Doooooooooooooooooomed!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 09/22/2005 7:23:53 PM PDT by Crackingham
A leading British scientist said on Friday the growing ferocity of hurricanes hitting the United States was very probably caused by global warming and criticised what he termed U.S. climate loonies over the issue. Sir John Lawton, chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution which advises the government, made what the Independent newspaper said was a thinly disguised attack on the stance of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration.
"The increased intensity of these kinds of extreme storms is very likely to be due to global warming," Lawton told the newspaper in an interview.
"If this makes the climate loonies in the States realise we've got a problem, some good will come out of a truly awful situation," said Lawton.
Less than a month after Hurricane Katrina devastated large areas of the U.S. Gulf coast, a new hurricane called Rita was roaring through the Gulf of Mexico towards the centre of the U.S. oil industry.
Climate change policies sharply divide Bush from many other world leaders who have signed up for caps on emissions of greenhouse gases under the U.N.'s Kyoto protocol. Bush pulled out of Kyoto in 2001, saying it was too expensive and wrongly excluded developing nations from a first round of caps to 2012. In July this year, Bush launched a six-nation plan to combat climate change with Australia, China, India, Japan and South Korea focused on a shift to cleaner energy technology. Unlike Kyoto, it stops short of setting caps on emissions.
Asked what conclusion the Bush administration should draw from two powerful hurricanes hitting the United States in quick succession, Lawton said:
"If what looks like is going to be a horrible mess causes the extreme sceptics about climate change in the U.S. to reconsider their opinion, that would be an extremely valuable outcome.
"There are a group of people in various parts of the world ... who simply don't want to accept human activities can change climate and are changing the climate. I'd liken them to the people who denied that smoking causes lung cancer."
Lawton said hurricanes were getting more intense, just as computer models predicted they would, because of the rising temperature of the sea.
"Increasingly it looks like a smoking gun," he said.
"It's a fair conclusion to draw that global warming, caused to a substantial extent by people, is driving increased sea surface temperatures and increasing the violence of hurricanes."
<< Don't try to bring facts into this argument!!! >>
#21: Picure of the world's already modst dangerous dullard -- in his effort to co-opt George Soros, Marc Rich and every other member of the most extremely-lunatic-left to his 2008 presidential erection campaign -- channelling the DNC chairthingy.
Poofy peanut figures that given that his 2000 attempted imitation of a male with a brain [Or even, come to that, of a male] so badly failed him and that Doctor Strangelove Dean's 2004 run without the slightest sign of ever being within 50 yards of a brain got that hatred-wracked poor bastard a few campaign Dollars and to Ohio -- this time he'll run a moron, too.
As a barking anencephalytic.
As himself, that is.
Could you fix the link, please? All I get is a 404 error: "The requested document does not exist on this server."
Thanks.
The only way to stop global warming is to create more clouds to block the suns energy and thus keep the worlds oceans cold so they don't provide a source of heat for large super storms to feed off.
godd one punk..u made my day!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA
the one i love is as follows :
THIS IS THE WORST STORM SINCE 1900..it is global warming..
now lets break down that sentence and focus on the key word SINCE...
so there was a bigger once in 1900....hmmmmm
those 1900 SUV's eh...terrible...absolutely...terrible
more left wing , tree huggery crap..also anyone care to explain what happened BEFORE THE LAST ICE AGE...oh oh..wait the cavemen,,,,those cavemen SUV's eh...
the world cools up and cools down...live with it...
Your graph would be more relevant if it included all atlantic hurricanes (or even all tropical cyclones) instead of the ones that made a landfall (in the US?).
True, but the question is how fast the warming/cooling has been previously
Perhaps, however the ones that make landfall are typically the strongest, and since the largest financial cost comes from those, they seem most relevant.
I saw something interesting on Discovery or whatever a few years back.
Scientists went to a lake in Canada (not sure which one) and took core samples from the sediments being deposited in the lake by the feeder streams.
By measuring the thickness of the sediments and the size of the particles and the pollens in the layers, they were able to map out the time it took for one of the ice age events to happen.
Time span from normal temperate climate to full ice age glaciation:
Ninety years
So buy lots of warm socks and will them to your great grandchildren!
That's interesting, I think I'll read up on that
???
It's not just carbon, it's carbon dioxide...the carbon particles of soot from burning will block the incoming solar radiation, resulting in cooling. Although your idea fits the spike of the 1940s decade, it would take a lot more than that coincidence to convince me.
Doooooooooooooooooomed!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks; that works fine.
It was well worth reading.
I realized that I forgot to add it after I posted but assumed most people would get the idea.:)
>Michael Crighton spoke on this topic recently. Perhaps somebody with a source can post that speech.
Aliens Cause Global Warming
http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote04.html
Thanks TChad. Everybody should read this speech. Crichton began his research without a bias.
"If this makes the climate loonies in the States realise we've got a problem, some good will come out of a truly awful situation," said LawtonI love it when these dispassionate scientists sound so dispassionate and scientific.
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