Posted on 03/23/2008 12:20:39 PM PDT by Delacon
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Well, knock me over with a feather. Such a shock!
Has someone told McCain about this?
Sadly, there is a 100 year upward trend in global temperatures. Even during the plateau from 1945 to 1976 the seas continued rising and the glaciers continued retreating.
The Australian is not the definitive science source to overturn all that.
If someone does McCain will be the first to apologize.
“Sadly, there is a 100 year upward trend in global temperatures. Even during the plateau from 1945 to 1976 the seas continued rising and the glaciers continued retreating.”
Who said it was definitive? Only global warming alarmists say their findings are definitive. What we skeptics say is that NOTHING is definitive. No consensus. And that this is just one more piece of news that throws the “CO2 causes global warming” theory into doubt. This NASA news bolsters further proof that rising CO2 levels do not drive climate change.
The city of Alexandria - or the port, anyway, has been underwater for some time.
Rising sea levels are not a new idea.
On the other hand - the Dead Sea is almost completely gone.
(Put in a pipe!)
You say “to overturn all that” like “all that” was some kind of proof supporting this global warming hooey. In the 1970’s the “consensus” was that we were headed for a new ice age. It was the same brand of so-called scientists predicting doom then as it is now. People better wake up and recognize what this is really all about — the destruction of what are left of free markets and capitalism.
I believe it was about 500 years ago that Spanish explorer Juan Cabrillo sailed up the California Big Sur coast, which today is scenic, verdant, and one of the most photographed places in the world, and called it horrible and bleak because when he saw it, it was covered with snow, miserable, windy, and treacherous. Something that, if it happened today, would create a climate panic because it would be so extraordinary.
100 years is about half a gnat's eye-blink in time. Ice core drillings showing glimpses of the weather 10,000 years ago are maybe a few gnat's blinks. This planet is ancient and has experienced hugely dynamic weather for thousands of millions of years. This is the reality: every coastal area will be under water again some day. The reverse is guaranteed, too: every protected coastal wetland will someday be high and dry, whether it's 100 years from now, 24,000 years from now, five million, or twenty million -- some day, guaran-damn-teed. Welcome to planet earth.
“Sadly”??? Just why is this a sad thing? More temperate climates mean less energy expended on heating — that’s a good thing. Fewer people die in cold — that’s a good thing. Growing seasons are extended and there’s more arable land — that’s a good thing. If you compare the MWP and the little ice age, the former was a time of abundance and wealth, the latter a time of misery, starvation and death.
For me, warm is good, cold is bad.
Why is warming always believed to be bad or, in your words, a “sad” thing?
Ain’t she a beaut?
That view always takes my breath away.
And we’re all still here, eh?
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Doesn't look like it from this graph from NASA:
Compared to the admittedly less accurate graphs of older temperature variation, there doesn't seem to be much difference in the ups and downs in amplitude or frequency... I'd say we are in a normal climate upswing, now turning to a downswing. The one thing that does seem to parallel the global temperature mean is solar activity... and we are now in an almost six month long solar sun spot activity minimum... and temperatures are falling.
Even during the plateau from 1945 to 1976 the seas continued rising and the glaciers continued retreating.
The glaciers that are retreating are a minority... on the Indian sub-continent, only 10 out of over 400 glaciers are retreating. Which ones get the media attention? The ten.
In fact, every measurable piece of data on weather and the environment proves there's Global Warming. By definition.
That leaves all you deniers with no leg to stand on. Literally.
It is too bad real Earth Science is not taught in our schools.
Well said, and there's more to it —
Even AlGore’s book shows most temperate regions (including the US) receiving higher average rainfalls.
And what is CO2, if not plant food?
Sounds to me like milder weather and more food. What's not to like?
Isuspect the Earth will be here until the sun consumes it 5 or 10 billion years hence.
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