Drive an SUV; Make the Planet Greener

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has long said that greenhouse gases from fossil fuels, airosols, and burning rainforests are causing the earth to warm up and that someday, in the far future, we're all likely to die. WND reports on an article in New Scientist in which the IPCC has found that airosols actually counteract the greenhouse effect.

Now the news out of the Berlin workshop is the aerosols thwart 75 percent of the warming effect. That would mean they prevented the planet from becoming almost two degrees warmer than it is now.

WND reviews some of the opposition to the mass hysteria over global warming.

The IPCC's global-warming theory has been widely disputed.

WorldNetDaily has reported that Dr. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, maintains there has been little or no warming since about 1940.

In 1998, 17,000 scientists signed a petition circulated by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, saying, in part, "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."

Then in January 2002, the journal Science published the findings of scientists who had been measuring the vast West Antarctic ice sheet. The researchers found that the ice sheet is growing thicker, not melting.

The journal Nature published similar findings by scientist Peter Doran and his colleagues at the University of Illinois. Rather than using the U.N.'s computer models, the researchers took actual temperature readings and discovered temperatures in the Antarctic have been getting slightly colder – not warmer – for the last 30 years.

Last September, U.S. scientists based at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station announced that, finally, they have been able to measure the temperature of the atmosphere 18 to 68 miles over the pole. They found it to be 68 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit colder than the computer models used to predict global warming showed.

Even if we are warming, according to a study funded by NASA and the U.S. Energy Department, global warming is making the planet greener.

Plants have flourished in many areas -- especially in the tropics and the far northern forests - because they variously received more sun, water, heat or carbon dioxide, said the study.
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It was uncertain whether the 6 per cent increase in total global plant biomass was due to man-made or natural climate fluctuations, said the study published in Science magazine.