Reagan did not think much of AIDS... Republicans don't believe in global warming does not mean it is not real. Al Gore is not an alarmist. He has been pushing Global Warming long before it was fashionable.
so, you're planning on 20 foot increases in ocean levels? you sound pretty damn alarmed ... don't worry, the democrats will pass the largest tax increase in US history, which will do EXACTLY NOTHING to stop "climate change"
This whole post just affirms that both sides of the argument have their own agendas. So how about this - forget all that stuff and let the facts speak for itself. FACT - the IPCC identifies water vapor as THE major greenhouse gas. FACT - the IPCC does not go into the effects of water vapor in its studies, and instead attributes ANY and ALL warming to CO2. Why? FACT - a 1996 graph from the IPCC clearly reflects the so called "Viking era" and also reflects the Little Ice Age. FACT - the 2001 graph, which Gore used, and the IPCC uses to this day, has been sanitized and no longer shows these periods. Why? FACT - the relationship between CO2 and MMGW is in dispute, but the relationship between solar radiation and Natural GW is not. FACT - the IPCC refuses to consider that increasing solar radiation causes increasing water vapor as the cause of GW. Why? FACT - Past levels of CO2 as touted by the MMGW crowd were taken by proxy for the period up to ~ 1950- ice core sample - but present levels are determined by air samples. FACT - but air samples are available from as far back as the early 1800's that show CO2 levels as high as 550 ppm, which shows the claim that we have the highest levels ever to be false, yet the IPCC refuses to use this data. Why?
you know whats unsettling ... global temperatures have been cooling the past decade ... if these natural fluctuations continue downward, the idiots will claim "cap-and-trade" is responsible ...
Where do you get your facts? television commercials showing stranded polar bears with sarah mcclaugklin playing in the background? friggin fools. there is absolutely no way to measure the "effectiveness" of cap-and-trade. It will be like a "job saved or created", instead it will be "CO2 not emitted", or the obvious, temperatures continue to decline naturally there are still credible people out there who forcast deep, deep declines in temperatures in the near future. oh the insanity ...
There are NASA shots of polar caps in the 1970s and now. Just because you are a moron does not mean everyone is. Fact of the matter is earth is warming up. For a long time people like rush denied it was even warming up but now that the evidence is overwhelming they switched gears to saying that is not man made but natural.
Huh, please show us these pictures. According to NASA the ice in Antartica INCREASED since the 1970's. This is your typical post by Publix, alot of bullshit and zero fact--an Obama supporter indeed.
I don't know how many ways this can be repeated -- weather is not climate, thus a single year is not a sufficient sample size. Neither is nine years. If we were to look since 2000, however, here's the data and as you can see it isn't a cooling trend at all -- just scroll to the bottom. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt Apparently some people thought that global warming meant that it had to be warm everywhere. This makes it easier for people to understand. Great. What do other physicists say about global warming and climatology, and what do climatologists say about physics research? You win the award for "sleazy edit of the day." Here's what she went on to write in the same letter (and she's an expert in weather, not climatology -- very close, but not the same). She writes: "What should we as a nation do? Decisions have to be made on incomplete information. In this case, we must act on the recommendations of Gore and the IPCC because if we do not reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and the climate models are right, the planet as we know it will in this century become unsustainable.â Paleontologists? Oh fer cryin' out loud.
That's some fascinating "logic." You understand that the ROC of recent global average temperatures has drastically increased, of course.