WE'RE ALL DOOMED!
Posted on 11/25/2004 5:32:31 AM PST by Maurice1962
I just rented and tried to watch "Day After Tomorrow".
3 attempts, I just couldn't do it. I love corny disaster movies, but the whole premise (and the acting) was SO BAD, it wasn't even comical after awhile.
What's scarier still. is that there are those who actually believe this crap. Intelligent, powerful people whose hatred of capitalism allows them to be taken in by such tripe.
I have taken an environmental science class in college (it was a requirement). What a joke! It's just a one-sided lecture.
Get this, the professor of the environmental science class actually encouraged us to watch that movie! He said it was very close to what is going to happen in the next few years. (Sort of a real life Chicken Little)
This treaty has nothing to do with global warming. This is nothing but another way to bring down the U.S. by the Marxists by the U.N.
You know what if global warming was somewhat a reality...what happenes? People would use less petro chemicals, coal, and wood to HEAT THEM SELVES.
Less energy would be used in cooking or manufacturing because the ambient temperature is already higher, there for less energy is needed to raise temperature. Air conditioning might be more of a factor in certain regions, but this would be counter balanced by less energy used in more northern climes due to reduced needs for heating.
All this leads to a new eqilibrium being reached between green house gases being produced and absorbed! The upward spike in temps would soon flatten out!
(at least if I understand the logic of the greenie scientists....I'm not really a believer of the above...just exploring their logic!)
WE'RE ALL DOOMED!
The History of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere should help the debate but you never hear anything about it.
In the early earth, greenhouse gases, CO2 and methane, made up 80% of the atmosphere.
By the time of the dinosaurs, C02 had fallen to 3% and methane was absorbed into the earth. Oxygen had risen from 0 to about 15% concentration.
At the peak of the last ice age, C02 had fallen to just 0.15% whereas today it about 0.38% (which itself is up from 0.26% about 50 years ago.)
So a measely 0.12 percentage point rise is what we are talking about which might become another 0.12 points in another 50 years. CO2 is just 3 parts per thousand in the atmosphere.
During the time of the dinosaurs it was 10 times higher than it every will be with humans adding CO2 to atmosphere.
Did the dinosaurs die from the additional heat. Nah, it was just comfortably warmer than it is today. Something like the African savanna that we evolved on. What is the problem?
I saw it on the big screen this past summer, and found it really cool to watch -- notwithstanding that the plot and characters were all stupid. I thought it was a hoot.
Global warming should be welcomed with open arms, not turned into a money making scheme for the UN. They (the UN) can turn poppycock into dollars, but I don't think this one is going to pass scientific muster, and just might be the straw that kicks the UN to Paris, where they can enjoy each others company. After we clean up Iraq, we need to clean up the festering sore the boil of the UN has become. Maybe we could multi-task, and get them both done together.
I loved the realism of the Low PRessure Systems OF Unusual Size that was sucking cold air out of the stratosphere. Never mind the fact that low pressure systems are the result of air rising. But they had that cool graphic, so I guess they just had to run with it. That professor should be fired for ignorance.
Of course, we all remember our great- and great-great-grandparent's stories about how stable the weather was in the pre-industrial age. About how, for instance, it ALWAYS snowed in Donner's Pass on December 24th, and the snowstorm would last for exactly 2 hours and 47 minutes. About how, on July 4th, they could ALWAYS count on a sunny 82F for their picnics.
Too bad we don't have that kind of predictable weather anymore.
< /sarcasm off >
Of course. Also, it always snowed on Christmas Eve when the carolers showed up. It was a wonderful life.
You just made my Thanksgiving by being there with clear fresh loyal American thought and and service to our country. Bless you and yours on this day of gratitude.
I haven't and won't see that movie, but I so desperately wish Hollywood would consult with actual scientists when they're making movies.
I'd do it, for $100K per film. That's a lot less than their overpaid actors--they can afford it. (Now, who do I market myself to?)
BTW, if leftists Hollywood were to employ real scientists in the making of their propaganda documentaries, they couldn't finish them. The only reason for all the Michael Moores of the world to make movies is to advance their wacky agenda without any rebuttal. Their arguments would fall apart with real science involved.
I just want one answer before I support any claims to global warming as being human caused.
Why is Mars warming too?
:)
Thanks, never redundant. After all we give thanks everyday, not just on Thanksgiving, but today a special thanks to those in harms way who are protecting what we give thanks for in our relatively safe environment.
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