Re: [asa] Have Global Warming Alarmist Appeasers Jumped the

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After Janice's April Fools joke about Belgium barbequing taxes (I hope
that she and her buddies at
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811345/posts) did not take
the news seriously... http://en.rian.ru/world/20070404/63077075.html)
, time for something more serious> Global warming's effects seem to be
worse than expected, and even worse than reported by the IPCC, whose
reports look pretty bleak,
In addition, the article touches on a common confusion by global
warming deniers, namely that global warming is somehow contradicted by
cold spells in part of a country. Bonus points for anyone who knows
the correct answer.

Pim

WASHINGTON, DC: A fortnight ago, US Senator from Oklahoma James Inhofe
derided, debunked and disparaged former US Vice-President and leading
environment activist Al Gore during his historic testimony to the US
Senate on how, among other things, the world has just 10 years to
change the way it lives to save itself from the ravages of climate
change. Over the Easter weekend, however, the US Senator may have had
a chance to revise his opinion.

Two weeks into the spring season, more than one-third of the country
received unseasonal snow showers in one of the weirdest weather
patterns seen in the US over the last 50 years. Both Saturday and
Sunday saw one of the lowest April temperatures recorded in the last
few decades. The Washington capital region had not seen snow in April
for 17 years, and even parts of Texas received snow showers. Freeze
warnings were issued for most of the eastern United States, and
several highways reported dangerous driving conditions. The US-23
highway was shut down on Saturday as the level of ice kept rising.

Coming only a day after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) report that painted a grim picture of a world affected by
global warming and a week after the US Supreme Court snubbed the
George W Bush administration by declaring that global warming is real,
Americans now feel genuinely concerned about the phenomenon.

A study by Yale University released last week says that 83 per cent of
Americans now say that global warming is a "serious problem", and 63
per cent feel that the US is "as threatened by climate change, air
pollution and other environmental hazards as terrorists". The US
Supreme Court, too, joined the debate last week when it ruled against
the US Environment Protection Agency in a landmark case saying that
global warming is real, and the government better do something about
it.

Even though Bush had proclaimed in his State of the Union address in
January that his administration will initiate programmes that will
reduce greenhouse emissions by half in the next 10 years, there has
been no progress yet. The US consumes around 26 per cent of the
world's fossil fuels and is said to be one of the world's largest
contributors to climate change, according to the IPCC report.

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Received on Sun Apr 8 22:25:05 2007