Two letters in defense of President Bush's rejection of the Kyoto protocol
From: | Tristan
Nichols - Los Angeles, USA
Iceybluu@aol.com |
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Re: | Hot air: The scientific jury is out on the issue of global warming | |||
Date: | 3 April 2001 | |||
Sir - President George W Bush may have made a politically incorrect, but reasoned decision regarding the principles in the Kyoto treaty on global warming [Bush defies Europe over pollution, 30 March 2001]. The average global climate cooled naturally between 1250 and 1850, which resulted in Greenland turning from the green pasture of the Viking times to today's snow and ice. From 1850 to1950 average global temperatures again rose. These swings in global temperatures are as natural as the solar maxims, which are now affecting the globe long-term and may even have already been a major factor in earth climate changes. A plunge in global temperatures of 0.1 degree Celsius occurred in December, 1995 (the greatest single month temperature decline in recorded weather history ), and Dr Robert Balling of the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University noted that January 1997 was the coldest January in the 18-year record. The Liepzig Declaration on Global Climate Change, drawn up in 1995 by a group of climatologists, astrophysicists, and meteorologists, and today signed by most of the world's leading climatologists, states that: "The policies to implement the treaty are, as of now, based solely on unproved scientific theories, imperfect computer models, and unsupported assumptions . . . Actual observations from weather satellites show no global warming whatsoever ." Satellites launched in 1979 show that global temperatures have actually declined (are statistically insignificant) since 1979, while the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) computer modelled global warming projections have been revised downward since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Perhaps George W Bush was presented with these oft-ignored data, and decided that reason would guide his decision on the Kyoto Treaty rather than hot air. |
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From: | Steve
King sking@ismi.net |
Re: | Flawed research |
Date: | 4 April 2001 |
Perhaps, in your tirade against George W Bush's energy and environmental policies you are missing a few things [ Bush defies Europe over pollution, 30 March 2001 ]. First, there was serious global warming a few thousand years ago when the glaciers melted. It is highly doubtful that the internal combustion engine had anything to do with it. Secondly, in 1991, the year of the Gulf War and Saddam's burning of the Kuwaiti oil fields, the largest polluter of the year was a certain Mt Pinatubo. It won the prize by a long shot. Third, the Kyoto treaty is and was a joke because it exempted both China and India along with a few other countries whose populations make up a majority of the people on the planet. If the treaty required the same level of pollution control from every country, it might have made sense in some small way. Remember, it is the politicians that have decided that global warming is a threat. The scientists are split on the issue. Interestingly enough, you will find that those scientists who either have, or are in search of, a grant from the taxpayers are usually the ones who are saying what the politicians like to hear. These concepts may not be popular in Europe, or even in some quarters here in the United States, but that does not negate the basic truth behind them. |
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