Re[2]: Stirring the pot

[Robert Owen <Robert_Owen@health.ohio.gov>]

     How did we get from wearing CHP name tags at the annual meeting in 
     "stirring the pot" to global warming?


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Subject: Re: Stirring the pot
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet
Date:    7/12/96 10:27 AM


>> What kind of boost for nuclear power might come from solving the waste
>> disposal problem? If Ward Valley and other low level storage sites open and 
>> Yucca Mountain begins actually storing spent fuel successfully, could this 
>> result in a shift toward nuclear as a way to mitigate global warming?
>>
>> Bob Flood
>> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
>> (415) 926-3793     bflood@slac.stanford.edu
>> Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are mine alone. 
>
>
>This may be a good strategy - fighting public hysteria with junk science 
>(global warming arguments).  Seriously, there are so many bad conclusions 
>in global warming.  The first is that the earth is warming.  The second 
>is that, even if it is warming, it is man's fault, and not a natural 
>event.  I just find it hard to believe that, though meteorologists cannot 
>predict the next days wheather for a whole state, they can predict the 
>wheather for the whole world for decades to come.  I have heard few 
>meteorologists espouse global warming, but have heard many politicians 
>and activist espouse it (they wouldn't lie would they?).  I have to 
>wonder, since there are three distinct possibilities for global 
>temperatures, where are the activists for the other two (cooling or 
>stasis)?  Maybe I am not catching on to the global warming fad, or maybe 
>I am an idiot.
>
>Robert A. Jones
>RAJ6582@acs.tamu.edu
     
IMHO global warming is NOT junk science. 
mgoldman@ucdavis.edu