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Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy After Oil These Years!



David Beorn <dbeorn@freenet.vcu.edu> wrote for all to see:

>John Dobitz wrote:
>
>> From: John Dobitz <dobitz@ibm.net>
>> Newgroups: alt.energy.renewable, alt.save.the.earth,
>>     alt.sustainable.agriculture, talk.environment, sci.environment,
>>     sci.energy, bionet.agroforestry
>> 
>> In message <31440282.2777@ilhawaii.net> - Jay Hanson
>> <jhanson@ilhawaii.net>Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:37:54 +0000 writes:
>> >
>> >
>> >Global warming: SCIENCE NEWS, Vol 148, Page 293, Nov. 4, 1995:
>> >
>> >WORLD CLIMATE PANEL CHARTS PATH FOR ACTION
>> >
>> >"An international panel of scientists and economists has shifted
>> > the threat of climate change from the future squarely into the
>> > present.
>> >
>> >"The United Nations-sponsored committee, which carries the
>> > authority of over 2,000 investigators, has concluded that
>> > humankind is now altering climate in an identifiable way. It
>
>Basically, they don't know what's going on - so what else is new on this 
>topic.  

It is not actually the scientists.  There has been considerable
controversy about the latest report.  The scientists who wrote the
report claim that after they read and ok'ed the final version, the
document was changed to make it appear as if everyone had agreed that
the earth was in imminent danger.  Danger which requires immediate
action.  This is now a political, not a scientific statement.  See the
WSJ of the last 3 weeks for the ongoing reports.

Regards, Harold
-------
"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less 
extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can 
all get off."
	---Chris Patten, Independent (London, 19 April 1989).



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