The document is an email containing information about an expected debate on global warming in the U.S. Senate. It provides background on expected amendments related to global warming legislation and regulation. It also includes short responses and discussion points that question the scientific consensus around human-caused global warming and the ability of climate models to accurately predict future impacts.

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Fast Facts on the Environment
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Time to Debate Global Warming Again
DATE: May 7, 2003
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BACKGROUND: The global warming debatE is again coming to the forefront
Senator John McCain CR-AZ) has scheduled global warming
Capitol Hill.
hearings in the Senate Commerce Committee May 7; Senator Joseph Lieberman
most
is expected to give a speech May 7 on global warming; and,
significant, consideration of the Sen te Energy Bill, S. 14, began this
are expected to be
week. Numerous amendments relating to global warming
proposed, and debate is expected to b contentious.
Expected amendments include, among ot ers:
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An amendment based on McCain-Liebermanl' S. 139, which would force the
commercial sectors to cut
electricity, transportation, industrial and
2010, and 1990 levels by 2016
greenhouse gas emissions to 2000 levels by
(see Ten Second Response *1803);
(D-NM) 's proposal, consistent
An amendment based on Senator Jeff Bingaman
with last year's Democrat Energy Bill, to establish a federal greenhouse
gas emission reporting system;
establish a "Forest Carbon
An amendment by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) to
forest owners, local
Program"' to give federal funding to states,
governments and others to restore and conserve forests.
regardless of
TEN SECOND RESPONSE: All global warming legislation,
policies that would kill
sponsor, tends to be expensive, anid most propose
the U.S. Senate are not,
many hundreds of thousands of jobs. Jcbs at
however, among those imperiled.
activity is causing the
THIRTY SECOND RESPONSE: The theory that human
planet to warm significantly is just~that, a theory, and one that, so far,
about global warming -
hasn't been coming true. Any serious discussion
speeches, prepared remarks or
whether in Senate debate, hearing testimony, that the best available
press releases - should include an ack owledgement
yet sophisticated enough to
scientific models of our atmosphere are not impact upon
accurately predict either future tempe atures or humankind's
climate.
debate continues:
DISCUSSION: Points to ponder as the gl bal warming
Academy of Sciences report
"One must dig carefully through [the N tional
vapor and cloud droplets
"Climate Change Science"] to discover :hat water
are in fact the dominant cause of gree house warming. We are not told,
is due to water vapor and
however, what fraction of the greenhou e effect
is a minor greenhouse gas -
clouds. Nor are we told that carbon dioxide
of the greenhouse effect -
one that accounts for less than ten percent
Adding more carbon dioxide
whose ability to absorb heat is quite limited.
warning very slowly.
to the atmosphere only increases green ouse
in the atmosphere only
Similarly, decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide
-National Policy Analysis #349:
decreases greenhouse warming very slowly."
Sciences Global Warming
Climate Change Science? National Academy of
Report Fails to Live Up to Its Billing, by Gerald Marsh
occurs naturally in the
nCarbon dioxide is a minor greenhouse gas that
a temperature suitable for
atmosphere and helps to maintain the Earth at
life. Carbon dioxide is essential to the growth of all plants. . Without
would consequently die. In
it, plants could not grow and all ani al life
no way is this gas a pollutant. To ca11 it one is badly misleading. The
-National Policy Analysis #458:
principal greenhouse gas is water yap r.,"
Dioxide A Pollutant Doesn't
Nonsense by Any Other Name: Calling C rbon
Make It A Pollutant, by Gerald Marsh
have to be followed for a
"Approximately 5 million different pa ameters
computer mock-up of the climate syste to be accurate. All their
but they are not.
important interactions and impacts mu t be known,
spatial scales and
Furthermore, a full mock-up, covering all the
would take more than 10
generating a 40-year forecast of clim te change,
In other words, an incredibly
to the power of 34 years of supercompiting.
task.". -National Policy
long wait and a near-impossible compu ational
Analysis *417, Climate Change and Cal~fornia Assembly Bill 1058: Is it
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Hype? by Dr. Willie soon
specialize in climate
"The vast Majority of American scientis s who
studies - including such giants as S. F ed Singer, former head of the U.S.
Seitz, past president of
Weather Service's satellite operations; Frederick of Virginia's Patrick
the National Academy of Sciences; and the University
are wrong. The U.N.
Michaels - believe the (global warming] fear-mongers bases its
Panel on Climate Change, often cited by environmentalists,
projections on worst-case scenarios fron two flawed computer models, each
when it comes to impact of
of which significantly contradicts the 3ther
-National Policy Analysis
global warming on specific geographical areas.'
Ecoactivists With New
#446, McCain and Lieberman Join the Ranks of
Legislation on Global Warming, by AMY Ridenour
predictions of computer
"Contrary to the conventional wisdom and the
models, the Earth's climate has not warmed appreciably in the past two
The evidence is
decades, and probably not since about 1940. &
overwhelming." -Testimony of Dr. S. Fr dSinger, President, The Science
Committee on Commerce,
Environmental Policy Project, before the Senate
Science, and Transportation on Climate Change, July 18, 2000
of Carbon Dioxide and Global
"Dr. Craig Tdso of the Center for the Study
Change, one of the nation's leading ca bon dioxide research centers,
concentrations and air
examined records of atmospheric carbon dioxide
were three dramatic
temperature over the last 250,000 year . There ice
episodes of global warming that occurr d at the end of the last three
rise during those warming
ages. Interestingly, temperatures started to to increase.
periods well before the atmospheric ca bon dioxide started
In fact, the carbon dioxide levels did not begin to rise until 400 to
Concludes Dr. Tdso, 'Clearly,
1,000 years after the planet began to warm.
there is no way that these real-world observations can be construed to
increase in atmospheric
even hint at the possibility that a si nificant
global warming. '" -National
carbon dioxide will necessarily lead to any
for the Environment by John
Policy Analysis #334, Carbon Dioxide i; Good
Carlisle
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Recommended Links
Change Science? National Academy of
National Policy Analysis #349: Ilimate
to Live Up to Its Billing by Gerald
Sciences Global Warming Report Fails
Marsh, at htp/ww~itoacetrogNPA349.htfll
By Any other Name: Calling Carbon
National Policy Analysis #458: Nonsense by Gerald Marsh at
A Pollutant
Dioxide A Pollutant Doesn't Make It
http://w aioacne~ogNA5.htmI
Change and California Assembly Bill
National Policy Analysis #417, Climate
at
1058: Is it Hype? by Dr. Willie Soon 4 7 .htmI
http://ww-w.nationalcenter.org/NPA 1
and Lieberman Join the Ranks of
National Policy Analysis #446, McCain
Global Warming by Amy Ridenour at
Ecoactivists With New Legislation on ml
http://w aioacne~ogNA4.ht
The Science and Environmental
Testimony of Dr. S. Fred Singer , President,
ttee on Commerce, Science, and
Policy Project, before the Senate Comm
Transportation on Climate Change, July 18, 2000 at2
OOO .html
htp/ww ainlene~r/yooi~eTestimony
Dioxide is Good for the Environment
National Policy Analysis #334, Carbon
center.org/NPA334.html
by John Carlisle at http://www.nationa
at
Questions and Answers on GlobaL Warming
http://w atoacntrog yt~etionsknswers .html
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