Posted on 10/21/2006 5:44:49 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
All I know is that if Al Gore starts ranting about the global warming thing again, I am ordering a load of firewood.
It tells us nothing about global warming.
As did last year's record season. While we had hurricane after hurricane in the Atlantic, there was a dearth of typhoons in the West Pacific, where there normally are dozens every year. And for all the claims that the number of strong storms have increased, other scientists have pointed out that we had limited sat data 30 years ago and it's apples to oranges to compare that timeline.
The lack of hurricanes hitting the US has shown that there is/was a speculative bubble in oil prices.
LOL! Sounds good to me
What are the assumptions these models are based on?
I travel a lot...so 5-7 days before leaving for my destination, I start paying attention to the weather predictions there...9 out of 10 times, the forecasts are off to some degree or another. So why do I still persist, you may ask! LOL!
The pretensiveness of the eco-dogooders is startling. The arrogance of turning science into a political position should bother us all. This really isn't that different, as Michael Crichton points out, than the massive scientific "proof" for eugenics that led to the Nazi governemnt-led murder of thousands of feeblemined and other less fortunate folks.
I listened to the news-readers gloss right over that one ~ colder than ever ~ while associating the "Ozone Hole" with "Global Warming".
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I am always *intrigued* by those, that when confronted by "colder than normal" events, also blame THAT on "global warming".
No hurricane activity here where I live, Florida. Explanations such as return of El Nino and better weather off African coast have been given
Since it apparently did no good to put excorcists to work on advancing glacierd, this time lets assign them to algore et al.
"Global warming" is just another effort to create an industry out of fear.
And usually right after Thanksgiving outdoor Ice Rinks opened up and the Chicago Park Distrait started putting up the Warming Shacks and making the skating rinks in the Parks (along with putting up the No Skating signs by the Lagoons).
And the Winters, man they were brutal. Tires Chains were 'almost' a standard accessory on a 57 Chevy. BUT NO MORE. Now ponds rarely freeze over, the rinks of the CPD are ancient history and 'what's a tire chain' is the response for anyone in their late 30's early 40's.
This can only be due to ONE THING - the Japanese! Yep, I'm series. As soon as Japanese import cars started appearing our Winters went away. Think about it, the Jap cars back then couldn't survive a Northern Climate winter, then the bad winters just disappeared.
I find this coincidence very suspicious. So I bet there's a weather machine buried deep inside Mount Fuji and they are controlling the weather - just so they can sell us a Toyota!
Hey! Today's the day I fire up the truck ('84 Chev Blazer, if theres more than a teaspoon of gas in her, she'll start) and go to the supply joint for a tons of pellets.
we moved to s. Cook County in June '60 from the Texas Gulf Coast - yes the first winters were brutal - and NOT just because of where we'd come from...but not just cold, there was lots of snow, too! Our driveway by Feb, had these fortress-like snow walls...
then it warmed up, and cooled down a few more cycles that I've experienced in such places as Louisiana and Ohio over the years...so what to take from this? Difficult to say, but the impetus behind the Global Warming pushers is statism and control. That's about the only conclusion I can draw.
Good point, cook county, about the location of the temp measurements that are made.
(if I ever see that guy with the 84 Dodge van again, I'm gonna kick his butt)
BTW, anyone want to buy a Rolex watch? I got real good deal on them (no - different guy, different Van).
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This is all true, but the group thinkers are too far down the global warming path to think about a change in direction.
the Southern Hemisphere has not warmed in the past 25 years
That's totally incorrect
1612 — Santorio Sanctorius puts thermometer to medical use
1629 — Joseph Solomon Delmedigo describes in a book an accurate sealed-glass thermometer which uses brandy
1643 — Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
1714 — Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the mercury-in-glass thermometer
1821 — Thomas Johann Seebeck invents the thermocouple
1864 — Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer
1885 — Calender-Van Duesen invented the platinum resistance temperature device
1892 — Henri-Louis Le Châtelier builds the first optical pyrometer
So lets get this straight.... the thermometer has only been in use for about 300 years
according to the "geniuses", the earth is millions of years old
recorded history is only about 6,000 years old, (maybe more if you count cave paintings).
Yet, a small group of scientists and nearly ALL leftist politicians are convinced that man is the cause of "Global Warming"
and in spite of the fact that just one of the hundreds of annual Volcanic eruptions emits more greenhouse gas than all of the industrial pollution combined at any given time
sheesh but I am just a stupid construction worker what would I know
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