Re: Global warming?
It is always interesting to see what affiliations these web sites have, and who funds them. In this particular case:<br /><br />---quote on---<br /><br />The Greening Earth Society (GES) was founded on Earth Day 1998 by the Western Fuels Association to promote the view that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 are good for humanity. GES and Western Fuels are essentially the same organization. Both used to be located at the same office suite in Arlington, VA. Until December 2000, Fred Palmer chaired both institutions. The GES is now chaired by Bob Norrgard, another long-term Western Fuels associate. The Western Fuels Assocation (WFA) is a cooperative of coal-dependent utilities in the western states that works in part to discredit climate change science and to prevent regulations that might damage coal-related industries.<br /><br />Spin: CO2 emissions are good for the planet; coal is the best energy source we have.<br /><br />Affiliated Individuals: Patrick Michaels, Robert Balling, David Wojick, Sallie Baliunas, Sylvan Wittwer, John Daley, Sherwood Idso<br /><br />Funding: The Greening Earth Society receives its funding from the Western Fuels Association, which in turn receives its funding from its coal and utility company members.<br /><br />-end qutoe<br /><br />I'll be the first one to suggest that some radicals in the environmental movement have attempted to hijack the cause into something it is not, but it is folly to think that humans, and their actions, cannot radically, and quickly, affect the environment where they live.<br /><br />We used to think that rivers and oceans were so vast we could dump anything in them, until some rivers started catching on fire, and some ocean areas became virtually barren of fish. We used to think the forests were too expansive to exhaust until we started to exhaust them. We used to think that we could dump industrial pollutants in the air until we found out that downwind lakes and forests were being severely damaged by acid rain.<br /><br />And say what you want about what you believe or not believe about global warming, but there is a dozen snomobile dealers on the North shore of Lake Huron, who mostly are going out of business because there has not been a good snow season in ten years, who would argue with you.<br /><br />By now we humans ought to have figured out that we can affect the environment we live, and we ought to adopt a policy to proceed in an environmentally neutral way when there is any doubt about the potential effects of our actions, rather than what we have always done in the past, which is wait till the damage is all too painfully evident, and try to fix it then.
