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Scientists stirred to ridicule ice age claims
The New Scientist ^ | 19:00 15 April 04 | Fred Pearce

Posted on 04/16/2004 10:17:45 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 04/16/2004 10:17:45 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: NormsRevenge; blam; *Global Warming Hoax
fyi
2 posted on 04/16/2004 10:18:39 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: nuconvert; F14 Pilot
The sky is falling PING
3 posted on 04/16/2004 10:43:08 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.--Kahlil Gibran)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Bump!
4 posted on 04/16/2004 10:45:06 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
There is even a theory suggesting that the poles have shifted in the past & that there might once again be another pole shift.


5 posted on 04/16/2004 10:51:11 PM PDT by Republic_of_Secession.
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What I'm curious about, is the truth or falsehood of the oft-stated "fact" that ice ages can and do occur precipitously, developing within a period of 5 to 20 years.

(Needless to say, whatever came out of Holeywood on the subject is absolute trash by definition... but I'm just curious about that one issue...)

6 posted on 04/16/2004 10:51:20 PM PDT by fire_eye (Socialism is the opiate of academia.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Earth heats up, more water evaporates, more clouds form, more sun rays reflected, Earth cools down. Homeostasis!
7 posted on 04/16/2004 11:16:14 PM PDT by Mathlete
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Day After Tomorrow is the name of the film, huh?

Man, I thought the suits wisened up to giving films names that can easily be made fun of in movie reviews - that is, go see The Day After Tomorrow fast, because the title is a tip-off as to when it will be out of theaters!

8 posted on 04/16/2004 11:23:04 PM PDT by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Cool Earth:
Warm Earth:

Dark oceans absorb radiation.
White clouds reflect reflect it.
9 posted on 04/16/2004 11:24:54 PM PDT by Mathlete
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Putting aside the science, what is going on with movie production costs? $125M to make a picture about a frozen city? Today's WSJ had bits on top movies for the summer and they were all over $100M. How on earth did they spend that much money to make The Alamo? What is in that thing to make it so expensive?
10 posted on 04/16/2004 11:59:54 PM PDT by lelio
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To: lelio
No idea!
11 posted on 04/17/2004 12:10:20 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: lelio
Perhaps the salaries to the actors? Remedy: Use new actors and pay them less.
12 posted on 04/17/2004 12:15:34 AM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Develop automated crawlers that burn old tires and spread the resulting carbon across the ice fields. Solar insolation should take care of the ice.

Next world crises, please. I'm on a roll.

/john

13 posted on 04/17/2004 12:56:32 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Soy el jefe de la cocina. No discuta con mí.)
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To: Mathlete
WHERE'S THE HEAT?

From Junkscience, 16 January 2001
http://www.junkscience.com

Now even models suggest that warmer ocean temperatures induce more
evaporation, leading to more cloud formation and subsequent surface cooling!
This is one of the great problems with the enhanced greenhouse hypothesis -
the so-called positive feedback of increased evaporation (water vapor is the
major greenhouse gas) inevitably results in the negative feedback of
increased albedo (reflection of solar radiation) due to increased cloud
formation, damping rather than enhancing the negligible warming influence
possible from anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 addition. Parenthetically, this
piece alludes to a global decadal trend of +0.1°C since 1950 although such a
figure is extremely dubious. The contiguous US composite record makes a fair
to muddling proxy for global temperature trends over the period, so judge
for yourself. Hard to pick a decadal trend of +0.1°C since 1950 isn't it?
These fanciful figures are enabled by using estimates of proxies for air
temperature. Over 7-10ths of the Earth's surface is composed of the oceans,
this means using ocean 'surface' temperatures (everything from 'bucket on a
rope' to ships' engine coolant water manifold temperatures) as a proxy for
air temperature. If you think this might be a less-than-reliable means of
establishing Earth temperature trends you are not alone.
14 posted on 04/17/2004 2:14:40 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (06/07/04 - 1000 days since 09/11/01)
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To: lelio
What is in that thing to make it so expensive?

Disingenuous crap for the mini-minds who think that Hollyweird is the intellectual center of the universe. It takes longer to make these films (thus the higher costs) because the actors and crew can't stop laughing for long enough periods to film a complete scene - so there are increased editing costs. In addition, it costs more to make a film about junk science because it takes more effort to find a writer with a lobotomy capable of writing the script while the production crew is still alive.
15 posted on 04/17/2004 3:41:52 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Repeal CFR NOW!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"The Day After Tomorrow"

Ah, anyone remember "Waterworld"?? Does this POS star Kevin Costner???

16 posted on 04/17/2004 4:24:56 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Climate scientists have been stirred to ridicule claims in an upcoming Hollywood blockbuster that global warming could trigger a new ice age....

Note to climate scientist...... It's a movie

17 posted on 04/17/2004 4:29:11 AM PDT by Fzob (Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
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To: DustyMoment
ROFL!!!
18 posted on 04/17/2004 9:11:18 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I guess I'm confused. If the melting of the arctic icepack could lead to a new ice age, wouldn't that ice age rebuild the arctic icepack?

It seems self-correcting to me.

19 posted on 04/17/2004 9:16:52 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

20 posted on 04/17/2004 9:23:01 AM PDT by null and void (Posts passing in the night...)
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