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Como lo de la fé nunca me ha gustado me cuesta afiliarme a ninguna de las dos iglesias, aunque tengo más simpatí­a por la del calentamiento global, del mismo modo que, aun siendo ateo, me caen mejor los cuáqueros que los opusdeistas.

De lo que sí­ estoy convencido es de que, aun cuando no tenga nada que ver con el calentamiento global, reducir las emisiones de anhí­drido carbónico y en general el consumo de energí­a, es bueno para todos.
(Bueno, excepto para la OPEP, Cheney, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., y demás peña petrolera, ...)[/b]

En este último parrafo puedo estar de acuerdo. Aunque repito que el protocolo de Kyoto no ataca al petróleo,...sinó al carbón!!! No se ataca a las emisiones del trasnporte, sinó a las eléctricas. Léete bien el protocolo.

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According to the new Nature paper on Antarctic cooling, “Climate models generally predict amplified warming in the Polar Regions, as observed in Antarctica’s peninsula region over the second half of the 20th century.” However, the researchers found “Antarctic meteorological data demonstrates a new cooling on the Antarctic continent between 1966 and 2000, particularly during summer and autumn.” The researchers say that the McMurdo Dry Valleys, for example, have cooled about 0.7 degrees Celsius per decade during this period.

The authors conclude, “Continental Antarctic cooling, especially the seasonality of cooling, poses challenges to models of climate and ecosystem change.”

Another new study, in the journal Science, says the Antarctic ice sheet is thickening, rather than thinning as had been previously claimed. Some researcher had even predicted that the Antarctic ice sheet would be completely gone in 4000 years, triggering a major sea level rise.

The Cal Tech researchers who conducted the ice-thickening study say the earlier predictions relied on a few inadequate measurements of the Antarctic’s ice-flow velocity. They used satellite remote sensing to get better measurements and found “strong evidence for ice-sheet growth” of more than 15 billion tons per year.

Together, the two new studies throw a major wrench into the gears of the eco-activists’ global drive to radically raise world energy costs that would sharply reduce standards of living for poor people in both the First and Third worlds, through the Kyoto Protocol.

Research into the Antarctic’s temperature record was motivated by the unexpected coldness of the Antarctic summers, according to lead author Peter Doran of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Illinois. “Two or three years ago, when we were waiting for the big summers, we noticed that they didn’t come,” says Doran. “We were thinking that warm summers were the norm, and we were saying, ‘It’s going to get back to normal,’ but it never did.”