As you can tell from my earlier posts I'm not what you'd call a true believer on the subject of Global Warming. It's not that I don't believe we can be doing things better or cleaner, we can and we have. Nor do I consider myself close-minded on the subject. I'm just having a difficult time subscribing to a hypothesis that smacks of a scare tactic. I would be willing to except that Human activity is a direct result of Global Warming if these climate scientist could provide hard data, but yet all I've ever heard are some rather weak theories, or how certain they are in percentages. Despite what the media has told us, Global Warming caused by Human activity IS NOT a universally accepted fact. Right now a petition is being signed by scientists around the world in protest to what they believe to be political interference in science to push a political agenda. This petition, which was started by Professor Art Robinson, a chemistry researcher and co-founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine reads as follows; "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases 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." As of this writing over 31,000 scientists have signed this petition, with more signing everyday.
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