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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS

Unwarranted and Unnecessary CO2 Limiting Legislation



It is High Time a Joint United States-Canadian Commission on Global Warming Be Formed Now, Before Real Damage is Done to Both of Our Economies by Unwarranted and Unnecessary CO2 Limiting Legislation Many groups and individuals in the United States and Canada have listened with alarm and disbelief to plans of both governments to saddle their people and industries with the burdens of carbon dioxide emission restrictions, carbon dioxide taxes and the risks of carbon dioxide trading, which is an open invitation to massive fraud. The science of global warming is definitely not settled.

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Thousands of qualified, independent scientists around the world now question whether sufficient attention has been paid to the proven historical influence of natural solar cycles, the significance of water vapor contributions and many other aspects of climate science. Since the scientific investigations for the UNIPCC fourth assessment report were completed 18 months ago, new research and new observations have cast serious doubt on many of the IPCCs conclusions.   It is generally agreed that if greenhouse warming was occurring, the strongest warming would be in the upper atmosphere above the tropics. Recent research shows this is not occurring, which indicates that the "warming" is not being caused by greenhouse gases: [Douglass, D.H., J.R. Christy, B.D. Pearson, and S.F. Singer. 2007. A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1651.] Everyone, from the highest government official to the lowliest taxpaying consumer, must realize that unless it can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that carbon dioxide causes excessive global warming, there is no justification for imposing restrictions and costs on emitters of carbon dioxide. These burdens will pass inevitably on to the whole community and will fall most heavily on those who can least afford them and worse, once again, constitutional property rights will be under attack by another national and international environmentalist-generated crisis.   No valid, verifiable scientific proof has yet been established for man-caused global warming. All we have are hypotheses and speculations based on computer models. Governments have a duty, nay an absolute obligation, to create an opportunity for the full range of scientific evidence to be examined and evaluated. Any actions or policies instituted must not be solely political. This can best be done by establishing a joint United States-Canadian Commission on Global Warming. The new commission must not take on the flavor of the Bali conference, which purposely excluded opposing points of view.   Many fear the enormous costs of taxing and decimating our economy and subsidizing expensive and ineffective alternate energy proposals. The very high cost to society of the actions being proposed require that we settle the science before forcing our two countries into a futile and expensive exercise to solve a problem that may not exist. "Doing it just in case" is not an option.   Federal and state governments need to vigorously look into the likely long-term costs and effects of various legislative proposals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. However, a parallel independent inquiry is needed into the science to determine whether any action is required at all, especially in light of the fact that whatever our two countries do will be undone by China and India. So the proposed legislative solutions will be anything but global and the citizens of our two countries will end up bearing the entire cost for much less than even a partial solution, to their own detriment, while other heavy CO2 emitters skate by scot-free.   The United States and Canada are both heavily dependent on primary production and world trade. The entire northern hemisphere could be very damaged by the global warming extremism of Al Gore and Old Europe. Al Gore is more motivated by extreme Green politics than scientific truth, while Old Europe believes that their nuclear capacity protects them from the carbon dioxide trading costs they plan to impose on others. Europe also has adopted the highly controversial "precautionary principle" which essentially says "DO IT, no matter what the cost, even if there is no science to support it, just in case, or as a PRECAUTION".   Thousands of scientists believe that CO2 in the atmosphere is a benefit, not a threat to mankind, and there is no need to launch a massive assault on our lifestyle, industry and prosperity to solve a non problem. Further, water vapor has the greatest effect on global warming (95%), where CO2 contributes a fraction of 1% to global warming. The following graph shows this relationship with absolute clarity.Greenhouse Gases Ron Ewart is the President of the Washington state-based National Association of Rural Landowners (www.narlo.org).


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