Do you think Bush administration censored research on global warming? Or is this just a lie by tree huggers?
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Of course they did.\n\nBushco is the most hostile administration to science and the truth in general (wherever it conflicts with their policy goals anyway).  A couple of years ago a group of our country's most distinguished scientists (including many Nobel prize winners) wrote an open letter detailing the Bush admins. distortion of facts for politicasl purposes.  Read below;\n\n\nhttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0219-02.htm
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This gobal warming BS is all propaganda, to get us ready to ween ourselves away from oil.  The effect that humans have had on global warming is nominal.  A good volcanic eruption gives off more CO2 and poisonous gas than humans have given since the start of the industrial revolution.  The government now is just using it as another tax grab.  These scientists, who do you think they get funding from.  Bill Gates?  No the government.  At one time they said the world was flat, then they said the sun revolves around the earth, the people that disproved these theories were persecuted by the common thought at the time, just like the scientists that have debunked the global warming debate today.  Like the BS of no more fish in 50 years, what a load of crap.  I've never heard anything so stupid.  But people like to have a doomsday, and like to think we are destroying the world.  Like we are overpopulated and the earth can't sustain this many people,  BS it can sustain double the current population.  Don't get me wrong some places like Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Mexico City, Lima, Bejing etc. need to pass clean air act in order to get localized pollution and smog under control, but that is for the citizen benifit, not the planets.  The planet will compensate for it's self, Ozone depleting emissions are a little more dangerous, but most industrialized nations have now passed strict laws about this, and in fact the holes in the ozone layer are not getting any bigger.  The weather is erratic, always has been always will be.  Just look up any record highs and lows of any date.  To be so arrogant and egotistical to think that we control nature is a stupid thought, nature controls us, and always will.  There is a reason we call her mother.\n\nSome FUN FACTS about CO2\nOf the 186 billion tons of CO2 deposited into the atmosphere yearly from all sources, only 6 billion are from man, 90 billion come from biologic activity in earths oceans, and another 90 billion from volcanos and decaying land plants.\n\ncurrent CO2 levels make up 4/100ths of 1% of gases in the atmosphere, compared to former geologic times earth is actually CO2 impoverished.\n\nCO2 is colourless, odourless, and tasteless, Plants consume CO2 and expel Oxygen, animals consume Oxygen and expel CO2.  Carbon Dioxide is a nutrient not a pollutant, and all life plants and animals alike benifit from it.  All life on earth is carbon based and CO2 is an essential ingredient.\n\nCO2 that goes into the atmosphere does not stay there it is recycled by land plants and the oceans(the retirement home for most terrestrial CO2)\n\nIf we are in a global warming crisis today??  Even the most costly and aggressive proposals for cutting CO2 emissions would have a negligable affect on global climate!!\n\nIn truth CO2 levels have been steadily increasing for the past 18000 years.  The total human contribution to the greenhouse effect has been about 0.28% (CO2 man made = 0.117% / NOX, methane other minor gases man made = 0.163%)\n\n"Scientists who want to attract attention to themselves, who want to attract great funding to themselves have to find a way to scare the public...and this you can only acheive by making things bigger and more dangerous than they really are"  Petr Chylek, professor of physic and atmospheric science.\n\n"Even if the Global warming THEORY(key word) is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of environmental and economic policy"  Tim Worth while US Senator Col.  After a short stint as UN under secretary for global affairs, he now serves as president of the UN Foundation, created by Ted Turner and his 1 Billion dollar "gift"\n\nYou people think everyone lied about Iraq, wake up people, this is the biggest lie yet!!!!!
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Uh, where did you find out this secret 'fact' about Bush wanting Ken Lay as energy secretary? The only place that has this is www.thedailyfarce.com - a spoof newspaper.\n\nAnd where do you get the mistaken idea that 'Big Oil' (ooooh, how scary!) is in charge of our energy policies? \n\nDo you loopy lefties know just how ignorant you sound?
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No and yes. \n\nWith regards to un-educated and mis-informed rubbish that goverments tell us that global warming is an artifact of human activity on this planet no I do not. Global warming is a topic which for the last thirty years or so has been 'fashionable' to study. If you look it at this way, the Earth is approx 4 to 6 billions years old and we are only studying the past few centuries. To me this is not even a dot on the Earths timescale so how can we possibly deduce mans influence on the climate. The climate of the earth is changing constantly. What we recognise as the four seasons; sping, summer, autumn (fall) and winter have only been in existance for the past few million years!\n\nAlthough some scientists have looked at the recent erosion of the ozone, they fail to see the bigger picture and take into account the varying orbit the planet has around the sun, its tilt and wobble (see link below for info on the Milankovitch Theory). They also fail to recognise in they're studies the gravitational pull of the earths core and the movement of the fluids contained within. Additionally the 'hotspots' or 'solar flares' on the sun are not taken into account when global warming is discussed, of which also effects our climate.
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Fungi?\nWell,if it's everything the article indicates it might be,\nsuch a fuel could be a godsend-especially if it really does cut down greenhouse emissions.I would have to reserve judgement on that until it's confirmed,though,it could be just political hype.Even if it's all true,we should continue exploring other alternatives such as solar energy\nwhich would have no effect at all on the environment.\n Still,this could possibly be the one positive result of Bush's Presidency.
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no i wrote a research paper a few months ago and in it, i proved that humans have nothing to do with global warming. in fact, i found that we only contribute to .28% of greenhouse gasses while the rest is natural.
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1.  Yes, temperatures actually have been rising - in certain places.  2.  No, it isn't too early to make predictions, as long as they are based on sound, unbiased scientific findings.  3. I believe that the warming is being driven by both people and natural causes.  We can do something about the former, but not the latter.  To what degree (no pun intended) each one is a factor is still up in the air, I think.  4.  Yes, it certainly could benefit some regions of the earth, but it would damage many populated regions tremendously.  That's why we need to try to slow down the human contribution a.s.a.p.
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the global warming theory is driven by politics, not science
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It's full of lies. Keep in mind, this is the same person who predicted another ice age in the seventies...sorry, i really don't believe in global warming until i get some real facts. After all, how do you think the glaciers melted? The earth had to warm...and that was long before SUV's were around. just my thoughts.
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Yes I think it's a matter of record now... nobody in the Bush administration wants to talk about it though... thank God for the freedom of information act.
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I'm a conservative, and I'm also pro-environment and pro-animal rights.  But I do think that the entire "global warming crisis" has been blown out of proportion by special interests.  The scientists who speak the truth are silenced.
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Any official announcement, release, or utterance of any governmental official made under the direction of the Federal Government should be considered propaganda and should be critically analyzed and taken with a grain of salt.\n\nIt's not just the Bush administration.  The Clinton Administration and all previous administrations stretching back to George Washington's terms.  Government is about exerting control over the people, not about telling the truth, though, at times, the truth is useful in controlling the people.\n\nJust be glad that our government allows us the freedom to write things like I just di.... akk!!
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Not the Republicans, they don't believe in Global Warming and pollution. They have actually allowed the emissions to double in the last 6 years because the deregulated the pollution control guidelines. Bush hates America.
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I think Al Gore jumps on the warming evidence and assumes the cause.  They just discovered that Antarctica was once tropic.  This planet has gone through ice ages and warming trends over and over.  So far I have seen no proof whatsoever that the current warming trend is anything more sinister than what has happened so many times.  I have looked to find it, expecting to find it, and couldn't find a link.  If someone has one (not a person saying 'it is caused by industrialization' but actual proof of that) I would love to see it.\n\nHaving said that, I think Gore legitimately believes global warming is something that can and should be stopped.  To that extent I believe he is genuine.\n\nWould he make a good President?  - No.
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here is a site with some of bush's lies http://bushwatch.org/bushlies.htm
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Your notions are very well-reasoned. You are correct, the down side of accepting that we are responsible for global warming is much smaller than the downside of denial.\n\nThe ONLY reason that the conservatives deny global warming is that they are afraid it will hurt big business and big industry. They are less interested in the truth than they are about protecting their personal  financial status.
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Don't be fooled by these responses. One above even claims that Australia is the only one complying, well Australia is not even a member of the treaty. Bush has many constituents and among one of them is carbon-based fuel industry that is the biggest polluter sending tons of pollution to the environment. Perhaps, instead of focusing on why he doesn't participate, we should focus on why he withdrew from the previous commitment made by the Clinton administration, it is clear they saw the threat of global warming. It's failure to understand that many of our problems today will have to be solved by our children tomorrow what keeps people from focusing on the real problems. Most just worry about their "today" taking tomorrow for granted; it is an egocentric and very selfish point of view. I'd rather sacrifice a little bit of the economy for a world in which my children don't have to wear gas masks or pay 100 dollars for a glass of drinking water. They (Bush and his cronies) just think we can clean up the earth when it all becomes a mess, and in a matter of seconds reverse the damage of what has taken millions of years to become an equilibrium. It is intelligent design what has created those "unintelligent minds" that oppose world conservation.