[decimon]

Separate from equal ping.

[teeman8r]

i do like the expanding earth theory...

but we all know this is man’s fault.

teeman

[bkepley]

But where was the obligatory conclusion of how AGW will slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current once again flooding half of Florida and parts of Missouri?

[muawiyah]

http://newsdesk.org/2010/09/scientists-unmask-ghost-mountains-of-antarctica-at-last/ Earlier and Related to this story. The date was given as anywhere from 34 million years ago to 500 million years ago. The point is part of Antarctica was already REALLY COLD ~ opening up the channel between Antarctica and South America allowed these mountains’ glaciers to flow out into the ocean and form ice shelves. Before they’d just melted. The 500 million year date takes this back to the SNOWBALL EARTH era.

[scorchedearther]

The leaking radiation into the Pacific Ocean from Japan and the toxic dumps of sludge into the Atlantic are responsible for the state of the oceans of the world.

Global warming and climate change have nothing to do with the current state of the oceans of the world.

Some years are worse than others when it comes to hurricanes, floods, erupting volcanoes, forest fires, torrential rains, tornadoes and earthquakes.

But these things are natural phenomena.

And the best thing that we who live in areas that see these various natural phenomena is to prepare as best as we can.

These things mean upgrading the infrastructure and when it comes to building structures to go far beyond building code requirements in these areas.

[KoRn]

The Earth once looked like the above picture for a period of time. Incredible how it managed to thaw in the absence of humans burning fossil fuels and the use of hydrocarbons. :p

[Sacajaweau]

Poor arrogant man...Trying to solve something that has too many variables and not enough data aka “CLOSE enough for government work”.....AND MORE GRANT MONEY!! 6.9 BIL IN 2010!!!!!

[Jack Hammer]

Report from the Free Republic Institute of Science: “Sh*t Happens.”

It’s got just as much insight and accuracy as the article cited - or from virtually anywhere else; now write me a grant for fifteen million bucks.

[Fraxinus]

This sentence confused me: Oceans and global temperatures are closely linked. Warmer ocean waters result in warmer air temperatures and vice versa.
In the more tropical environs of the Eocene, ocean circulation was weaker and currents more diffuse.
As a result, heat was more evenly distributed around the world. That resulted in fairly mild ocean temperatures worldwide.
Today, ocean temperatures vary considerably and redistribute warm and cold water around the globe.

I thought that weaker currents moved energy slower, resulting in greater temperature differentials?