Subject: Does Man made Carbon dioxide really cause Global Warming!  Are the
risks large and serious enough to our children and grandchildren that
significant changes (and money spent) need to be made now?  YES! 



Global Warming is a fact.  The  < http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ > Arctic,
< http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216131158.htm > Antarctic,
< http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527121055.htm > Greenland
and  < http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/glaciers.html > glaciers
around the world are melting.  The oceans and atmosphere are warming.
Borehole temperature measurements show global warming.  Permafrost is
melting from Global Warming.  Sea level is rising from thermal expansion and
melted ice--Global Warming.  The troposphere is warming.  This decade is the
warmest on record from...Global Warming.   The oceans pH is becoming more
acidic from absorbing CO2. This will have bad impacts on the food chain.



Fact:   < http://smartenergyshow.com/node/67 > The Global Warming denier
community began as a "manufactured controversy" in the early 1990s.
< http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/exxon_report.pdf >
Using the same techniques and experts which the tobacco industry used to
protect their product, companies like Exxon Mobil have been spending tens of
millions of dollars annually to create controversy in the minds of the
public. 

Fact:  In the scientific community, there is
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change > no
controversy. There are no recent publications in peer reviewed journals
that refute the basic science that manmade greenhouse gas emissions are
causing global warming.

Fact:  There are more than 60 million scientists in the world.  You can find
a few who will support most any form of controversy.  Especially if you
< http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute > pay them



Fact:  Everything that the GW Deniers have put forward as "scientific
evidence that man made CO2 is not warming the planet" has been debunked.
< http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/denier-vs-skeptic/denier-myths-debunked/clim
ate-denial-crock-of-the-week/> Everything.  Compared to actual science, the
Denier material is garbage.  You can start learning the facts with Peter
Sinclair's series of
< http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/denier-vs-skeptic/denier-myths-debunked/clim
ate-denial-crock-of-the-week/> videos.  Or not, that is up to you. 

You would do well to spend some time on the site (realclimate.org
< http://realclimate.org/ > )  they list every argument that skeptics make and
use science to refute these.  It is run by real scientists working in the
field. 

One myth is that the sun or cosmic rays are causing the earth to grow
warmer. Not true:
< http://www.sciencedaily..com/releases/2008/04/080403083932.htm >
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080403083932.htm

Another  myth:  that EPA suppressed a damaging article. Here is the
scientific rebuttal.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/06/bubkes/

Please consider the  issue of most concern:  the warming of the worlds
permafrost and the release of lots and lots of methane and CO2.  Lots of
peer reviewed publications with data.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090630132005.htm



Fact:  Gallup Polls show that a small percentage of Americans will believe
just about any counterfactual nonsense, so it is no surprise that some
Americans have been deceived on the facts of
< http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=17765 > Global Warming:

*        < http://www.gallup.com/poll/1993/Did-Men-Really-Land-Moon.aspx > 6%
of Americans believe the moon landings were a hoax

*
< http://www.gallup.com/poll/3742/new-poll-gauges-americans-general-knowledge
-levels.aspx> 18% of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth

*
< http://www.gallup.com/poll/3742/new-poll-gauges-americans-general-knowledge
-levels.aspx> 2% of Americans believe this country won its independence from
France (!)

*
< http://www.gallup.com/poll/7498/Gallup-Brain-More-Things-Change.aspx > 4% of
Americans believe Elvis is still alive

*
< http://www.gallup.com/poll/106660/Little-Increase-Americans-Global-Warming -
Worries.aspx> 11% of Americans believe that Global Warming will never be
threat