Re: Nuclear Power Des NOT Need Gobal Warming Hoax!

[garyi@trinityphysics.com]

John,



No offense, but turn your questions around.  What makes you so sure that global warming, if real, wouldn't happen without any help from us?  Have you made a thorough and fair evaluation of all the evidence, both for and against? Questions like this take a huge investment in time and effort to evaluate.  If you do make the effort, you get very little to show for it because most folks will pass over your educated conclusions in favor of Hollywood's reality of choice.



The quotes you give are not very 'suasive.  I personally warm the planet every time I microwave my lunch, so yes, "There is no doubt that humans are warming the planet." The other quote, "Few scientists dispute evidence the world is warming," isn't proof of anything either.  I don't dispute movie critics when they say a movie is a "must see" but that's not because I agree with them.  The writer of your article wishes the 1st quote to seem to prove global warming, and the second to seem to prove that most scientists agree with that conclusion.  This article goes on the shelf somewhere between "propaganda" and "how to make sure articles are sensational enough to sell".



I know little about climate science, but I do know something about radiation.  It seems to me that the people making unfounded statements about nuclear energy/radiation are the pretty much the same people predicting the "Day After Tomorrow" scenario.  So, they have a credibility problem.





-Gary Isenhower





On 1 Jun 2004 at 9:03, John_Sukosky@DOM.COM wrote:

> 

> Ruth and Howard,

> 

> What makes you so sure this is a hoax?  There's some basic science

> support global warming.  Here's an excerpt from a CNN article on the

> new Day After Tomorrow movie reporting how science currently weighs in

> on climate change theories.  A few quick quotes from the article: 

> "Few scientists dispute evidence the world is warming",  "There is no

> doubt that humans are warming the planet, says Dr. Jeffrey

> Severinghaus, a geoscience researcher at the Scripps Institution of

> Oceanography" and "but even skeptical scientists concede humans are

> probably driving some of the rising temperatures".  This article also

> promotes nuclear power as means to change the global warming equation.

>  Well, I guess both of you have seen some strong evidence that shows

> otherwise.  If so, I'd be interested in what it is.

>