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To the Editor:
On March 21st, Al Gore testified before Congress about the planetary emergency being caused by global warming. As he has done in his Oscar-winning film and in his slideshow, Gore pointed out the threat to future generations and the damage already being done by global warming: rising sea-levels, stronger hurricanes, more frequent drought and heat waves, and decreased water availability.
In the face of these devastating predictions, Gore expressed the importance of timely action. He focused on solutions that we all have the power to implement and should demand of our policy makers: clean energy sources, such as wind and solar power, cars that go farther on a gallon of gasoline, more energy efficient buildings and appliances, and more.
Specifically, Mr. Gore endorsed the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act as a long-term, science-based solution to global warming.
I strongly urge Senator Kohl to cosponsor this critical piece of legislation, which would reduce global warming pollution by 15 percent by 2020 and by 80 percent by 2050, the levels required to prevent the worst effects of global warming.
I applaud Senator Feingold for having already taken this step to become a leader in the area of global warming.
Sincerely, Gabrielle Hinahara
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Does anyone realize that Gore’s claim that CO2 causes global warming is false? The ice core data shows that the global warming occurs BEFORE CO2 levels in the atmosphere rise. The Earth heats first, releases CO2 from the oceans, and the 0.5% atmospheric CO2 rises slightly.
It might be frustrating to you that the Senators didn’t watch Gore’s movie and propose planet saving legislation immediately, but responsible legislators don’t do that. At best, Gore’s powerpoint show brought attention to a potential problem, but not a “global emergency.”
The real emergency, which might be behind all this, is our dependence on petroleum. I don’t know why the powers-that-be can’t be honest with us in the first place?
No doubt it’s getting warmer. BIG doubt that humans have must to do with it.
Unless you’ve got pictures of the Martian SUVs that are causing Mars to warm up.
Or evidence of the Dark Age SUVs that led to Greenland being green a thousnad years ago.
There are much better reasons to stop burning carbon for power than global warming. Anybody who cares about carbon footprint must support nuclear power - it’s the only thing that can solve the problem.
The UW should develop and build a pebble bed nuclear plant to replcae the old coal plant. The would be a great start.
Al Gore’s projections were based on a few feet of sea level growth. The estimates by the actual scientists are that there will be a few inches of sea level increase. Huge difference.
I’m skeptical about global warming, in large part because environmentalists are the fundamentalists of the scientific community. They enter the scientific community looking for a specific cause for a specific effet (The Earth has been warmer over the past 30 years, people must have caused it), and then look for that. There is a potential significant problem with that. Everything that the environmentalists think people should do can be advocated for on a much more rational, simplistic basis: Economic efficiency. By appealing to a doomsday scenario they could have a major problem. If the world starts cooling again sometime in the next 10 or 15 years (just as it did from about 1940-1980) it would hugely damage the environmental movement in the public view. Because I think the things they advocate people to do are good, I wish they wouldn’t walks such a risky tight rope to get public interest now.
I am not half so afraid of mild warming as I am of a winter in which 20 feet of snow fall, not just in a few local places, but across the northern plains. The evidence is that Ice Ages take under a decade to go from deciduous trees to tundra to ice, or at least that’s what happened in England and Belgium.
Hmm, so Kohl should mimic Fiengold? In other words, he should start speaking out of both sides of his mouth, treat his constituents like dirt, lie, cheat, steal, and be an all around smarmy slime? Nah, I like Herb Kohl the way he is (even though he is a liberal), unlike Russ, he does what he does because he believes it is right, not because he believes it will get him elected. Go Herb!!