Global Warming

“It's a hoot how the farther out on the fringe some people are, the louder they bellow.

I'm just waiting for them to blame it on flying saucers.”

“Yes, on direct release of man made heat. Why were those thermometers so wrong? Which came first the thermometer or the AC condenser?”

“Did you mean, Sighing flossers or flying saucers?”

“The surreal with the fringe on top.”

“How the Looney Left deal with things...

"The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this."

-Al Gore”

“The scientific debate doesn't concern the central issues, though the tail end of some energy companies' disinformation campaigns still have traction with people who don't know any better.

Hopefully that Bush-inspired "it's hip to be ignorant" fad will continue to lose its appeal. � At some point it becomes obviously counterproductive even to them.

Perhaps they do know better and now they're simply lying through their teeth.”

“It's a hoot how the farther out on the fringe some people are, the louder they bellow.


Tllt
7:20:56 AM
5/08/09




Is that really Tilt or is it a torl?
last edited: 5/08/09 8:20:06 AM”

“it's a hoot how the farther out on the fringe some people are, the louder they bellow. - Tilt

Paging Noncon - new entry for your Irony thread.”

“There is no defense for willful ignorance.



You know the people in Alabama must thank God for Mississippi.”

“Nah, I thank God for Augusta, GA.”

“Yeah, there's a bunch of Republican hicks around here, too, though a lot of them moved out to Columbia County so they wouldn't have to live anywhere near Black people.

Many of those that remain send their kids to the all white church-run private schools that sprang up in the early 70s.

I wonder what passes for science in those schools....”

“Could you be any more bigoted?”

“Cretaceousism I'd bet.”

“Senate To Vote On Al Gore Statue
Resolution Previously Passed House Unanimously

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A resolution urging the creation of statues to be built on the Tennessee Capitol grounds of the state's two Nobel Peace Prize winners, Al Gore and Cordell Hull, is on its way to a full Senate vote.

The Senate State and Local Government Committee on Tuesday advanced the measure supporting the privately funded statues on a 9-0 vote. The resolution previously passed in the House unanimously.

Gore was awarded his Nobel prize in 2007 for his work on global warming, while Hull received the award in 1945 for his role in creating the United Nations and improving international trade relations.

Both men served as Democratic congressmen and senators from Tennessee before moving on to the executive branch, Hull as secretary of state and Gore as vice president.”

“BINGO!! I HAVE BINGO!!”

““Could you be any more bigoted?”
Mutt
9:54:46 AM

Yes - he could be you Mutt.”

“Mutt's too busy cowering from the receptionist. � The Liberals in the typing pool scare the crap out of him. � Stand up for yourself, you big he-man woman-hater.

I wonder if Stewie thinks the Jews are bigoted against the Nazis.


Look Nigel! � A Twinkie!

”

“T*lt has been goobered. LMAO”

“Did Sarah have to get back to Alaska before it totally melted, certainly different than last years global cooling?”

“
Democrats break logjam on climate change bill
by Jared Allen
Posted: 05/12/09 08:40 PM [ET]

House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders on Tuesday night announced a new agreement on a contentious climate change bill, assuaging the concerns of enough committee Democrats to get the bill out of committee, they said.

�We�re going to go to markup on Monday with an expectation that we�re going to finish at the end of next week our energy bill,� Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) announced on Tuesday night. �I expect that we�re going to have the votes in committee next week to pass this bill out.�

Waxman and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said a number of issues still remained to be worked out, but said they have struck a deal on the highest hurdle of how strenuously to limit carbon emissions, overcoming the objections of coal-state Democrat Rick Boucher (D-Va.).


boucher virginia coal

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“T*lt, the boy of science.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

“That's just pathetic.”

“LOL...man I cannot wait till it hits...LOL”

“Higher energy prices disproportionately affect people of lower income, which in turn disproportionately affects minorities.

Why is tilt such a racist?”

“Low income credits could trade as carbon points.”

“I forgot you republicans have a black leader also, sorry.”

“Talk about an endangered species....”

“The only science t*ltypoo knows is from leftie bloggs.”

“Stovie nose all.”

“�I forgot you republicans have a black leader also, sorry.�
uncliff
9:46:53 AM
5/13/09

Why is it always a color thing with Libbies?”

“I'd guess you fail since I'm'nt a libby. PC word that, {[('I'm'nt')]]. Yawl needs some pigeon hole cleaning.


Besides, yawl had a good one named Colin and you let the Dick'n'Boss toss em.
last edited: 5/13/09 11:03:07 AM”

“What is yawls love for 'chicken hawks?”

“Powell? NOPE not conservative he was a good moderate. Powell played to the media.

We still have a good one, without question one of the best. Justice Clarence Thomas, but apparently a poor black child who was raised by his grandparents in the poor part of Savannah Ga was not good enough for the libbies.

We had a good one with JC Watts, and dozens upon dozens of others. The truth is any Minority who decides to be "Conservative" will be derided by the left for "acting white". The true racists are the liberals.”

“OH CRAP>>>>>>>>>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I warned that the Global Warming Religion was set to destroy small business......


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/13/white-house-memo-challenges-epa-warming/

WASHINGTON -- An Environmental Protection Agency proposal that could lead to regulating the gases blamed for global warming will prove costly for factories, small businesses and other institutions, according to a White House document.

When the Bush administration unveiled its proposal to use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases, it released full comments from each individual agency -- many of which were critical. The Bush White House ultimately decided against using the Clean Air Act, saying it was an imperfect tool that would burden the economy.

Unlike Bush, Obama has offered an alternative -- a new law that would limit and put a price on greenhouse gas pollution.

"The president has, on many occasions, discussed the strong desire to instead seek a legislative solution for dangerous greenhouse gases," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

New legislation, currently being considered by the House, would mostly pre-empt the agency from regulating greenhouse gases under existing law. The bill may also help mitigate some of the costs to businesses by distributing some of the permits for free.

Still, Republicans and business groups immediately used the document to bolster their arguments that controlling greenhouse gases would hurt the economy.

They also highlighted parts of the document that fault how the EPA reached its conclusion that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, since the gases by themselves do not pose any harm.

The memo says the EPA could have been "more balanced" in its analysis by also highlighting regions of the country that would benefit from global warming, such as Alaska, which would have warmer winters. It also says the EPA seemed to stretch the precautionary principle to support regulation despite the "unprecedented uncertainty" in linking emissions of greenhouse gases and the warming that will result to health effects.

"It really appears to me that the decision was based more on political calculations than on scientific ones," said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who called the document "a smoking gun" during a hearing Tuesday on the Obama administration's proposed EPA budget.

"The counsel in this administration repeatedly questions the lack of scientific support that you have for this proposed finding," he said.”

“I can't tell you how glad I am that my taxes don't pay you to play on the Internet all day. � Sounds like fraud to me.� Waste, Fraud and Abuse ---- just like the other government slackers and Welfare Queens you bltch about all day long..... � while you play with your blackberry.

Isn't that ironic?”

“I guess if it were up to you.... � You'd have to fire yourself.

There seems to be a small hole in your personal integrity Act.”

“There seems to be a small hole in your personal integrity Act.�
Tllt
2:16:43 PM
5/13/09

BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
(It is cute when t*lt, drunkO, vileboy, ect... talk about 'personal integrity', as if they know what it is)
last edited: 5/13/09 1:05:15 PM”

“So XL is a short light weight pad, with a leak? Must have been filled with CO2 for too long”

“MY lord the witty reparte...I swear Stove reading these responses is like.....




"Watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob."”

“You're a fraud. � Do the taxpayers a favor and quit.

The POS from MS is still thinking in circles ---- with a limp.”

“My hair is longer (belly button) and less gray , but otherwise that looks just like me. I shave and smile more. Infact I have an older model of that chair parked in my bedroom corner incase my mother needs it before I do. This one needs a LOL...LOL...”

“LMAO@poorlittlet*lt”

“http://www.uticaod.com/archive/x1175994993/May-to-go-out-under-a-freeze-watch

Freeze watch for NY in June”

“FEATURE

New Solar Cycle Prediction
05.29.2009



May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.

"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

Right: A solar flare observed in Dec. 2006 by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite.

It is tempting to describe such a cycle as "weak" or "mild," but that could give the wrong impression.

"Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather," points out Biesecker. "The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013."

The 1859 storm--known as the "Carrington Event" after astronomer Richard Carrington who witnessed the instigating solar flare--electrified transmission cables, set fires in telegraph offices, and produced Northern Lights so bright that people could read newspapers by their red and green glow. A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause $1 to 2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to ten years for complete recovery. For comparison, Hurricane Katrina caused "only" $80 to 125 billion in damage.

Above: This plot of sunspot numbers shows the measured peak of the last solar cycle in blue and the predicted peak of the next solar cycle in red. Credit: NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center. [more]

The latest forecast revises an earlier prediction issued in 2007. At that time, a sharply divided panel believed solar minimum would come in March 2008 followed by either a strong solar maximum in 2011 or a weak solar maximum in 2012. Competing models gave different answers, and researchers were eager for the sun to reveal which was correct.

"It turns out that none of our models were totally correct," says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's lead representative on the panel. "The sun is behaving in an unexpected and very interesting way."

Researchers have known about the solar cycle since the mid-1800s. Graphs of sunspot numbers resemble a roller coaster, going up and down with an approximately 11-year period. At first glance, it looks like a regular pattern, but predicting the peaks and valleys has proven troublesome. Cycles vary in length from about 9 to 14 years. Some peaks are high, others low. The valleys are usually brief, lasting only a couple of years, but sometimes they stretch out much longer. In the 17th century the sun plunged into a 70-year period of spotlessness known as the Maunder Minimum that still baffles scientists.

Above: Yearly-averaged sunspot numbers from 1610 to 2008. Researchers believe upcoming Solar Cycle 24 will be similar to the cycle that peaked in 1928, marked by a red arrow. Credit: NASA/MSFC

Right now, the solar cycle is in a valley--the deepest of the past century. In 2008 and 2009, the sun set Space Age records for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind, and low solar irradiance. The sun has gone more than two years without a significant solar flare.

"In our professional careers, we've never seen anything quite like it," says Pesnell. "Solar minimum has lasted far beyond the date we predicted in 2007."

In recent months, however, the sun has begun to show timorous signs of life. Small sunspots and "proto-sunspots" are popping up with increasing frequency. Enormous currents of plasma on the sun’s surface ("zonal flows") are gaining strength and slowly drifting toward the sun’s equator. Radio astronomers have detected a tiny but significant uptick in solar radio emissions. All these things are precursors of an awakening Solar Cycle 24 and form the basis for the panel's new, almost unanimous forecast.


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According to the forecast, the sun should remain generally calm for at least another year. From a research point of view, that's good news because solar minimum has proven to be more interesting than anyone imagined. Low solar activity has a profound effect on Earth’s atmosphere, allowing it to cool and contract. Space junk accumulates in Earth orbit because there is less aerodynamic drag. The becalmed solar wind whips up fewer magnetic storms around Earth's poles. Cosmic rays that are normally pushed back by solar wind instead intrude on the near-Earth environment. There are other side-effects, too, that can be studied only so long as the sun remains quiet.

Meanwhile, the sun pays little heed to human committees. There could be more surprises, panelists acknowledge, and more revisions to the forecast.

"Go ahead and mark your calendar for May 2013," says Pesnell. "But use a pencil."”

“Stove, a freeze watch in June is NORMAL. In norther New York it's not that uncommon for freezing temperatures and or snow any month of the year.”

“It's all those windmills cooling things off and the carbon cap threat turnin' up the AC thermoSTRATES all over this land.”

“So? Where did I say it wasn't NORMAL?”

“Don't worry you're lying correctly, unlike that left leaning so'n'so.”

“Oh please. We know what you were getting at. Your link has as much proof as those showing warm temperatures in the winter.”

“Oh please. You peeps in NY are such great mindreaders. ;-)”