[Nikas777]

ping

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

This greenhouse gas crap is seriously wearing me out.

[reaganaut1]

global warming ping

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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[DuncanWaring]

primitive farmers burned forests and built methane-bubbling rice paddies.

How much forest did they burn relative to the forests burned by lightening, worldwide?

How much methane bubbled out of the rice paddies compared to the methane bubbling out of the North American bison herds (numbering in the tens of millions) and the African wildebeest herds?

[Tenacious 1]

The science of the debate begins with the idea that Earth has natural freeze-and-thaw cycles, driven heavily by changes in its orbit. The planet is in a warm "interglacial" period, which began 10,000 years ago with the end of the last Ice Age.

Beginning more than 8,000 years ago, Ruddiman said, things should have started slowly cooling off again.

It is interesting how specific the timing of these "cycles" are. When it is convenient, scientists seem to know the exact and predictable timing of a "cycle" whether it be those of the sun, the magnetic strength of the plane or the orbit of our planet. But when "non believers" point out that cycles are estimations within a few ten thousand or hundred thousand years, things are "generalized" and there is no way to be sure the exact timing of a cycle.

It has been cooling now for the past several years. What cycle are we in, moving out of, or moving into. One thing they all agree on, the earth's climate is always changing.

BTW - It seems to me that back when the earth was teeming with life, far more than there is today, say the time of the dinosaurs, when there were no ice caps, did the heat create the life that caused their carbon dioxide pollution that caused the heat. Or did life cause the heat that caused the life that caused the carbon dioxide that caused the heat. Was it a meteor that finally re-set the planet's t-stat and got the oceans moving to keep the earth more temperate or was it plate tectonics that reshaped the ocean currents to distribute heat to the poles? What of the great heat exchanger that we call an ocean?

CO2 driven climate change is total BS and has been debunked.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

I actually met 2 global warming believers this weekend. One was a 60ish woman from England who truly believes we need to plan on what we are going to do with all of the people from Africa who are going to be displaced by the flooding that will happen from global warming. She was serious as a heart attack and it was all I could do not to just bust out laughing at the complete idiocy of the comment. I’m sure she has a few extra rooms in her home in France that she can take some in.....

[A CA Guy]

And what, cows farting on Mars is making that planet warmer at the same time?

Maybe it is something called the sun and nature doing most of this.

Granted we should not pollute our drinking water and try not to over kill the animals for various uses, but the theory that man changes climates is bunk.
When Mt. St. Helen erupted once, it put several years of what we could do in the air in seconds.

What egos the scientists backing global warming are, and what fools as well they show themselves to be. At least to any people that read and have common sense.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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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