Mr. Trittin, you've got mail!

Spiegel Online ^ | August 31, 2005 | American Readers

[Mon]

American readers are furious at German Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin, who believes America's lax policy on global warming is partly to blame for Hurricane Katrina. Here are some of the kindest of their responses: continue reading ....... http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372434,00.html

[xcamel]

Yet this idiot refuses to acknowledge the fact (and confirmed scientific data) that earth and mars are warming at the exact same rate. So get over it, hosehead.

[Wiseghy]

Interesting, possibly a solar connection then?

Gotta link?

[Red6]

Sunspot activity indicates an increased output.

Historically we had the Maunder Minimum which was a near mini ice age.

http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/lisa3/beckmanj.html

Bottom line: Human activity is over rated. Solar output does vary and you can "force" correlations using pseudo science onto nearly anything, which the environmentalist likes to do.

Red6

[Red6]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sunspot_record_041027.html

Yes, solar output is at an extreamly high level. Maybe "BUSH" is at fault?

Red6

[xcamel]

here:

Mars Emerging from Ice Age, Data Suggest By SPACE.com

[Doogle]

..his problem is "global warming" is about to be exposed for what it is.."nothing"...meaning this creep's existence is ......nothing


Doogle

[Mon]

Also read my other post at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475176/posts?page=2#2
These were the letters Americans wrote the day before.

[Mon]

I meant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475186/posts

Gees I'm confused today!

[SpinyNorman]

I wonder how many greenhouse gasses were emitted by those Tiger tanks and Messerschmitts during WWII?

[Leo Carpathian]

Yes, solar output is at an extremely high level.

That article is mumbo-jumbo. Last very high solar sunspots were in 1958, with 11 year cycles declining since then. Right now we are heading for another minimum, so this extremely high claim relates to the last 70 years.
Bottom line, we are getting all our energy from sun, if the RATs like it or not, and they can't do anything about it (besides putting dimmer on Sun) - THAT affects the weather patterns. All we can do is get ready for bad years, to minimize the damage. Stop building homes from matchsticks and start designing structures for over 200 mph winds in the areas most prone to hurricanes.

[Red6]

Sunspots are in cycles, that's common knowledge. However, the increase in their abundance and the corresponding increase in solar output is not. It’s not even a topic for the “environmentalist.”

If you look at the post previous, you’ll see I mentioned the Maunder Minimum. The point here is simple; fluctuations are normal, beyond our control and have a HUGE impact on our global weather. LONG before we even had industry, CO2 output and concerns about ratifying Kyoto there were dramatic temperature fluctuations on our planet.

Without going into the realm of Hollywood science, I’d like to mention the theory that the dinosaurs probably went extinct from a meteor. That Jupiter was hit by an object just recently (visible with our telescopes from earth) so large that had it been earth we would have been gone; as in all life ends now. That the moon is plastered with impact craters that could end our civilization as we know it and one such impact was even observed years ago and documented.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast26apr_1.htm

There are asteroids, volcanoes, fluctuations in solar output, plate tectonics that cause tsunamis, natural radiation (sun/uranium/radon etc), hurricanes, tornadoes and the environmentalist is concerned about the earth being threatened by a plastic trash bag. It’s self-important Bull$hit that is largely based on bogus correlations and pseudo science.

Environmentalism is a business. It’s also a political target audience. It is largely fashionable and trendy. What’s the status of the “acid rain?” Remember the whole acid rain scare? Like bell-bottom pants, environmentalism is a marketed product that is sold and politically exploited. Much of it can be considered “Junk science.”

A book I saw for sale in Germany a few years ago sums it up best. There I saw an oversized, high gloss, bleached white, waxed paper, hard cover book with the title “25 Years Greenpeace.” (I think that was the title-but it was commemorative on Greenpeace.)

What you see today, where the Tsunami is blamed on rising sea levels AND BUSH, where some try to blame the Hurricane on global warming AND BUSH, is a tasteless, counterproductive and ignorant way to do business. Those politicians who exploit this are bottom feeders and are neither patriotic, critical thinkers, intellectuals, or helping anyone. They are degenerate negative naysayer’s who chase the ambulance in the hope of beating some political capital out of it. Such a person deserves to be branded and shunned politically.

Red6

[Nam Vet]

I had to read each one of those letters. I too am ashamed of Germany and the fact that my family came from there very early last century. I seems to me that all the diligent, compassionate and hard working Germans came to America.

I'm truly sick and tired of Germany, France........ALL of Europe when it comes right down to it. (Eastern countries excepted)

Nam Vet