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Space tourism will accelerate climate change, warn scientists as Sir Richard Branson ...
Daily Mail ^
| 10/25/10
| Staff
Posted on 10/25/2010 12:27:42 PM PDT by Nachum
A decade of commercial space flight would have a devastating impact on climate change and global temperatures, according to a new study.Scientists believe that vast amounts of black soot created by a new generation of spacecraft could lead to temperatures in polar regions rising by as mush as one degree Celsius.The study comes as the dream of whisking tourists edged closer to reality with the official opening of the runway at the world's first commercial spaceport by Sir Richard Branson.The billionaire said he expects flights for space tourists to begin in nine to 18 months,
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: change; climate; globalwarmingscare; junkscience; pseudoscience; space; spacetourism; tourism
Space tourism will accelerate climate change, warn scientists as Sir Richard Branson unveils world's first commercial spaceport
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posted on
10/25/2010 12:27:48 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
oh no! back to the stone age!
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posted on
10/25/2010 12:29:37 PM PDT
by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: Nachum
Unless it gets state support, it is going to be prohibitively expensive, and therefore rare.
To: Nachum
This just in........
Scientist spouting CO2 out of their mouths about climate change are causing irreparable harm to the environment and weather patterns around their ivory towers...........
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posted on
10/25/2010 12:31:25 PM PDT
by
sniper63
(I am the leader of the TEA Party, I, myself am the leader of me, myself for I am the TEA Party!)
To: Nachum
The boy cries wolf for the 10 to the 321st power time and wonders why no one listens to his chicken-little predictions.
Notice to those who STILL believe in the flat Earth and AGW...Toto has pulled the curtain away several hundred times. 30,000 plus Scientists don't agree with your “consensus”
Time to manufacture a new hoax...one about Rumpelstiltskin altering out brainwave patterns perhaps?
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posted on
10/25/2010 12:37:30 PM PDT
by
PATRIOT1876
(Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
To: Nachum; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
When asked if it will accelerate the climate temperatures UPWARD or DOWNWARD, the scientists shrugged and answed “Yes!”
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posted on
10/25/2010 12:38:05 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
To: PATRIOT1876; Slings and Arrows
Time to manufacture a new hoax...one about Rumpelstiltskin altering out brainwave patterns perhaps? Who told you?!!!
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posted on
10/25/2010 12:43:59 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/25/2010 12:45:00 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
To: Nachum
Space Tourism will accelerate Climate Change.. This statement gives me an even larger brainfreeze than the uber Slurpee I must obviously be drawing sustenance from...
Somebody give these idiots a lascivious spanking, take away their Ipads, and put them on a time out.
Was this from the Onion? It is April's Fool day? Elvira channeling Al Gore???
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posted on
10/25/2010 2:03:17 PM PDT
by
ImProudToBeAnAmerican
(Tom Daschle is deeply saddened... Remember him? Bahahahahahahahahaha!)
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