Post something just for the heck of it

[Alistair]

 

[Araucaria]

Thank Al Gore? No, I'll pass on that
by Candace C. Crandall
letter to The Washington Times May 6, 1993

Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund asks us to "congratulate" Vice President Al Gore for pressing the case for protection of the ozone layer (Letters, May 3). Apparently Mr. Oppenheimer's appointment to the Clinton administration has not yet come through.

Mr. Gore has been a major promoter of the blind sheep, blind rabbits, blind trout, plankton death and other scary (and, as The Washington Post pointed out, completely false) stories related to the ozone-depletion issue.

There was never an "ozone hole over Kennebunkport" as Mr. Gore contended last spring in the course of ramming through an ac- celerated phaseout of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The infamous Feb. 3, 1992, NASA press briefing that spawned such stories was rife with misinformation and selective data. In fact, the NASA research team, headed by Robert Watson (who has secured his Clinton administration appointment) knew within two weeks of that briefing that stratospheric chlorine levels had dropped by 75 percent, and there would be no Arctic ozone hole. Yet the team withheld that information from a frightened public while the NASA budget was before Congress.

As a result of Mr. Gore's Senate histrionics, the country now faces a precipitous forced changeover to CFC substitutes that are known at the outset to be corrosive, less efficient, more expensive and, in some cases, known to pose health and safety hazards.

Thank Al Gore? Well, DuPont should, but I think I'll pass.

CANDACE C. CRANDALL
The Science & Environmental Policy Project

The Wikipedia article on The Science & Environmental Policy Project says the organization "disputes the prevailing scientific views of climate change and ozone depletion." To me it looks like a classic "astroturf" organization that we often see in America, that typically has a name which is indeed the opposite of what they are really advocating, to try to fool people and the media into thinking they are real grassroots organizations. They are usually funded by those in industry who have a stake in continuing to pollute, destroy the environment, and so on.

I couldn't be arsed to check up on whether Al Gore actually said all those things the letter writer claims he said. At any rate, he has been out of office for 20 years.

 

[Kyanimal]

Meat Ball ...

 

[belamyi]

 

[Peloso]

The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television.

 

[belamyi]

The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye.

Therefore

 

[Kyanimal]

Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television.

 

[johaninsc]

a common sight in my neck of the woods

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

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[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[Rubber Rat]

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

Best leaning tower tourist picture ever.

 

[belamyi]

^ Not intending to be bitchy, but it's actually the worst one: it doesn't work so near the base.

 

[belamyi]

 

[frankfrank]

Meanwhile, in Ypsilanti, Michigan...