Global Warming -- Sununu Should know better

[alevensalor]

http://watchingthewatchers.org/index.php?p=350

Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) sits on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in the US Senate. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Harvard.

He is, by all accounts, a very well-educated man. That did not stop him from saying the following:


“despite a documented half-degree rise in global temperatures over the second half of the 20th century, scientists have been unable to agree that there is a direct link between the temperature increase and human activity.”

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[GCP]

1. He DOES know better - he's just lying through his teeth

:grr:

[hatrack]

2. You were expecting, say, something other than ideology?

You make ze joke - c'est tordant! :hi:

[izzie]

3. I do not know why anything like this is going on but====

Their was a radio show on that told about a town in Alaska that had always been in this one place as far as they could tell. It is now having problems because the water in the arctic is not ice long enough and the place they live is being eaten away by the waves, which they never had with the ice. It is changing these village places in the North. They also had a story about things like this in low island in the Pac. So it must be going on but I am not sure why. Burning gas does seem to do things to the air, that we know is a fact. I would say cutting down on all this stuff we add to air would be on the safe side. If they are not a problem when we find that out we can add them to the air if they want. Well they do sell the pollutions chits on wall street or some place.

[corbett]

4. Republicans In Maine And Vermont Know Better

When his Republican counterparts from Maine and Vermont support emission cuts to reduce the effects of global warming, you know he’s lying. A shame - not surprising but shameful nonetheless. He doesn't serve his constituents who rely on long, cold winters for their livelihood.

[CrispyQ]

5. RW spew, that's all it is.

How they can continue to lie about an issue that I think is THE CRITICAL SURVIVAL issue, is beyond me.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0219-01.htm

snip...

Scientists have found the first unequivocal link between man-made greenhouse gases and a dramatic heating of the Earth's oceans. The researchers - many funded by the US government - have seen what they describe as a "stunning" correlation between a rise in ocean temperature over the past 40 years and pollution of the atmosphere.

The study destroys a central argument of global warming skeptics within the Bush administration - that climate change could be a natural phenomenon. It should convince George Bush to drop his objections to the Kyoto treaty on climate change, the scientists say.

Tim Barnett, a marine physicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and a leading member of the team, said: "We've got a serious problem. The debate is no longer: 'Is there a global warming signal?' The debate now is what are we going to do about it?"

The findings are crucial because much of the evidence of a warmer world has until now been from air temperatures, but it is the oceans that are the driving force behind the Earth's climate. Dr Barnett said: "Over the past 40 years there has been considerable warming of the planetary system and approximately 90 per cent of that warming has gone directly into the oceans."

[Demeter]

6. Sununu Was a Lousy Governor

consistent to see he's just as bad a Senator. So glad I'm out of NH!

By the way, there are two kinds of MIT graduates: the productive ones, and the sleazy. Guess which one Sununu is?

[ixion]

7. educated or not, Sununu has always been an unethical partisan hack