Global warming

[smokey the elder]

Whether global warming, climate change or whateveryouwanttocallit is real, doesn't it make sense not to mess up the only planet we have?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Just as there continue to be Holocaust deniers - I suppose it is inevitable there are those who refuse to accept the results of our behavior on the planet.

This is just one example of the results of our behavior...

For the last 50-odd years, every piece of plastic that has made it from our shores to the Pacific Ocean has been breaking down and accumulating in the central Pacific gyre. Oceanographers like Curtis Ebbesmeyer, the world's leading flotsam expert, refer to it as the great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The problem is that it is not a patch, it's the size of a continent, and it's filling up with floating plastic waste.

I agree with Smokey...how can anyone not want to stop?? And how can it possibly be a political issue?

[Puckstop31]

I agree with Smokey...how can anyone not want to stop?? And how can it possibly be a political issue?

I agree 100% with the first part. We should absolutley do our SENSIBLE part to be good stewards of Creation. Priceless gifts should be taken lightly.

But it IS being made into a political issue. How? By wanting to spend TRILLIONS of dollars that nobody can afford... All based on what now is shown to be at best very erroneous science... And at worst, criminally negligent "science"...

Does it not mean anything to you that governments around the world continue to push forward with the economically disasterous plans to "save" us? From something that has finally been show to be a ruse?

That they are simply IGNORING what has come to light? That does not bother you?

[blue]

There is a reason some dont follow the Global Warming Religion.

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER WILLIAMS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009



We've Been Had



Last year, my column "Global Warming Rope-A-Dope" (12/24/08) started out: "Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil." New evidence proves that climatologists and environmental policy advocates have not only fed us lies, engaged in scientific and academic fraud but committed criminal acts as well.

Last month, Russian computer hackers obtained thousands of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. CRU has the world's largest temperature data set. In collaboration with scientists around the world, including the U.S., its research and mathematical models form the basis of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2007 global warming report.

The e-mails involved communication among climate researchers and policy advocates around the world who brazenly discuss both the destruction and hiding of data that does not support their global-warming claims. They discuss criminally deleting data rather than comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. There's also discussion of faking data for journals such as Nature, conspiring to keep opposing science out of peer-reviewed journals (which they controlled the editorial boards), and using statistical "tricks" to hide the cooling period of the last 10 years. One e-mail said, "The fact is we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." Another said, "it would be nice to try to 'contain' the putative 'MWP,' even if we don't yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back." MWP refers to the Medieval Warm Period (800 A.D. to 1300 A.D.) when the Earth was much warmer than it is now. This bothers the global warmers because they can't blame the temperature increase a thousand years ago on SUVs, coal-burning power plants, incandescent bulbs and 60-inch TV screens.

Editors of professional journals, who were willing to publish articles that disagreed with the warmers, were forced to resign -- as was in the cases of editors at Climate Research and Geophysical Research Letters. A flagrant example of suppression is found in CRU director Phil Jones', letter to Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann that questions whether the work of academics who question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the IPCC report, which represents the environmental extremist's view on climate science. Jones writes, "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

The fact of the matter is an increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling. Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University, says, "Recent solar changes suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle. A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if that is likely." Geologist Dr. David Gee, chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress, currently at Uppsala University in Sweden asks, "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?"

Last year's column closed with my speculation that if ever "the permafrost returns to northern U.S., as far south as New Jersey as it once did, it's not inconceivable that Congress, caught in the grip of global warming zealots, would keep all the laws on the books they wrote in the name of fighting global warming. Personally, I would not put it past them to write more." This is confirmed by the Obama administration's climate czar, Carol Browner, who, despite dishonesty, fraud and criminality, says she considers the science on global warming settled.

Milly Vanilly had to give back their award, Al Gore and Obama have awards they need to give back for similar reasons.

[RICHARD]

LOL, I was looking at HLN and the story about all the protestors who were jailed for protesting in Copenhagen.

If the globe is warming, why are people dresssed in giant down jackets?

[kokopup]

Richard
If the globe is warming, why are people dressed in giant down jackets?

With global warming the ocean currents that have a major effect on our climate are/'and will' be altered. Places in northern Europe and the British islands that are now still fairly warm will become colder because the course of the Gulf stream will be altered. Rather than warming these places will become colder.

Warming in the arctic will cause other places in the world to become colder
and the weather everywhere will become more unpredictable because of
ocean currents and jet streams being altered..

All of the naysayers need to read all of the evidence not just that written by
oil company lobbyist.

[Puckstop31]

All of the naysayers need to read all of the evidence not just that written by
oil company lobbyist.

I HAVE.

Is the climate changing? Yes. Is it mainly because of human activity? NO.

So, the daming nature of the recent discoveries of the PURPOSELY faulty pro-man made warming evidence does not move you?

And see... It IS being made a political issue. "Oil Company Lobbyist..."

Why don't you complain about Microsoft? KRAFT? They make a bigger profit margin than the oil companies.

Like it or not... Abundant and cheap energy is why we can live the way we do. Want to live in the 17th century? I can.... Did you ever stop to wonder why a gallon of gas costs LESS than a gallon of Lipton Iced Tea?

"Oil Company Lobbyist..." Please....