Many articles on global warming are defining the subject as a "fait accomplis". The armaggedon scenario requires some discussion. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meterolology at MIT, notes that despite increasing carbon emissions, the rise in the earth's temperature is less than you would expect and not consistent, interrupted by repeated cooling periods. It cooled so much that the April 28, 1975 issue of Newsweek had "The Cooling World" as its science story. Meteorologists, it reported were "almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines would result from, gasp, global cooling. Global Cooling? Sound familiar today with Al Gore and his fellow "scientists"? The head of St.Petersburg's Pulkovo, Astronomical Observatory in Russia says the simultaneous waming on Earth and Mars suggests a more natural cause--The Sun. "Man-made greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance." It is unfortunate that the news media cannot publish a balanced viewpoint.

Gary Marsella

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