Posted on 09/20/2004 11:45:29 AM PDT by UnklGene
I've never bought global warming--one volcanic eruption pollutes more than the Industrial Revolution.
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You can't point to human activity as the cause of global warming, when it occurs elsewhere in the solar system where human beings don't even exist.
He forgot Charley and Lisa (not to mention Alex, Bonnie and Gaston...forgot who D and E were).
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Not to mention that "The Hole" in the ozone layer SHRUNK last year...
CA keeps tells us the east coast will slide into the ocean.
Lets say man is creating enough stuff that ...Comparared to: volcanic eruptions, choking dustsorms kicked up by nature, steaming vents in the oceans depths churning out poisonous, toxic fumes, surface vents around active 'sores' in the earth's land surface churing out poisonous, toxic fumes, escaping hydrocarbons from the interior of the earth, naturally occurring forest fires?
I think jcb8199 pretty well summed it up:
one volcanic eruption pollutes more than the Industrial Revolution.
and
Globally-Averaged Atmospheric Temperatures
and
Greenhouse Warming: Fact, Hypothesis, or Myth? - Comparison of Satellite data and surface data
Thnx...bookmark bump!
...doesn't gain market share, fund special committees, fertilize grass root social(ism) activists, or pad grant funded long term studies with slack jawed children of former associates for services rendered.
GREAT sites! Thanks for posting them!
Doesn't matter if it's true or not - the planet is going to do what it's going to do, and there's nothing a few piddly humans can do that'll change that.
When comparing the force of nature to the force of man, there's just no contest - nature will kick our butt every time.
Quick excerpt:
The Urban Heat Island Effect [13] is the first major source of error. This effect is caused by the tendency of concrete, roads, and buildings to heat up to high temperatures in the daytime and slowly release that heat during the night, resulting in a higher daytime and even higher nighttime temperature than would exist in a nearby rural area....
To be completely free of this urbanization problem, a site needs to be strictly greenfield. A greenfield site is a rural site where there is no urbanization whatsoever. Such sites are few and far between, but they do exist. Most of them do not show warming, or they manifest weaker trends than are claimed for the globe as a whole, as shown in the station records in the Appendix.
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In addition to heat islands, there are also environmental errors created by the micro-environment in the immediate vicinity of the box itself. Where there are boxes - even under greenfield circumstances - there also are people. People typically alter their micro-environment to suit their own preferences. They grow bushes and trees, erect sheds and fences, or turn a bare patch of ground into a garden. Most of these kinds of changes occur over time (such as the growth of trees or bushes growth), but they have two effects. One of is to reduce the visible skyline of the box (a problem highlighted by radiation expert Dr Doug Hoyt). This reduces the ability of the box to radiate its heat to space. Instead it becomes subject to increased infra-red radiation from the growing obstructions. The shrinking skyline effect as Hoyt dubs it, is a "warming creep error" in the measured temperatures.
As the famous astronomer whose ashes fly the black skies of the endless universe once said, "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."
Don't reply to me with this crap.
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