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aka123 03-01-2015 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Robbie (Post 20406531)
Just goes to show that words on a message board don't always convey the true meaning...or else you are not wanting to hear what I am saying my thoughts on it are.

So here is what I see:

The Earth's climate is going to change no matter what. There is absolutely nothing that scientists can do about that. Nothing.
Also, it's not even a "bad" thing that it is changing. It's not going to kill us or destroy civilization. Unless a catastrophic NATURAL event happens, the human race is perfectly capable of living in much warmer and much cooler temps either way.

In the meantime...some very rich corporations are getting a lot richer with scaring the shit out of people by claiming that CO2 produced by man is causing the Earth to get warmer and that will kill us all.
So in order to "fight" that...they are going to create carbon trading and make billions of dollars.

Your answers are quite "empty". First of all, no-one hasn't said that Earth's climate isn't changing or that we can stop it changing, at least with current methods, if there is even will for it. The whole issue is about human's impact to Earth's climate, not about sun's impact, not about our orbit's, not about vulcano's; human's impact. So what the fuck is this talk that Earth's climate changing naturally? That is not the subject.

Earth's climate changing is bad thing. We have built our civilization based on current climate. There is lot of stuff between extinction and everything being okay. For example USA is so, so sad about 911 events. So why? You didn't get extinct and dying is totally natural thing. Might there be some other reason to be sad, than just getting extinct?

About companies; companies in generally don't benefit from lessening human's impact to climate; very opposite. Some companies might have some carbon rights to sell, but there is that bying end that pays for it. In generally this battle costs and companies in general are not very willing to pay that price.

About politics who drive with limousines and bomb places; those are your politicians, not mine.

What is about that 20 years timeline? From where did you get that? And even in that time things change, but the timeline has nothing to do with nothing; besides maybe about your own ass.

slapass 03-01-2015 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Robbie (Post 20405700)
That's simply not true. Humans have existed on Earth for around 6 million years. Through much warmer temps and much colder.

Looking at data from the last hundred years is pretty meaningless as to climate change. Scientists simply don't KNOW what's coming next. For all they know a volcanic eruption could occur tomorrow that will plunge us into an Ice Age that kills our species.

I'm not saying that IF we know 100% that something is bad (like blowing up the planet with nuclear weapons) that we should do it anyway.

I just fail to see how people making billions of dollars off of carbon credit trading is "helping" this imaginary "problem".

6 months ago, you admitted it existed. Did you back track? Homo sapient are about 200,000 years old.

Robbie 03-01-2015 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by slapass (Post 20407086)
6 months ago, you admitted it existed. Did you back track? Homo sapient are about 200,000 years old.

Admitted what existed? Man made global warming? I haven't "admitted" anything like that! (thought the word "admitted" doesn't have any meaning here)

And yes, homo sapiens are about 200,000 years old. But humans have been on Earth a couple of million years in other "Homo" (quit laughing) forms and using tools etc.

But yes, "modern" man is 200,000 years old.

What does any of that have to do with what I said about people making billions of dollars in the "carbon trading" market to "fix" "man made global warming"

And how does it change what I said about humans living in all kinds of extreme climates...even today?

You are missing the entire point I'm trying to make.

You are being used through fear mongering to make people very, very rich. IF there was a true danger to the human race, you would see the govt. actually mobilize the country and act like it.

Instead...our politicians fly in private jets, ride in big limousines, and send our giant military out to fly jets, sail in enormous aircraft carriers, ride around in tanks, and bomb the fuck out of other countries.

IF you driving your car is going to cause us all to be in peril because the Earth's temps might go up 5 degrees over a long period of time...then what the hell do you think all the things I just listed are doing?

Our politicians are saying "Do as I say, not as I do"

None of you guys attacking me are addressing what I am asking.

As Bob Dylan once wrote: "If something ain't right, it's wrong".

And something definitely is NOT right.

Everything from what I just typed about the govt.'s actions, to the fact that these scientists predictions have been wrong over and over on this subject.

We are being railroaded and scammed for money. That's my thought on the subject.
It's still a free country. I hope you don't mind if I disagree with the alarmists point of view.

In my opinion...the "alarmists" are the true "deniers" because they refuse to acknowledge the very real possibility that this whole thing is being used to make billions of dollars.
They won't even slightly entertain the thought. Even with all I just said and even with all the failed "settled science" of the last 40+ years on this subject.

Apparently if I don't fall in line and go with whatever story is being told THIS decade concerning "man made global warming" then I am obviously just not as clever as you guys are.

As I already said...look back in 20 years and see what became of all of this. Nothing will have changed. I would say come back in a thousand years...but conveniently (for alarmists), we will all be long dead.

ReggieDurango 03-01-2015 07:48 PM

Another Ice Age would suck so bad.. It would be SOOOO cold!

420 03-01-2015 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by ReggieDurango (Post 20407148)
Another Ice Age would suck so bad.. It would be SOOOO cold!

Then the survivors would be sacrificing each other to the ice gods to get some global warming.

aka123 03-02-2015 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ReggieDurango (Post 20407148)
Another Ice Age would suck so bad.. It would be SOOOO cold!

You live in California. About the same latitude as southernmost Europe/ North Africa.

http://www.iceagenow.com/Glacial_Maximum_World_Map.jpg

_Richard_ 03-02-2015 03:30 AM

http://i.imgur.com/pQZJf.jpg

ReggieDurango 03-04-2015 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by aka123 (Post 20407383)
You live in California. About the same latitude as southernmost Europe/ North Africa.

http://www.iceagenow.com/Glacial_Maximum_World_Map.jpg

So what are you saying??

How you know where I live?

Vendzilla 03-04-2015 08:14 PM

Petition signed that says there is no evidence of global warming

Global Warming Petition Project

31,487 American scientists have signed this petition,
including 9,029 with PhDs

bronco67 03-04-2015 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Vendzilla (Post 20410444)
Petition signed that says there is no evidence of global warming

Global Warming Petition Project

31,487 American scientists have signed this petition,
including 9,029 with PhDs

This proves it!!!Finally you cracked the case.

Vendzilla 03-04-2015 08:20 PM

Satellite Data Says 2014 Not Warmest On Record | The Daily Caller

So where's this proof that there is global warming?

http://m4gw.com/wp-content/uploads/2...telliteMap.jpg

EonBlue 03-04-2015 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Vendzilla (Post 20410444)
Petition signed that says there is no evidence of global warming

Global Warming Petition Project

31,487 American scientists have signed this petition,
including 9,029 with PhDs

Watch out. The alarmists are going to come for you.

http://i.imgur.com/BbnmaMOl.jpg

:1orglaugh


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Vendzilla 03-04-2015 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by bronco67 (Post 20410449)
This proves it!!!Finally you cracked the case.

Do you have to be a moron every time you post?

Vendzilla 03-04-2015 08:23 PM

Al Gore predicted that oceans would rise 20 feet by 2100, it looks like were on track for about a foot. 80% of the tide gauges show less rise than the official “global average”. Many tide gauges show no rise in sea level, and almost none show any acceleration over the past 20 years.

Vendzilla 03-04-2015 08:24 PM

2014 saw record snowfall in many areas, remember when they said that global warming would cause snow to disappear and children won’t know what snow is.

Vendzilla 03-04-2015 08:24 PM

In 2014 NASA finally launched a satellite that measures CO2 levels around the globe. They assumed that most of the CO2 would be coming from the industrialized northern hemisphere but much to their surprise it was coming from the rainforests in South America, Africa and China.

Vendzilla 03-04-2015 08:25 PM

In 2014 there was record sea ice in Antarctica in fact a global warming expedition got stuck in it. Arctic sea ice has also made a nice comeback in 2014. The Great lakes had record ice Lake Superior only had 3 ice free months in 2014. You’d think that in the hottest year ever that ice would be melting like Al Gore said.

Vendzilla 03-04-2015 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20410455)
Watch out. The alarmists are going to come for you.

http://i.imgur.com/BbnmaMOl.jpg

:1orglaugh


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Is that what Bronc looks like?

I love living in LA, how many of you are snowed in right now or dreading going outside? I rode around on my bike in a t shirt today!

2MuchMark 03-04-2015 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by aka123 (Post 20405496)
I haven't said they are the same. You posted some fucking trash pic in this thread, not me. Some "Do not trash." is the kind of stuff that parents teach to children, and at least in kinder garten they teach that. I don't see how talking about climate change contradicts with this. Not trashing is basic behaviour, just like not shitting at the middle of the street.


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Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20405501)
FYI, plastic pollution is a global problem. You can try and make it about some sort of lack of lessons USA parents teach our children, but that only makes you look sillier than you already do by not knowing these 2 topics are not discussed in the same context.

Dynamo :

The topic of this thread is "Why is global warming so threatening?", and you changed the subject and posted a picture of trash.

Of course trash, especially plastic bottles and other plastic items in the oceans is a seriously fucked up problem. However, Aka123 is right, and you are wrong.


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Originally Posted by crockett (Post 20405261)
Under natural conditions the ice would all melt in 5000 years. That's "global warming" on the Earth's natural timeline. We are however speeding the process up which is what is called made made global warming. It wont take 5k years at the current rate.


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Originally Posted by Robbie (Post 20405504)
crockett, that only shows different times that the Earth was different temps and had different quantities of different gases in the atmosphere. Which shows that there is NO "normal" for the Earth.
It is ever-changing and ever-evolving.

Robbie, what Crockett said is exactly right, and your argument is wrong. While its true that the earth's atmosphere is dynamic, the right amount of gasses has to be maintained if life on earth is going to continue to exist in relative comfort. Man is disturbing the ratio by pumping way too much greenhouse gasses into the air, and the damage it is causing and will cause down the road can be seen right now. It's important that people realize this before its too late.

EonBlue 03-04-2015 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Vendzilla (Post 20410463)
Is that what Bronc looks like?

I love living in LA, how many of you are snowed in right now or dreading going outside? I rode around on my bike in a t shirt today!

Ya. Had to help push 3 cars today that were stuck trying to get into driveways and had to shovel heavy, slushy, compacted snow that the plow pushed up at the end of the driveway.

:disgust



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2MuchMark 03-04-2015 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20405473)
Ok, here's my question:

why do you post shit like this about me personally:



And then add to that by making wrong generalized personal comments about me claiming I'm falling into some sort of old hateful way, depressed and am lazy and apathetic in another thinly veiled attempt to make it personal?

Because its true. You write well enough and you know how to argue, but other times you seem to not be interested in the facts, and you seem to be someone who just wants to either "give up", or, to just "do nothing".

I guess I'm still trying to figure you out.




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Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20405473)
Not to mention how many times I've mentioned to you my personal actions and views on my own environment, my local area and what I do about it, yet here you are telling me that I am making assumptions while you wrongly portray my views and more importantly, my actions.

Thats my point. Sometimes you talk like you do things that matter and other times you don't. I'm not trying to pick on you, I'm just trying to understand you.

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Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20405473)
you need to try harder with your trolling. a lot of loose ends in your game.

Lol! Simmer down man... we're just talking.

Vendzilla 03-04-2015 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20410478)
Ya. Had to help push 3 cars today that were stuck trying to get into driveways and had to shovel heavy, slushy, compacted snow that the plow pushed up at the end of the driveway.

:disgust



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That's why I live here! I couldn't part my Harley for a few months every year.

EonBlue 03-04-2015 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ********** (Post 20410473)
Robbie, what Crockett said is exactly right, and your argument is wrong. While its true that the earth's atmosphere is dynamic, the right amount of gasses has to be maintained if life on earth is going to continue to exist in relative comfort. Man is disturbing the ratio by pumping way too much greenhouse gasses into the air, and the damage it is causing and will cause down the road can be seen right now. It's important that people realize this before its too late.

So you are saying that in the past when CO2 levels were at 8000 ppm, and life was flourishing in greater abundance than it does now, life was existing in relative discomfort?

What is the proper ratio of gases in the atmosphere? Is there a manual for that?

What is the damage that can be seen right now?


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2MuchMark 03-04-2015 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20405658)
National Geographic? Nice pictures but I would rate them pretty much near the bottom as an authority on climate.

NASA and NOAA are political entities and as such are tainted. If Obama tells them to fudge the data they do it.

Eon, if you don't believe real scientists, then who do you believe? I'm sorry, no offence, but if you're not going to believe an outfit like NASA that figured out how to get to the moon, have launched countless satellites into orbit, and placed robots on Mars, then there's no point in continuing this conversation with you. They are sounding the alarm - we really need to listen to them.

2MuchMark 03-04-2015 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Robbie (Post 20406372)
Yep, they lived through MUCH hotter climates and MUCH colder ones too.

Oh wait a minute...people TODAY live in very hot and very cold places too. :)


Robbie, it's not the local temperature thats the problem. Yes people life in sub zero temps at the poles, and boiling hot temps around the equator.

The problem is the "average" temperature of the earth. You and won't even notice the average going up, that isn't the issue. The issue is that warmer average temperatures melt more ice, faster, raising the ocean level.

Read this : Strong Hurricanes Getting Stronger; Warming Is Blamed

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Warmer average temperature also means that the oceans themselves, expand. Sea level rise causes inundation of coastal habitats for humans as well as plants and animals, shoreline erosion, and more powerful storm surges that can devastate low-lying areas.

420 03-04-2015 09:08 PM

Humans (homo sapiens) have been around for 200,000 years. Modern humans came along and fucked everything up in a couple hundred years. Damn yous.

EonBlue 03-04-2015 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ********** (Post 20410486)
Eon, if you don't believe real scientists, then who do you believe? I'm sorry, no offence, but if you're not going to believe an outfit like NASA that figured out how to get to the moon, have launched countless satellites into orbit, and placed robots on Mars, then there's no point in continuing this conversation with you. They are sounding the alarm - we really need to listen to them.

Do you honestly believe that the engineers and physicists that are responsible for launching rockets, satellites and Mars rovers are the ones who are involved in "climate science".

They are not.

Do you honestly believe that any "climate scientists" employed by NASA work on space flight operations?

They do not.

FYI - here is a chart of the atmospheric temperatures as measured by a satellite launched by NASA:

http://i.imgur.com/xWJWaHZ.gif

Does that seriously want to make you run into the streets screaming "panic!" like you do?

Seriously?

The branch of NASA that is focused on climate studies is the GISS which was run by James Hansen from 1981 to 2013 and since then by Gavin Schimdt. They are both noted climate alarmists/activists who are in charge of the temperature data.

If you honestly believe they are beyond fudging the data to support their cause then you are way past naive.

Incidently, do you believe that Richard Lindzen is a "real scientist"?

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Richard Siegmund Lindzen (born February 8, 1940) is an American atmospheric physicist, known for his work in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere, atmospheric tides and ozone photochemistry. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and books. From 1983[1] until he retired in 2013, he was Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He was a lead author of Chapter 7, 'Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks,' of the IPCC Third Assessment Report on climate change. He has criticized the scientific consensus about climate change[3] and what he has called "climate alarmism".[4]
He is now one of the scientists subject to Obama's climate "witch hunt".

Do you approve of this?

And what do you know that he doesn't?



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Robbie 03-04-2015 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by ********** (Post 20410497)
Robbie, it's not the local temperature thats the problem. Yes people life in sub zero temps at the poles, and boiling hot temps around the equator.

The problem is the "average" temperature of the earth. You and won't even notice the average going up, that isn't the issue. The issue is that warmer average temperatures melt more ice, faster, raising the ocean level.

I still don't see the "problem" that you do.

The Earth warms up, the Earth cools down. All without man. The ocean's rise, the ocean's fall.

Guess what. You can't stop it. Eventually, one day...the ocean will rise and some cities will have to move. It's happened throughout history.

It's not the end of the world. And definitely no reason to cripple ourselves in the current age because of alarmists like Gore claiming that it's the end.

Matyko 03-05-2015 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Robbie (Post 20410558)
I still don't see the "problem" that you do.

The Earth warms up, the Earth cools down. All without man. The ocean's rise, the ocean's fall.

Guess what. You can't stop it. Eventually, one day...the ocean will rise and some cities will have to move. It's happened throughout history.

It's not the end of the world. And definitely no reason to cripple ourselves in the current age because of alarmists like Gore claiming that it's the end.


Robbie I like you but You have 0 idea about this topic, your knowledge on it is Very superficial...

Matyko 03-05-2015 05:25 AM

Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher

2MuchMark 03-05-2015 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20410518)
Do you honestly believe that the engineers and physicists that are responsible for launching rockets, satellites and Mars rovers are the ones who are involved in "climate science".

They are not.

NASA - Global Prediction, Monitoring and Response

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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20410518)
Do you honestly believe that any "climate scientists" employed by NASA work on space flight operations?

They do not.

I didn't say that. I said that Nasa as an agency, as a whole, is a group that deserves our attention.

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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20410518)
FYI - here is a chart of the atmospheric temperatures as measured by a satellite launched by NASA:

http://i.imgur.com/xWJWaHZ.gif

Does that seriously want to make you run into the streets screaming "panic!" like you do?

Seriously?

Yes. The chart you displayed clearly shows the warming trend. Again it doesn't take much to get us into problems. Don't forget that we are looking at the average temperature of the entire planet and specifically, the average temperature of the ocean. A few degrees warmer means less ice, for less time, and more water. More water (and warmer water) is just the beginning of the problems too.

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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20410518)
The branch of NASA that is focused on climate studies is the GISS which was run by James Hansen from 1981 to 2013 and since then by Gavin Schimdt. They are both noted climate alarmists/activists who are in charge of the temperature data.

If you honestly believe they are beyond fudging the data to support their cause then you are way past naive.

Why do you call them "Alarmists" and "Activists"?

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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20410518)
Incidently, do you believe that Richard Lindzen is a "real scientist"?

Yes he's a real scientist, but a lot of what he says is a little off. He seems to ignore certain things such as our planet's thermal inertia (Which locally anyway, is why in Canada at least, the weather continues to get colder after Dec 21st each year when we get more and more sunlight. The actual explanation says "the degree of slowness with which the temperature of a body approaches that of its surroundings and which is dependent upon its absorptivity, its specific heat, its thermal conductivity, its dimensions, and other factors".

He also claims that there has been no warming since 1997, and ignores the hottest years on record (2010, 2014). Many other things he says are not supported by other scientists.

Is he right or wrong? Who really knows? I'm hoping he's right but the evidence disagrees with him.


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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20410518)
He is now one of the scientists subject to Obama's climate "witch hunt".

Why do you call this a "Witch Hunt"?

Serious question for you.

Here's a scientist making a claim. He can be right or wrong of course. Why not simply say that he is "right" or "wrong"? If the president (or anyone) says a scientist is wrong, why use the term "witch hunt"?

In other words, why demonize the person?

According to Wikipedia, The Demonizing the enemy, Demonization of the enemy or Dehumanization of the enemy[1] is a state propaganda technique which promotes an idea about the enemy being threatening evil aggressor with only destructive objectives.[2] Demonization is the oldest propaganda technique aimed to inspire hatred toward the enemy necessary to hurt them more easily, to preserve and mobilize allies and demoralize the enemy.




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Originally Posted by EonBlue (Post 20410518)
And what do you know that he doesn't?

Nothing of course. I'm not a scientist. I'm just a guy who doesn't want to see his home planet go to shit, or its humans manipulated into doing so by burning too much fossil fuels. That's it...

peace.

Vendzilla 03-05-2015 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Matyko (Post 20410715)

One researcher gets money from an oil company so everything in now false?

There is just as much if not more pointing to the alarmist that they are being mislead

The Coming Revelation Of The 'Global Warming' Fraud Resembles The Obamacare Lie - Forbes

While it's easy to believe that man has fucked up the planet, in this case, it hasn't. In the last 18 years, temps have remained the same, in fact many parts of the country are having record snow and the rise of the ocean in most places have not risen, some have risen almost a foot when Gore said it would rise several feet.

It's ok Chicken Little, the sky is not falling!

scarlettcontent 03-05-2015 08:54 AM

the ice will melt in 36 months

Robbie 03-05-2015 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Matyko (Post 20410714)
Robbie I like you but You have 0 idea about this topic, your knowledge on it is Very superficial...

I know enough to use google. It's pretty easy to look up what actual geologists have learned about both the CO2 content of the Earth's atmosphere over history and the temperatures of the Earth over history.

What is happening right now is we are slowly...VERY slowly warming back up after the "Little Ice Age".

I don't go along with giant corporations making billions of dollars with fearmongering by selling "carbon credits" on the "carbon trade" market.

It doesn't "Fix" the imaginary "Problem" one bit. But it's pretty much the ONLY thing that govt. is doing.

Since you think I don't know anything about the subject...then why don't YOU tell me why the U.S. govt. still has our politicians flying private jets, riding in big limousines, living in mansions with huge "carbon footprints", and sending out the military worldwide in fighter jets, tanks, aircraft carriers to bomb the hell out of other countries.

IF this weren't a money scam and "Man Made Climate Change" was so important to "fix"...then why isn't the govt. and the lifetime/career bureaucrats doing anything to "fix" it and why are they contributing to the "problem" so heavily?

In carny-speak we call people who believe in a con a "Mark". (no relation to Mark Prince...though he is a "mark" in the carny sense as well. lol)

sperbonzo 03-05-2015 01:25 PM

Well, at least the head of the EPA has a good tight grip on all the facts when asking for 8.6 BILLION DOLLARS of our money.








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Robbie 03-05-2015 03:31 PM

Wow, I just watched that video...it's amazing that that woman bureaucrat (unelected by the way) is so ignorant while asking for a huge increase in funding.

Barry-xlovecam 03-05-2015 07:50 PM

Global warming may have caused man's evolution 3 million years ago. ...

Maybe, man will evolve to use the CO2 in the atmosphere for its energy value ... like plants do ... rise of the vegetable people of the future. Weird Science 102

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Jawbone of early human puts evolution in a whole new light - LA Times

[c]limate change made us who we are today? A broken and fossilized jawbone found poking up amid sediment in an East African hill is rewriting a significant chapter of human evolution ? and adding weight to the argument that a hot, parched climate guided the development of our ancestors. ...
...The significance of this discovery, according to some researchers, is that it firmly fixes the origins of Homo in East Africa and fits the hypothesis that climate change drove key developments in a variety of mammals, including our early forebears.

Jel 03-06-2015 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by sperbonzo (Post 20411151)
Well, at least the head of the EPA has a good tight grip on all the facts when asking for 8.6 BILLION DOLLARS of our money.








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Holy shit, she actually said "from a national security perspective"???

slapass 03-06-2015 05:47 AM

I think this graph sort of says it all. We are creating change but is it a problem is the question.

Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

EonBlue 03-06-2015 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by ********** (Post 20410754)

This just about says it all from that page: Predicting and Modeling Global Changes.

"Predictions" and "models" do not necessarily equate to fact or the truth. Many of their predictions and models have been flat out wrong.

For example:

?Shindell?s model predicts that if greenhouse gases continue to increase, winter in the Northern Hemisphere will continue to warm. ?In our model, we?re seeing a very large signal of global warming and it?s not a naturally occurring thing. It?s most likely linked to greenhouse gases,? he said.
- NASA, GISS, 2 June 1999


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Originally Posted by **********;
Yes. The chart you displayed clearly shows the warming trend. Again it doesn't take much to get us into problems. Don't forget that we are looking at the average temperature of the entire planet and specifically, the average temperature of the ocean. A few degrees warmer means less ice, for less time, and more water. More water (and warmer water) is just the beginning of the problems too.

So a rise of 4 tenths of a degree over thirty years is an impending catastrophe in your eyes? 4 tenths of a degree is inside the margin of error for temperature data. Change the scale on the Y-axis or plot actual temperature and that trend disappears.

There is no such thing as an actual "average" temperature for the entire planet and/or the ocean. There is simply too much of the planet that is not measured and the parts that are measured are often measured incorrectly. The "average" temperature that they quote is a best guess based on extrapolation and models. The only measurements that are accurate and reliable are the satellite measurements as shown in the graph I posted. Sure the satellite record shows a very slight warming trend but that is over a very short time span and it is hardly a catastrophic increase.

You say it doesn't take "much" to get us into problems. Define "much". I think the planet is far more dynamic than you think. If such minor fluctuations could cause so much damage then life on earth would never have flourished like it has.


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Originally Posted by **********;
Why do you call them "Alarmists" and "Activists"?

Because that's what they are.

Hansen has left a very large trail of failed alarmist predictions behind him. After failing to get his way by trying to scare people he decides to quit his job and become a full time professional whiner and complainer about not getting his way - aka activist.

James Hansen to quit NASA, become full-time climate activist

Schmidt is a modeller who is responsible for driving much of the alarmism based on his largely faulty models. Models are not scientific fact. They are best guesses based on often faulty data. Garbage in, garbage out.


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Originally Posted by **********;
He also claims that there has been no warming since 1997, and ignores the hottest years on record (2010, 2014). Many other things he says are not supported by other scientists.

Is he right or wrong? Who really knows? I'm hoping he's right but the evidence disagrees with him.

According to the NASA satellite record there has been no statistically significant warming since 1997. Many scientists know that the ground based temperature record is flawed and unreliable and that we should rely more on the satellite data going forward.


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Originally Posted by **********;
Why do you call this a "Witch Hunt"?

Serious question for you.

Here's a scientist making a claim. He can be right or wrong of course. Why not simply say that he is "right" or "wrong"? If the president (or anyone) says a scientist is wrong, why use the term "witch hunt"?

In other words, why demonize the person?

Because a "witch hunt" is exactly what it is:

Witch-hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quote:

In modern terminology 'witch-hunt' has acquired usage referring to the act of seeking and persecuting any perceived enemy, particularly when the search is conducted using extreme measures and with little regard to actual guilt or innocence. It is used whether or not it is sanctioned by the government, or merely occurs within the "court of public opinion".
The president and other politicians have gone way beyond simply saying that certain scientists are right or wrong:

https://www.barackobama.com/climate-change/

Democrats on ?witch hunt? for doomsday-denying climate scientists

Running Updates on the "Witch Hunt"

I don't know why you refuse to take a break from your little kool-aid sipping party and poke your head up out of your rabbit hole. Once you do it will not be hard for you to see reality more clearly.



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