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Re: Who does W. Love? BIG OIL!!!
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:25:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > I also disagree with Miss Whitman's statement that global warming is a "real
> > phenomena." There are many studies that say it is not. IMO, it's a tool of
> > environmental extremists to punish prosperity and capitalism in this
> > country.
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> Really? Which studies? Please be specific.
Perhaps he's referring to this:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/03/14/greenhouse.gases.02/index.html
Oh, wait, my mistake--that article identifies the greenhouse effect as real.
And before anyone gripes about the Clinton News Network pushing a
pointy-headed liberal agenda, the study appears in the scientific journal
Nature, which I suppose some will claim is likewise pointy-headed propaganda.
> > Third-world countries produce far more pollution than the entire
> > U.S. does and no one targets them.
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> How do you suggest we control their emissions? Invade?
Besides which--is that assertion based on evidence or rhetoric? I don't
see how third-world countries, which are by definition under-industrialized,
can be blamed for producing more pollution than the United Smokestack of
America.
Dave!
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| (...) Dave!: Proportionately, developing nations do indeed put greater amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere than developed nations - chiefly because poorer countries either lack, or have chosen not to install, pollution control devices that (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I can't believe you think his concerns are noble. His concern is for all those big factories that are going to line his pockets (or donate to his next campaign, or whatever) when he allows them to spew carbon dioxide in copious amounts. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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