Beam me to Planet Gore !
Hopefully, they’ll use real scientists (e.g., physicists), rather than “climate scientists” when trying to suss out the complexities of the climate.
Q: When physicists are discussing the causes of climate changes, what does a climate scientist bring to the table?
A: Coffee.
Not possible. Climate change is caused by Republicans driving SUVs and eating red meat.
Now we just need to find the evidence of those 100,000 year old factories that produced the abrupt climate change in Greenland.
It’s not the data we should fear, it’s the conclusions politically motivated scientists reach that will cause our extinction.
Rapid and 800,000 means some pretty long time frames when compared against human life span. That also implies that there is considerable time to mitigate the effects of the changes over which we clearly have no control. All this further debunks the whole Goregon crowd.
Not to criticize Perry, but I thought his Global Warming answer during the recent debate could have been better. I've seen him handle such issues better.
All Republican candidates need to have a two-prong approach:
1) Evolution - the president has nothing to do with this. At best, it is an issue for your local school board. Asking about Evolution is silly -- why not ask about something the president can act upon??
2) Global Warming - perhaps the press is ignorant and doesn't understand the latest science? A good candidate has read up (at least a little) on the latest scientific developments -- and all of the latest developments argue against man-made Global Warming. Therefore, say it loud: AGW is a hoax. It has no merit. Concern about Carbon is misplaced and good government will put a stop to all such scams. No backing down. No apologies. The ignorant journalists don't understand science. Ram this down their throats.
The scientific consensus is that the climate will change, that humans have some part in it, that the magnitude of the change will be from inconsequential (we need to do nothing about it) to catastrophic (we CAN do nothing about it).
In short the scientific consensus is not very useful in deciding government policy.
So the climate has been able to make large changes without human intervention deliberate or otherwise.
I witnessed an event over this past weekend which made me feel once again how insignificant we little humans are to mother nature. For 6 hours, lightning strikes were going off like popcorn! Trees all over the place were struck. Fires started, power lost. We must stop kidding ourselves that we can ever have control of such a complex system.
Ice ages have be a fact of nature for the last million years, every 20-50 thousand years. A million years is very short in geologic time What should be studied is what changed a million years ago.
What should be should be consensus among climatologists is the depth of ice on Manhattan will be at least a half mile?
Pinging the Hoax!!!
My solution to global climate change would be to put a cap on all the carbon dioxide and methane coming out of the halls of government and news organizations in Washington.
I’ve seen this movie before......
Oh, yeah! “The Day after Tomorrow”, directed by Roland Emmerich.
On a personal note, I love disaster movies! “2012” rocked.
Rich white Republicans caused the ICE AGE, the end of the ICE AGE, the EXTINCTION of the Dinosaurs, the extinct of the Neanderthals (except those of the Democratic Party residing in DC), and other extinct animals and plants. /s
The research published in the journal Science (Sept. 8) demonstrates that abrupt climate change has been a systemic feature of Earth's climate for hundreds of thousands of years and may play an active role in longer term climate variability through its influence on ice age terminations.