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Article: Despite heated politics, physicist pokes holes in greenhouse theory. (George C. Marshall Institute's Robert Jastrow)
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- August 5, 1992
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WASHINGTON -- The global warming theory has captured the imaginations of scientists, environmentalists and politicians. Among the scientists is the skeptical, thoughtful physicist Robert Jastrow, and that does not bode well for the theory.
The idea of catastrophic climate change has all of the elements a melodrama could need: images of high tides sweeping into the streets of Miami and across Pacific atolls, a grim chill settling over Northwestern Europe as Atlantic currents shift, droughts and storms worsening, species going extinct.
It also, perhaps, has villains: people who defend the burning of fossil fuels, which add massive quantities of ...