Global warming facts

The Coalition for Vehicle Choice (CVC) is a lobbying group sponsored by carmakers, which has pushed to rescind the CAFE standards. The CVC has stated that CAFE causes 2,000 deaths and 20,000 injuries every year by forcing people into smaller cars. The auto industry has questioned the science behind global warming and claimed there are not enough facts to allow a judgment. 

Also shown are the relative global warming potentials, using C02 as the reference and for the two time horizons of 20 and 100 years, respectively (IPCC, 1996). The apparently disproportionate effects of CH4, NzO, and 03 relative to C02 are due to the fact that C02 was present from natural processes in large concentrations even in preindustrial times and is such a strong... 

Global warming pressure groups would have the world believe that catastrophic changes in the earth s climate will occur without drastic limitations of carbon dioxide emissions—this in spite of the fact that the carbon dioxide levels in the earth s atmosphere have been much higher than today s for much of geological history. For example, as documented by the work of Berner,13 atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were some five 15... 

The advantages of nuclear power plants include the fact that they operate at a 90% capacity factor (loading). Also, 1 kg of natural uranium generates about as much electricity as 20,000 kg of coal. In contrast to fossil fuels, nuclear power does not contribute to global warming. In the past, the cost of... 

In 2002, President Bush created the Climate Change Science Program, which, after spending 1.7 billion on several years of study, reported that the climate is in fact changing. Yet global warming has become a political issue. 

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