Re: Two Top Papers Ask: Is the World on a Path to Doom--With an Assist from the White House?

It Aint Us Humans, it is the cows. They produce methane gas that account
for 20% of the global warming gasses. This is a farming fact, as every
farmer will tell you, do not stand behind a cow when it is eating.

http://www.junkscience.com/sep98/segal.htm

And cows are just one producer of greenhouse gas. Next, will tree huggers
want to put catalytic converters on each cow? I would not want the job of
fitting a catalytic converter to a cow's ass. Good job for the tree
huggers, though.
I think i'll get working on my "cowtalytic methane converter", one size fits
all.

Next they just might discover other reasons for global warming that do not
involve man's interaction with mother nature. See, we really dont rape,
pillage and plunder the planet, it's the cows, they do it.

So the next time you are chewing on a nice juicy prime rib, think of the
irony, that while you are getting back at the cow for producing greenhouse
gas, the cow is having it's last 'laugh', by having produced the greenhouse
gas. Irony or Cowrony?


"Alan" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=
> 1001920362
>
> By E&P Staff
>
> Published: January 28, 2006 10:00 PM ET
>
> NEW YORK While most Americans remain preoccupied with war, terrorism, high
> gas
> prices--or the coming Pitt-Jolie baby--an issue that may dwarf all of
> those
> concerns receives major attention in the Sunday editions of The New York
> Times
> and The Washington Post.
>
> One story raises a nightmare scenario for the end of the world, at least
> as we
> know it, while the other suggests that the Bush administration doesn't
> want
> anyone to know about that.
>
> Here are the opening paragraphs of the two stories.
>
> *
> From The Washington Post article by Juliet Eilperin:
>
> Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm,
> the
> central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so
> rapidly
> that, within decades, humans may be helpless to slow or reverse the trend.
>
> This "tipping point" scenario has begun to consume many prominent
> researchers in
> the United States and abroad, because the answer could determine how
> drastically
> countries need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in the coming
> years.
> While scientists remain uncertain when such a point might occur, many say
> it is
> urgent that policymakers cut global carbon dioxide emissions in half over
> the
> next 50 years or risk the triggering of changes that would be
> irreversible.
>
> There are three specific events that these scientists describe as
> especially
> worrisome and potentially imminent, although the time frames are a matter
> of
> dispute: widespread coral bleaching that could damage the world's
> fisheries
> within three decades; dramatic sea level rise by the end of the century
> that
> would take tens of thousands of years to reverse; and, within 200 years, a
> shutdown of the ocean current that moderates temperatures in northern
> Europe.
>
> The debate has been intensifying because Earth is warming much faster than
> some
> researchers had predicted. James E. Hansen, who directs NASA's Goddard
> Institute
> of Space Studies, last week confirmed that 2005 was the warmest year on
> record,
> surpassing 1998. Earth's average temperature has risen nearly 1 degree
> Fahrenheit over the past 30 years, he noted, and another increase of about
> 4
> degrees over the next century would "imply changes that constitute
> practically a
> different planet."
>
> "It's not something you can adapt to," Hansen said in an interview. "We
> can't
> let it go on another 10 years like this. We've got to do something."
> *
>
> From The New York Times article by Andrew C. Revkin:
>
> The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried
> to stop
> him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for
> prompt
> reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
>
> The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard
> Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA
> headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming
> lectures,
> papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from
> journalists.
>
> Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions. "They feel their job is
> to be
> this censor of information going out to the public," he said.
>
> Dean Acosta, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs at the
> space
> agency, said there was no effort to silence Dr. Hansen. "That's not the
> way we
> operate here at NASA," Mr. Acosta said. "We promote openness and we speak
> with
> the facts."
>
> He said the restrictions on Dr. Hansen applied to all National Aeronautics
> and
> Space Administration personnel. He added that government scientists were
> free to
> discuss scientific findings, but that policy statements should be left to
> policy
> makers and appointed spokesmen.
>
> Mr. Acosta said other reasons for requiring press officers to review
> interview
> requests were to have an orderly flow of information out of a sprawling
> agency
> and to avoid surprises. "This is not about any individual or any issue
> like
> global warming," he said. "It's about coordination."
>
> Dr. Hansen strongly disagreed with this characterization, saying such
> procedures
> had already prevented the public from fully grasping recent findings about
> climate change that point to risks ahead.
>
> "Communicating with the public seems to be essential," he said, "because
> public
> concern is probably the only thing capable of overcoming the special
> interests
> that have obfuscated the topic."
>
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> 1001920362
>
> Alan
>
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> Can't you see we're still here,
> Singing loud; Singing clear,
> We shall not go under,
> We're still here."
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