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New government brochure explains climate science
AP ^ | Mar 18, 12:01 PM (ET)

Posted on 03/18/2009 9:42:45 AM PDT by occam's chainsaw

WASHINGTON (AP) - Day after day, reports of the dangers of climate and climate change circulate in the news, often filled with confusing data and debate.

In an effort to improve understanding of climate science, a group of government agencies has combined efforts to produce "Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science."

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anticapitalism; globalwarming; junkscience

1 posted on 03/18/2009 9:42:46 AM PDT by occam's chainsaw
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To: occam's chainsaw

This is why we pay taxes.


2 posted on 03/18/2009 9:45:11 AM PDT by kc8ukw
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To: occam's chainsaw

3 posted on 03/18/2009 9:46:57 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: occam's chainsaw

Very cool screen name ID.


4 posted on 03/18/2009 9:49:39 AM PDT by super7man
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To: occam's chainsaw
from the brochure:

A meltwater stream on the Greenland Ice Sheet flows into the ice through a tunnel called a moulin. About half of the loss of Greenlands ice mass flows into the North Atlantic Ocean as melt water. Liquid water, which is denser than ice, can penetrate through the ice sheet, lubricating the underside, and also accelerate ice loss. Warmer temperatures cause melting in the summer months, which leads to faster flow, drawing more of the ice sheet down to warmer, lower altitudes.

It will take centuries for Greenland to melt under any realistic scenario. This brochure does not provide facts about the climate or consequences, just a lot of vague threats dressed up as science.

5 posted on 03/18/2009 9:49:53 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: kc8ukw

http://climate.noaa.gov/index.jsp?pg=/education/edu_index.jsp&edu=literacy


6 posted on 03/18/2009 9:49:56 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
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7 posted on 03/18/2009 9:50:33 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
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To: occam's chainsaw
LOL!

try teaching that crap to my daughter ... .

Hey, someone has to do well in science. This trash will only place the U.S. LOWER in rank among the industrialized world. The U.S. is at 24th or 25th place.

Just the other day I had to tell her ... we are fighting for the soul of America ... I don't know the outcome yet ... but if it should not be positive ... be flexible. At some point it may make more sense to live in another country ... . I am so upset over what is going on ... I NEVER would have believed that I'd EVER say that about the U.S.. It's painful to say that.

8 posted on 03/18/2009 9:50:49 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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Satellite measurements taken over the past 30 years show that the Suns energy output has changed only slightly and in both directions. These changes in the Suns energy are thought to be too small to be the cause of the recent warming observed on Earth.

Misleading. The solar insolation has increased at least as much over the past century as the warming from CO2 (with realistic LBL and no feedback). 30 years of solar radiation is not meaningful. Also ignores the role of solar magnetic variations, which increased last century and are probably also responsible for some warming.

9 posted on 03/18/2009 9:54:26 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: occam's chainsaw

Temperate... Moderate... tropical... arctic...


10 posted on 03/18/2009 9:57:29 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: palmer
These complex interactions may result in climate change that is more rapid and on a larger scale than projected by current climate models.

Laughable. The climate models are almost all worst case and include positive feedbacks (while leaving out negative feedbacks).

11 posted on 03/18/2009 9:57:43 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: occam's chainsaw

“This message approved by Albert Gore, High Priest of the Church of Manmade Global Warming Hysteria”


12 posted on 03/18/2009 9:59:07 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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Based on evidence from tree rings, other natural records, and scientific observations made around the world, Earths average temperature is now warmer than it has been for at least the past 1,300 years.

A big fat lie.

13 posted on 03/18/2009 9:59:13 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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14 posted on 03/18/2009 10:02:51 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Most bad government results from too much government." - Thomas Jefferson)
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