[neverdem]

What I like about the articles on the soot hypothesis is that they undermine the rationale of the Kyoto Protocol, i.e. greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, give more time to obtaining better data and developing better models to account for solar radiation, as well as show that the enviro-nuts worship ideas without thinking.

[neverdem]

Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah Ping

[edger]

Where I grew up, we thought Stinkin' Diesel was one word.

[Mike Darancette]

NASA scientists say soot, mostly from diesel engines, is causing as much as a quarter of all observed global warming

The article does not support the inference that says soot comes mostly from diesel engines. The article says that most soot in developed countries come from diesel engines and says nothing quantitative about soot from third world sources.

[Uncle George]

Those little volcanos couldn't help could they? They have been spewing trillions of tons of soot for 10000000 years.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The fact that NASA is participating in the global warming fraud is yet more evidence that it has devolved into a cesspool of bureaucratic CYA turf-protectors interested only in securing as much Congressional funding as possible.

I will never support a US space program until NASA is abolished and anyone currently employed in a management position by NASA permanently disallowed from being employed by its successor.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Well, if you go by the thread "Aliens Cause Global Warming" it is the little green men. So, is it Alien Soot?

[First_Salute]

"You" can thank very much the movement of industry from clean air countries such as the U.S.A., to the southern hemisphere; the smog ring around the lower half of the planet is astonishing.

[TheDon]

We didn't do anything!

[Ronzo]

Hard to believe this one guy could be responsible for global warming...

Vin Diesel

[gitmo]

It must'a been hotter'n heck back when we heated with wood and coal!

[petuniasevan]

Here we go again - shades of Kyoto...

[AmericanVictory]

It will be interesting to see what happens when we demonstrate that we can burn cleaner and cheaper without diesel and its present boondoggles in California. What then will these people do to provide an excuse for more centralized command govenment control and scarcity for the non-elites? When entrepreneurial affort allows the teams in Bakersfield once again to practice outside and truckers no longer have to cross over into Nevada to buy fuel that gives them the power they need, what will the totalitarians fix upon next? It will only take a couple of years and the whole cooperative dance between big boondoggle and environmentally justified socialism will be as transparent as Saudi sponsorship of terrorism and our sbsurd defferral to it for all these past years since 1981.

[yoswif]

If burning vegetatian causes soot, will the media question the policy of burning trees on government land in the U.S. just to heat the air and pump a lot of soot into the atmosphere? Will federal judges recognize soot from burning trees on government land as needless pollution? Will President Bush have his EPA apply this information to federal forest policy?

[international american]

Breaking News:

Scientists from Harvard University have discovered that the main cause of global warming emanates from windbag left wing liberals.Here is the breakdown in descending order of severity;

1)Worst, are those scientists who work for the federal government,and need to justify their jobs.
2) Foreign goverment officials who wish to hurt our economy by forcing us to spend billions chasing a phantom problem.
3)The "greenies" who want to destroy the capitalist system
4)Politicians and newscasters

Harvard further stated that due to the inherent intransigence of the perpetrators, no viable solution is in sight, at least in the near future.

[Oztrich Boy]

Just a frelling miniute.

Weren't nuclear weapons a bad thing because soot in the air post-Gotterdamerung would cool the Earth and bring on Nuclear Winter and a new Ice Age?