Why skeptics must heed climate change

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Xcaliber wrote:

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WRONG! Global warming goes back to the middle to late 1950s.

Xcaliber wrote:

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What happened to global warming?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8299079.stm

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Chimney wrote:

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Thanks for reinforcing my actual point, which is that Al Gore is an ephemeral latecomer in the global warming issue. Half the nut-jobs on these sites seem to think Gore invented AGW.

NobodyYouKnow wrote:

We don't live in Western Europe so we aren't much affected by the end of the LIA.[QUOTE]None of us are, "much affected by the end of the LIA," it happened a long time ago and contrary to your belief:[QUOTE]The Little Ice Age brought colder winters to parts of Europe and North America.
In the winter of 1780, New York Harbor froze, allowing people to walk from Manhattan to Staten Island. Sea ice surrounding Iceland extended for miles in every direction, closing that island's harbors to shipping.

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Nor is it comparable to the global climate effects of AGW which change the TOTAL SUM of thermal energy on the planet which is VERY hard to change back if we don't like the results.

During the Little Ice Age, average global temperatures were 1-1.5 degree Celsius (2-3 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than they are today. The cooler temperatures were caused by a combination of less solar activity and large volcanic eruptions. Cooling caused glaciers to advance and stunted tree growth. Livestock died, harvests failed, and humans suffered from famine and disease.

Mr X wrote:

Global warming is another money grabbing hoax, this time it's liberals that fell for it. I don't know how true this is, but I heard polar ice caps were melting on several other planets in our solar system, the sun was getting warmer and we've had an ice age or two that ended without industrialization.

NobodyYouKnow wrote:

We don't live in Western Europe so we aren't much affected by the end of the LIA.

The Little Ice Age brought colder winters to parts of Europe and North America.
In the winter of 1780, New York Harbor froze, allowing people to walk from Manhattan to Staten Island. Sea ice surrounding Iceland extended for miles in every direction, closing that island's harbors to shipping.

NobodyYouKnow wrote:

Nor is it comparable to the global climate effects of AGW which change the TOTAL SUM of thermal energy on the planet which is VERY hard to change back if we don't like the results.

During the Little Ice Age, average global temperatures were 1-1.5 degree Celsius (2-3 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than they are today. The cooler temperatures were caused by a combination of less solar activity and large volcanic eruptions. Cooling caused glaciers to advance and stunted tree growth. Livestock died, harvests failed, and humans suffered from famine and disease.

Bob Burns wrote:

<quoted text>He just politicized it and capitalized on that

The Innkeeper wrote:

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I have noticed that depictions of Mars when I was in school showed a prominent ice cap at the north pole of Mars. Depictions these days show either a skimpy one, or none at all. What's up with THAT?

Mr X wrote:

<quoted text> As I said, I heard ice caps are melting on several other planets in our solar system, which means the sun is probably getting hotter. Less sun spots I heard. Could be a big solar flare soon, meaning we all die. Liberals want to waste our money on alternative energy, when we should be refocusing our efforts on, ohh I don't know, not being burnt to death instantly.

The Innkeeper wrote:

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There is no help for the Mega-flare, so save your cash. But it is quite balmy here for a November evening, so if this is global warming, I like it.

Mr X wrote:

<quoted text>Lol.^_^ We'll have to leave this planet.

The Innkeeper wrote:

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Just think, if it is summery hot all the time, think of just how THIN we all will be.
Tanned, too.

mememine69 wrote:

No sense complaining about the weather eh becuse there is nothin we can do about it..........what? We can make the weather nicer if we just sacrifice our lifestyles? Wow! Tell me more.

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Chimney wrote:

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Thanks for reinforcing my actual point, which is that Al Gore is an ephemeral latecomer in the global warming issue. Half the nut-jobs on these sites seem to think Gore invented AGW.

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Florida wrote:

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AND....(Al Gore who invented the internet) running around lying and fear mongering to everyone for years during the Clinton administration, the world was going to end when Y2K rolled over.
The biggest lie and hoax ever perpetuated by a government administration on to the public to "stimulate" the economy.
As a result people were buying extra food, power generators, guns and ammo, gas gussling SUV's to drive to the mountains while polluting the enviroment, believing planes would fall out of the sky and taking money out of the bank because computers would fail, people buying new computers, all which did grow the economy...
Clinton said "It's The Economy Stupid". I have always said "It's The Internet Stupid". Al Gore spewing his fear mongering doomesday promotions of the day, misleading people to get them scared to spend money....
Why should we believe Al Gore's global warming fear mongering, hocus-pocus Theories, Lies and Untruth this time around???
At least Bush's Ranch is greener than Al Gore's Mansion. The Pasminco Zinc Mine, is situated on Gore's plantation...
The "Left-Wing Lug-Nut" hatemongers will decide the outcome of this historic Obama presidency....
The inebriated Foolishness and Poison of Liberalism

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Chimney wrote:

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You really are missing the point.
Al Gore did not invent AGW. I said it was a concern of scientists from at least the early 80s. I was corrected on that - it was the early 50s.
I don't like Al Gore. Still, the veracity or otherwise of AGW does not stand or fall on Al Gore or any other "inebriated, foolish, poisonous Liberal" as you would put it.
AGW stands or falls on the science, period.

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NobodyYouKnow wrote:

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We don't live in Western Europe so we aren't much affected by the end of the LIA. Nor is it comparable to the global climate effects of AGW which change the TOTAL SUM of thermal energy on the planet which is VERY hard to change back if we don't like the results.