Global Warming

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Thu Apr 5 07:49:11 PDT 2001


In message <NDBBKPODIHENIECLLPBIEECKCBAA.kmack at dimensional.com>, Kenneth Mack <kmack at dimensional.com> writes
>I would like to know what evidence and thought you drew on to come to these
>conclusions. I see one piece was from the Wall Street Journal. I would claim
>that the WSJ is not a good source for understanding this subject.

Are you disagreeing with the WSJ's breakdown of the numbers of those signing the Kyoto protocol? Presumably it's easy enough to check.

Mack <kmack at dimensional.com> writes


>I'm not claiming that there aren't politics being played. I'm sure there
>are. What cannot be said is that global warming theory is false. Sorry, the
>physics are against you. The REAL scientific question is how does one add
>greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere without affecting the radiative balance
>of the earth?

No-one I'm aware of denies climate change, the issue is whether climate change is due to industrial emissions, which seems far from demonstrated, no matter how many times you repeat it. That you hold it as an article of faith does not mean a great deal to me.

-- James Heartfield



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