wind-watch.org

[caraher]

19. Reading the article only reinforces the view that the author is misinformed

or deliberately misinforming:

In this country, greenhouse gas emissions resulting from electrical generation are outweighed by other man-made sources 2-to-1, while anthropogenic emissions as a whole account for about 3 percent of the world total; the remaining 97 percent comes from natural sources such as oceans and bogs.

Given that, absent human activity, that 97% or so was exactly balanced by equal absorption of greenhouse gases into the ocean, etc., it's obvious that this comparison, even if the numbers are correct, is entirely inappropriate, and crafted only to minimize the significance of our unleashing fossil carbon into the air and water on a scale large enough to cause a rise of around 50% in the atmospheric CO2 level so far - a rise that shows no signs of abating.

So thanks for the invitation to dig deeper - it only confirms my negative gut reaction.