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Green Generators During the 2000 presidential campaign, candidate George W. Bush said he was skeptical about Vice President Al Gore' s fundamentalist doctrine on the threat of global warming. Bush said there was disagreement among scientists and we shouldn't be stampeded into a response that would cost a lot of money and require Americans to substantially alter their way of life. Now, in an unannounced transmission of a climate report to the United Nations, the Environmental Protection Agency accepts the doctrine that the Earth is getting warmer and, in a critical concession, partly blames human activity for the trend.

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Solar Panel In an exercise in political hair-splitting worthy of the previous administration, the report says the burning of fossil fuels has contributed to slight temperature increases, but that much of the warming can be attributed to natural causes. Expect big government liberals to ignore the natural part and focus on how they can further alter our lifestyles by forcing us into smaller and less safe cars, increasing taxes on gasoline and further penalizing growth and prosperity that the use of fossil fuels has fueled.

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Epa Greenpower Asked about the report on Tuesday, the president seemed dismissive. He said it had been put out by "the bureaucracy." But isn't Bush the head of the bureaucracy?

In an unlikely alliance, Kansas Republicans and the advocacy group Environmental Defense are supporting an effort here that seeks to use agriculture as a weapon against global warming. While the Bush administration and some Republican lawmakers have expressed skepticism about human causes of global warming, Senator Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican and an ardent supporter of President Bush, has helped Kansas State University win part of a $15 million grant for a group of institutions to study whether a form of farming called "conservation tillage" can really help combat the effects of global warming.

Wind Energy If reports are going out in his name and he disagrees with the contents, shouldn't he replace the people who oppose his policies?

based Global Language Monitor, which uses an algorithm to track words and phrases in the media and on the Internet. Their top word, "hybrid, " evokes the strange zeitgeist that global warming has brought to the planetary conversation. According to GLM, the term has broad connotations of "all things green from biodiesel to wearing clothes made of soy to global warming."

Solar The media, predictably, have pounced on the report. To them, automakers and SUV drivers are a greater threat to humanity than terrorists. The main reason so many people accept the global warming doctrine is that they hear too few contrary scientific voices.

Poor President Bush. warming carbon dioxide in a list of power plant pollutants he promised to seek to control through mandatory caps if elected. When EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman took that commitment seriously and cited it as part of the administration's response to global warming, there was a howl of protest from coal and other industry interests. Mr. face, saying such controls would be too costly for energy consumers, and a spokesman said campaign aides had made a mistake.

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Greenpower Inc The earth has warmed and cooled naturally for thousands of years. From the 1940s until the late 1970s, a period in which fossil fuel consumption trended sharply upward, the planet temperature declined. Since the late '70s, there's been a slight warming trend but nothing that has differed substantially from previous heating and cooling cycles, many experts say.

Solar Electricity Carbon dioxide is portrayed as the villain in global warming. Yet, according to the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, there's no real-world evidence to suggest that whatever global warming might be occurring is due to the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content. In fact, carbon dioxide has helped meet the world' s food requirements (CO2 is plant food, in case you missed that in science class) and higher concentrations of the gas in some regions already has lead to increased food production.

Power Greene Center President Sherwood B. Idso says the surface air temperature record used to support "the warming hysteria" of the past two decades "suffers from a host of maladies," which the Center Web site outlines but the media ignore.

Green Electric These include incomplete coverage of the earth's surface (satellites cover it all, but surface measurements are spotty), ever-changing urban heat island effects, and a number of changes in measurement times and techniques. While these data depict warming over the last quarter century, within the troposphere - the first few miles above the earth's surface where climate models also predict there should be warming - satellite data from the late '70s show almost no warming at all. In addition, the United States Historical Climatology Network data set, which Idso calls the best in the world, agrees with the satellite data and shows essentially no warming since 1930.

Am Greenpower The computer model used by the EPA in its report to the United Nations is based, in part, on the one used by the Clinton administration. The Hadley Centre in England warned at the time it provided the computer model for the Clinton administration that its data was unreliable.

Renewable Electricity Quoted June 4 in the Washington Times, Myron Ebell, director of global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says the Hadley Centre "was willing to take the stupid American government's money, but they knew that the product they were getting was phony, no good."

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Led Greenpower Neither is the politics of global warming any good. If the president has been poorly served by someone(s) in the EPA, discipline or dismissal should swiftly follow. Otherwise, the administration will be seen as having conceded a fundamental debating point. While, with this announcement on global warming it may have neutralized liberal Democrats on another issue, one can legitimately ask what difference it makes to elect Republicans to anything if they will think and behave like Democrats when they get in.

Alternative Energy What's the point of having power if one does not lead when he has it? The hot air on global warming is coming from somewhere within the administration.

Green Products By Cal Thomas
The writer is a syndicated columnist based in Washington, D.C.

Green Powers Courier-Post - 6/8/2002

Topic: Climate Change

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