[goldstategop]

Liberals have flip-flopped more times on the environment than John Kerry has changed his tune on Iraq. Where they once warned about global warming, they are now warning about global cooling! Break out those parkas; its going to get to the point of freezing soon. Rush's point here is the issue has nothing to do with science and everything to do with the politics of the moment.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[presidio9]

GLOBAL COOLING

[Mad_as_heck]

There was an episode of the 1970s TV show "In Search Of" with Leonard Nimoy that was full of gloom and doom about global cooling and how all our cities were going to be under glaciers by 1990. Hilariously the SciFi or History Channel was still airing the reruns until recently. Maybe they still are.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I read a book published in 1957 ("Physics of the Solar System"?) that had a chapter about Venus. The author said that surface temperature on Venus was very high because of all the C02 in it's atmosphere. He pointed out that increased use of hydrocarbon fuels might have a similar (if smaller) effect on Earth. Global warming is not a new theory from the 1980's.

That said, the issue had become hopelessly politicized, it has become a cugdel in the hands of the new-Luddites and their allies in the lamestream.

[voteconstitutionparty]

"Now, I have another question -- and look, I'm not a scientist, so I'm not afraid to ask what some of you scientists might think are dumb questions, but if an iceberg at the North Pole is freshwater, I want to know where it was made and how it got there. How can an iceberg in ocean water be freshwater? I understand how it can rain freshwater over the ocean because the whole evaporation process and condensation process actually distills it, but I don't understand how an iceberg can be freshwater."

Answer: Icebergs come from snow building up to form glaciers, which flow to the sea and calf icebergs.

He's right about one thing though, he's not a scientist.

[A CA Guy]

We had a mini ice age 400 years between 1300 and the 1700s. Was that from man causing global warming? NO!

We really have to get over our human egos that we can effect weather, no way.