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2008-07-18 Down Under

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Posted by tipover 2008-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Who's going to start this guy's car in the morning? He is insulting the Green's religious beliefs.

Posted by JAB 2008-07-18 00:27|| 2008-07-18 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 JAB, good point. He may want to keep it in a locked, alarmed garage.

You might note this article is from Australia. All we hear about in the US today is the Algore lecturing Congress about the need to address "climate change" and renewable fuels. Note the cultists don't mention warming quite so often; getting ready for the freeze I guess.

The article also mentions 4 items that refute the global warming argument. The following is paraphrased:
1. Greenhouse signature in the atmosphere is missing.
2. No evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming.
3. Satellite measurements indicate the present global warming cycle ended in 2001.
4. Ice cores indicate that atmospheric carbon increases AFTER the warming cycle, not before.

Read the article for more detail.

Posted by tipover 2008-07-18 01:06|| 2008-07-18 01:06|| Front Page Top

#3 And of course CO2 levels rose _after_ a warming period because.... (drum roll please....) life flourished during the warming period (among other things)

As the great philosopher Homer Simpson would say: "Doh!"

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-07-18 01:14|| 2008-07-18 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 The author agrees with me that the whole carbon emission program of the Labour party is electoral suicide. Labour will be out of power for a generation, when people see how much this costs and that the weather does not change one whit.

Posted by phil_b 2008-07-18 01:34|| 2008-07-18 01:34|| Front Page Top

#5 So global warmism is a religion that leads to irrational political acts up to and including "suicide." And it has chosen green as it's official color. Copycats.

My sense is that $4 gas has gotten peoples attention to the public policy but the electorate is going to demand nukes and drilling, not massive central planning to provide theoretical support for polar bears based on a model that cannot predict the past let alone the future.

Posted by JAB 2008-07-18 03:04|| 2008-07-18 03:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Even the Irish have figured it out.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-18 07:12|| 2008-07-18 07:12|| Front Page Top

#7 And the American Physical Society. Even the physicists!

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-18 07:17|| 2008-07-18 07:17|| Front Page Top

#8 You know the tragedy of it is this. Most people would make changes to their own lifestyle and accept certain costs that businesses charged to help make a more eco-friendly economy. We as a people have no problem with trying our best to do what is right and make the environment cleaner and safer. But the Greens take it way past that, no personal choice, no dissent, no discussion, kill the heretic!!!
The tide is obviously turning on these fruitcakes, the monopoly on airtime is over, the truth will prevail and they are in the process of being discovered for what they are. Fascists of a sort, really nothing more than that.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-18 10:01|| 2008-07-18 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Can someone wake up John McCain and read this to him?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-18 10:06|| 2008-07-18 10:06|| Front Page Top

#10 We even have a probable cause for "climate change" and the news isn't good.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html

Of course the news is worse for the alarmists because there's not a damn thing we can do about it. So their little power trip is over once the cat is out of the bag, which is probably why they burn the heretics rather than engage in rational scientific discussion.

Oh, and here's coroboration for the first link.

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:zHEbvStyq2QJ:www.dmi.dk/dmi/dkc06-03.pdf+danish+climate+study&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&lr=lang_en

Posted by DLR 2008-07-18 10:33|| http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html]">[http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html] 2008-07-18 10:33|| Front Page Top

#11 If the carbonistas are so sure of themselves why not try and pick up a lazy half million?

Posted by tipper 2008-07-18 11:33|| 2008-07-18 11:33|| Front Page Top

#12 NS, here's a statement from The American Physical Society website (http://www.aps.org/):

APS Climate Change Statement
APS Position Remains Unchanged

The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing body, the APS Council, on November 18, 2007:

"Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate."

An article at odds with this statement recently appeared in an online newsletter of the APS Forum on Physics and Society, one of 39 units of APS. The header of this newsletter carries the statement that "Opinions expressed are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the APS or of the Forum." This newsletter is not a journal of the APS and it is not peer reviewed.

Posted by eltoroverde 2008-07-18 15:32|| 2008-07-18 15:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Unless CHUCK HESTON finds a nuclear ICBM underground on a perceived primitive = regressed modern Alien Planet of Apes called Earth, Modern science wasn't around to observe, analyze, record or quantify the Great Epochs-Changes. espec as per THE SO-CALLED "SIRIUS EVENT(S)" WITHIN MY LIFETIME. WE DON'T KNOW WID ABSOLUT CERTAINTY HOW MANY OF THESE EPOCHS ENDED ANDOR BEGAN, i.e. WE DON'T KNOW HOW THE SUN BEHAVED DURING THESE TIMES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-18 18:51|| 2008-07-18 18:51|| Front Page Top

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