Learn about global warming

Carroll County Times ^ | 7-3-2006 | Kim Stenley

[AmericanChef]

-Galileo was considered a wacko, too, when he pointed out the earth revolves around the sun.-

What a maroon. In Galileo's time, most folks couldn't even read. I think we've advanced a bit since then. I'm only disappointed that she didn't include her thoughts about what the Founding Fathers would've done (as if the FF's were all flaming lefties or something).

[relictele]

Google Kim Stenley and you discover that there is a Kim Stenley in an administrative role for the Sierra Club in MD! Uncommon last name - conincidence?

http://maryland.sierraclub.org/newsletter/archives/2006/03/a_011.asp

http://maryland.sierraclub.org/newsletter/archives/2005/12/a_021.asp

[relictele]

conincidence => coincidence

[Mike Darancette]

Puny humans are killing the planet that's been in existance for billions of years and has experienced all kinds of turbulence and climate changes, and the earth would wipe us out if it wanted to!! Oh, the humanity.

It's like the thundering dinosaurs blaming the timorous little mammals for causing the mass extinction.

[Teacher317]

I saw Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and learned I didn't know the half of it.
Two times zero is still zero.

Good point... but note that she said that she didn't even know that much. ;^)

[AlaskaErik]

We have a wacko that writes leftist dribble for our local left wing rag too. What the leftists have done is taken a natural phenomenon and turned it into an excuse to degrade our lifestyles to the level it was in Russia under Stalin. The left understands that to control people one of the things that must be done is to limit mobility. Higher mileage cars will not fix the problem and the leftists know this, so the next step will be to ban privately owned vehicles. It's all about incrementalism, whether it be taxes, gun control or elimination of privately owned vehicles.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

What's it going to take for people to accept humans are causing global warming and do something about it?

Sure, it could never be caused by the SUN now, could it?

Friis-Christensen and Lassen (Science, 1991)
study of Global temperatures versus solar cycle
length. Note as the solar cycle length diminishes
(towards the top of the diagram - scale at left),
the global temperatures rise and as they increase
in length, global cooling occurred. This current
cycle is a full year longer than the last one
perhaps signaling a cooling.

[Teacher317]

Apparently, in the eyes of a liberal, if one wacko was once validated, that means that all wakos will be validated. How can one argue with such "logic"?

[Teacher317]

Just 15,000 years ago Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Ohio, and Indian were covered with glaciers. Did thos glaciers retreat because they anticipated the invention of SUV's?

Liberals always proceed with only half of a thought. They can understand the ebb of the glaciers, and a single downward trend on a graph... but they cannot fathom a simple and natural sine wave.

They also cannot fathom how they don't have a massive impact on the entire globe, because they are gods in their own eyes.

[AlaskaErik]

These people who believe all this global warming BS don't have any backbone. If they did, and if they really believed it, they'd give up their cars, electric power, airline travel, processed food, and move back into caves. What are they waiting for?

They drive a Toyota Prius to assuage their guilt. Meanwhile, they keep their 3000 sq ft house and turn the a/c down to 68 degrees, and they commute alone and they recycle all their garbage, which consumes more energy and resources than putting it in the dump. By hey, it makes them feel good and that's what it's all about.

[RadioAstronomer]

See my post #32. :-)

[steve-b]

I agree there is also global warming on Mars.

If only the Martians would sign the Kyoto Accords!

[Casie]

Nice pic, Excuse_My_Bellicosity! I hear he invented the internet though, so at least he can be proud of that.

[calex59]

Every one knows he didn't invent the telescope but merely perfected it. He did make one after he heard about the telescope but had never seen one. Give him a little credit!

He also made many discoveries using his home made scopes, such as 4 of the moons of jupiter. As for optical illusions, he was told by many that his telescope(the one he made) was nothing but an optical illusion, so I guess he had heard the argument before!

History is full of inaccuracies because people, scientists too, tend to take credit for things they didn't do!

Al Gore, for instance, invented the internet!

[Frwy]

As in "it's not nice to mess with mother nature".

[Desron13]

"The great majority of the aforementioned are not climate scientists they are politicians."

And so we come to the real reason for all of this global warming idiocy. Plain and simple folks. This puts enormous and sweeping power into the hands of the Marxists to control virtually every aspect of our lives and fortunes. It's just that simple. Kyoto reads like a Marxist control freaks wildest wet dream!

[Mr_Moonlight]

Whew! That's an awful lot of conclusions based upon the same faulty premise!

To paraphrase a famous bumpersticker: "Algore says it, She believes it, and that settles it"

[ALPAPilot]

"Galileo was considered a wacko, too, when he pointed out the earth revolves around the sun."

"Galileo was incorrectly considered a wacko. I' am considered a wacko. Therefore those who consider me a wacko are incorrect. "

Gee, with reasoning like that it's a wonder the whole world isn't jumping on the band wagon.

[Mike Darancette]

It's just that simple. Kyoto reads like a Marxist control freaks wildest wet dream!

A clear grab after the means of production.

[CommieCutter]

Yeah I thought the Sun got bigger, and bigger as it's life cycle went on. Of coarse this aging is supposed to take place over "millions of years".