Wednesday, March 11, 2009

"We need to have a better story than the market": May
Last week, Green Party leader Elizabeth May spoke to a packed crowd of students and community members at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary bringing a religious perspective to the controversial issue of climate change.
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt: Climate change alarmists ‘intentionally mislead’
As for the IPCC’s science, the geologist astronaut said, “Carbon dioxide cannot accumulate in the earth’s prevailing atmosphere at levels and rates claimed by the IPCC and its supporters.” He continued his argument saying, “The residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere is only five years, 10 at most in some cases - not the 50 to 200 years claimed by the IPCC.
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Among the issues with the models he pointed to the fact that they are continually modified, very subjective, makes assumptions beyond what is scientifically acceptable and cannot accurately predict historical trends. For these efforts he said the IPCC and its supporters, “intentionally mislead.”

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