If I understand Mario's ideological position on this issue correctly it is the
following:
1. He does not deny that there is strong scientific evidence for global warming.
2. He does not deny the evidence that there has been a continuous increase in
the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, beginning with the onset of the
industrial age.
3. He does not deny that Svante Arrhenius showed conclusively that very tiny
amounts of carbon dioxide produce a greenhouse effect.
4. He does not deny that certain changes are occurring in the polar ice caps
and in the oceans on the earth.
5. He does not deny that a majority of climate scientists contend based on
theory and physical evidence that the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect is the
cause of global warming, and therefore the latter is anthropogenic in nature.
6. He does not deny that a majority of climate scientists contend that some of
the observed environmental effects are due to global warming.
7. What he believes, however, is that:
a. There are many politicians and some scientists who deny that global warming
is taking place or that it is anthropogenic in nature.
b. There are many politicians and some scientists who deny that the observed
environmental effects are due to global warming.
c. The predicted long-term effects and their impacts are uncertain because they
are predictions based on mathematical climate models.
c. The actions proposed to be taken to address these uncertain consequences
would produce a global economic collapse or some such drastic repercussions for
the major world economies, even though these economic predictions are also
uncertain because they are predictions based on speculative ideological and
economic models.
Cheers,
Santosh
--- On Tue, 12/22/09, Carmen Miranda <carmitamira...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mario wrote: How do you like this can of worms?
> Major conflicts of
> interest stain the science and the scientists and the
> politicians behind the
> efforts to control global warming. etc etc....
>
> I wonder which oil company is paying Mario Goveia to deny
> climate change
> and come up with imaginary cans of worms....
> He must be also living in another planet.....here on Earth,
> we unfortunately
> are already suffering the effects of climate change caused
> by global
> warming. Given Mario's planet is actually cooling....he
> must be somewhere
> else in the solar system....and I hope he stays there!
>
> Carmen
>
