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     This is the title of Dr. Frederick Seitz's article in The Wall Street
Journal, 12 June 1996.  Following is an exerpt that is quite an eye opener
for anyone who will take the time to listen to what he says.  He is, by the
way, a past president of the National Academy of Sciences in the United 
States.

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN organization 
regarded by many as the best source of scientific information about the 
human impact on the earth's climate, released 'The Science of Climate 
Change 1995'.... I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of 
the peer review process.... More than 15 sections... were changed or 
deleted after the scientists charged with examining this question had 
accepted the supposedly final test... The following passages are examples 
of those deleted...
   
   - None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can 
attribute the obseved climate changes to...increases in greenhouse gases.'
   - No study to date has positively attributed all or part of the 
climate change to... man-made causes.'

     IPCC reports are often called the "consensus" view.  If they lead to 
carbon taxes and restraints on economic growth, they will have a major 
and almost certainly destructive impact on the economies of the world.... 
Their effect is to deceive policy makers and the public into believing 
that the scientific evidence shows human activities are causing global 
warming." 

I would refer the interested reader to Dr. Seitz book "Global Warming 
and Ozone Hole Controversies.  George C. Marshall Institute, 1994, for
further reading and some sensible science.

Also the reader is likely to find very helpful another publication 
called The True State of the Planet, Ed. Ronald Bailey, published by
Free Press, 1995.     

     Too often the public has listened to the radical environmentalists
such as Stephen Schneider of Stanford University who was pushing a coming
ice age just two decades ago but is now a pusher of global warming.  He
is quoted in Discover magazine (Oct, 1989) as saying, "That, of course
entails getting loads of media coverage.  So we have to offer up scary
scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention 
of any doubts we might have... Each of us has to decide what the right 
balance is between being effffective and being honest."
Geoff Casey
Science Teacher
Faith Academy