Global Warming

“No, really, It's all a BIG conspiracy theory...

PARIS (AFP) – One of the biggest glaciers in the southern hemisphere shrivelled by a fifth in 40 years, French scientists said on Wednesday.

The Cook glacier on Kerguelen, an island in France's southern Indian Ocean territories, covered 501 square kilometres (193 square miles) in 1963.

Combining satellite images with other data, glaciologists from the Laboratory for Studying Geophysics and Space Oceanography estimate the glacier lost an average of nearly 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) in height each year by 2003, shedding almost 22 percent of its original volume.

In terms of area, the glacier shrank by 1.9 sq. kms. (0.74 sq. miles) per year from 1963 to 1991.

Thereafter the loss doubled, to 3.8 sq. kms (1.48 sq. miles) per year. By 2003, the glacier covered only 403 sq. kms (155 sq. miles), a retreat of 20 percent compared with 1963.

The study has been accepted by a US publication, the Journal of Geophysical Research.”

“rosey is getting as bad about his 'sources' as t*lt. LOL”

“We used to have some really nice glaciers here in Michigan but they eventually shriveled up to nothing but a few useless lakes. Curse you humans!”

“do you slobber on the keyboard?”

“see, haywood, the climate change deniers don't understand the process of science because they refuse to participate in it. they don't understand that skepticism is a natural part of the scientific process while blind denial is not. so they take their denial and wrap it up real pretty... like in a cartoon full of deceptions... and call it skepticism.”

“AHEM...HOMERUN there Yogi.”

“ROTFLMAO

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Global+warming+religion+First+World+urban+elites/1835847/story.html

Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.

Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.



Plimer, by the way, is also a vehement anti-creationist and has been hauled into court for disrupting meetings by religious leaders and evangelists who claim the Bible is literal truth.)

Plimer gets especially upset about carbon dioxide, its role in Earth's daily life and the supposed effects on climate of human manufacture of the gas. He says atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at the lowest levels it has been for 500 million years, and that atmospheric carbon dioxide is only 0.001 per cent of the total amount of the chemical held in the oceans, surface rocks, soils and various life forms. Indeed, Plimer says carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, but a plant food. Plants eat carbon dioxide and excrete oxygen. Human activity, he says, contributes only the tiniest fraction to even the atmospheric presence of carbon dioxide.

There is no problem with global warming, Plimer says repeatedly. He points out that for humans periods of global warming have been times of abundance when civilization made leaps forward. Ice ages, in contrast, have been times when human development slowed or even declined.

So global warming, says Plimer, is something humans should welcome and embrace as a harbinger of good times to come.”

“All of a sudden I just had to worry about some Global Warming.”

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1. Science Is Real
2. Meet the Elements
3. I Am a Paleontologist w/Danny Weinkauf
4. The Bloodmobile
5. Electric Car w/Robin Goldwasser
6. My Brother the Ape
7. What Is a Shooting Star?
8. How Many Planets?
9. Why Does the Sun Shine?
10. Why Does the Sun Really Shine?
11. Roy G. Biv
12. Put It to the Test
13. Photosynthesis
14. Cells
15. Speed and Velocity w/Marty Beller
16. Computer Assisted Design
17. Solid Liquid Gas
18. Here Comes Science
19. The Ballad of Davy Crockett (in Outer Space)

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“Poor Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxon's earnings down, I think they need some more tax money, eh? Forget all that damn education crap when Mobil is immobile, you already spend all of last months lobby money?
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“I just got global warming in my pants.”

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….which brings back fond memories of Tom Lehrer:


http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
(you might want to dial down the volume)


There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
There's strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

Isn't that interesting?
I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period...

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.




"The Elements"
An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (1959)




The element Darmstadtium 110 (discovered in a northern suburb of Darmstadt, Germany in 1994) has also earned the nickname of policium, because the telephone number of the police is 110 within Germany.

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“9. Why Does the Sun Shine?


I bet if we ask the believers why the sun shines they won't answer that one either, lol.”

“That potatoe VP wasn't from Alaska.”

“Okay so the dinosaurs were replaced by the other critters....it looks like natural selection at its best...(LOL)”

“They forgot the french lighter(bic).”

“Freedom Ticklers for Argentina.”

“Appalachian Trail or Argentinian Tail?”

“Coolest July around here since the 1890's.”

“Mutt please check the news...has Algroan been there this summer? LOL seems whereever he goes he brings the coldest weather they have had.....”

“You just PROVED global warming, Mutt.

The "new and improved" global warming means that earth is cooling. hahaha!”

“What's happening in the tropics? Many models have predicted tropic warming and polar cooling which would cause any exaggeration of local conditions in between.”

“Let's see, so Mutt, XL and Sarge are the three tools on the planet who don't believe in global warming? Of wait. There's Non-con, rounding out the full toolset.

Can we put these guys on an iceberg and see how long they stay afloat?
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“I bet they don't outlast the polarbears!”

“who don't believe in global warming - rosey

rather (in my case), who don't agree with the politicized science and policy goals of the global warming industry.”

“Gore is the WMD of for ECO dudes. It my not be real, but it might force the freedom from the 'Oily Tyrant'.

Sounds familiar, eh?
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“any precise predictions from 10-15 years ago come true yet?”

“So you believe in man-made global warming, huh rosey? Why?

I always wondered about these folks.....did they start out as skeptics until some overwhelming, irrefutable evidence showed up (which no one else has seen) or did they just accept the spoon-feeding right from the start?

(As someone who's afraid of science, I'm just curious.)
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“No Hurricanes
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“NOAA? We're talking global warming here, not 40 days of flooding. Duh.”

“Oh thats right less hurricanes proves Global Warming

http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0518-hurricanes.html


No wait a minute MORE huricanes proves Global Warming

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2007/2007-07-30-01.asp
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“And smoking cigarettes doesn't cause pulmonary disease.”

“Is t*ltypoo claiming to have scientific credibility AGAIN?”

“I'll see your Seattle and raise you ...

Chicago
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.coldest.july.2.1103959.html

The mid-west
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/08/coldest_july_on_record_through.html

Michigan
http://blogs.woodtv.com/2009/08/02/coldest-july-ever-2/

west virginia
http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=63960

Tenessee and NYC (2nd coldest)
http://scaredmonkeys.com/2009/07/25/has-global-warming-ended-nyc-2nd-coldest-july-on-record-record-lows-in-july-in-nashville-tn/

ohio, 2nd coldest july
http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Was-This-the-Coldest-July-Ever-in-Youngstown/l_s2ndUGLkuisPasj8B9Fw.cspx

iowa
http://www.drudge.com/news/123598/coldest-july-iowa-since-1893

fort wayne
http://hypsithermal.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/fort-wayne-smashes-record-for-coldest-july-ever/

state college, pa (coldest in 33 yrs)
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/08/july_2009_coldest_in_33_years.html

minnesota
http://www.startribune.com/local/52229842.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUsr

Al Gore's hometown
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/BB00B77C-7046-4DFF-BF7E-9FDE8CC6980C/

brrrrr ...

Global Warming sure is cold.”

“I bet it's going to be a mild to warm winter this year, especially in the east. There is an el nino going on right now. It maybe what's causing the cooler summer. There is no doubt that this summer has been cooler. We had some June highs in the sixties. That rarely happens. I don't think this is means climate change isn't occurring. One theory of climate change is that as the earth warms, the gulf stream weakens and the eastern US cools. Some have predicted that the east would even go into a mini ice age. I don't know about all that. All I care about is that there is a healthy earth for my son to live and prosper on in the future and if it means driving a gas efficient car, I don't mind. If it means doing what I can to help, I don't mind. If they are wrong and the world is not at risk, great. IF they are right and the globe is warming, the results are too catastrophic to risk. I don't think we should take that risk. If you want to gamble your children's lives, that's your business. I'd rather not. When do yo want to be wrong? When the coasts are flooding and the world is in chaos?
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“LOL!

That pesky el nino in Chicago...”

“The only thing dumber, than people who think they can predict the weather, are the fools who make fun of them. Except of course, the fool that laughs at both. HAHAHA!!!!”

“talk about your basic broken record.”

“there'll be no prospering in the US in the future. your son will be a serf.”

“IF they are right and Jesus is Lord, the results are too catastrophic to risk. I don't think we should take that risk. If you want to gamble your children's lives, that's your business. I'd rather not. When do you want to be wrong? When you're given an ultimatum and the rest of your eternity is being decided by your answer?”

“'talk about your basic broken record.'

A break amongst the scratches you say?”

“But heck if Jesus is Lord, global warming don't mean jack sh/t.”

“You'll need health care, what with only Golden Streets and Diet Pepsi.”

“Funniest #&%!$ yet ----”