Posted on 10/31/2008 3:37:15 AM PDT by xcamel
It's called Google. Try it.
32,600 real scientists say AGW is a hoax. Deal with it.
We must stop all Democrats from exhaling. To save the Earth. It’s the only way to be sure.
The overwhelming majority of Earth's geological history didn't have a climate system like now. Ever hear of plate tectonics? Quick quiz: what happened to global climate when the Panamanian isthmus closed? Answer in 200 words or less. This link should get you started:
Panama: Isthmus that Changed the World
Other questions on upcoming quizzes will concern the impact of Himalayan uplift on global temperatures and the puzzle of glaciation during the Ordovician. Keep asking questions: it's healthy.
I have no idea how well any of those 32,600 signatories have actually analyzed the issue, so the number is meaningless. I've dealt with it. Let's discuss science.
What’s the proximity to McMurdo Sound and Mt. Erebus?
sound of crickets...
First they can’t sell AGW, then they can’t sell GW, now they resort to “alinsky-ish” scientific arguments to try to sell “climate change” - HINT - at no time in the last billion-and-a-half years has the climate not been changing...
Shifting ocean currents, especially near polar ones may be implicated; BTW, the Arctic cap is filling in at a rate almost a full month ahead of 2007.
After hibernation we’ll take another peek.
Our local Woolyworm Lady left us a couple years ago, her daughter is trying to carry on but she admits she doesn’t have the touch.
Methane is a trace gas that has more than doubled in the atmosphere since pre-industrial times, due mainly to human activities. After water vapor and carbon dioxide, it is the most important greenhouse gas and accounts for approximately 20 percent of the human-influenced greenhouse gas warming potential.
While methane is emitted to the atmosphere by some natural sources, such as wetlands, more than 70 percent of total emissions are due to human activities including fossil fuel production and use, intestinal gas from livestock and farm animals, and cultivation of rice paddies. Since many methane sources are the result of human activities, increased industrialization in developing countries and stepped up global food demand could result in increased emissions in the future.
political correctness and financial instruments
YES!
They both result in financial and political disaster.
With twenty five times more heat-trapping potential than carbon dioxide, methane's overall climate impact is nearly half that of carbon dioxide despite atmospheric concentrations of around 1,800 parts-per-billion..
Still think that methane's contribution to warming potential is negligible?
1400 km
The rates of climate change during the Holocene are the most relevant to effective consideration of the current climate state. Factors affecting climate change on 10-100,000 year timescales would barely be detected (if in fact they could be detected) over a century or two.
Maybe the recent cooling of the rhetoric surrounding the issue of warming will be one blessing of this world-wide recession currently trumping the Act-Now crowd.
NOAA/NASA/Hansen - nope, no political agenda there...
I guess you haven't heard the recent news about Antarctica. Try Google News. Use the logical keywords.
mogno-green-freeks - great link there caruso...
This one?
“Antarctic volcanoes identified as a possible culprit in glacier melting”
By Kenneth Chang Published: January 20, 2008
Another factor might be contributing to the thinning of some of the Antarctica’s glaciers: volcanoes.
In an article published Sunday on the Web site of the journal Nature Geoscience, Hugh Corr and David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey report the identification of a layer of volcanic ash and glass shards frozen within an ice sheet in western Antarctica.
“This is the first time we have seen a volcano beneath the ice sheet punch a hole through the ice sheet” in Antarctica, Vaughan said.
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