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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.

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


I thought that's what the Kyoto treaty was designed to do. Cripple the
developed nations while giving a pass to the largest producers of greenhouse
gases, China and India. Pushed by France, a country that is 80% nuclear who
will become the dominant power in Europe if the treaty is implemented.

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