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Subject:Who Exactly has caused Global Warming -- Tree Hugging Environmentalists 
   Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:53:45 -0700 
   From: "George" <geopell@hevanet.com> 

I've been saying for a year or three now that global warming was caused by the tree hugging environmentalists, that the reduction in pollution has allowed more sunlight to reach the earth's surface and thus the temperature has risen.  In the March 16 issue of Science, NASA confirms what I have been saying all along:  

"GLOBAL 'SUNSCREEN' HAS LIKELY THINNED, REPORT NASA SCIENTISTS" 
 

"A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases – sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles – appears to have lost ground."

"The thinning of Earth’s "sunscreen" of aerosols since the early 1990s could have given an extra push to the rise in global surface temperatures."

""When more sunlight can get through the atmosphere and warm Earth's surface, you're going to have an effect on climate and temperature," said lead author Michael Mishchenko of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York. "

Read the whole article here
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom
/NasaNews/2007/2007031524529.html 

And they all said I was nuts.  Boy were they wrong. 

Geo

Postscript from a liberal Oregon forum:

Subject: Fwd: Global warming fraud OK 
   Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:13:26 -0400 
   From: stevescare@aol.com 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: stevescare@aol.com
To: media@teleport.com; rob@oregoneducation.org
Cc: Jkarlock@earthlink.net; myz7@comcast.net; wardarch@gmail.com
Sent: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 7:13 PM
Subject: Global warming fraud OK

Here we have it folks. The first salvo from the left, that I have read, which says it doesn't matter if the Global Warming hysteria has been a fraud. They are still right and the policies are still needed.
 
The classic liberal mind.
 
Posted by: Kari Chisholm | Mar 15, 2007 1:09:59 PM

I'm still unclear on the what the downside is of reducing our carbon production, our energy consumption, and our impact on the environment. Let's imagine for a moment that the deniers are right. So what? Is reducing our carbon emissions a bad thing?   They're arguing an academic point.  
 

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