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We urge the United States government to reject the global warming
agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any
other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would
harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and
damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon
dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the
foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's
atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is
substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon
dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and
animal environments of the Earth.
In a new development that is potentially devastating to the agenda to
introduce a global carbon tax and a cap and trade system, Al Gore
admits that the majority of global warming that occurred until 2001 was
not primarily caused by CO2.
Before we get too excited, Gore is not backing away from his support
for the theory of man-made climate change, but his concession that
carbon dioxide only accounted for 40% of warming according to new
studies could seriously harm efforts to tax CO2, that evil, life-giving
gas that humans exhale and plants absorb.
“Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate
efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon
emissions,” reports BB News.
But still:
- A key U.S. Senate environment committee approved a Democratic climate
change bill on Thursday that would require industry to cut emissions of
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020 from 2005
levels.
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