Well, the "Global Warming" crowd has once again climbed aboard their soapbox and begun screaming that the sky is falling. We’re all going to either burn up, or drown, or both!
I cannot believe the gullibility of people who fall for their propaganda.
Look, they base many of their dire predictions upon computer models and meteorologists will tell you that computer models are hard pressed to predict weather as far out as one week, let alone a 100 years! Come on people, use your common sense!
Sometime in the past few days a big story was circulating about a “City Sized” iceberg having calved off the Antarctic ice shelf. I guess that is supposed to validate their claim that the ice sheet, on the Polar Regions, is melting and we’re all going to drown.
Heck, the polar ice IS probably melting! But it will refreeze. It is a cycle. It’s been melting and refreezing since creation. They used to melt every spring. There were no glaciers at that time either. Of course, I’m referring to a time some 65,000,000 years ago. The ocean’s water was considerable higher then, too. The seawater covered the states all the way up into what is now Nebraska and Wyoming.
But, you know, man wasn’t around then to cause that warming! Who did? Huh? There were no SUV’s either. No air conditioners and no hair spray! None of that stuff was a round, yet we had global warming!
And why, pray tell, aren’t the global warming enthusiasts telling us that the temperature on Mars is going up at the same time ours is going up. There are no people on Mars! How is that possible? Could it just be that the sun is warming up. In fact the Sun IS warming UP. As the sun gets hotter, it reflects that heat outwards and the Earth gets hotter, Mars gets hotter and even distant Pluto gets hotter. All this we know for a scientific certainty.
Some 10, 000 years ago, during the last ice age, science tells us an ice sheet covered much of the North American continent. Some estimates have the thickness of the ice at one mile to three miles thick. It reached as far south as, well, my back yard her in North Carolina.
Ask yourselves how accurate the Global warming enthusiats can be, with their models, when we only have temperature records from oh, about, 100 years back. The earth’s weather goes back to at least 4 billion years. Wouldn’t you say they’re a little light on information? Huh?
OK, so why are so many so eager to jump on the Global Warming bandwagon? Well, if you want to pick a man’s pocket, the best way is to convince him that his life is in danger and you have the only means to protect him. Works every time!
Pick your pockets??? Well, next time you get a REALLY compelling warning about Global Warming check to see where the organizations funding comes from.
Finally, on the earth’s temperature rising… during the Middle Ages, there was a time when the earth’s temperature was warmer than it is today! Go figure!
In the meantime, my money is on a new Ice Age!
Longstreet
Actually as the temperatue rises, air and ocean currents do change and it will cause an ice-age. Science fact proven through the study of fossil records and ice core drillings. Why do conservatives always trow out science? You say we scream the sky is falling but you guys think the earth is flat and the sun orbits the earth? The earth is flat, the earth is flat and if you don't agree it is herecy. I know old buddy it ias hard to imagine that someone who actually went to college and spent a lifetime studying geology and weather patterns may know a little more about it than you or I do, but it is possible. The gag order is finally being lifted from NASA's scientists on what they actually witness from photos taken from space, or are you part of the group that believes we never went to space, it was a conspiracy and the Earth is indeed flat?
ReplyDeleteYou got me wrong. Maybe I need to rewrite this piece.
ReplyDeleteWhat I am calling for is for people to BELIEVE science... REAL science, not the pop science so much of this is based on. I'm also asking them to look beyond the glaring headlines at who it is shouting that "the sky is falling".
The unfortunate truth is so much of what we are spoon fed by the media is simply wrong. But, nobody takes the time to check so it becomes accepted truth.
I have a tendency to question everything. I can remember, so clearly, the calls to prepare for the coming Ice Age that these same pop scientists, and organizations, were preaching during the mid '70's. That didn't get peoples attention, so they switched to Global Warming!
I can't help but ask how much of this is coming from organizations whose sole means of support comes from government funding and scared citizens.
If this Global Warming is a fact, and I believe it is... except I believe it is a result of weather cycles and not man's abuse of fossil fuels, then we need HARD science to get to the bottom of it. We don't have that now.
I believe it is fact and it is two pronged, some could be phases of the sun, some is greenhouse gases. There is evidence that volcanic erruptions helped raise the earth's temperature by emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in the past, and that in fact caused the last ice age. And it is good science that led to that conclusion. If we do nothing and we are wrong I can live with being wrong. If we do nothing and we are right, the cost is unimaginable. I believe we as a people (the entire human race) is intelligent enough to overcome any adversity, just don't bind our abilities with ignorance.
ReplyDeleteComputer models are not inaccurate.
ReplyDeleteThey make 100% accurate predictions based on all the data that is entered into them. Unfortunately, all the data is usually not known and therefore not entered in. The more unknowns you have the further off the prediction will be from that which actually comes to pass. Comparing meteorology models to climatology models is either scientifically ignorant, or intellectually dishonst. Climatology deals with large trends where as meteorology deals with the nitty gritty details. There are FAR FAR more unknowns in meteorology than in climatology and as a result the predictions of climatologists are necessarily more accurate than those of meteorologists.
I'm curious where you got your degree in climatology? It must be a presitgious place if you feel your research can effectively refute the rest of the scientific community.
I don't think we can live with being wrong, Frank, if we over-react... as with the Kyoto Treaty. That garbage would devastate our economy and turn us into a third world nation practically overnight!
ReplyDeleteI don't think scaring the hell outta people is the right approach. As a matter of fact, it is turning, no, it HAS ALREADY turned people off. Globl Warming has become a joke! It is viewed, rightly, as a political movement based on Marxism. I suppose you're gonna have to wait another generation, until my generation has died off and no one is around who remembers "classic Marxism" (and can associate it with the Environmental Movement) before you can get a generation of young people to accept their theories.
"I'm curious where you got your degree in climatology? It must be a presitgious place if you feel your research can effectively refute the rest of the scientific community."
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HKU and 30 years in the weather forecasting business.
There you go agai spouting off your crap about "Marxism". how about Facism? Oh you don't like it when we point the finger at right wing policies of Hitler or Musilini and show just how similar they are to Bush or Regan and their cronies. The first thing Hitler did when he took office was, and conservatives get this wrong everytime, get rid of labor unions. They are the biggest enemy of a corporate ran, facist government. And how about our internment camps at guitmo, and the civli right atroceties committed by this facist? Rigging elections, getting recounts stopped because he would loose if the votes were counted correctly. You know Hitler burned down a government office and blamed the communist party in Germany, just to help his political party. (He created enemies for the people to fear and hate.)Maybe Bush had a hand in 911.
ReplyDeleteLeftist Frank,
ReplyDeleteWhat are we going to do with you?
Fascism MUST be your favorite word.
How's your history? If you are a
student of history(from your lack
of perspective you are not), you would know that the first this Hitler did when appointed Chancellor was to empower the SS
to arrest ALL of the enemies of the
state(ie Liberal Democrats,Communists,Freemasons,
Jehovah's Witnesses,etc.)It amazes
me how you Liberals "edit" history
to serve your purposes.How about the internment camps set up at the
Executive Order of Franklin Roosevelt(a Liberal Democrat)? One
MAJOR difference,Frank. The camps
FDR set up were ALL US citizens;155,000 Americans whose
only crime was being Japanese. The
internees at Gitmo are TERRORISTS
dedicated to the destruction of this nation.Labor unions HAVE NEVER been outlawed in this nation.Unions have lost power because of their internal corruption.Example: the Brotherhood of Teamsters. So corrupt that to run for national
office in this union you MUST be
approved by a FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE!!Remember Jimmy Hoffa,Sr.
Gave the Columbo family "free reign" over the union's pension fund.What rigged election? Oh, you
must mean Florida. Let's see, a
DEMOCRATIC approved ballot,A county
where 80% of the voters are registered Democrats who must not be able to read. Frank, go on line
to the New York Times archives.
If you are diligent, you will find a story that was buried on page A19.Here's the gist of that story:
GORE LOST!!!! Get over it!!