Posted on 12/06/2008 8:05:55 PM PST by Coleus
See my #20. The 70s were filled with doomsday predictions of environmental disaster via Hollywood.
Ice has returned with a vengence this year to the Arctic. This third rate rag does no investigation whatsoever, just printing the loony press releases from the Gore envronmental-wacko wing of the democrat party.
A thousand years ago the Earth was warmer. How war?
The Vicking grew wheat in Greenland and found grapes at their short-lived colony in Nova Scotia.
The mini-Ice began, suddenly, around 1200-1250 and continued for over 250 years.
Some say we are still recovering.
Earth has a fever? No, it’s just getting over a cold!
jeez, global warming.....again?
Ah, but the “conveyor”, that deep ocean stream containing huge amounts of dissolved CO2, is running again in the Atlantic, carrying very cold water back down south to the warmer latitudes.
Remember, that huge plankton growth was based on an immediate doubling (from 380 today to 500+ and 700+) ....
Actual temperatures are declining slightly that past ten years, but have increased only .2 degrees since 1900. Ice levels have NOT significantly changed, but have moved (summertime) with winds, and have been the same in winter.
So, what would cause the massive blooms? It - like the supposed acidization of the sea causing the sound propagation change, causing the whales to die - is exaggerated fiction.
As one who works in the business, this is utter horsesh*t..
It’s my job!
Er, uhm, yes.
I said nothing about the alleged role of temperatures and ice levels. I did say, however, that elevated levels of CO2 can and will lead to increased phytoplankton production. That is not fiction.
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