Earth Is the Hottest It's Been In 400 Years
Posted on June 22, 2006
Scientists from The National Academy of Sciences reported to Congress that the Earth is the hottest it has been in 400 years.
The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer. The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia."It is not logical to say that reducing pollution costs jobs. If anything, it will create jobs as new industry industries emerge. And by reducing the levels of pollution, we reduce asthma, lung cancer and chronic pulmonary disease which saves the goverement money by reducing healthcare costs. Global warming is real. Pollution-related diseases and death are real. And anyone who still can't accept that is using emotion, not facts, to make policy decisions.A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that the Earth is running a fever and that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming." Their 155-page report said average global surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose about 1 degree during the 20th century. The report was requested in November by the chairman of the House Science Committee, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., to address naysayers who question whether global warming is a major threat.
Last year, when the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, launched an investigation of three climate scientists, Boehlert said Barton should try to learn from scientists, not intimidate them. The Bush administration also has maintained that the threat is not severe enough to warrant new pollution controls that the White House says would have cost 5 million Americans their jobs.
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