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Thursday, January 24, 2008

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    Scientists Say CO2
    Has No Effects
    IT MAY BE of interest to readers that a recent (Oct. 2007) issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons contains a very comprehensive 12-page report compiling, correlating and analyzing the factual data (not consensus) from over 100 scientific studies concerning effects of fossil fuel combustion carbon dioxide on the environment. Its title is "Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide" and written by Messrs A. B. Robinson, N. E. Robinson, & W. Soon (of Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine).
    Some quotes from the report's Abstract and Conclusions are:
    "... carbon dioxide ... increases during 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth's weather and climate."
    "Increased carbon dioxide has ... markedly increased plant growth."
    "There are no experimental data to support the hypothesis that increases in human hydrocarbon use or in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing or can be expected to cause unfavorable changes in global temperatures, weather, or landscape."
    "The Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without catastrophic effects."
    "The United States and other countries need to produce more energy, not less. The most practical, economical, and environmentally sound methods available are hydrocarbon and nuclear technologies."
    "Human use of coal, oil, and natural gas has not harmfully warmed the Earth, and the extrapolation of current trends shows that it will not do so in the foreseeable future."
    "We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of this CO2 increase. Our children will therefore enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life than that with which we now are blessed."
    The entire report may be found at: www.jpands.org/vol12no3/robinson.pdf.
    It is also of note that many of the scientist members of the U.N.'s IPCC, who originally started this "sky is falling" scare, have resigned or reversed their conclusions.
    Since most of these scientific data were known before the release of the movie "An Inconvenient Truth," it was undoubtedly used as evidence in a recent British legal action where the court ruled that the movie contained a significant number of errors and false statements which must be pointed out to students in school classes where the film is shown.
    They are also the basis of a legal action in the U.S. to rescind its Academy Award as "Best Documentary" because of errors and the fictitious nature of misrepresentations of the environmental effects of fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions ... making it not a valid documentary.
    Because this film has been widely shown in our public schools, I would recommend that parents counsel their children, who saw it and were perhaps frightened by it, that a large portion of it was not factual and had no scientific basis.
    KEN JOHNSON, P.E.
    Sandia Park
    Picasso, Polluck
    ... Palettes, Please
    SUNRISE FROM AURORA. Sunset from Golden. Brilliant, prismatic swaths of sunlight splashing, decorating, dazzling an earthen carpet of grama grass. Shades of green and yellow so compedious our tongue's are frozen when called upon for an appellation. Picasso, Pissaro, Polluck ... palettes, please. Hearty homes, headstones (handcrafted), herbs, husks. All ascribed aesthetic attributes by sublime sunlight.
    A town splendidly lying in fallow. Billow of smoke from coke chimneys. Ghostly, gaunt buildings made of handhewn wood and handforged iron sit supinely. An evocation of the past, the imagination runs rampant at thoughts of mothers and children laughing, loving, living. Boys growing into men, men growing into old age. Grandchild to grandfather. Youth to elder under the same rural, rusty roof. Presently, the parson, the postmistress (potentate postmistress) and the preceptor all reside among the ruins. Vulpine, they abscond from the trapping and the turgid taunts of cacophonous cities.
    A rancher drives down Jaymar Road ruminating over beefy bovines, culled cattle, dank dairies (no place for enthusiastic equestrians). Dreaming of flavorful females, giddy girdles, honeyed horsewomen. Waving at all who pass by, even the rare stranger. The stranger waves back, thinking how rare it is for a stranger to wave.
    Serendipitous? Surely. Stanley salutation.
    JORDAN GARRICK
    Stanley