GLOBALW2.CBS 01/07/04 3:43 PM-DLR   1:45
The Osgood File.  Sponsored by ________.  This is Dave Ross.  On the CBS Radio Network.
British biologists have issued another warning - that unless the industrial nations - meaning US - do not do not curtail emissions of greenhouse gases, hundreds of species of  plants and animals around the globe could vanish over the next 50 years.
But what does that mean?  Are we at climate code yellow, or orange?  This is why no one takes global warming seriously--  except biologists, and climatologists, and meteorologists, and other smart people who know stuff.
More after this from Charlie.
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There's another report today that Global Warming is here and it's real.  19 researchers writing in the Journal Nature says there is ALREADY evidence of pressure on plant and animal species, and if we don't DO something, hundreds could go extinct.
But I don't sense that anyone is particularly worried.  First of all, it comes in the middle of winter when global warming doesn't seem like such a bad idea; second, these might in fact be very annoying species that no one will miss, and third, Global Warming just doesn't apply to America.
The Bush Administration took care of that back in June, when the EPA was about to issue a report suggesting Global Warming was in part man-made.
The administration promptly deleted that passage as being based on bad science.
See, what the biologists at Nature magazine forget is that when you're a superpower, the laws of Nature simply don't apply.
And if nature tries to force them on us - well, that's what the Stryker brigade is for.
Now if scientists REALLY want some attention for Global Warming, they need to find evidence that Saddam Hussein is behind it.  Then Global Warming would become a matter of national security, it would have a proper color-coded alert system, and agents from the Department of Homeland security would start forcibly installing hybrid engines in our vehicles.
But until that happens, I'm afraid that warnings of mass extinction...are just not newsworthy.   The Osgood File. Dave Ross.  On the CBS Radio Network.
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