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2008-10-31 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory, contradicts scientific data

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-10-31 11:05|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Scientists baffled...AGAIN!

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-31 11:15|| 2008-10-31 11:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Think I'll go stand in the sunlight and contemplate this.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-10-31 11:24|| 2008-10-31 11:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't worry. They will be ordered to ignore all data that doesn't show man is the cause by the Obama administration.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-31 11:25|| 2008-10-31 11:25|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't understand. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas. Methane is way up, worldwide. And it's in the 30's in New Orleans, snowing in Tennessee and Zurich, freezing 144,000 yaks & such to death in Tibet, in October. Just think how it would be WITHOUT all that CO2 and Methane in the atmosphere!

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-10-31 11:41|| 2008-10-31 11:41|| Front Page Top

#5 The primary concern now is that 2007 is long over.

More gummit grant money need to verify?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-31 11:54|| 2008-10-31 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Gummit money, they are using my dollars to talk about the weather and I don't even get a cup of coffee for it.

Saw first flight of ducks heading south this morning - that is at least 2 weeks early for this area. You can look at sunspots and you could look at trees. Even thinking about a generator b/c last couple years were tough out here (helicopter drops to feed cattle) and we are showing signs of a colder one.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-10-31 12:07|| 2008-10-31 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 "it is now believed this may be part of a natural cycle in mother nature - and not the direct result of man's contributions"

No, really - ya' think?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-31 12:33|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-31 12:33|| Front Page Top

#8 "Just think how it would be WITHOUT all that CO2 and Methane in the atmosphere!"

I don't have time to look for it right now, Glenmore, but Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) has several times referred to a sci-fi book (not recent, I think) whose premise is that the only reason the earth hadn't already entered a natural cooling cycle was because of man's contribution to warming the earth.

Heh.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-31 12:36|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-31 12:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Gaia ripped one.

Posted by ed 2008-10-31 12:40|| 2008-10-31 12:40|| Front Page Top

#10 What they need to counteract this is a giant frat boy with a giant Zippo.
Just trying to help out the "baffled scientists".

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-31 12:43|| 2008-10-31 12:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Quagmire!

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-31 13:16|| 2008-10-31 13:16|| Front Page Top

#12 SOMEBODY CALL ALGORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by ARMY GUY 2008-10-31 13:20|| 2008-10-31 13:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Barbara - the book may be 'Fallen Angels'

Posted by spiffo 2008-10-31 13:53|| 2008-10-31 13:53|| Front Page Top

#14 sounds familiar, spiffo - you're probably right.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-31 14:16|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-31 14:16|| Front Page Top

#15 This could mean one of two things. Either methane is generated in a lag to a warm season, or hydroxyl production is slashed with cooler weather or reacts with something other than methane.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-31 14:23|| 2008-10-31 14:23|| Front Page Top

#16 15
What kind of warm season? It's been level to slightly cooling for ten years, at least.

Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey 2008-10-31 14:37|| 2008-10-31 14:37|| Front Page Top

#17 Very funny, tu3031. I used to be one of those frat boys that you speak of.

Good times.

;-)

Posted by eltoroverde 2008-10-31 17:06|| 2008-10-31 17:06|| Front Page Top

#18 #8, 13, 14 - I read such an article in Scientific American several years ago, just before the big push, when everyone agreed on MMGW.

I quit the subscription two years ago when I couldn't stand the Gratuitous Bush Bashing anymore.

Posted by Bobby 2008-10-31 18:06|| 2008-10-31 18:06|| Front Page Top

#19 You held on to SciAm a lot longer than I did, Bobby. I got disgusted with them years ago.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-31 19:23|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-31 19:23|| Front Page Top

#20 Seems they have forgotten that

a) correlation is nto causation

b) if the facts contradict the theory, then the THEORY is wrong.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-10-31 19:45|| 2008-10-31 19:45|| Front Page Top

#21 "I got disgusted with them years ago."

The four part hit piece on Lomborg was truly bottom-of-the-barrel disgusting for an ALLEGED science publication. THWT

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-10-31 19:56|| 2008-10-31 19:56|| Front Page Top

#22 Fallen Angels is part of the Baen Free Library: link where you can read it on-line or download it and read it in your spare time. A good read...especially at this price.

Posted by mft 2008-10-31 21:06|| 2008-10-31 21:06|| Front Page Top

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