Posted by
Postal Patriot on Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:21:11 PM
Senator McCain has recently spoken several times about agreeing to Kyoto if all countries are included and implementing carbon cap and trade schemes. He teamed up for McCain/Leiberman to introduce a 50 cent a gallon gas tax. He is doing this to pander to activist groups and a greatly uninformed and misinformed public. Senator McCain needs to do much more reading of the scientific facts now available to us through new technologies developed over the last twenty years. Satellite imaging and mass spectrometers have only been used recently and have revealed a wealth of knowledge provided by the planet and it's own history.
Most of the global warming advocates "science" is based on insufficient or altered information and computer models that try to predict the future, models that have been proven to be faulty because of factors they can't take into account such as cloud cover and solar activity. There is scientific consensus that Climate Change occurs. There is no consensus that man made CO2 has any noticeable effect. Seventy five percent of the CO2 is emitted by the oceans as they warm. There is plenty of evidence that the Roman Warming period and the Medieval warming period were global not regional and were warmer than it is today. It is quite possible that more warming will be more beneficial than devastating. Studies have shown that most crops and plants flourish with more and more CO2. Warming has shown to increase habitat areas of wildlife as it moves north while still maintaining their southern areas.
During the Medieval Warming Period 800-1250 AD the Vikings inhabited the northern parts of Greenland along with the Inuits because of plenty of lush farmland and grazing land for cattle and sheep. It was the Little Ice Age from 1300-1850 AD that forced the Vikings out of Greenland. Northern Europe grew grapes and olives because the warmer climate supported more crops during the Medieval and Roman warming periods. Plants, animals and humans flourished during these times and will again.
Scientists, geologists, archaeologists, meteorologists, climatologists, economists and records historians aka "skeptics" used the information provided by the planet itself and modern technology only recently available to study mile long ice cores, sea and lake bed sediment cores, tree rings, advancing and retreating tree lines and glaciers, stalagmites and stalactites, satellite imaging, phytoplankton fossils, levels of various oxygen and carbon isotopes, animal and human migrations, fossils, human and animal remains from villages a 1000 years old and finally historical records tracking crop growth and trade movement around the world. All of these factors were measured in Europe, Africa, Antarctica, North and South America and Asia and all very comprehensive.
For one seventh the cost of Kyoto we can provide poor countries with proper water treatment and sewage plants, energy plants to provide air conditioning, heating and proper refrigeration and cooking appliances. Provide vaccines, medical facilities, mosquito nets, aids education and vaccines to eradicate many common diseases. Access to television and computers to advance educational opportunities and finally introduce new irrigation and modern farming techniques. All of these will help make it easier to give poor countries a much better opportunity to deal with climate change instead of making it more difficult for richer countries to deal with it.
If Senator McCain really wants to be a "Maverick" then he must start studying the research and help inform all Americans of the actual scientific evidence not the Political scientific gibberish. Far more people die because of cold related deaths than heat related deaths. Kyoto will have crushing effects on economies and have almost no noticeable effect on climate in hopes of affecting people 50 to 100 years from now or we could use much less money to improve the lives of millions now. For the global warming alarmists it's all about ineffective and inefficient wealth redistribution that will only make millions more poorer and very few better off. How about we smarten up and prepare everyone to better deal with inevitable and unstoppable Global Climate Change.