In an Reuters report today: “This cover-up is being directed from the White House and the office of the vice president,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, accusing the Bush Administration of stopping the Environmental Protection Agency from tackling greenhouse emissions. Once again, greenhouse emissions and global warming is not a fact, it is not proven. “The real truth is that we don’t know enough to relieve global warming, and — barring major technological breakthroughs — we can’t do much about it.” The latest warming cycle started in the 1800s, well before we had the power to start such a development, even if we have the power at all to initiate such a change!
But that doesn’t stop Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid from proclaiming, “The health of my grandchildren, my children and me are affected by this head-in-the-sand that global warming doesn’t exist,” Reid told reporters.
Do you think Nancy Pelosi, Boxer, and Reid realize that: Congressional Approval Falls to Single Digits for First Time Ever! Sadly, they are making Bush look good.
As for CO2, interestingly enough, today a report by German Scientists actually claims that higher levels of it may be good for plants!
Anyway, the reason for this post. It’s no wonder that from the L.A. Times to the New York Times they are slashing their editorial staffs and cutting back their budgets as circulation plummets. Is it because people are getting tired of such reports? Maybe, maybe not.
So the story above, as ridiculous as it is, the Press of course must add a proper visual to let us know just how bad things are. So what kind of photo does the AP use with this report? Two large nuclear cooling towers billowing what looks like immense amounts of what has to be pollutants into the air. My god, look at what we’re doing! 
Not so fast, those towers are sending nothing more than water vapors into the air. And on top of that, this gas is not always visible! (They couldn’t just show two towers with nothing visible coming out, that wouldn’t be dramatic enough, nor honest.) The vapor is only seen in certain ambient conditions, when “plumes of water vapor (fog) can be seen rising out of the discharge from a cooling tower, and can be mistaken as smoke from a fire.” (click photo for larger image.)
But it gets better, just read the caption for this photo: “In this file photo a U.S. flag flutters in front of cooling towers at the Limerick Generating Station in Pottstown, Pennsylvania May 24, 2006. A leading U.S. Senate Democrat accused the Bush administration on Tuesday of a “cover-up” aimed at stopping the Environmental Protection Agency from tackling greenhouse emissions.”
Ah yes, Ole Glory fluttering in the wind as pollution, err, water vapor billows into the foggy, err, clear blue sky…
