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Posted on 02/23/2005 4:41:54 AM PST by spectrout
Listen up. This is very important. The global warming fanatics have fingered rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), a so-called greenhouse gas alleged to be in the process of shoving the planet into a global microwave and raising sea levels to the point where the world's coastal regions will be submerged.
They blame the rise of CO2, now about 370 parts per million and rapidly climbing, on us evil humans for using fossil fuels, driving SUVs and barbecuing frankfurters on our backyard grills. They ignore the proven fact that over millions of years, every time CO2 levels have risen above 200 parts per million, an ice age has occurred.
Some 19,000 of the world's scientists and experts on climatology have signed declarations saying that blaming rising CO2 levels on mankind is garbage – junk science at its worst – and they insist that all the available evidence proves their contention.
Now comes Robert W. Felix, who in his book "Not by Fire but by Ice" argues persuasively that it is not global warming but ocean warming that is pushing CO2 levels through the roof. Moreover, those skyrocketing levels of CO2 are bringing on a new ice age, which is sitting at our front door right now.
According to Felix, the oceans are warming as the result of widespread underwater volcanic activity, which he thoroughly documents. He adds that "We've forgotten that this isn't the first time our seas have warmed. Sea temperatures also shot upward 10º to 18ºF just prior to the last ice age. As the oceans warmed, evaporation increased. The excess moisture then fell to the ground as giant blizzards, giant storms and floods (Noah's Deluge type floods), and a new ice age began." And he warns, "The same thing is happening today.
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HaHa
Methane, a product of decomposition of organic matter.
Another reason to say "Thank you Hollywood!" (for Methane, CO2, Private Jets, Limos, Excessive Electricity Use, Chemical Manufacturing...)
Hollywood, the Purveyors of Global Warming. Oh, the Humanity!
I believe that about sums it up; enough said.
Sky is falling bump.
If you wish to amuse God tell him of your plans.
He has some great analogies, the principle one being that global warming is an article of faith, not fact.
Nowhere in the 28 Articles of the Kyoto Protocols does it claim that anthropogenic CO2 causes Global Warming because to do so would require the data to support the claim and none exists. Global Warming rants are based on the junk science of socialists and doomsday grifters. The Geological Society of America informs us that what liitle climate change has occurred is caused by cosmic rays which ionize hydrogen nuclei in the atmoshere due to changing radiance of the Sun.
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There was a warming period when the Icelanders settled Greenland --- and then it became much colder, right? And the Greenland settlements were abandoned?
There seems to be much interesting information in the Sagas about this. And of course it had nothing to do with human activity. Unless all that cabbage and pork they ate....
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Gotta be Lake Michigan.
The alarmists claim that was due to changes in ocean currents. That may be partly true, but the warmer temperatures were recorded throughout the northern hemisphere, not just the north atlantic. But you are right that methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
Not so fast. Glaciers are growing around the world, including the United States.
" To put this in perspective, you must realize that the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Greenland Ice Sheets are almost twice as big as the contiguous United States. They're almost 100 times bigger than all of the rest of the world's glaciers put together. In other words, more than 99 percent of the world's glaciers are growing ... and all we hear about are the few that are melting."
Geeezz
That's why I live way down South.
Excellent post. The truth shall make us free.
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Interesting. I wasn't aware of this. What is the basis for the protocol then?
According to paleontologist Dewey McLean, a good portion of the Deccan Traps was submarine. This would explain why ocean temperatures at the dinosaur extinction rose by some 14° to 22°F. See http://filebox.vt.edu/artsci/geology/mclean/Dinosaur_Volcano_Extinction/index.html
On a related subject, let me ask you. If today's rising carbon dioxide are caused by humans, then what caused the dramatic rise in CO2 levels at the dinosaur extinction?
Research shows that there was "a sudden and dramatic rise" in carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere at the dinosaur extinction of 65 million years ago. A recent report attributes the rise in CO2 levels to an asteroid impact. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2038599.stm
I disagree. I think today's rise in CO2 levels can be attributed to our warming oceans. After all, the oceans are known as a carbon dioxide "sink," especially when the water is cold.
But as the water warms up, it releases CO2 into the atmosphere. This happens in much the same way that a warm bottle of home-brewed root beer will release CO2. And if you give that CO2 no way to escape, the bottle will explode.
We've got it backwards. We've got cause and effect in reverse.
The CO2 is not causing global warming. Instead, our warming oceans are releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.
It's not global warming, it's ocean warming, and it's leading us into an ice age.
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