Posted on 07/05/2007 5:14:09 PM PDT by blam
It also means the earth has been a whole lot warmer in the past than it is now. So are we "confronted with global warming" or just going through a natural planetary cycle? And, BTW, duh; it was called Greenland because it was green.
Which is more than can be said about Algore.
Blam, do you have a ping list for this kind of stuff? If so, please add me to it. Thanks!
GGG- gods, graves, glyphs about archeology and related topics run by Sunken Civ
Global Warming run by xcamel about the politics and science (or lack thereof) of Global Warming.
Thanks for the heads up!
Xcamel, can you keep me on the global warming list? Thanks!
Take put options on Al Bore’s carbon credits.
It was a fairly balmy November and themperature varied from about -40F to -75F. In fact when I called for a C-130 to come pick us up we were told that the weather was -68F and the Air Force would not dispatch aircraft when it was that cold. We had to wait for two days for it to warm up to -61F and our transport came and picked us up and took us to Dye 4 which was Kulusuk Greenland.
Talk about adventures! I spent a year traveling from Eastern Greenland to Western Alaska about 100 miles from Siberia. I saw Moose, Polar Bears, Musk Oxes, White Foxes, ptarmagan birds and even savored some blubber. Yuk, to the blubber. Been there and know for a fact that the Caribou have benefited from the Alaska Pipeline, The Anwar should be tapped and Alglore don't know what he's talking about!
In other words: “Global Warming is not a new thing”
Gosh, the earth gets warm and cool in cycles. You would think Algore, inventor of the internet would know this. ha ha ha!
What brought about this terrible change in climate? We know it wasn’t hydrocarbons.
The Democrats need false crisis, so that they can pretend to have the solution.
Right - and it wasn't called that 450,000 years ago. It was named Greenland by Scandinavian explorers during the Medieval Warm Period. It was nice and green around 1,000 years ago and therefore obviously warmer that it is today. That was a long time before the Industrial Revolution if I got my history right.
That signifies that there was ice there during the Eemian interglacial period 125,000 years ago. It means that although we are now confronted with global warming, the whole ice sheet will not melt and bring about the tremendous sea-level rises which have been the subject of so much discussion.
Right on until here -- with all due respect, how can it be said that the whole ice sheet won't melt? 125,000 years ago is nothing. Nada. Zip. Heck, 450 million years ago is nothing. If that's the sampling we're going on for forecasting the state of the globe, we're dreaming if we think we have a clue. It's 4 and a half billion years old, for God's sake. I just don't see how anybody can be certain that the ice won't melt and freeze up again over the handful of 450-million-year cycles yet to pass.
They be claiming the Earth be older than 10,000 years matey! Ping.
It would rock if they found oil - enough to usher in a new age of $1/gallon gasoline!
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