|
Page 2 of 2
"Global
warming 'means that if we don't fix the climate, everything will be
destroyed and we won't be able to survive,' two students wrote. Others
found their global warming lessons similarly frightening," Martin wrote.
The students also left no room for discussion of the scientific issue.
"We've
read article about global warming. And we know all the facts," said
one, while another added, "Natural disasters have quadrupled in 20
years, 53 bird species face extinction, World must fix climate in 10
years, Air pollution shrinks fetus size. THIS IS CAUSED BY GLOBAL
WARMING!!!" said another.
When the Heartland Institute held its
conference in New York in March, WND reported more than 100
internationally prominent environmental scientists argued that global
warming is, instead, a natural process and not the result of human
activity.
"The purpose of the conference is to provide a platform
for the hundreds of scientists, economists, and policy experts who
dissent from the so-called 'consensus' on global warming," said Bast.
"Is
global warming 'An Inconvenient Truth,' as Vice President Al Gore
charges, or a 'Global Warming Swindle?' Harriet Johnson, spokeswoman
for the Heartland Institute asked in a statement distributed at the
conference.
"The alarmists in the global warming debate have had
their say – over and over again, in every newspaper in the country
practically every day and in countless news reports and documentary
films," a notice on the Heartland Institute website said. "But they
have lost the debate."
In one of the papers released,
environmental scientist S. Fred Singer's "Nature, Not Human Activity
Rules the Climate" summarized a three-year international scientific
research project conducted by the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, or NIPCC.
He said the climate is affected by many
factors, but what can be ruled out by scientific evidence is that
greenhouse gases are an important factor in causing global warming. Source
<< Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>
|
