Car+Driver's Bedard: "Kyoto decided that it couldn't reduce global warning"

You didn't read that wrong. He wrote "Global WARNING"

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Add Car+Driver to your list of Global Warming nay-sayers. In the Sept. 2006 issue, Patrick Bedard (the often-mocked tester of all vehicles hybrid and electric and an otherwise fine automotive engineer and former racer) comes forth with a column "An inconvenient truth: SOS from Al Gore".

Sez Bedard:

"Now for an inconvenient truth about CO2 sources - nature generates about 30 times as much as does man. Yet the warming worriers are uncincerned about nature's outpouring. They - And Al Gore - are alarmed only about anthropogenic CO2, that 3.2 percent are caused by humans.

"They like to point fingers at the U.S. which generates about 23 percent of the world's anthropogenic CO2 in 2003, the latest figures from the Energy Information Administration. But this finger-pointing ignores yet another inconvenient truth about CO2. In fact, it's a minor contributor to the greenhouse effect when water vapor is taken into consideration. All the greenhouse gases together, including CO2 and methane, produce less than two percent of the greenhouse effect, according to Richard S. Lindzen of the Massechusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen, by the way, isdescribed by one source as "the most renowned climatologists in all the world."

Bedard concludes: "In deciding that it really couldn't reduce water vapor, Kyoto really decided that it couldn't reduce global warning (sic). But that's an inconvenient truth that wouldn't make much of a movie."

Yes, he wrote "GLOBAL WARNING"!!! Was this a slip? or a typo? I think not.
(Article is NOT on-line yet, as I just got my copy in the mail.)

If you go to the Car+Driver website, they have all sorts of ads for GM plastered on every page. Usually it's the Ayn Rander Brock Yates (he of the Cannanball Run fame) who blasts every mention of fuel efficiency with bad-ass talk of muscle car power and denial of Peak Oil. I guess Bedard and the rest at Hogback Road realize who butters their bread. Drop $4 and buy the Sept. 2006 issue or read Bedard's rant at the library. Then skewer him by writing to

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Comment at their community http://www.caranddriver.com/idealbb/

This is related to ThinkProgress item:
LEAKED MEMO: Coal Industry Coordinating Propaganda Blitz Attacking Global Warming Science

A secret memo by the coal industry details a coordinated campaign to spread misinformation about global warming. The memo expresses fear that if the government addresses climate change — through a carbon tax or regulating greenhouse gasses — it will cut into their profits.

Their solution: “support the scientific community that is willing to stand up against the alarmists.” .......

One of the posters is Netguy. Netguy offers solutions at his blog:
Distributed Generation (of electricity) via solar can work

Maybe somebody from our Global Warning -- eeerrrrr, WARMIMG team can get together with Netguy and create a "What are my options? What do I do NOW?" topic?

DO COMMENT at Netguy's blog and here.
BE SURE TO READ the ENTIRE ThinkProgress link comments. (Watch out for the trolls :/ huh) for some answers to Bedard's claims. Good stuff to borrow for your LTTE.

I'll be trying to dissect his rant myself in a LTTE. I look forward to some of your deluge of letters in next month's C+D reader comments section, "Backfires".

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