"An Inconvenient Truth" - Part III

This is my third article dealing with global warming.  That is normally not my idea of effective writing when there are so many critical issues our Democratic party needs to bring to attention.  However, I like so many other Americans, have been slow to recognize and become convinced that all this complex data being collected and coordinated over the years is beginning to make sense.

The world scientific community has not been helped in their education process when the U.S. Administration continually has dismissed, even denigrated their findings culminating in President Bush's refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol.  As most of us know the signing in affect would have been a pledge to take steps to reduce green house gases. The refusal to sign gave rise to the title of the documentary film narrated by Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth", still playing at area theaters.

George Bush and all of his oil and corporate financiers certainly would find it very inconvenient to reduce our reliance, thus their profits, on fossil fuels and increase their cost of making our water and air cleaner and our climate more stable.

A friend of mine works at NASA and just yesterday gave me a New York Times article that was brought to her office at the John H. Glenn Research Center.  It plainly shows the contempt this president has for capable professionals striving for a better environment.  I quote from that article: "At a time when global warming has become an overriding issue, NASA has been delaying or canceling programs that could shed light on how the climate changes.  The shortsighted cutbacks appear to result from sharply limiting NASA's budget while giving it hugely expensive tasks like repairing the shuttle fleet, work on the space station and preparing to explore the moon and mars.”

“The agency has cancelled a deep space observatory to monitor solar radiation, water, clouds, aerosols, and other things important to climate change.  It has delayed a mission with Japan to measure global precipitation, decided not to pay for a mission to measure soil moisture around the world, and reduced the money available to analyze data."

Let us be aware also that along with it's communication value, "An Inconvenient Truth",

now playing over three weeks, can be making political traction and exposing "King"

George for the prevaricator and manipulator that he truly is.  As he was so clearly exposed in taking us to war by precisely not allowing the weapons inspectors to complete their work, also he is clearly exposed by dismissing the data and conclusions of the world's scientific community for the benefit of his corporate sponsors.

Please, see this movie, and spread the word.

Buz Cormany

Medina, OH