This poll porports to show 71 percent of hunters and fishermen believe global warming is a fact and it is hurting hunting and fishing. I was very disappointed that hunters and fishermen who spend a lot of time outdoors and should know better about weather cycles and changes think Global Warming is a problem.
Al Gore has a promo movie out right now about Global Warming. In an interview with Grist Magazine about global warming Gore said: "I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience." So much for accuracy and truth - if you can open up the audience!
Many in the mainstream media claim all scientiests agree about Global Warming. You won't hear about these:
Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says:
"Most of the literate world today regards "global warming'' as both real and dangerous. Indeed, the diplomatic activity concerning warming might lead one to believe that it is the major crisis confronting mankind. The June 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focused on international agreements to deal with that threat, and the heads of state from dozens of countries attended. I must state at the outset, that, as a scientist, I can find no substantive basis for the warming scenarios being popularly described. Moreover, according to many studies I have read by economists, agronomists, and hydrologists, there would be little difficulty adapting to such warming if it were to occur. Such was also the conclusion of the recent National Research Council's report on adapting to global change."
Then there is the Heidelberg Appeal, signed by 4,000 scientists from 106 countries, which includes 72 Nobel Prize winners. The appeal warns industrialized nations that no compelling scientific consensus exists to justify mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cuts.
The Oregon Petition, sponsored by Dr. Frederick Seitz, former past president of the National Academy of Sciences has over 17,000 independently verified signatures from scientists. It reads, in part:
"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."
And 46 climate scientists sent a letter, printed in the June 3 edition of Canada's National Post, to a Canadian member of Parliament, questioning the theory that mankind is responsible for global warming. According to the signatories, the Kyoto Protocol "lacks credible science." Moreover, "Many climate science experts from Canada and around the world, while still strongly supporting environmental protection, equally strongly disagree with the scientific rationale for the Kyoto Accord."
I have set up my own Global Warming Polls. Take them and I will analyze them and give you my results. My polls are more blatant than the NWF poll, but being subtle is not being accurate.
