Re: But There Ain't No Global Warming.

From: G. R. L. Cowan (gcowan_at_eagle.ca)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:14:23 -0500

PowerWorker wrote:
>
> G. R. L. Cowan wrote:
> ...
> >> Global Warming (caused by burning fossil fuels) is a hoax.
> > A person wishing to believe this should explain
> > why global warming researchers who are publically funded,
> Those are the magic words: "publically funded" (although that's only in
> part--some is from private activist groups).
>
> > which is to say, in large part fossil-fuel-tax-funded,
> That's an assumption. Monies are fungible assets.
>
> > would wish to participate in a hoax that implies
> Perhaps it's in order to _continue_ the funding...? After all, how much
> funding could you plead for if you had no "impending crisis" of global
> proportions to have to investigate?
>
> ...
> > Such an explanation might entail showing that
> > the policy prescriptions offered against anthropogenic
> > climate change, within the global warming canon,
> > entail raising taxes on fossil fuels
> > without allowing their substitution by nuclear energy,
> > nor acknowledging that the public prefers nuclear energy
> > to fossil fuel energy on health, safety, and
> > millennial sustainability grounds.

> Wow! I'm speechless! I think I agree...but I'm not sure what you said...

Hey. If a man reads and rereads those eight lines
until they come clear ... he's *got* the girls.
Spending your money before it gets moldy will help too.

It seems to me that global warming is real,
and therefore not a hoax. It shows up
for people who aren't looking for it:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_217.cfm

It can be real without the show of concern put on by many
being the least bit genuine. It's urgent, urgent, urgent
that we do something, anything, except nuclearize.
After all, that might saddle the Earth-dwelling portion
of our great^500 descendants, if none of our great^(1 through 499)
descendants go to breeder reactors,
with a uranium depletion crisis. Compared to that prospect,
apparently, the urgency of global warming diminishes.

Or as the very beneficent John McCarthy says,

   It may happen that increased CO2 causes real harm to the world
   and a crash program to stop emitting so much is required.
   There is not sufficient evidence of harm to convince governments
   to take drastic action in spite of the enthusiasm
   of the environmental community and its scientific supporters.
   [I can't take these proposals from these people seriously
   as long as they don't even mention nuclear energy.
   They are just playing with us.]
   (http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/hydrogen.html)

-- Graham Cowan, former Ontario, Canada hydrogen fan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html --
How individual mobility gains nuclear cachet

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