Posted on 11/25/2004 5:32:31 AM PST by Maurice1962
The first question I would have asked the professor teaching your class would be, if global warming is such a threat why is China and India exempt from it ?
I was told by a climatology grad student that I can't even talk to her about Kyoto 'cause she's had so many classes on it. LOL!
She also claims I'm closed minded even though she and her peer group seem to believe the same things right down the line.
Meteor has been running on the cable channels and I've caught it a number of times. The acting is bad too, I'm not sure about the premise, but I love to watch that movie.
I have no interest whatsoever in trying to watch the Day After Tomorrow, mostly because I haven't liked any of that directors other movies but also, actors today just don't have the gravitas of Karl Maldon and Sean Connery working together. And Brian Keith, I think his name is, the guy from Family Affair is in there too. And Martin Landau in a thankless role.
Oh, and, damned! I can't remember her name, Robert Wagner's wife, the girl from Rebel w/o a Cause. Anyway, the cast is great.
Still, Meteor is little more then Soviet agitprop, but at least it manages to be entertaining.
Now the Poseidon Adventure, that's probably the greatest disaster movie of all time.
Well, it WOULD be more peaceful without those mouthy Canadians...
Global warming is indeed a hoax, but the science and reasoning required to reach this conclusion is beyond you. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
--Boris
thanks for the ping
I'm rooting for warmer myself.
Good post...
I was forced to watch the "Day After Tomorrow" out of boredom on a coast-to-coast flight. Retarded science and premise - but it was also a terrible movie. One of those movies in which - even if you agreed with the preaching - you couldn't be swept into sympathy for the main characters. The story and characters were all so cartoonish, only idle curiosity kept me from reading those snooze-worthy inflight magazines, just to see if the bozos froze to death or not.
This movie should be required viewing as a demonstration of leftist quality of thinking and grasp of reality.
A 70s B film done with modern special effects.
I believe the political issues which arise in a connection to global warming may interfere with a more direct approach to the problem. This is not intended to mean that political entities may not participate in problem identification, analysis, and response, but instead to point out that there occurs a substantial investment of manhours and expense in sorting through the side issues. The central issue of global warming becomes a side issue in such a scenario where political entities upstage and redirect the flow of involvement & progress into directions where they are more proficient. The problem of global warming yet remains a problem of the physical sciences. See what I mean?
The following excerpts and URLs are gathered in support of a text which I am developing concerning the fundamental nature of global warming as a manifestation of the unified field; that manifestation arising thermodynamically & primarily within the sphere of equilibria & disequilibria of the mass-heat proportionality.
The reason I make this collection of notes available publicly now is to help fill in the blank concerning the seriousness of the problem in a very real sense, and to attempt to direct the question away from so much of a political foundation & stage, and more towards a physical sciences perspective. This helps to give global warming some tangible handles. It rises above opinion and hearsay to take on features & qualities of a substantial reality in the here & now and for the time to come.
Some excerpts follow:
http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/tg.htm
Article titled "The Glass Transition."
"... change in mobility with temperature happens because the phenomenon we call "heat" is really a form of kinetic energy; that is, the energy of objects in motion. It is actually an effect of random motion of molecules, whether they are polymer molecules or small molecules. Things are "hot" when their molecules have lots of kinetic energy and move around very fast. Things are "cold" when their molecules lack kinetic energy and move around slowly, or not at all."
http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/movies/tg.htm
A movie which simulates the increase of relative motion of substance as it receives an increase in heat energy. Notice how it resembles atmospheric motion in long range segmental translational movement from calm weather to storm systems and seasonal changes from winter to summer.
http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/dsc.htm
An article discussing "Differential Scanning Calorimetry". The key connection to global warming and mass loss involves the function of heat reservoir substances to absorb heat; and the quantity of mass that is necessary for a given heat load to maintain states of phase & relative motion & turbulence within acceptable/inhabitable limits.
"There is a latent heat of melting as well as a latent heat of crystallization. When the polymer crystals melt, they must absorb heat in order to do so. Remember melting is a first order transition. This means that when you reach the melting temperature, the polymer's temperature won't rise until all the crystals have melted. This also means that the furnace is going to have to put additional heat into the polymer in order to melt both the crystals and keep the temperature rising at the same rate..."
Concerning ice effects & rising sea levels.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3977712e1941.htm
""We see a significant trend (in loss of ice mass)," said William B. Krabill, first author of the study. "When we can go back after five years and see 10 meters of glacier gone, there is something happening."
That would be Natalie Wood.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Hey...I made a disclaimer that I didn't agree with global warming that I felt the science was bogus....but I did try to follow the public relations pablum these fools give out with a equally gobbledy gook theory of my own based on the logic that they espouse to the press.
By you attacking me for my thinking...you are attacking the weinie greenies...I never said I believed any of it at all.
So hold your fire OK...Boris...or I'll sick Bullwinkle on you and your Natasha!
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