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...Since its last meeting five years ago, the IPCC says it has discovered immutable evidence that human beings are the root cause of global warming, and that we've been particularly harmful in the past 50 years, spewing exhaust and industrial toxins into the atmosphere at breakneck speed...
...should trust Gore. Since he's actually written a book on the subject, he is familiar with all the relevant data. He has surely heard of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sponsored by the UN itself. And he must have seen Bert Bolin, chair of the IPCC, admit in debate that the vast majority of warming this century took place before 1940. Aaah, the good old days--so many cars on the road that Henry Ford even let you "choose between black and black...
...main reason for the spread in the IPCC predictions is uncertainty about how much carbon dioxide will be added to the atmosphere by human activity, because how we will respond to the threat of climate warming is the greatest imponderable of all. We can probably develop technologies to deal with excess carbon--some scientists talk about removing it from smokestacks and stashing it underground--but the most direct way to control carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not to put it there in the first place. This is the point of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol--signed by 84 nations...
...general, the news is not good. Over the next century, says the IPCC report...
Even if Lindzen is wrong and the IPCC report is right, there might not be much anyone could do. Slashing emissions of greenhouse gases to stave off global warming would be straightforward enough, but that doesn't mean it would be easy. Among the strategies recommended in the new report: switching from coal and oil to natural gas, turning to nuclear and solar energy, slowing deforestation, altering land-use and traffic patterns, curbing automobile use, changing life-styles and employment patterns...