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Where did GWB say he does not believe in global warming theories?

Global warming is just another in the long lines of liberal bull****.

Hehe!! Typical. I take it you don't believe the 100's of thousands of
research pages that say otherwise? Hehe!!!


Some say that the poles are gong to melt and the sea is going to cover the
earth, Hollywood even makes a movie (water world) and others say that most
of the water in question is locked as ice at -50degrees so that an
increase in global temps of several degrees is not going to cause the ice
to melt. It makes you think.



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The technical limitations of our current climate models and knowledge are,
to put it bluntly, horrendous. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) admits openly that we know next-to-nothing about 75% of the
main factors implicated. We therefore cannot allow the global warming
alarmists' key antinomy to pass unchallenged: namely, that while climate is
an exceedingly complex non-linear chaotic system, we can control climate by
adjusting just one set of factors.

While the phenomenon of global warming is an empty worry, fundamentally
unverifiable and unfalsifiable in a strict scientific sense, it is one that
has been empowered with a greater meaning by those who have the motive to do
so. Accordingly, and perhaps unsurprisingly, since the early 1990s its
intrinsic linguistic emptiness has been filled by a mighty myth, especially
in Europe. This myth asserts that current global warming is both faster and
worse than at any previous time, that it is not natural, but must be caused
by human hubris, and that the main culprit has to be the United States.

The concept has been translated into a matter of faith, transcending "the
theoretical use of reason." For the good folk involved, following Kant,
global warming has become neither a matter of knowledge nor of opinion, but
wholly a matter of morality.

The threat of global warming has, as a result, morphed into the world's
public enemy #1, al-Qaeda notwithstanding. It is the ultimate product of the
Mordor of the present age, George W. Bush starring as Sauron, "Lord of the
Rings," with his genetically modified orcs and spouting smokestack
industries. It is the inevitable outcome of a Faustian pact with the devils
of capitalism, industrial growth, and profit. It is Christ tempted down from
the High Places to the ruin of the modern world. It is the "Shire" of Europe
against all the metal, mills and putrid production of an Erin Brockovich
America. It is Harry Potter versus the Quirrells of greed and gas guzzling.

Dangerously, we have allowed all of this myth-making to lead to the Kyoto
Protocol, to the foolish assumption that we can actually create a
"sustainable," unchanging climate (an oxymoron if ever there was one). The
Kyoto Protocol is a scientific and economic nonsense that will cost the
world dear in economic terms while doing absolutely nothing the stop our
ever-changing climate. And the idea that climate change is bad for all is
thoroughly challenged in a new book, "Global Warming and the American
Economy" (Edward Elgar Publishing), edited by the economist, Robert O.
Mendelsohn, of Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

So, please, let`s get more philosophical about global warming. And instead
of throwing yet more good money after bad by trying to halt the inexorable
and the inevitable, let`s use that money more wisely to help lesser
developed countries (LDCs) to grow stronger economies that will enable them
to cope better with change -- whether hot, wet, cold, or dry.
By Philip Stott
http://www.techcentralstation.com/121301M.html