Just when I'm sick of GIs dying in another B.S.
war, this one for oil, I find the double whammy:
the oil that drives the stock market and our
international policy is also further along
killing us that our government will even consider.
More evidence...
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http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=30588
Study: Humans Cause Global Warming
Posted February 18, 2005 1:22PM
Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said
Thursday that they have discovered the first clear evidence
of human-produced warming in the world's oceans, a finding
they say leaves little doubt that ''greenhouse gases'' are the
main cause of global climate change.
Even if environmental changes are made immediately,
researchers said, some parts of the world -- including the
western United States, South America and China -- won't
be able to stop dramatic water shortages, melting glaciers
and ice packs and other crises over the next 20 years.
"The implications are huge . . . and in the short term,
we're sort of screwed," said Tim Barnett, a marine
physicist at Scripps, part of the University of California
at San Diego.
Barnett said the findings were so significant that the
Bush administration should immediately convene
research for solutions on the level of the Manhattan
Project, the unprecedented World War II research
operation that developed the atomic bomb.
A Bush administration spokesman downplayed the
results. "Our position has been the same for a long time,"
said Bill Holbrook, spokesman for the White House Council
on Environmental Quality. "The science of global climate
change is uncertain."
Holbrook said the administration has pledged nearly
$2 billion a year to study climate change and is
committed to policies that will reduce greenhouse
gases significantly by 2012.
In the new study, Barnett and his colleagues used
computer models and field tests to show that heat
and energy levels as deep as nearly a half-mile in
some oceans have risen dramatically during the past
40 years, in direct conjunction with rising levels of
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
"The debate is over --- our work really just nailed it,"
Barnett said in a telephone interview. "If somebody from
the White House or anyplace else says everything's still
far too uncertain . . . that argument just no longer holds."
© 2005 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
© 2005 Sci-Tech Today.
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Just to be sure I was correct in hating
the oil demons...I Googled on....
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This accumulation of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases (methane, ozone, nitrous oxides,
and chlorofluorocarbons) in Earth's atmosphere may
be causing the average temperature around the globe
to rise, a phenomenon referred to as "global warming."
With only 5 percent of the world's population, the United
States produces 23.4 percent of the carbon dioxide
released from burning fossil fuels.* In all, the Energy
Information Adminstration estimated that there were
1,883 million metric tons of human-induced carbon
equivalents into the atmosphere in 2001, an increase
of about 200 million metric tons (11 %) compared to
1990*. Nearly 85 percent of these gases are in the form
of carbon dioxide, while methane (9.3 percent), nitrous
oxide (5.2 percent), and HFCs, PCFs and SF make up
the remaining one percent.
The electric utility industry is responsible for an
estimated 39 percent of all carbon
dioxide emissions in the United States, while transportation
accounts for another 33 percent .*
Texas alone produces more carbon dioxide than either
the United Kingdom or Canada.* Texas produces and uses
more electricity than any other state in the country.* Texas
utilities, depending heavily on fossil fuels, for example,
contributed an estimated 248 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide in 2002, or about 30 percent of all greenhouses
gases emitted in Texas and about 11 percent of all carbon
dioxide emissions from all power plants in the U.S. *.
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And to that that vehicle crashes killed
42,643 in the U.S. in 2003.
So Americans support a war for more oil,
get upset when the price of gas and diesel goes up,
and turn up the airconditioner as it gets
hotter.
The sheep worship at the alter of the automobile...
And the oil men? Well...
"Old men want to be rich,
rich men want to be king,
and a king ain't satisfied til he's got everything."
- Bruce Springsteen Badlands
And, God doesn't save sheep from what they see as...
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