Kyoto accords
The single point of agreement between both sides of the Kyoto accords seems to be that, at best, their implementation could reduce the anticipated global warming (2° C., 5° C., or whatever it will actually turn out to be) by a more than modest 0.2° C.
Now, no expert will swear in a court of law that the average global temperature can be measured to this accuracy or that the 0.2° C. Kyoto "effect" could be confidently detected against the 2 to 5° C. projected temperature rise.
Also, the predicted 0.2° C. Kyoto "effect" is 100-years ahead of the global weather forecast, which implies an accuracy of 0.1° C. or better and cannot possibly be right, seeing how shaky 1 day (let alone 5 days) forecasts are today.
Finally, Time magazine published on Apr. 9, a preposterous letter to President Bush to the effect that nothing is more important than global warming-presumably not even nuclear war, overpopulation, degradation of arable soil, or epidemics. Anyway, the ten petitioners are not geoscientists, only a bunch of notorious people who attempt to impose their views even though no one has established that fame automatically confers intelligence or learning upon its recipients.
Jamil Azad
Petroleum Geologist
