-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Wishing all Goanetters | | a Prosperous | | and | | Happy New Year - 2006 | | Goanet - http://www.goanet.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the latest installment of recycled material on "alternative science" we get the following comical information:
1. When asked to name some real scientists the names of Bush and Blair are offered in response. 2. We are told that India and China are generating increasing amounts of greenhouse gases but humans in general are not responsible for them. 3. When asked to name a legitimate scientific source such as an expert scientist or a reputed scientific organization, a website called "JunkScience.com" run by a political activist and a lawyer is offered in response. 4. We are told that Blair agrees with Bush that "alternative scientific evidence" contradicts human causation of global warming. The first three items above are self-explanatorily comical alternatives of reality. The comical alternative nature of the fourth item can be gleaned from the following excerpt from a speech by Tony Blair, which clearly shows that he accepts the mainstream consensus scientific position on climate change: "But tonight I want to concentrate on what I believe to be the world's greatest environmental challenge: climate change. Our effect on the environment, and in particular on climate change, is large and growing. To summarise my argument at the outset: >From the start of the industrial revolution more than 200 years ago, developed nations have achieved ever greater prosperity and higher living standards. But through this period our activities have come to affect our atmosphere, oceans, geology, chemistry and biodiversity. What is now plain is that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialisation and strong economic growth from a world population that has increased sixfold in 200 years, is causing global warming at a rate that began as significant, has become alarming and is simply unsustainable in the long-term. And by long-term I do not mean centuries ahead. I mean within the lifetime of my children certainly; and possibly within my own. And by unsustainable, I do not mean a phenomenon causing problems of adjustment. I mean a challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence." ---- Tony Blair --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >........... > As long as there are world leaders with common sense > like President Bush and P.M. Tony Blair there is > nothing to be afraid of. Those gullible nations who > want to impose mandatory controls on their own > economies are feee to do so, and fool themselves > into believing they will achieve something while India > and China continue to generate increasing amounts of > greenhouse gases. >............ > President George Bush and P.M. Tony Blair, have explicitly or >tacitly agreed that mandatory standards are irresponsible in the >context of the contradictions in the scientific evidence that >humans are to blame for global warming. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | --------------------------------------------------------------------------