Global Warming devastates Houston

[E20]

You're using a pretty bad accent for a dude who is from Afghanistan. So guess I was right after all.

[Extra Stout]

You're using a pretty bad accent for a dude who is from Afghanistan. So guess I was right after all.

Also November tag conference our?

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Y' know, the people I talk to, we're just ill about these simple phase changes goin' on in the oceans with the CO2. It's like, it's just some of those gas reactions and water evaporatin', but you got these scientists with their liberal agenda who don't tell you that's it's alleviatin' the CO2 also. And then there's the refraction of the sun's rays in the water, and, you just look at all the coral reefs. But China, China has just this enormous amount of pollution that they're puttin' out, and it's meltin' the ice caps, and that's makin' the CO2 hurt those little shrimp skeletons. But it's got to be all about job creation.

stick to bein a pundit brah
leave the jokes to me

[E20]

Also November tag conference our?

Ugh?

[Wild Cobra]

I'll be honest and say that I simply don't know.

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CO2 is killing the oceans,

OK, you don't know about something earlier in regards to Global Warming. What makews you an expert that CO2 is killing the ocean? Is it because the Alarmists say so?

That's pure propaganda. Show me links that support their data with mathmatics.

Ocean acidity is affected by other things more than CO2 absorbtion. CO2 has an equilibrium that changes with acidity. Not the other way around.

[Wild Cobra]

LOL I copied that straight out of my chemistry book. So the jokes on you guys not knowing simple phase changes and gas reactions when water evaporates with the atmosphere.

I also forgot about that simplistic fact until you brought it up.

People, water absorbs CO2. When a given volume of water evaporates, the CO2 is no longer a dissolved gas in that water!

[Yonivore]

In the face of the current cooling trend, global warming alarmists have naturally gotten more hysterical than ever. This Associated Press article is typical: "Obama left with little time to curb global warming." Personally, I think Obama has a much better chance of walking on water than changing the weather. But the AP plods doggedly on:

When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid. ...

The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.

This displays a remarkable level of ignorance on the part of the Associated Press. Global temperature records are nowhere near accurate enough to rank years, over a period of centuries, with any confidence. For the recent past, though, we have the world's best data set here in the U.S. And it's true that at one time, it was widely believed that the 1990s were the warmest recent decade. But that was before it was discovered that NASA's James Hansen, Al Gore's chief scientific ally, had been fudging the data, either accidentally or on purpose. NASA was forced to correct its data, with the result that the ten warmest years on record here in the US are as follows: 1934, 1998, 1921, 2006, 1931, 1999, 1953, 1990, 1938, 1939.

The AP apparently hasn't gotten the word, perhaps because it is relying on the report of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But the IPCC report was a political do ent, not a scientific one, which deliberately ignored the most current research in the field.

Finally, the AP's claim that the last 11 years have included all of the 10 warmest "on record" is plausible only if you take a very narrow view of the record. It seems obvious that when we talk about the planet's climate, a broader perspective is necessary. So here is the broader perspective:



When we talk about "global warming" it is important to ask the right questions. Is the earth continuing to warm up from the "Little Ice Age"? Yes, it has been, at least until recently. Fortunately. Is the earth continuing to warm up from the last real Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, when much of the United States was buried under ice a half mile thick? Yes, thankfully! Is the earth warming up compared to where it was five or ten years ago? No.

Many scientists believe that we are entering an era of global cooling. That may or may not be true; climate science is in its infancy and we cannot predict with any confidence what the weather will be 10, 20, or 50 years hence. What we can say for certain is that the way in which the weather "issue" is covered by the Associated Press and other media outlets is a disgrace.

My favorite quote from the AP article:

“While skeptics are already using it [a cooling trend] as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.”

[ElNono]

For once I agree with you Yoni...

[Wild Cobra]

In the face of the current cooling trend, global warming alarmists have naturally gotten more hysterical than ever. This Associated Press article is typical: "Obama left with little time to curb global warming." Personally, I think Obama has a much better chance of walking on water than changing the weather.

I think the truth is that they know Global Warming by their presentation is a farce.

They are running out of time to claim that they changed the trend!

[ClingingMars]

global warming makes me lol

with the temperatures at JMU, i say BRING IT, PLEASE

-Mars