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Greenhouse panic

    1988 brought on one of the hottest, driest summers on record
in the U.S. People begin to panic that the Greenhouse effect was
now starting to happen. This, in spite of the relatively cooler
summer of 1989.

    There was panic over the warming up of the Arctic ocean due
to the raising of the ocean. This would cause the warm Alantic
ocean waters to melt the ice in the Arctic. Without its ice, the
Arctic ocean would get even warmer and warm up the Northern
Hemisphere.

    On February, 1990, that evil person, President Busch, spoke
to the environmental congress. His speech discussed research into
using energy more efficiently. He also talked about developing
alternative energy. He also discussed the problem of global
population control as a means of easing the pressures on the
environment. "This problem," he said, "Has got to be solved by a
global approach involving all nations".

    However, Your Glorious Leaders knew better. We wanted
industry and energy production to be shut down.

    Scientist such as Michael Guilles warned that continued use
of Coal, Oil and Gas would cause Global Warming that would be
disastrous with end 20 years.

    Other heros such as Feminist Dr.Kolacobs warns that 15
million species of plants and animals will disappear as a result
of Global warning in 50 years. She further stated that the
predicted 18' rise in temperature is all the fault of corporate
America's greed. Also, this diaster will occur in 20 years if the
oil well fires in Kawait were not put out in a few days.

    In the meantime, your glorious leaders made sure that there
were a series of accidents in New York that has involved a rash
of oil and chemical spills in the rivers and harbors of the
country to warn the people of this danger.

    During the 1991 war with Iraq in Kawait, The Iranian Army
blew up over 800 oil wells in Kawait setting fires to most of
them. A huge black cloud of smoke soon blotted out the sun. This
smoke cloud was thousands of miles long and rained down tons of
soot into the Gulf and into Iran.

    Carl Segain, noted Panic Society hero, warned that it would
take 5 years to put out the fires. He predicted that famine in
Southeast Asia would occur as a result of this pollution. He also
predicted a huge greenhouse effect would occurr from all of those
fires.

    Your glorious leaders warned everyone about the use of coal.
Such burning of coal was causing acid rain and global warming.

    During the energy crises of 1976, a lot of people started to
burn wood. This burning of wood in the modern airtight stoves has
resulted in a lot of smoke production. This smoke is loaded with
hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and other poisons.

    The resulting woodburning has resulted in a lot of smog
being formed especially out west. Your Glorious Leaders got laws
passed to restrict and ban wood stoves and fireplaces. "Woodsmoke
is a leading cause of winter air pollution in many western
cities" says the EPA. Denver and Seattle have passed laws to ban
the use of wood stoves and fireplaces in new homes.

    California also banned the use of starter fluid for charcoal
grills. They are even putting emmission controls on things such
as lawn mowers and other small gas powered tools.

    Your glorious leaders warned you on how cattle and sheep are
causing the greenhouse effect. The cattle produced methane gas.
Other groups picked on third world countries and the jungles that
were being cleared to raise cattle. We blamed the McDonalds
cooperation for this abuse. We even went so far as to plant bombs
in several Eastern McDonalds restaurants.



UNlTED NATlONS (AP) - A U.S. environmental negotiator today
questioned his government's assessment that America could meet
proposed limits on greenhouse gas emissions, an issue dogging the
upcoming Earth Summit.

    Last Week, the Environmental Protection Agency said the
government's own analysis showed it could easily meet a proposed
goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the
year 2000. At a news conference today, Robert Reinstein, the
chief U.S. negotiator at talks aimed at a global treaty on
emissions, said that that analysis could be flawed,

    "lf you're wrong, you've painted yourself into a corner," he
said.

    As Reinstein spoke at the U.S, mission to the United
Nations, more than a dozen demonstrators from Greenpeace gathered
across the street. The protestors locked themselves to flagpoles
and to a parked car and truck, blocking an entrance to the United
Nations, before police began cutting them free and listing them.

    The protest was "symbolic of the blockade President Bush is
putting up to a global warming treaty," said one of the
demonstrators, Paul Normandia, 33, of Boston, The Bush
administration's steadfast opposition to limits on greenhouse gas
emissions could prompt other nations to walk out of the Earth
Summit, leading to the collapse of other conservation accords,
environmentalists say.

    U.S. officials have "been acting like they just want to get
out with the cheapest deal possible, and that's just the wrong
approach," said Michael Oppenheimer, senior scientist with the
Environmental Defense Fund in New York.

    The aim of negotiations that were to be resumed today is an
agreement that can be signed at the U,N..sponsored Earth Summit
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June.

    The so-called greenhouse effect is caused by the build-up of
gases that can trap the sun's heat, threatening to raise Earth's
temperatures. Carbon dioxide formed by the burning of fossil
fuels is a major greenhouse gas.

    Computer projections suggest that if emissions of greenhouse
gases are not cut, temperatures could rise by as much as 3
degrees to 8 degrees by the end of the next century That could
alter climate in unpredictable ways, disrupt agriculture and
flood coastal cities as polar ice melts, scientists say.

    The Rio summit is expected to be one of the largest
gatherings of world leaders in history. About 60 heads of state
have said . they will attend

    For more than two decades, scientists have been intrigued
and mystified by how and when the Earth' s climate will react to
the unrelenting buildup of so-called greenhouse gases,
principally carbon dioxide caused by the burning of forests and
fuels such as gasoline, oil and coal.

    Now, a small but growing number of academics, government
officials and environmentalists are beginning to think seriously
about the political implications of a world environment gone
awry. Many of them believe that the world's governments must
start planning to avert the possibility of widespread calamity.

    "If you want to have political stability, you have to have
environmental stability," said Thomas E. Lovejoy of the
Smithsonian Institution, a leading authority on the policy
aspects of climate change.

    Still, there is broad consensus - among scientists that as
greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, trapping the sun's
heat much as a greenhouse does on a sunny winter day,
temperatures in the northern latitudes will climb faster than in
the tropics, There will be changes in rainfall patterns, soil
moisture, evaporation and sea levels worldwide.

    Even slight changes in rainfall, experts say, could
dramatically affect food production and the availability of water
- circumstances that could lead to social and political upheaval,
and in some cases violent conflict.

    "We're looking at potential risks to the food supply, to
regional stability, which could have ramifications beyond those
regions," said Sandra L. Postel of the non-profit Worldwatch
institute in Washington.

    Atmospheric chemist F, Sherwood Rowland, who joined in the
discovery that chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, were destroying the
Earth's stratospheric ozone layer, added, "One does not expect
(the climate) to shift over in a period . of five years, but the
question of whether there might be a rapid change that would dry
things out in some regions is there." If nations act soon, much
could happen to minimize the dangers .

    Human choices over how much energy and other basic resources
are consumed, the kind of energy that is used, and population
growth could significantly alter the future.

    Technologies s may be perfected to dramatically reduce
greenhouse emissions, New treaties and cooperative efforts to
address s enVironmental threats also could alleviate tensions.
Growing trade ties between nations could make cooperation - not
conflict - more likely in the face of a common threat.

    A climate change treaty presents far greater obstacles
Eliminating CFCs used in refrigeration, air conditioning and
other specialized uses is far easier than convincing nations to
end practices fundamental to their economies - the cutting of
forests to earn foreign exchange and the burning of fossil fuels
to power their transportation and industry But scientists warn
that failure to act quickly will guarantee even greater warming
than would occur if harmful practices ae ended soon. By the time
the threat becomes apparent it may be too late to stop the
warming.

    "We invested so much in responding to (a possible) nuclear
attack from the U.S.S.R., even though the risk may not have been
that high" EPA Administrator William K Reilly said in an
interview. "The risk of climate change (is) so much larger and
yet there has been no equivalent thinking to insure ourselves
against it."



LANSING - Consider this Great Lakes scenario for the year 2050:

    While dozens of freighters are mired in a too-shallow Lake
Erie, the Arizona Legislature considers using force to loosen
Michigan's stranglehold on water in the Great Lakes.

    With temperatures worldwide reaching record highs , the
Michigan Travel Bureau gives up on promoting the state's barren
ski slopes.

    Instead, it starts marketing Saugatuck to Daytona-bound
teenagers as a spring break alternative.

    And Mackinac Bridge traffic is slowed as hundreds of
Michigan farmers dive tractors and combines north to escape the
crop killing heat of the Lower Peninsula.

    Worried? Don't panic. At least not yet.

    Scientists are still trying to figure out how air pollutants
may trap heat, and cause global warming.

    A United Nations scientific panel predicts average
temperatures will rise 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit near the middle
of the next century. That could affect Great Lakes levels as well
as where and how Michigan residents live, play and grow fOOd, Two
Michigan ski areas and a frozen food association already have
asked the University of Michigan for advice, said James Teeri, a
university biologist, The Lake Carrier Association is concerned,
During a 1988 drought, the Great Lakes' biggest ships lost 4, 500
tons of carrying capacity because of reduced lake levels , But
scientists aren't offering immediate ansWers, They're still
struggling to focus the global picture. Some discount the threat
How it might affect specific regions is anybody's guess.

    But Michigan is on the front lines of finding out.

    "This is the place where it's happening right now," said
Garry Brewer, dean of the University of Michigan's School of
Natural Resources, Brewer last year gave up his post as Yale
University's top environmental policy professor to come to
Michigan to study global change. The U-M has made global warming
its top research priority, involving about 350 faculty and
students in almost every discipline.

    And the state is attracting other research for reasons
ranging from its unique geography to ongoing efforts to solve
international pollution problems, A $30 million federal
appropriation is skied for a university consortium, based at
Saginaw Valley State University. Part of its function is to
analyze satellite data about global warming's effects.

    "Nowhere else in the country can you find that," Brewer
said.

    The Great Lakes have prompted the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration to begin one of the first attempts at
showing global warming's impact on a region.

    Much of what is suspected about global warming is based on
world scale computer models, said Frank Quinn of NOW's Ann Arbor
laboratory. In one model's worst scenario, the Great Lakes water
level would drop up to nine feet.

    Regional models are the next generation of research.
Michigan will have one of the first models within two years,
Quinn said, "We're in the forefront because we have the Great
Lakes," he said.

    Another geographical advantage puts the border of an arctic
weather pattern near the Straits of Mackinac, said Teeri, head of
U M's Biological Research Station. The only other place it enters
the United States is in Maine.

    For years, the biological station south of Mackinaw City has
collected plants and animals that live along the climatic border.
Now biologists are trying to learn if the northward migration of
some of them is related to global warming.

    And the global average temperature has risen faster during
the Past decade than it did in any other decade of the century,
he said. Most of them agree that carbon dioxide will double in
the next century.

    Experiments at Michigan State University show how crops
thrive on carbon dioxide, said Sylvan Whitwer, emeritus director
of the university's agricultural research station. But experts
are not waiting for answers .

    The Great Lakes Commission is pushing for a multistate plan
to regulate how the Great Lakes, which have 95 percent of the
nation's fresh surface water, get doled out "It is infinitely
more comforting to be well-prepared for a crisis that never
materializes than to be unprepared for one that does," said Mike
Donahue, director of the multistate policy agency.

    Despite the uncertainty, a federal study has ranked global
warming with ozone depletion, habitat destruction and species
extinction as the nation's top environmental worries.

    The buildup of carbon dioxide and other gasses shows how
human actions change global chemistry, said MSU biologist William
Cooper, who chaired the study.

    "That's an awesome responsibility," he said. "Always before
we'd just mess up a little pond or a lake.

    "That observation alone ought to scare the hell out of
people."



    In the Panic Society, any energy generated is that of the
use of Hydrogen. This fuel only produces water vapor when used in
a fuel cell or burned for heat. The Hydrogen is generated by use
of sunlight under the use of a catalysis, or from the energy
generated by cold fushion. Oxygen will be a byproduct of this
generation.

    There are no cattle or minks allowed in the Panic Society.
They will be stearlized so that any remaining will not produce
offsprings. Therefore, there will be no methane generated by
cattle, mink, or their waste product.

    There will be no rice farming allowed.

    A massive effort has been made to exterminate termite.
around the world as they have also been found to generate
Menthane gas.

    To be sure that there is plenty of ozone in the ozone layer,
a special ozone generator has been constructed on top of Mt
Everest. It will inject ozone into the ozone layer.

    Large areas of the planet are no longer inhabited by people.
There was a massive effort to replant all of this land to forest.
This will reduce the CO2 level in the atomosphere.

    There is no refrigation or air conditioning allowed in the
Panic Society.

    If need be, a huge dam will be built between Canada,
Greenland, Iceland, and Norway in an effort to keep the warm
Alantic out of the Artic Ocean. This will allow that ocean to
freeze over and stop global warming in that area. There will be
shallow areas left where whales and other marine life can still
migrate to each oceans.

    In an effort to reduce the heating effect from the sun,
mirrors have been erected in all of the desert areas of the
Earth.

































On the Negative Side.

    All of this effort may disrupt the climate. It may even
start another ice age.

    In addition, people have suffered from the lack of any
method to preserve food or live comfortably in the warmer areas
of the earth. They are also suffering from the cold as they will
not be able to generate any usable amounts of heat and very
little energy until cold fusion becomes practical.



Is it all Possible?

    Its anyones guess.

    Certainly, the disruption of human life has started in the
U.S. People are being laid off as businesses cut back and move
out of the country because of environmental restrictions. (No
such restrictions ever occurr in the socialist countries where
officals couldn't care less about the environment).

    It will get much worse as the 0 use of freon is enforced and
refrigeration breaks down.

    It will reach crisis levels when the manidated CO2 laws of
the Clinton Admistration take effect and all energy becomes
rationed.

    Panic Society will then take control as martal law is
enacted and all forms of freedom are taken from the people.

    Note, the articles from the news were edited in favor of the
policies of Your Glorious Leaders.

    Here are some unaltered articles.



    In 1988, powerplants and automobiles generated an estimated
174 million tons of CO2. Yet, this figure represents only 4% of
all CO2, the rest of it is generated by Nature



    DETROIT (AP) - Dr. Patrick Michaels says some people are
getting carried away in their push to ease global warming.

    Carbon dioxide makes up about 50 percent of the gases
causing the greenhouse effect, but Michaels says methane makes up
another 25 percent.

    An associate professor in the University of Virginia's
Department of Environmental Sciences, Michaels said Monday he
recently pointed out to a colleague that 40 percent of the
methane comes from cows' flatulence.

    His colleague's response: "We'll regulate them.', "If
they're talking about regulating bovine, what do you think
they're going to do to you?" he asked about 400 people at an
Economic Club of Detroit luncheon, Michaels defended President
Bush's decision not to back a global warming treaty hammered out
last weekend at the United Nations. The treaty, the first
international legal agreement to recognize that global warming
could threaten the Earth's environment, was expected to be signed
at the Earth Summit in Brazil next month.

    "There's nothing like global warming to bring out the
politics in people," said Michaels, who frequently advises the
state and federal government on environmental issues, Michaels
said data don't substantiate claims that the Earth's temperature
is rising dramatically. He noted that daily high temperatures
worldwide have declined over the past 70 years. .

    He also pointed to data that showed the nights are getting
warmer but daytime temperatures haven't budged in the past four
decades. He said the Bush administration based its decision on
such data "It's a minority position to say the world is not
coming to an end," Michaels said.

    Also speaking at the luncheon was Dr. Wilbur Steger,
president and founder of the CONSAD Research Corp., a national
think tank based in Pittsburgh, Pa.

    Steger said a tax to curb the use of fossil fuels such as
oil and coal could cost Michigan as many as 25,000 jobs in the
year 2000 alone, A carbon tax, aimed at reducing global warming,
would threaten numerous U.S. industries, he said. Such
legislation would put America's industrial states at a serious
financial disadvantage and would threaten 330,000 of Michigan's
5.5 million jobs with wage and benefit cuts, reduced hours and
layoffs, Steger said.

    "Everyone will be hurt significantly," he said.

    An Energy Department study released in December said
reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, a primary gas causing the
greenhouse effect, may cost as much as $95 billion a year by 2000
and require steep energy taxes, That report, requested by
Congress and attaeked by many environmentalists, concluded that
carbon dioxide emissions could be cut by 20 percent by the end of
the decade, But, the report says, that can be accomplished only
by imposing substantial carbon taxes.

    That would double gas prices, nearly triple the price of
heating oil and increase electricity costs from 6,5 cents per
kilowatt hour to 15 cents per kilowatt hour.

    Note, the winter of 1994 was one of the coldest on record.
So much for global warming.

AH