1992, in which 172 governments participated, resulted in a number of documents and legally binding agreements with the goal of reducing emissions to reduce and reverse the effects of manmade global warming. “The news media went with those


guys who said they were 99 percent sure,” Goreham said, leading to a world in which human activity is widely accepted as the cause of global warming, where newspapers now have environmental editors and companies and universities have vice presidents and deans of sustainability. “The world jumped to a conclusion


arguably about a theory that was plausible,” Goreham said, adding that in his view the data doesn’t support the theory and the


resulting efforts to curb humanity’s CO2 output.


Data does show ocean levels are rising, Goreham said, and people in certain coastal areas may have to adapt. But a rise of 7-8 inches per century and 390 feet in the last 20,000 years, doesn’t make the connections between human activity and the higher levels, Goreham says. “No scientist can tell us when natural


ocean rises stopped and man-made ocean rises began,” Goreham said. Likewise, Goreham draws different


conclusions from the number and strength of deadly tornadoes and hurricanes, which may be more frequent but haven’t been as strong this century as in their 20th Century counterparts. Ocean current shifts, he believes, are as much to blame as anything produced by humans. “The models say they’re going to get


worse,” Goreham said of the storms. “Well yeah, maybe they’re going to get worse, but the evidence doesn’t show.” Whether one agrees with Goreham or sees him as someone simply taking the side of big industry, he says that companies shouldn’t simply give up on trying to help the environment. He cheers efforts to curb “criteria


pollutants,” the top six air pollutants as identified by the EPA: carbon monoxide,


nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, lead, ozone and particulates. He praised the 63 percent reduction in those pollutants measured between 1980-2015 and no doubt resulting from a number of regulations, controls and efforts brought forth by a host of entities ranging from governments to car manufacturers. In his new book Sensibly Green, Goreham


advocates that companies use the lowest cost mix of processed elements and conserve


materials and labor; reduce waste and use recycled materials; minimize discharge of hazardous pollutants; prepare for extremes in weather; test products fully before putting them into production; restore nature after major construction and demolition projects and comply with environmental laws and regulations. “Companies should be facing the real problems of pollution and not carbon dioxide,” Goreham said.


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