ONCE AGAIN,GLOBAL WARMING REARS ITS UGLY HEAD

[StuperDan]

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond has some really balanced info on this stuff.

His focus is more on how societies have reacted to various major changes in the past.

Basically, most societies attacked and killed each other long before they had a chance to freeze or bake or starve.

Of course that was before we had these spiffy forums to mesh these things out in. I'm sure WE won't make the same mistakes............

 

[nicky4968]

We could use a sophisticated heat beam, called a "laser" . . . .

 

[Onomea]

I'm with the Minnesotans for Global Warming crowd... "Set the flamingo free!"

(Here ya go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM )

 

[roscoguy]

Even a professional skeptic ,funded by the Koch bros., admits the science is valid.

http://news.yahoo.com/skeptic-finds-now-agrees-global-warming-real-142616605.html

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Even a professional skeptic ,funded by the Koch bros., admits the science is valid.

http://news.yahoo.com/skeptic-finds-now-agrees-global-warming-real-142616605.html

So this guy says global warming is real but not proven to be "man made" so we should curb emissions just to be safe. No we shouldn't. Killing our economy just to prevent what they can't prove is happening doesn't cut it with me.
Why don't we just tax the sun instead? Or sue God for putting this chunk of dirt so close to the sun.

 

[Andy Griffith]

I really don't care if it warms up or gets colder...I'm still going to use incandescent bulbs, drive a 1970's or earlier vehicle, eat red meat and butter, shoot guns and wear my tinfoil hat.

 

[Sebago Son]

Arlo, That's Hilarious!....

I'm with the Minnesotans for Global Warming crowd... "Set the flamingo free!"

(Here ya go: If We Had Some Global Warming - YouTube )

I have friends under two feet of October snow who will appreciate this... once their powder comes back on that is....

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I really don't care if it warms up or gets colder...I'm still going to use incandescent bulbs, drive a 1970's or earlier vehicle, eat red meat and butter, shoot guns and wear my tinfoil hat.

And if it gets too cold this winter I'll just stand on my roof and spray aresol cans at the sky above my house to let some heat in. My dad had a ton of older lightbulbs when he died so we'll use those for a long time. I have them hidden in the attic next to my guns and gas powered leaf blower because of the periodic sudden inspections from the jack booted energy police.
BTW, Ang. Make sure on your tin foil hat you keep the shiney part up. That's what i do.

 

[mike from st pete]

Homo sapien number seven billion was born earlier today. I say it is just body heat warming the globe.

 

[Snapping Twig]

Climate change is real and it has been so since this rock we call Earth was formed - pre humans.

What this whole brouhaha is IMO, is a wedge issue used by the unscrupulous, fomenting the insipid and duping those that are subject to cognitive dissonance into a frenzy of emotion in order to gain power and money at the expense of us all.

Washington crossed a frozen Delaware river during a mini ice age - pre industrial revolution. Dinosaurs lived in an extreme heat period - pre humans.

Ice and rock cores going back 400,000 years support this.

And let's not forget... CO2 always FOLLOWS warming, it NEVER precedes it.

Let's wake up and stop this insanity.

 

[alde]

The Romans were growing wine grapes in Scotland 2000 years ago and the standard summer uniform for the Union Army during the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression for our southern friends) was made of wool.

 

[Armyphotog]

Yeah, you're all right......and the earth is still flat.

 

[Fir Fer]

Global Warming is a BS story, just like the Cold War. Get people worring about something other than what they need to worry about. Like how the government has been screwing us since WWII.

 

[Andy Griffith]

Global Warming is a BS story, just like the Cold War. Get people worring about something other than what they need to worry about. Like how the government has been screwing us since WWII.

I thought it's been doing that since the 1830's...?

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I recall a news story years ago on how hot the Summer of 1991 was. The Winter of 1993-1994 was the coldest I can remember as an adult. Back in 1816 they had the Cold Summer of 1816-the Summer of 1816 and Froze to Death. Years later it was found to be due to a volcanic explosion in the Dutch East Indies. There's a lot of research still to be done.

 

[Cyrano]

That would have been Krakatoa.

 

[A10]

"Even a professional skeptic ,funded by the Koch bros., "


Glad to see you're not a conspiracy theorist!

Edit: Sorry for any confusion, I was quoting roscoeguy......

 

[Wyatt Burp]

"Even a professional skeptic ,funded by the Koch bros., "


Glad to see you're not a conspiracy theorist!

Gee, I guess this means the evil Koch brothers just turned out to be a couple guys who funded a study and the scientist came up with his own conclusions. Imagine that! And if roscoguy thinks this guy was a "professional skeptic" whose conclusions we should ignore because the Koch brothers hired him, why should we put value on this scientist's opinions now? And doesn't this make pro man made global warming scientists "professional GW witch doctors"? Or is this mythology just a one way street?

 

[Bicky Robby]

I will buy into the "global warming" argument, AS SOON AS the climate smarties provide a logical explanation as to why the ice cap retreated from what is now North America to where it is today...............10,000 years ago. Back then there were no cars, factories, hair spray, coal fired power plants, incandescent light bulbs, or any other evil planet destroying human creations, just animal farts.

Until then, pound sand. What a crock of crack being spoon fed to the masses.

 

[longhair]

I have hope that one day, all children will be taught to read and reason. That all children will, one day, be able to discern what can be possible and what is total hogwash. That one day, all pontificators will be held up to ridicule and be held responsible for the trash they talk. One day....