Troublesome Facts [Global Warming]

Tech Central Station ^ | 06/20/2002 | Duane Freese

[lavaroise]

Global warming is not as bad as the global mouth farting of reporters. Psychological balckmail is a nono and they need to go to jail.

[nightdriver]

"A bill in the U.S. Senate, authored by James Jeffords, would require use of renewable resources to provide up to 20 percent of the nation's energy."

And just what does Jumpin' Jim plan to use as an energy source that's "renewable?" We don't renew the sun, so it can't be solar. We can't make the wind blow, so it can't be wind energy. We can't make it rain, so it can't be hydropower.

It must be that he means we should use wood-fired heat sources as wood is one thing we can renew. Only trouble is, burning wood and other cellulose-based fuel puts more CO2 into the atmosphere per heat generated than does burning fossil fuels.

Could it be that Jumpin' Jim is, in reality, so senile that he cannot even reason this out?

[petuniasevan]

Here in east-central Wisconsin we had a so-so winter but a cold spring.
It took forever for the weather to quit sending little surprises like late May frosts, and the rain has been abundant, though no flooding has occurred here.
Here's the week's forecast:

Today
Jun 21 T-Storms 78°/66°

Sat
Jun 22 T-Storms 83°/67°

Sun
Jun 23 Partly Cloudy 83°/69°

Mon
Jun 24 Partly Cloudy 84°/68°

Tue
Jun 25 Partly Cloudy 85°/66°

Wed
Jun 26 Partly Cloudy 85°/62°

Thu
Jun 27 Partly Cloudy 81°/58°

Fri
Jun 28 Partly Cloudy 79°/57°

Sat
Jun 29 Partly Cloudy 80°/58°

Sun
Jun 30 Partly Cloudy 81°/60°

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Paul Ross]

"....except for the mesquitos."

Hey! I didn't know your blood-sucking insects were briquette-smoked on the grill... :-)

[Paul Ross]

"....except for the mesquitos."

Hey! I didn't know your blood-sucking insects were briquette-smoked on the grill... :-)

[MissAmericanPie]

They add a little protine to the steak.=o)

[farmfriend]

In no time, though, came a second Times news story, this one on June 13, by Timothy Egan, much like the first: "Alaska, No Longer So Frigid, Starts to Crack and Burn." The lead paragraph proclaimed: "To live in Alaska when the average temperature has risen about seven degrees over the last 30 years means learning to cope with a landscape that can sink, catch fire or break apart in the turn of a season."

The Sacramento Bee just reprinted this opinion cr@p.

[Publius6961]

Ignorant people tend to view the universe through their prism of ignorance, whether they be aboriginies or a controlling twit with 4 degrees.
(Yes, university degrees and ignorance seem to exist in a symbiotic relationship in an apparent exponential fashion)

I would never want to have the world's greatest surgeon fix my plumbing...
Couple a delusion of megalomania with an agenda, and you have the stuff of totalitarianism, and a new improved means of exercising power over others.

Extrapolating climate from 30 years of accurate and comprehensive records is like their trying to determine my cross country route after having backed out of my driveway.

I need to find Mark Twains musings over the length of the Mississippi River. Fits these idiots perfectly...

[mafree]

bump

[jpl]

Here we are on June 20, when a normal temperature on a sunny day here would be about 100 degrees, and the high today was 72. - The geeks on the radio were all griping about the 'heat.'

Unfortunately, it's just brutally hot today (Monday) here in Washington D.C. I fully expect that the media charlatans who love using small sample sizes to scare the bejabbers out of their less intelligent customers are going to be out in full force over the next couple of days.

[Aurelius]

BUMP

[TheEaglehasLanded]

great post, informative and something many freepers remember from school days but hadn't researched. I believe that the term GLOBAL WARMING was started in 1988. SO it's only 14 years old. I bet a nexus lexus search would tell us for sure