"Les Crossan" wrote in
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Hi. I'm in the United States and interested to know what some of you
British weather enthusuasts have to say about your own perception of
global climate change. Perhaps a non-American perspective might prove
enlightening to me.

I'm in the minority in this NG as I'm a manmade GW sceptic. However a
country that starts a war to satisfy its own greed for oil, gives aid to
Lebanon and weapons to Israel, sends prisoners abroad to have confessions
tortured out of them, has oil companies naming supertankers after
Condoleeza Rice, has a president who listens to a lunatic Christian
extreme right lobby group to the detriment of everybody else and produces
all these dreadful cop chase TV programmes must have something seriously
wrong with its national psyche.

The USA - a country that doesn't believe in the United Nations and didn't
ratify Kyoto. Hail Bush, hail Exxon.

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Les Crossan,
Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
54.95N 1.5W
Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
www.uksevereweather.org.uk


Les isn't this "greed for oil" a tad over cooked?'

You know recently the were some articles doing the rounds saying the
deforestation and burning wood as fuel of the last two thousands years was
the start of AGW!! Well please excuse our ancestors for trying to survive
and put the world in the fantastic position it is today. There has always
been war, famine, plague and pestilence. More people now live longer and
better than at any other time in history. What we all seemingly take for
granted today could not have happened any other way.

By the way alternative renewable sources of energy have been used the last
thousands years; windmills and watermills and you know what? they were crap.
Without the industrial age we wouldn't all be sitting on computers hating
ourselves.