[Archon of the East]

National Academy of Sciences

Not a scientistamong them, politicians maybe scientist's no. Anyone who believes in global warming caused exclusively or even significantly by man smokes way to much dope.

[traumer]

"Humans cause global warming..... "

[JSteff]

"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now at its highest level in 400,000 years and it continues to rise," said Cicerone, an atmospheric scientist who left as chancellor of University of California-Irvine to become academy president this month. "

Mr.Cicerone and the NAS should lead the way in ending global warming. No more driving their cars, using power from the national grid, not even burning candles because they put too much particulate matter in the air.

Oh, and no more wearing clothes that are not grown by them or killed by them. Farms use gas to run the tractors to get cotton. If they are wearing clothes of man made materials, they need to stop that too.

Looks like all they are left with is walking around in their birthday suits. Might get cold in the winter. Oh, I forgot... these people are exempt from anything that might deprive them and inhibit their learned words from getting out to us low life "humans".

What to do, what to do?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Scientists: Humans cause global warming: so does cow farts.

[RightWhale]

"nearly all climate scientists today"

How many are there? As a guess, a dozen, and they don't agree on much except they would accept a gov't grant to refine their global climate models.

[Wombat101]

I guess it was all us nasty humans, with our industry and automobiles, our CFC's and aerosol cans, that managed to melt the two mile thick sheet of ice that New York City was buried under 12,000 years ago.

One question that has never been adequately answered to my satisfaction by the global warming nuts: isn't it a matter of scientific fact that the Earth has endured several Ice Ages in it's geologic past, and that the warming that ended those Ice Ages occurred without the internal combustion engine and steel mills?

[HereInTheHeartland]

BREAKING HARD,
After reevaluating their data, these same scientists have concluded that the sun is the cause of global warming.

[AaronInCarolina]

I have been reading a lot lately about the earth's "albedo"... the overall reflectivity of the earth. Generally, the more reflective the earth is, i.e. a higher albedo, the earth absorbs less of the sun's heat. This is very critical in whether the earth heats up or cool down. The following web site (a NASA one at that) illustrates the albedo and reveals that the the earth's albedo is currently in decline. That means that less of the sun's light is reflected back and more is absorbed at the surface. This is largely because, with the exception of Inda and China, the atmosphere is becoming less polluted, due to decades of reduction of pollution in most modern countries. The unintended consequence is that more of the earth's sunlight reaches the ground and oceans and causes more heating.

If you think that humans are causing this warming, consider this fact from the NASA web page:

On average, the Sun shines on Earth 341 watts of energy per square meter of surface area. The Sun beams more energy to our planet every hour than humanity uses in a whole year.

One hour!!! There are over 61,000 hours in a year. That means that the sun provides more than 61,000 times as much energy to this planet than the total of all human energy production. Our puny effect on this planet is miniscule compared to what the sun does to the planet. Combine this overwhelmingly larger sun effect with a decrease in the earth's albedo (reflectivity), and you have a recipe for a warming trend. I have also read that the sun is currently experiencing a spike in intensity. That helps explain why the polar ice caps on Mars are receding similar to the Earth's ice caps.

Earth's Albedo in Decline

Also, this quote from the NASA web page:

A drop of as little as 0.01 in Earth’s albedo would have a major warming influence on climate—roughly equal to the effect of doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which would cause Earth to retain an additional 3.4 watts of energy for every square meter of surface area.

[William Tell]

From the article: "Nearly all climate scientists today believe that much of Earth's current warming has been caused by increases in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mostly from the burning of fuels."

For "scientists" these guys seem mighty uncurious about why the CO2 levels have been cycling with dramatic increases of 50% over the last 400,000 years during times when human activities could not possibly have been responsible.

[SkyDancer]

I read an old Time magazine from the 1970 that said we were going to have global cooling and it was a crisis and that in twenty years we'd all be wearing fur coats in Texas in the summer ....

Regards,
J

[stboz]

I think global warming causes humans. Otherwise, it's too damn cold to do anything.

[Tribune7]

If humans are causing global warming, there is only one person to blame:

JANE FONDA

Seriesly

Teller suffered a heart attack in 1979, which he blamed on Jane Fonda: after the Three Mile Island accident, the actress had outspokenly lobbied against nuclear power while promoting her latest movie, The China Syndrome (a movie depicting a nuclear accident which had coincidentally been released only a little over a week before the actual incident). In response, Teller acted quickly to lobby in favor of nuclear energy, testifying to its safety and reliability, and after such a flurry of activity suffered the attack. Teller authored a two-page spread in the Wall Street Journal which appeared on July 31, 1979, under the headline "I was the only victim of Three-Mile Island", which opened with:

"On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous."

[followerofchrist]

Who caused global warming and global cooling before humans?

[taxesareforever]

Global warming is caused primarily by humans and "nearly all climate scientists today" agree with that viewpoint,

Too bad his circle of scientists is limited to three.

[Finalapproach29er]

The bigger the lie, the more likely it is the people will believe it.

Mt Pinatubo released 100 times more cfc's and,presumably,CO-2 than humans.

The scientist is a fraud. IMO

[CedarDave]

For reference, later duplicate thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448332/posts

[Protagoras]