FOR GLOBAL WARMING!!!
damn the cold.
Posted on 12/10/2004 3:10:55 PM PST by pnome
As scientists debate whether global warming is affecting Earth, "climate witnesses" told a U.N. environmental conference Friday they are already feeling the heat of the changing weather patterns they say are drastically affecting the way of life from the Himalayas to the South Pacific.
"In the past we just accepted it was the will of God," said Penina Moce, a woman from Udu, a fishing village in Fiji. "But now we believe there could be other reasons."
Moce spoke as delegates from nearly 200 countries sat down in Buenos Aires for an annual gathering by government officials, scientists, and environmentalists aimed at trying to reduce "greenhouse" emissions believed by many to be causing a rise in Earth's temperatures.
The 44-year-year-old mother of five said many on her South Pacific island of 400 people are alarmed by recent signs of altering climate: shortened rainy seasons, eroding coastlines and dwindling fish stocks. Water, already in short supply, has become even harder to come by, she said.
"When it rains, everyone will leave whatever they're doing and rush outside to try and save as much water as possible," she said. "We are lucky if it rains for two days straight."
Environmentalists say her testimony exemplifies what is occurring in some areas affected by global warming and climate change — issues the world has tried to address through the Kyoto Protocol (news - web sites), an agreement requiring initial cuts in "greenhouse gas" emissions by 2012 that comes into force in February.
Well, it's not the heat, it's the humidity.
I wonder why they keep saying that global warming will mean less rain. What do they think will happen to all the water as it evaporates? Will we just have clouds all the time and no water falling back to earth. Will the whole earth dry up while the cloud layer gets so heavy that it scrapes the ground over the whole of the earth? Scientists are like liberals, they think the average person is extremely stupid. Millions of years ago the earth had no polar caps and the weather was moist over a large part of the earth. Can't get much warmen then that. What jerks.
Well here is my own testimony. Back as a child, I got lulled into believing that the weather here in Northern California (Bay Area to be exact) was far warmer and more benign than it historically had been based on tree ring studies and the like. Lo and behold, at first I thought we were having a bad streak of cold and foggy summers (as in, coastal fog coming well inland and very few days above 80 or 85 degrees) and lousy, very wet winters. But after it went on for 10 years, I kind of realized that this is normal. Warming? When? I sure hope so!
It's hot in my office, does that mean.....
Welcome to FR, btw.
Just wait five minutes...
1.5 million years ago Ohio was half covered in a glacier. Are we better off now with a warmer world or were we better off then?
Would we be better off with glaciers completely covering Canada as it was 1.5 million years ago? --No wait. Don't answer that. LOL!
Kinda like dwindling prison cells for hominids.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Because the Earth is subject to astronomical cycles which vary the amount of solar insolation it receives, which in turn affects the global radiative balance, which in turn affects the fluxes between sources and sinks of CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans, which in turn affects the atmospheric concentration of CO2, which in turn affects the temperature of the Earth.
For more on this, see the links provided in post 35 of the thread linked below.
And there is this that makes sense to me:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6040/flood15.htm
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