From: EvMick@aol.com
Date: Mon Mar 08 1999 - 01:35:12 MST
I come across this in my email...does anyone have any comments?
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World's Glaciers Show No Evidence of Global Warming
Major Polar Glaciers are Expanding, Not Causing a Rise
in Sea Level
MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release
Contact: John Carlisle 202-371-1400
The world's glaciers are not drastically receding due
to alleged man-made global warming but in many cases
are expanding, according to a recently released
National Policy Analysis paper by the National Center
For Public Policy Research.
Proponents of the theory that man-made greenhouse
gases are dangerously warming the planet point to
retreating glaciers as evidence of global warming
affecting the climate. Global warming theory
proponents claim that these melting glaciers will
cause a catastrophic rise in sea level which may
submerge major seaboard cities like New York in coming
centuries. By scaring the public with such
apocalyptic visions, the environmental movement hopes
to build support for the Clinton Administration's
agenda of imposing economically-damaging cuts in the
nation's greenhouse gas emissions.
However, according to National Policy Analysis paper
#235, "Behavior of the World's Glaciers Fails to Prove
Global Warming Theory," glacial activity disproves the
global warming theory. Authored by John Carlisle,
director of the National Center's Environmental Policy
Task Force, the paper argues that global warming
theory proponents are wrong to point to the retreat of
some glaciers in the mid-latitude regions of the
planet as evidence of warming since glaciers respond
to a variety of complex natural phenomena other than
global temperature variations. Furthermore, mid-
latitude glaciers represent only 6% of the world's
glacial ice while Antarctica and Greenland, on the
other hand, contain 94% of the glacial ice.
Contradicting predictions of alleged global warming's
climatic impact, the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers
are advancing which has the effect of lowering sea
level.
"The advance of the polar glaciers indicates that
there is no evidence that global warming is melting
glaciers and thus no reason to fear a catastrophic
rise in sea level," says Carlisle. "Instead of
providing proof of global warming, glacial behavior
represents yet another powerful indictment of this
already controversial theory."
The Environmental Policy Task Force is a project of
The National Center For Public Policy Research, a non-
partisan, non-profit education foundation. The Task
Force was established to find and promote innovative,
workable solutions to environmental problems -
solutions that minimize the suffering of working
Americans while still protecting the environment.
For more information, contact John Carlisle at The
National Center For Public Policy Research at 202-371-
1400 or Jcarlisle@nationalcenter.org or download the
paper at the National Center's website at
http://www.nationalcenter.org.NPA235.html.
EvMick
Nashville Tenn
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