Former astronaut scoffs at global warming

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Brian_G wrote:

It's winter and there's snow.

Brian_G wrote:

There is no global warming in the Northern hemisphere.

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The winter solstice occurs exactly when the Earth's axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 22 1/2° 26'. Though the winter solstice lasts only an instant in time, the term is also colloquially used as midwinter or contrastingly the first day of winter to refer to the day on which it occurs.

Brian_G wrote:

Winter's been around forever, climate change is all we ever get.

Judge Roy Bean wrote:

" 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities."
I work with many respected scientists who agree. Global warming is nothing but a great marketing tool and another way to keep people afraid.
Certainly this does not give us the latitude to continue to harm our planet but people need to wake up to the fact there are forces at work beyond our control which are historical and cyclical. NM was once under water and will return that way except not soon enough to wash out the political, societal and human waste woes the state has.
Sorry hippies. Patchouli, pot and sage stink up the environment worse. Take a bath with soap would be a good start.

Brian_G wrote:

Late fall, then. It's December, soon the Sun will be at it's most distant point, angled closest toward the South pole.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice
Winter's been around forever, climate change is all we ever get. What is there about climate that anyone thinks it can be mitigated or influenced? Greed, they'd do anything to make a buck, why shouldn't the natural world be corrupt? Faith and ignorance, more likely.

Abbey Yoyo wrote:

The real issue is global poisoning.

Renaissance or Serfdom wrote:

The effects of global warming are similar to that of smoking cigarettes.
Smoking cigarettes reduces your life by as much as 50%. I'm currently 24 so if I had never smoked, I'd be 48 now.

Renaissance or Serfdom wrote:

The effects of global warming are similar to that of smoking cigarettes.
Smoking cigarettes reduces your life by as much as 50%. I'm currently 24 so if I had never smoked, I'd be 48 now.

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Earthling-1 wrote:

<quoted text>With almost 7 billion people on this planet, what else do you expect?
Multi millions of them want the latest, all singing, all dancing electronic gadgets and hundreds of other commodities that have become available over the decades.
Packaging has gone mad, we live in a crazy world that's being poisoned by greed, I'm sure you're used to it.

Pokay wrote:

And it's time you people learned (Brian especially) that snow comes by the same mechanism as rain does.......water has to evaporate first before it precipitates as rain OR snow.

Pokay wrote:

Looks like you guys forgot that basic concept. A warmer earth will force more water to evaporate therefore we might see heavier rains AND heavier snows.....and with greater frequency.

Brian_G wrote:

We have an individual right to emit CO2. In the Spring and Summer, life sucks carbon from the air to grow and survive, you can grow what you want on your land, and sell it, burn it or eat it, as you wish. Government is the problem, not the solution to climate change.

tired of denial wrote:

Sounds like you emit more methane than CO2.

Brian_G wrote:

Looks like you can't emit an opposition argument. People have the right to emit methane, too. That right is best practiced in private.