Installing solar collectors on rooftops and insulating homes in America will not provide citizens and businesses with the energy needed to keep American strong. It is paramount that the U.S. continues to use fossil fuels. It's a no-brainer, friends: if we shut down fossil fuel electrical generating plants, we shut down American industry; we also shut down computers, schools, hospitals, factories. And, according to the World Energy Council (http://www.worldenergy.org), "cleaner fossil fuel systems mitigate and even neutralize the adverse consequences of the use of fossil fuels... [and] the technology for these systems is advancing rapidly."

Nuclear Power, wind power and hydro power are not the ultimate answer

Nuclear power is extremely dangerous and nuclear plants can get out of control: The Chernobyl nuclear accident in Russia in 1986 caused an estimated 4,229 deaths in the Ukraine, and unknown number of cancers throughout Europe, according to Dr. Richard Smart, Department of Nuclear Medicine at St. George hospital in Kogarah Australia. World renowned radiation expert Dr. Helen Caldicott - founder and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility - exp

Sea Levels are not rising as indicated by environmental "experts"

Dr. Lomborg says that "world-class biologists have estimated that as many as 40,000 species of animals and plants are becoming extinct each year, a rate that will supposedly lead to the loss of 50% of all species." However, he says "no one actually counts the species involved. Rather, the estimates are based on theoretical equations." In fact, he continues, in the eastern United States, "the primeval forests were slashed by at least 98% over about 200 years. Only five forest birds became extinct." And in Puerto Rico...seven out of 60 bird species were lost after 99% of the forest cover was removed."

"A disturbing pattern of exaggeration characterizes a great deal of scientific reporting by environmental researchers," according to Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, a professor in Denmark and former Greenpeace activist, quoted in Report/Newsmagazine (Byfield, 2002). Lomborg, who published the book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the State of the Real World, believes that the green movement offers "an alarmist misuse of statistics."

Temperatures are not rising as fast as some environmentalists say they are

To wit: The Energy Information Administration says that petroleum accounted for "about 42%" of the total human contribution of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere during the last ten years; that translates to oil-related warming of about 0.007 degree C annually; the yearly global consumption of oil during that period was 26.6 billion barrels; the USGS says the oil in ANWAR that the Bush Administration wishes to pump out is 10.3 billion barrels (which is enough to supply the world for about 5 months or less), or roughly 40% of the annual total of petroleum burned.

According to studies gathered and reviewed by the Association of British Drivers (ABD) (http://www.adb.org.uk/green_myths.htm), "accurate and representative temperature measurements from satellites and balloons show that the planet has cooled significantly in the last two or three years, losing in only 18 months 15% of the claimed warming which took 100 years to appear." That alleged warming over the last 100 years, the ABD research shows, "was only one degree Fahrenheit anyway," and part of that one degree was due to "systematic error from groundstation readings which are inflated due to the urban heat island."

Yes, sea levels are rising around the planet, but not in any uniform fashion; and in fact, sea levels have risen "more than 300 feet over the last 18,000 years," and that is a natural phenomenon in between ice ages, expert research by NCPA indicates.

Global warming is not going to get worse than it is (how bad it is now can be and should be seriously challenged anyway) because of a little drilling in a very tiny patch of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR).

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