[opendtv] Re: A Station Group with a Future
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 11:52:05 -0800
Don't forget cow flatulence (methane). How can I live without chocolate
milk? It's how I power my bicycle.
John Willkie
P.S. GM is the leading brand in China. They're made there, with local
partners. Possibly too subtle of a point for Mr. Gore. Remember that Mr.
"no controlling legal authority" cleared Steve Jobs, though.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of John Shutt
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 5:27 AM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: A Station Group with a Future
>
> There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
>
> http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
>
> John
>
> P.S., after seeing Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, I haven't tried to
> dispute all of his PowerPoint slides, but the one where it says the US
> can't
> sell cars in China flies in the face of the facts. Makes me wonder what
> else he got wrong.
>
> Excerpt from link above:
>
> Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity?
>
> It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if
> not.
>
> This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water
> vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases
> makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution
> to
> the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.
>
> Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas,
> accounting
> for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many "facts
> and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful
> effects
> of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps,
> deliberately)
> overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Barry" <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> >I don't know if we are causing global warming or not, but it seems
> likely.
> >And there have been recent new reports of attempts to hire scientists to
> >dispute the findings that we are. To me this is more evidence we have
> >problems and should start to take it seriously.
> >
> > - Tom
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