[gondramB]

There has got to be something going on beside man's influence - how else to explain temperatures declining in the 1800's during the industrial revolution and global warming stopping for 31 years between 1945 and 1976.

[al baby]

during the industrial revolution and global warming stopping for 31 years between 1945 and 1976.


little boy and fat man?

[HitmanLV]

Yep. I was eating a burrito at my fave mexican food hole-in-the-wall here is Las Vegas (Rainbow/Spring Mountain) and they had CNN on. There was a scientist talking about how the ice in the arctic circle was melting and he was very alarmed, warning that this was the worst it had been in 100 years.

Now, I'm not a scientist, but I didn't check my brain at the door, either. This wide-eyed scientist was never asked a couple of threshold questions:

1. How can we meaningfully and accurately evaluate the ice in the arctic circle across the last 100 years, since much of the technology we use to evaluate this today didn't even exist a few decades ago, let alone most of the last century (and especially since weather forecasts tend to not be very accurate 10 days out)?

2. If what he was saying is true, what accounts for the situation in the arctic circle a century ago, given that the global warming phenomenon he cites as the cause in 2005 couldn't be anywhere near as potent in 1905?

[Sgt_Schultze]

It's Bush's fault.

George W was born in 1946, thus he was gestating throughout 1945 initiating the plateau in global warming.Throughout his young life, W was able to tame the menace of global warming. In 1975, after graduating, W returned to Texas and began his energy company. His looking for oil caused global warming to resume in 1976.