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| Climate models go cold |
| 2011-06-07 |
| The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic. Watching this issue unfold has been amusing but, lately, worrying. This issue is tearing society apart, making fools out of our politicians. LetÂ’s set a few things straight. The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s. But the gravy train was too big, with too many jobs, industries, trading profits, political careers, and the possibility of world government and total control riding on the outcome. So rather than admit they were wrong, the governments, and their tame climate scientists, now outrageously maintain the fiction that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant. |
| Posted by:Bright Pebbles |
| #14 "One solution to MMGW proposed by a small minority is the extermination of humankind" Anguper, not all of mankind. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-06-07 22:15 |
| #13 Ya sure? What DID the Flintstones do back then? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-06-07 21:04 |
| #12 10,000 years ago, the spot where I'm sitting and typing this post, was underneath a mile of ice. It's gotten somewhat warmer since then. Somehow, I don't think that Republican SUV driving Mastodons were the cause of that warming. |
| Posted by: CincinnatusChili 2011-06-07 20:59 |
| #11 Sriously gorgeous photos, Angie. I have camera/lens/composition envy. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-07 20:52 |
| #10 I have found the warm spot over the tropics. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2011-06-07 19:49 |
| #9 People still glom onto this cowpucky? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-06-07 17:22 |
| #8 "making fools out of our politicians" Barbara, not only are they capable, they have repeatedly done so. I doubt that there are more than a handful of politicians that have not made fools of themselves and are continuing to do so on a daily basis. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2011-06-07 16:54 |
| #7 CO2 is a fertilizer, it accelerates plant growth. People who want to limit CO2 hate plants! |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-06-07 14:28 |
| #6 There should be some way to put the to the tune of "diamonds are a girl's best friends". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-06-07 14:11 |
| #5 "making fools out of our politicians" Actually, politicians are perfectly capable of making fools of themselves with no help from anyone. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-06-07 13:19 |
| #4 none of the proposed 'solutions' to the presumed problem will have any climatological effect at all There is usually a huge lag time between changes in global physics & chemistry and changes in climate. Exceptions are things like volcanic eruptions and large meteorite strikes. Otherwise climate changes have lag times, e.g. the hottest days of summer tend to occur after the peak of solar radiation occurs. There is ZERO evidence that any reasonable proposed methods of decreasing carbon output will have an effect on world climate in a time frame of less than 200 years or so. There is also ZERO evidence that China will go along with decreasing its energy use to satisfy warmist fanatics. Unless China cuts way back, it won't matter what the rest of the world does. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-07 13:16 |
| #3 none of the proposed 'solutions' to the presumed problem will have any climatological effect at all I don't know about that. One solution to MMGW proposed by a small minority is the extermination of humankind. Extinction of human beings on the globe is, ipso facto, the end of MMGW. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-07 13:09 |
| #2 Global warming has been going on for 20,000 years - this time. Sea level has been rising an average of around 1/4" per year that whole time. Furthermore, there are times of faster and slower warming imprinted on the long-term trend. All of that is essentially independent of any possible human contribution. I don't doubt there is now a MMGW component - but neither the theory nor the data should be considered 'settled' science. Furthermore, none of the proposed 'solutions' to the presumed problem will have any climatological effect at all; they are just mechanisms to transfer wealth from richer to poorer nations, and to siphon off cash to certain privelaged ones in the process. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-06-07 13:05 |
| #1 ..making fools out of our politicians. And 'scientists' and 'academics' as well. Not to mention thieves. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-06-07 12:01 |