[Molly Pitcher]

The mere fact that there've not been the numerous and strong hurricanes this season that were predicted should tell us something....

[Miss Marple]

All I know is that if Al Gore starts ranting about the global warming thing again, I am ordering a load of firewood.

[dirtboy]

The mere fact that there've not been the numerous and strong hurricanes this season that were predicted should tell us something....

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.

[Paladin2]

The lack of hurricanes hitting the US has shown that there is/was a speculative bubble in oil prices.

[dennisw]

No hurricane activity here where I live, Florida. Explanations such as return of El Nino and better weather off African coast have been given

[JennysCool]

"Global warming" is just another effort to create an industry out of fear.

[Condor51]

When I was a kid waaaaaay back in the mid 50's to early '60's a pair of new Ice Skates was almost guaranteed as a Christmas present - and almost immediately used.

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!

[cookcounty]

When they talk about temperature change, the change is so tiny that it could easily be inaccurate for thousands of reasons. If you take the historic temp of 200 cities, but fail to note, for example, that the official temperature for Chicago used to be Midway Arport, but now is measured at O'Hare (slightly warmer than Midaway), that is enough of an error to skew the average and suggest serious global warming.

[Condor51]

Oh-oh.
Maybe I didn't get such a deal on my new Pantasomic Pleasme television. In hindsight I knew I should have opted for the Toastsheba brand. Oh well.

(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).

/s

[The Raven]

This is all true, but the group thinkers are too far down the global warming path to think about a change in direction.

[bobdsmith]

They got the policy right, but their data is all wrong.

the Southern Hemisphere has not warmed in the past 25 years

That's totally incorrect

[KTM rider]

1592 — Galileo Galilei builds a crude thermometer using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube

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

[Louis Foxwell]

I am delighted that CORE, an organization I helped found in 1960 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is on the right side of an issue that liberals are using to destroy economic opportunity for the poor and promote genocide for Africans.

[goldstategop]

Greens are socialists who use the environment as a cover to run your lives for you...

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[hgro]

Teresa Heinz-Kerry has been on the juice so long because she thinks it makes her intelligent. Getting married to that gigolo Kerry is proof that doesn't work.

[ChessExpert]

The mere fact that there've not been the numerous and strong hurricanes this season that were predicted should tell us something....

It should tell us that the people making those predictions were wrong. Imagine how they would crow if they had been lucky and we’d had two successive years of high hurricane activity. Scaremongering.

[ChessExpert]

Other recent studies conclude the sun’s radiant heat and cosmic ray levels affect planetary warming and cloud formation more strongly than acknowledged by climate alarmists. That’s logical.

It certainly is logical - and sensible too. How can anyone talk about the earth’s temperature and not even mention the sun?

Why would natural forces that caused climate change and bizarre weather in past centuries suddenly stop working?

Why indeed? Have climate models reproduced all past temperature variation? If there main explanatory variable is man-made CO2 emissions, I don’t see how they can explain the past.

The fun thing about predicting the future is that you can say anything you want. Karl Marx figure that out a long time ago. Liberals play this game all the time.

[sinclair]

Save

[calcowgirl]

The real danger is that we will handcuff economies and hammer poor families, to promote solutions which won’t solve a problem that the evidence increasingly suggests is moderate, manageable and primarily natural in origin.

And we are well on our way.

[TBP]

Bump.