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| Jan 22, 2010 12:35 am |
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re: re: re: re: The Reality of Climate Change - Discipline in this network |
Thomas Holford
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Thorbjoern sayeth:
> Changes are observed in the environment:
1 Air is getting polluted
2 Water is getting polluted (rives, lakes, oceans)
3 Species of plants and animals are disappearing
4 Soil is depleted and polluted with fertilizers
5 Forests are disappearing
6 Polar icecaps are melting
7 Glaciers are melting,
8 Holes develop in the ozone layer
9 Precipitation goes sour (aka acid rain) killing vegetation
etc.
I suggest that you check your facts and your sources VERY carefully.
I know that you and everyone else have likely read or heard these assertions in the news, but that does NOT necessarily making them factual or accurate.
Item 1 ("Air is getting polluted")
In California, air is getting CLEANER. The emissions be automobiles have been reduced by ninety-nine percent since emission controls were first introduced.
The number of days per year that exceeded pollution norms has decreased steadily until it was zero. So, the air pollution bureaucrats had to establish new, more stringent limits so they could again have "pollution alerts". (Gotta keep them bureacrats employed.)
Item 2 ("Water is getting polluted")
It is also getting cleaned up. The STUPID, EVIL environmentalists got the bureacrats to require gasoline to be "oxygenated" to reduce air pollution. The chemical that was approved for use by the oil companies was MTBE, which it was later learned, persisted in the environment and polluted the ground water.
When PUBLIC OUTCRY forced the air pollution control bureacrats to stop using MTBE, WATER QUALITY IMPROVED.
Item 5 ("Forests are disappearing".)
Because of modern fire control technologies, there are MORE acres if forest land in the United States TODAY than at the founding of the USA in 1776. The "native Americans" were very careless in controlling their use of fire.
Item 7 ("Glaciers are melting")
The UN IPCC just admitted that they were WRONG to project that the Himalayan ice caps were melting. They're not.
etc. etc. etc.
NEVER, NEVER accept facts from advocacy groups at face value.
ALWAYS check the claims of people who benefit from grants from government programs. I.e. "environmentalists" and "global warming" advocates.
T. Holford
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