Post by traveler on Jun 1, 2007 12:02:04 GMT -5
Nice and informative OpEd about the global warming debate....
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It also comes after the Energy Information Administration announced Friday that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels fell 1.3% in 2006, even as U.S. gross domestic product grew 3.3%.
Clearly we are doing something right. We are reducing emissions and using energy more efficiently — without Kyoto. Energy use per unit of GDP fell 4.2% last year, and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP fell 4.5%. You'd think Pelosi would be nominating Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize.
As for the Europeans, among the original EU-15, emissions have risen almost 3% since 1993, due largely to the growing economies of members like Austria, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal whose emissions have grown 10% or more.
Clearly we are doing something right. We are reducing emissions and using energy more efficiently — without Kyoto. Energy use per unit of GDP fell 4.2% last year, and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP fell 4.5%. You'd think Pelosi would be nominating Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize.
As for the Europeans, among the original EU-15, emissions have risen almost 3% since 1993, due largely to the growing economies of members like Austria, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal whose emissions have grown 10% or more.
Richard S. Lindzen, professor of atmospheric science at MIT, says "the evidence so far suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average" and that a "likely result of all this is that increased pressure is pushing ice off the coastal perimeter of that country." And, we'd add, giving the greenies ominous photo-ops.
As Patrick J. Michaels, senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute, points out, satellite data published in the November 2005 issue of the journal Science showed Greenland was losing about 25 cubic miles of ice per year. Dividing that by Greenland's 630,000 miles of ice, Eric the Red's former ranchland was losing ice at the rate of 0.4% per century.
Ian Howat of the University of Washington published another paper in the February 2007 issue of Science reporting that the rate of melting of two of the largest glaciers had slowed "to near zero, with some apparent thickening in areas on the main trunk."
Howat notes that Greenland was about as warm or warmer in the 1930s and '40s, before the SUV, and many of Greenland's glaciers were smaller than they are now. This was a period of rapid glacier melting worldwide followed by an expansion during a colder period from the 1950s to the 1980s.
As Patrick J. Michaels, senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute, points out, satellite data published in the November 2005 issue of the journal Science showed Greenland was losing about 25 cubic miles of ice per year. Dividing that by Greenland's 630,000 miles of ice, Eric the Red's former ranchland was losing ice at the rate of 0.4% per century.
Ian Howat of the University of Washington published another paper in the February 2007 issue of Science reporting that the rate of melting of two of the largest glaciers had slowed "to near zero, with some apparent thickening in areas on the main trunk."
Howat notes that Greenland was about as warm or warmer in the 1930s and '40s, before the SUV, and many of Greenland's glaciers were smaller than they are now. This was a period of rapid glacier melting worldwide followed by an expansion during a colder period from the 1950s to the 1980s.