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It's amazing how so many "world leaders" ignore scientific fact and latch on to fantasy. so it is with Ban Ki-moon, current chief of the U.N. and global warming. He is now calling the case for global warming beyond any doubt, despite the fact that there is no scientific consensus on the causes of global warming and the fact that of the carbon dioxide dumped into the atmosphere every year only about 2.5% is attributable to the activities of mankind.

From BreitBart:

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an unprecedented summit on climate change Monday that "the time for doubt has passed" and a breakthrough is needed in global talks to sharply reduce emissions of global-warming gases.

"The U.N. climate process is the appropriate forum for negotiating global action," Ban told assembled presidents and premiers, an indirect warning against what some see as a U.S. effort to open a separate negotiating track.

If, as Ban stated, "the time for doubt has passed," then let's be sure we have our scientific ducks in a row and base our actions on what is provable and not what is thought could happen. For a theory to be valid, it must take into account all scientific data that is available and evaluate from there; it should not be done in such a fashion as the IPCC report where substantial amounts of data were either ignored or eliminated in order to come to the conclusion that you want to prove. That's the Al Gore way of doing things, not the scientific way.

As for the claim that "the U.N climate process is the appropriate forum," according to whom? The U.N. is dominated by dictators, communist and socialist regimes that don't believe in freedom and have a horrendous human rights record. The fact that the U.S wants to run its own forum on global warming should be embraced. We are still a sovereign nation; other nations invited are also sovereign nations; and it is the way free peoples operate.

Rather than accept treaty obligations, Bush has urged industry to cut emissions voluntarily, and emphasizes research on clean-energy technology as one answer.

First off, we are not under any treaty obligations in regards global warming; we never signed off on Kyoto, therefor, no obligations. I'm not excited about China being a participant as they are one of the greatest totalitarian regimes that has murdered 10s of millions of people. But I am not the one organizing the event.

The Bush tactic, urging industry to voluntarily cut emissions, is an example of how things are done in a free society.

The U.N. summit follows a series of reports by Pachauri's U.N. scientific network that warned of temperatures rising by several degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 and of a drastically changed planet from rising seas, drought and other factors, unless nations rein in greenhouse gases.

Earth to U.N.: Guess what, the planet is constantly changing. This has been going on since the beginning of time. The Earth is not the same as it was during the Viking Age when the Earth's climate was significantly warmer than it is today; it is warmer today than it was 200 years ago during the Little Ice Age. This is normal.

Cutting the measly 2.5% of man-caused portion of greenhouse gases, even eliminating it altogether, will have a net impact on global warming of so close to zero as to be meaningless.

The article wraps up by claiming that the Earth's temperature has risen 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, but fails to note that most of that took place prior to 1950. It also notes that the sea level has risen 6.6 inches. Has anyone, aside from scientists, actually noticed?

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