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"aluckyguess" wrote:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/2010-da...ing-the-earth/
2010 Dawned with Record Cold Gripping the Earth
Our recent cold spell comes at the end of a decade-long trend which
has seen global temperatures flatline from their peak in 1998 . or
fall.
That's right, the Earth is not warming - and hasn't been for the past
twelve years.
But don't take my word for it. In one of the hacked emails
constituting the Climategate scandal, Dr. Kevin Trenberth, head of the
Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research, admits privately that he cannot explain the current cooler
trends. "The fact is," Trenberth writes, "we can't account for the
lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't."
The only "travesty" is that these scientists actually believed their
own preposterous ravings, or that they placed such fervent apocalyptic
faith in computer models. Did these overeducated ideologues miss the
class in Geology 101 where you learn that on countless occasions over
the last million millenia, great ice sheets covered much of the globe,
only to recede for brief periods of interglacial warming? Did they
plug that into their models? Or did they really believe this ancient
cycle was discontinued because we started up our SUVs?
There are three reasons why these climate scientists - and their
political and media enablers - need to be held to account:
1. They have used this junk science as leverage to pluck billions from
the pockets of taxpayers in the United States and throughout the West,
to subsidize everything from harebrained "green" technology that no
one wants to gigantic wealth transfers to the Third World.
2. They have used their manufactured crisis to justify massive
government power grabs at the expense of our liberty, such as the
Environmental Protection Agency recently classifying CO2 emissions -
literally our very breath - as a pollutant, and therefore under their
purview of control.
3. They have dangerously distracted people from the real climate
danger: the return of the ice.
Oh, I know, Michael
Crighton said it wasn't true. Oh, my god, how could all those fact
based, elitist scientists get it so wrong? The figures given to the IPCC
were wrong but, it doesn't change the overall picture of global warming.
Maybe they move the decimal point. CO2 is easy to measure and, it is
going up. It's going up by 2ppm per year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenho..._gas_emissions
It's not going down. What do you think will happen with more and more
CO2 in the atmosphere, nothing?
The increasing Arctic temperatures are releasing methane from the once
frozen arctic tundra. On a molecule-for-molecule basis, methane is about
eight times stronger as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Ibid.
Read: warmer, faster.
Pre-industrial, we were at 280 ppm CO2. At 450 ppm, the surface
temperature of the planet will rise 3C and, you can say good-bye to most
of Florida, and Galveston. We are at 387 ppm now and, if leaders sit up
and pay attention, we may be able to stop CO2 at 550ppm. But for
anything like normal, we need to get the CO2 down to 350 ppm.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ate-numerology
Look, if global warming is a dud, we will look silly for fighting it. If
we do nothing and, it is as bad as predicted, a billion or more people
may die from famine and disease. If you had to bet, what would you
rather lose, your credibility or, your life?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects...Sea_level_rise
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/arch.../t-599023.html
It could lead to another mass extinction, including us.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?cha...ID=00037A5 D-
A938-150E-A93883414B7F0000
Nothing wrong with doubting but, be prudent.
'Nuff said.
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