Chilly reception for theory on global warming

sfgate.com ^ | Sunday, October 4, 2009 | David A. Fahrenthold

[KingofZion]

climate change has been around since the dinosaur era 60M years ago (for those of you who don’t believe the earth was created 6000 years ago in 7 days).

only the liberal establishment could be so arrogant as to think that mankind can somehow control climate change.

nice to see the right guys getting some publicity.

[SuziQ]

But a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia has suggested that people began altering the climate thousands of years ago, as primitive farmers burned forests and built methane-bubbling rice paddies. The practices produced enough greenhouse gases, he says, to warm the world by a degree or more.

Horse Hockey. Human contributions to the atmosphere are miniscule compared to natural ones. We don't have the POWER to change the climate of the Earth.

[Nikas777]

The work in question is saying early man had much greater impact on climate than modern man. You argue mankind has zero impact - I rather think man is like a tipping scale impact the trend is already going there naturally and man either affects it by slowing it down or increasing it but not causing it. I find that a reasonable thesis.

[colorado tanker]

Unbelievable. It appears these idiots haven’t looked at the ice core data and actually have no clue that earth was warming from the last glacial period at the time. Of course the earth was warming, you ignorant fools. And it had nothing to do with ancient agriculture or CO2 levels.

[SuziQ]

Human activity can have an effect on air quality in certain locations, e.g. large metropolitan areas with limited possibilities for air flow in an out. However, the climate in general is a much larger proposition, and human activity cannot change it. From what I've read, human activity accounts for around 3% of ALL greenhouse gases, etc, that go into the atmosphere. How could that possibly CHANGE anything about a global climate? As someone noted earlier, the eruption at Mt. St. Helens put more materials into the atmosphere in one morning than humans could possibly do in that same timeframe. The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, in the Phillipines, caused a global drop in temperatures for a year or two. Compared to the awesome power of nature, we are like gnats in a whirlwind.

Scientists knew, many years ago, that sunspot activity was a pretty good indicator of how temps on the Earth would change. Heck, the Farmer's Almanac still uses sunspot activity in their weather predicting arsenal!

It is only the politics of Anthropogenic Global Warming, and it's desire to punish capitalism and free enterprise that have clouded the issue. Scientists are pushing AGW in order to get research dollars, pure and simple.

[Nikas777]

How could that possibly CHANGE anything about a global climate?

It seems you did not understand what you read in that the scientist in question stated that the early activity of farmers had them burn down whole forests the size of Europe through slash and burn techniques and while that did not cause the climate change it did offset the cooling early on.

[Ditto]

"The greenhouse gases went up, and they should have gone down" many thousands of years ago, said the University of Virginia's William Ruddiman. "Why did that happen?"

Just because humans are vain and conceited does not mean we actually have control of anything.

[Trillian]

I thought you typed out smoked Pterodactyls and wondered what that would taste like LOL

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nikas777. Didn't ping the GGG list, because there have been a number of topics about this, but the Catastrophism list has been slow lately (although that V topic was a grand slam).

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