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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:24:30 +0530 From: Venantius J Pinto <venantius.pi...@gmail.com> In case you haven't received it yet, here is our newsletter with links to the actual articles online. Feel free to send it out on any listservs or email networks you may be on. Mario observes: Venantius, I think your friends overlooked this new report by the BBC, which has hitherto been a proponent of the hypothesis that climate change just had to be caused by us puny humans: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm Excerpt: One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up. [end of excerpt] Also these reports or warming on some other planets, where I believe some of our Goanetters may have homes:-)) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming031307.htm I would like your friends to tell us how curbing the CO2 emissions of only the western economies - by 80% from 2000 levels by 2050, i.e. turning these economies upside down - is going to overcome earth's growing "smoking section". This now includes Russia, China, India, Australia, Brazil and Mexico and every less developed country. Remember the goal is to curb the level of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere, CO2 being the plant food that is now being treated like some poisonous gas. The dirty little secret is that man-made CO2 is only about 0.01% of the total earth's atmosphere. That's equivalent to one paisa in Rs.100.00 Are you getting the picture here? The extreme environmentalists say that: 1. Only the western economies must dial back their economies or turn them completely upside down from current practices. 2. In the meantime none of the emerging economies will do anything significant. If they do they will demand compensation from the same western economies who will be struggling to comply with what is being demanded of them. 3. All this to curb 0.01% of the total atmosphere which is man-made CO2? The policy questions are, a) will there be ANY measurable or noticeable effect on the total atmosphere of the earth, and b) will the severe economic disruptions in only the western economies that drive the rest of the world's economies be worth achieving minimal or hardly any noticeable results. For those who believe in conspiracies, there is more going on here than just a concern abbout climate change.
