Saturday, February 19, 2005

How Will They Spin This One?

If further proof were needed, the smoking gun on global heating has been found, and it' still smoking:

"The rise in marine temperatures — by an average of 0.5C (0.9F) in 40 years — can be explained only if greenhouse gas emissions are responsible, research has shown. The results are so compelling that they should end controversy about the causes of climate change, one of the scientists who led the study said yesterday.

“The debate about whether there is a global warming signal now is over, at least for rational people,” said Tim Barnett, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California
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Times Online - World

So how will the Bushies spin their way out of this one? Let's guess: "Not as bad as all that. Needs further study."

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