[Paddlewise] Global Warming = fact!

Here is the EPA's site about global warming.  
<http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/index.html>

And while you are at it, the department of energy has one too.
<http://www.energy.gov/environ/index.html>

Don't trust the government?  How about a major oil company?
<http://www.bp.com/_nav/world.htm>  (click to climate change)

Tom said:  
  NPR, while occasionally entertaining, is so far to the
  liberal left that there is little they say that one
  can take to the bank.  I would be highly suspect of
  any "scientific" findings they report.  I am not up to
  date on the latest findings on global warming; but if
  I wanted to get an accurate balanced assessment, I
  sure wouldn't go by NPR.  
    
Where would you go?  Rush Limbaugh?    

I also heard a report that 60% of the worlds corals will die within 30 years
unless measures are taken.  This was broadcast by the BBC, are they biased
too?   
  
Tom said:
  I agree that Americans often operate in crisis
  management mode; but I will wait until there is at
  least a consensus amonst most responsible scientists
  that global warming even exists before I start to
  worry about it.  
  Tom Dowling 
  
I have a hunch that Tom is being somewhat of an antagonist......I hope.
  
No scientist denies, no SCIENTIST, that global warming exists.  There is
considerable disagreement about the rate of change and why the earths
temperature is rising and what to do about it.  
I might add that the united states, while consuming many times more energy
per capita than the rest of the world, is the only major industrial nation
that hasn't signed the KYOTO treaty.  Why?  There is a fear that reducing
emissions would create an economic crisis.



 - - - - - - - - - - - shawn


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