If I argue that we're in a bull market, someone would say, "How can we be in a bull market when all the stocks I hold are negative this year!" You get the idea. Have you heard the story "Blind Men and the Elephant?" It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: âGod bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!â The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, âHo! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me âtis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!â The Third approached the animal, And happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: âI see,â quoth he, âthe Elephant Is very like a snake!â The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt about the knee. âWhat most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain,â quoth he; â âTis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree!â The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said: âEâen the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can This marvel of an Elephant Is very like a fan!â The Sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, âI see,â quoth he, âthe Elephant Is very like a rope!â And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong! Moral: So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!
When I cook a scrambled egg, the heat eventually radiates back into space. But, between the time that I expose the heat to the environment of the pan, and the time that it radiates into space, the eggs get cooked...just as our biosphere is currently being cooked by human industrial activity. Like I said. You hold true to your theory and if you're under 30 years old, you will very likely have an opportunity to witness its folly. This doesn't mean that the world will come to an end. It just means that there will be some pretty severe environmental consequences which will challenge human survival. Anyway, I'm out. Enjoy your debate with Mr. Bond.
And you are here advocating nuclear power as the only viable alternative to oil? You must not be a very smart investor.
Yes. It is a very apt description of the fanatical global warming hysteria that is allowed to run rampant in the absence of legitimate science.
You, the frying pan, the stove, the egg, earth and sun are all part of a closed system. Frying the egg does not alter the amount of energy/heat present. You are only facilitating the changing of energy from one form to another. Whether or not any other of your activities is keeping the energy bottled up on earth remains to be scientifically proven.
Are you an investor at all? I may not be a very smart investor, but I've made enough money to satisfy myself.
From your posts it's easy to tell that you have no clue what science is. So don't pretend that you know better than 90% of the scientists.
You get an F in a physics class. The solar system is an open system. It exchanges energy and material with the outside environment. The earth is an open system. The milky way galaxy is an open system. You'll have to go to the level of the entire universe before postulating that it might be a closed system. But even that is not necessarily true, because, as we all know, the universe exchanges energy and material with God.
Are the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere evenly distributed throughout the atmosphere? If there is any part of the atmosphere that lacks enough greenhouse gases to trap heat, wouldnât heat from the earth find its way to this part of the atmosphere and thus be allowed to return to outer space? If there is a place on earth where the atmosphere above still allows heat to escape to outer space, wouldnât the heat at that place on earth escape- thereby creating wind currents that would draw heat from elsewhere to that place where it too would escape through the atmosphere- which would negate the greenhouse effect?