Slouching toward Kyoto."In a striking shift in the way the Bush administration has portrayed the science of climate change, a new report to Congress focuses on federal research indicating that emissions of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. and other heat-trapping gasses are the only likely explanation for global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. over the last three decades," reported the August 26 New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. Among the other remarkable "scientific" findings in that report is the supposed discovery that accumulating emissions of C[O.sub.2] "pose newly identified risks to farmers," since the gas promotes "the growth of invasive weeds far more than it stimulates crops.... " Which is to say, apparently, that carbon dioxide is a discriminating molecule. Unlike an earlier "climate change" report that offered similar conclusions, the most recent document "is accompanied by a letter signed by Mr. Bush's secretaries of energy and commerce and his science adviser." This would make it much more difficult for the president to dismiss the report as something "put out by the bureaucracy," as he did with the previous report. In any case, the document is a political artifact A distortion in an image or sound caused by a limitation or malfunction in the hardware or software. Artifacts may or may not be easily detectable. Under intense inspection, one might find artifacts all the time, but a few pixels out of balance or a few milliseconds of abnormal sound , not a scientific report, given that its conclusions are unsupportable by sound science at completely at variance with the overwhelming consensus of scientists in the relevant fields. The Bush administration's embrace of the alarmist a·larm·ist n. A person who needlessly alarms or attempts to alarm others, as by inventing or spreading false or exaggerated rumors of impending danger or catastrophe. view of "climate change" suggests that it would embrace some version of the UN's Kyoto Protocol Kyoto Protocol: see global warming. in a second term. |
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