First, I would question why the Oil industry would care about Global Warming? The stuff is getting harder to come by, and other (exempt) nations will just use anything we don't use.
The Coal industry is another story. It's the one place the US has it's own supply.
Anytime someone has to adjust the data, there's lots of pressure to calculate it one way or the other. Temperature data near a heat Island is useless for long term world temperature analysis. The only thing it's good for is trending the future growth, and related heating effect, for the local area.
This brings up an interesting question. What if we find out that all the heating is due to heat islands, and dark particle emissions? What if carbon dioxide is not the biggest contributer at all, but solar absorptions from soot? How much soot would have to land on snow, to cause global temperatures to change? Think about it, to say that soot isn't effecting the planet, is the same as my saying that industrial waste heat doesn't heat the air. Wouldn't it be better if we spent all this money on the real problem, rather than the exciting one that scientist want to study? Your going to come to the same conclusion some day, carbon dioxide is largely a result of global warming, not the cause.
Unfortunately, Al Gore has proclaimed it so, so all non-believers shall be cast into the sea, much as a box of tea in Boston. Sharpen the guillotine, and let the Salem witch trails begin anew.  |