Cronkite's In

The contempt of the Bush administration for environmentalists and their concerns is well known by now. While evidence of man - made environmental damage mounts, the Bush team resists its implications like a defeated army whose rear guard fights off its pursuers as it retreats. That has been especially true of its handling of the most serious of all environmental issues - global warming.

First, the administration claimed that global warming was the work of liberal hysterics and had been discounted by "more sober scientists." Then, it admitted that it was happening but said there was no proof humans caused it, or could fix it.

Retreat No. 3 was the White House discovery that, yes, indeed, some of the warming was due to human activity, and we should take steps, say, to reduce emissions, but those steps should be voluntary on the part of industry.

There are two scientific theories that have been gaining credence in recent years that challenge the sanity of that kind of resistance to fact - and make no mistake about it, global warming is a fact.

Both theories begin with a phenomenon that is taking place right now. Scientists are beginning to understand climate as a complex interactive system that is affected by everything from the emission of greenhouse gases, to deforestation, to the condition of Arctic and Antarctic glaciers.

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First of all, you shouldn't listen to me, or Walter Cronkite about the dangers of global climate change. But what he says about Bush's handling of global climate change is certainly accurate.

The world's foremost climatologists and paleo-climatologists are the people that you need to seek out to have the science confirmed. It isn't hard to do. The National Academies of Science have good information available, as well as myriad other sources.