legislation (Clean Air Act,
for example) that has greatly reduced not only SMOG levels, but the
geometrically escalating quantities of it in the atmosphere. Where
would we be if we hadn't made those changes.....

How ironic. We reduced smog levels, which at the time were being blamed for
cooling global temperatures, and now we're facing warming global
temperatures.

So what's next? Reduced greenhouse gas emissions leading to another ice
age?

Perhaps one day you'll see the light...just like this octogenarian:

"Reid A. Bryson holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of
American education. Emeritus Professor and founding chairman of the
University of Wisconsin Department of Meteorology-now the Department of
Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences-in the 1970s he became the first director
of what's now the UW's Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. He
has authored five books and more than 230 other publications and was
identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently
cited climatologist in the world."

(He was one of the first scientists to tout the idea of anthrogenic climate
change, and was widely chastised for it. He also spearheaded the hysteria
back in 1970 about the coming of the next ice age. He has since switched
his views on the subject.)

Here's what he now has to say:

"Climate's always been changing and it's been changing rapidly at various
times, and so something was making it change in the past," he told us in an
interview this past winter. "Before there were enough people to make any
difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate,
yet the climate was changing, okay?"

"All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd," Bryson
continues. "Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s,
before the Industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice
Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air."



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