The great global warming swindle swindle

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FourWinds F
FourWinds Jul 23, 2008 06:46:14
Replying to handofdave

handofdave wrote:
All those 'mankind is blameless' types need to remember that, even IF all our emissions had nothing whatsoever to do with global warming, there's acid rain, respiratory diseases, and a thousand other reasons why we should go to a post fossil fuel economy.
And there starts the fun. Is global warming a conspiracy by those causing the above, equally serious, problems to deflect law suits away from them?

M Merrick
Merrick Jul 23, 2008 19:53:50
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
And there starts the fun. Is global warming a conspiracy by those causing the above, equally serious, problems to deflect law suits away from them?
Not sure I follow the logic. Adding yet another sphere in which those in charge are being murderously negligent doesn't seem like too smart a way of making them look good.

P PMM
PMM Jul 23, 2008 20:38:31
Replying to FourWinds

I think, at least in the West, acid rain and the smogs that used to cause respiratory diseases are less of a problem because of our response to it. We banned CFC aerosol propellants, forced companies to fit scrubbers into their chimneys, etc.

The story, at least on those issues seems to offer some hope.

I could be wrong of course.

Nope. Not according to the European Geosciences Union anyway, whoever they are.

http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/3663/2007/acp-7-3663-2007.html