Junk science emerges

The Environmental Protection Agency submitted its 2002 U.S. Climate Action Report to the UN recently, heaving the reputable scientific research of the U.S. aside and joining the popular academy of junk science. \nThe report in part stated, "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing global mean surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise ..." \nAlthough scientists are in agreement about the existence of the phenomenon called the greenhouse effect, they are in disagreement about whether or not this phenomenon is taking place and thus disagree about the effects of automobile emissions on the global environment.\n"We don't know nearly enough about the operation of the earth's climate system to make reliable predictions of the consequences of the greenhouse buildup," Wallace Broecker of Columbia University said. \nPrudently stated, climate is determined by many factors, not just the rise in auto emissions. \n"The balance of evidence suggests that there has been no appreciable warming since 1940," Fred Singer, an atmosphere physicist at the University of Virginia, said, "This would indicate that the human effects on climate must be quite small. The sun is responsible for most, and perhaps all of the short-term climate changes we observe." \nFurthermore, there was actually a slight cooling between 1940 and 1970, although by environmentalists' measures, there should have been a temperature increase.\n"The climate of the past has varied under natural conditions without the influence of humans," geologist Dr. Ulrich Berner said. "There are numerous temperature changes which are not mimicked by the CO2 concentration. Carbon dioxide doesn't produce climatic changes. Climatic changes have always occurred and will, for the future, always occur."\nIn the last hundred years, there has been no increasing ground temperature in the 48 adjacent states. The Antarctic glacier, containing most of the world's store of ice, is growing. Experts even anticipate a slight sea level drop. There just isn't adequate evidence for global warming! \nGlobal warming scares many people who fear a foreboding environmental disaster, but evidence shows otherwise. The naturalistic viewpoint maintains that humans control the fate of the Earth -- perhaps instead, the Earth's environment is self-regulating as proponents of intelligent design have suggested all along.\n"The present increase in measured carbon dioxide alone, without a convincingly measured rise in temperature…is not an adequate reason for the prominence of anxiety at the political level," Harvard's Peter Rogers said. \nEspecially when the anxiety costs taxpayers an arm and a leg and further damages an already suffering economy.\nPresident Bush wisely distanced his views from the EPA's claim, dismissing it as "the report put out by the bureaucracy." When questioned about chances of signing onto the Kyoto Treaty, Bush replied, "I do not support the Kyoto treaty. The Kyoto treaty would severely damage the United States economy, and I don't accept that." \nWe can appreciate Bush's good judgment, even though the EPA's report is largely due to his appointment of moderate Christie Whitman.\nCalifornia's state assembly is now reviewing the effects of carbon dioxide emissions on global climatic change. They intend to pass legislation requiring reduced automobile emissions, hoping to stave off a rising temperature. Whenever California passes such legislation, the other states usually follow suit. \nI suggest these legislatures leave global warming to the experts.