....or on the other hand, we were all set up by Silicon Valley and forced to buy expensive programs that were not necessary.
That "Hockey stick" graph has since been debunked....I guess that's why they didn't include in the lastest IPCC report. What I find telling is the vehemence that proponents of man made global warming have towards anyone that asks questions or wants to debate the issue.
to be fair, i guess the "debunking happend earlier, displaying that early in the second millenium temperatures were as high as they are now ...
i respect that point. i on the other hand think that the US people got hijacked by dangerous individuals and that it is about time to react appropriately. i do not see any argument for changing our environmental policy besides the fact that other companies than the current ones profit from it ... we ARE influencing our planet. it is about time to accept that to a siginficantly bigger extent than we do now ... the western way of wasting energy and material (just look at your garbage can and see the ratio between food and packaging) is not sustainable. this will not last.
Here you go.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.techcentralstation.com/042204B.html "Scientific" proponents of global warming now base much of their case on a 1998 study by climatologist Michael Mann purporting to show that Earth's temperatures were stable for a millennium, and then suddenly spiked in the late 1900s. Mann's "hockey stick" graph of climate data shows world temperatures in the second half of the 20th century as the highest on record in the last 1,000 years. Mann and his report achieved celebrity status despite the fact that, since its publication, it's been repeatedly contradicted by geologists who have discovered both a warm period and mini ice age over the past millennium. Nonetheless, Mann's "hockey stick" has become the single-most prominent graphic depiction -- and implied proof -- of global warming But this October, Mann's theory was clobbered in peer review. A paper in the prestigious British journal Energy & Environment revealed Mann's original study to be rife with "collation errors ... obsolete data, incorrect calculation ... and other quality-control defects." And the beat goes on. Two Canadian statisticians, Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, recalculated Mann's data with the corrections put in, and found that the late 20th century was not particularly warm after all. Indeed, they found that around the 1500s the world was warmer than it was in the 20th century. So much for industrialization as a sole and compelling cause. So, in a nutshell, the leading scientific study supporting global warming has been thoroughly debunked. Even Nature magazine, which published Mann's original findings in 1998, is now reportedly reviewing Mann's underlying data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/13830/ Global Warming Bombshell A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics.
Excellent point, except that it is not exactly their new religion. It has been for decades. It is ironic that as the schools have become increasingly, perhaps I should say uniformly, hostile to traditional religion they have embraced all sorts of psuedo-religion like environmentalism, multiculturalism and evolution.
Arnie, you must be a puppet of Big Oil. How much are you getting paid to regularly post this stuff? All Hail Al Gore! Inventor of the Internet and Global Warming! http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/05/25/al-gores-makeover/ (1) Near the beginning of the film, Gore pays respects to his Harvard mentor and inspiration, Dr. Roger Revelle. Gore praises Revelle for his discovery that atmospheric CO2 levels were rising and could potentially contribute to higher temperatures at a global scale. There is no mention of Revelle's article published in the early 1990s concluding that the science is "too uncertain to justify drastic action." (S.F. Singer, C. Starr, and R. Revelle, "What to do about Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap. Cosmos 1 (1993) 28-33.) (2) Gore discusses glacial and snowpack retreats atop Kenya's Mt. Kilimanjaro, implying that human induced global warming is to blame. But Gore fails to mention that the snows of Kilimanjaro have been retreating for more than 100 years, largely due to declining atmospheric moisture, not global warming. Gore does not acknowledge the two major articles on the subject published in 2004 in the International Journal of Climatology and the Journal of Geophysical Research showing that modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro was initiated by a reduction in precipitation at the end of the nineteenth century and not by local or global warming. (3) Many of Gore's conclusions are based on the "Hockey Stick" that shows near constant global temperatures for 1,000 years with a sharp increase in temperature from 1900 onward. The record Gore chooses in the film completely wipes out the Medieval Warm Period of 1,000 years ago and Little Ice Age that started 500 years ago and ended just over 100 years ago. There is evidence from throughout the world that these climate episodes existed, but on Gore's Hockey Stick, they become nothing more than insignificant fluctuations (Gore even jokes at one point about the Medieval Warm period). (4) You will certainly not be surprised to see Katrina, other hurricanes, tornadoes, flash floods, and many types of severe weather events linked by Gore to global warming. However, if one took the time to read the downloadable "Summary for Policymakers" in the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), one would learn that "No systematic changes in the frequency of tornadoes, thunder days, or hail events are evident in the limited areas analysed" and that "Changes globally in tropical and extra-tropical storm intensity and frequency are dominated by inter-decadal and multi-decadal variations, with no significant trends evident over the 20th century." (5) Gore claims that sea level rise could drown the Pacific islands, Florida, major cities the world over, and the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. No mention is made of the fact that sea level has been rising at a rate of 1.8 mm per year for the past 8,000 years; the IPCC notes that "No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected." (6) Near the end of the film, we learn of ways the United States could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases back to the levels of 1970. OK. Assume the United States accomplishes this lofty goal, would we see any impact on climate? The well-known answer is no. China, India and many other countries are significantly increasing their emission levels, and global concentrations of CO2 may double this century no matter what we decide to do in the United States. Even if the Kyoto Protocol could be fully implemented to honor the opening of this movie, the globe would be spared no more than a few hundredths of a degree of warming.