Posted on 08/12/2005 5:14:24 PM PDT by neverdem
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Happens EVERY summer with these people.
Big deal, move a few miles north, same weather.
Yup, adjustments always do the trick.
I feel so guilty.
I'll have to buy a Prius.
While there may be rock hard science that the globe is warming - that is not the same as PROVING that it is caused by CO2 emissions. There have been long cycles of heating and cooling before man ever left his cave.
Ice Ages & Astronomical Causes Origin of the 100 kyr Glacial Cycle Figure 1-1 Global warming source NOAA
Figure 1-2 Climate of the last 2400 years, source "GISP2"
Figure 1-3 Climate of the last 12,000 years, source "GISP2"
Figure 1-4 Climate of the last 100,000 years, source Greenland ice data
Figure 1-5 Climate for the last 420 kyr, from Vostok ice data |
http://newton.ex.ac.uk/aip/physnews.252.html#1
INTERPLANETARY DUST PARTICLES (IDPs) are deposited on the Earth at the rate of about 10,000 tons per year. Does this have any effect on climate? Scientists at Caltech have found that ancient samples of helium-3 (coming mostly from IDPs) in oceanic sediments exhibit a 100,000-year periodicity. The researchers assert that their data, taken along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, support a recently enunciated idea that Earth's orbital inclination varies with a 100-kyr period; this notion in turn had been broached as an explanation for a similar periodicity in the succession of ice ages. (K.A. Farley and D.B. Patterson, Nature, 7 December 1995.)
Farley & Patterson 1998, http://www.elsevier.com/gej-ng/10/20/36/33/37/32/abstract.html
Farley http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~farley/
Farley http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/18/23/54/21/49/abstract.html
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/pr96/dec96/noaa96-78.html
ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE DURING LAST GLACIAL PERIOD COULD BE TIED TO DUST-INDUCED REGIONAL WARMING
Preliminary new evidence suggests that periodic increases in atmospheric dust concentrations during the glacial periods of the last 100,000 years may have resulted in significant regional warming, and that this warming may have triggered the abrupt climatic changes observed in paleoclimate records, according to a scientist at the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Current scientific thinking is that the dust concentrations contributed to global cooling.
"Carbon dioxide, the main culprit in the alleged greenhouse-gas warming, is not a "driver" of climate change at all. Indeed, in earlier research Jan Veizer, of the University of Ottawa and one of the co-authors of the GSA Today article, established that rather than forcing climate change, CO2 levels actually lag behind climatic temperatures, suggesting that global warming may cause carbon dioxide rather than the other way around."
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"Veizer and Shaviv's greatest contribution is their time scale. They have examined the relationship of cosmic rays, solar activity and CO2, and climate change going back through thousands of major and minor coolings and warmings. They found a strong -- very strong -- correlation between cosmic rays, solar activity and climate change, but almost none between carbon dioxide and global temperature increases."
Against what real-world event were these model results validated?
(..............crickets..................)
Science is always much easier when you start with the results, and then go looking for the data.
SO WHAT? Are they going to put a shield on the sun? Who really gives a rip that nature takes care of itself? Just don't go blaming people for causing it. It is a fact of nature. Live with it.
Anyone and anything that farts is a global warmer.
"Christy notes, "If you want to say model trends are bolstered, you must remember model trends are all over the map. Which trend is bolstered? Perhaps you want to say those model trends less than 0.2 C per decade are bolstered." Right now the available data sets appear to strengthen the case for arguing that the lower-end model projections for future temperature increases are more likely ones. Christy concludes, "The new warming trend is still well below ideas of dramatic or catastrophic warming." "
According to this guy the lower end projections are more likely, but then again that won't fit into the socialist's plans for re-engineering western society. Better to run around like Chicken Little.
Well, duh ... it's AUGUST!
Tell that to Only1choice____Freedom who thinks a Prius must now be bought. The article didn't say diddly about greenhouse gases.
I'm starting to think all this climate stuff is cyclical.
These people are insane.
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