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Meltdown! The world is feeling the heat of global warming. (Please help me!)
Time for Kids ^ | January 12, 2007 | None listed

Posted on 01/13/2007 6:44:00 AM PST by drellberg

"In 15 years, scientists say, the snows of Kilimanjaro will simply melt away. ... Kilimanjaro is not the only place that is threatened. Glaciers and polar ice are melting. Coral reefs are dying as the seas get too warm. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year, disrupting the life cycles of native plants and animals. What is causing this breakdown in nature?

(Excerpt) Read more at timeforkids.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarmingfraud
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To: drellberg
Global warming is real evident in Pocatello. It was -7.4 degrees yesterday at 8:26 AM. It did warm up to around +4 in the mid-afternoon. This morning is was -6.2 degrees when I took my son to work at 7:45 AM. It's a warming trend. Almost 2 degrees warmer overnight. Were all gonna die! Rexburg was sweltering in -16 degree temps yesterday.

Some of this is coming your way shortly. We get snow and cold like Colorado, but it just doesn't make the whining national news.

Your kids are being indoctrinated by socialists with an agenda. Perhaps you can get them to a quality private school before they experience permanent brain damage.

61 posted on 01/13/2007 8:20:49 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: JustDoItAlways
It will not go away until Liberals get tired of it. Like pop culture, they will change their focus to some other emotion-based catastrophe in a decade or so.

Maybe so... but will it be equally as annoying?

APf

62 posted on 01/13/2007 8:23:51 AM PST by APFel (You too can take Dylan Thomas out of context! Ask me how!)
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To: 13Sisters76

While what you say is true it is important to note that in each of the cases cited in your last sentence, they have successfully changed world opinion and accomplished their stated goals; why should we think it will turn out different this time?

With 6 billion people it would seem that wasting a few is very little damage for a battle as serious as this.

They have practically won, already we see carbon-trading and such, even if it proves later to be complete ineffective, it will still have the patina of good intentions and, at most, just appear worn and dated like statues in old and neglected parks.

By then we will be knee-deep in the next world crisis with so much work to do.


63 posted on 01/13/2007 8:25:25 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: mt tom

Where we live in Northern Nevada, it was -1 last night. And the wind blew all the powdery snow cover off the surrounding hills. Baby, it's cold outside.


64 posted on 01/13/2007 8:25:55 AM PST by Irish Queen (Still proud of being an old-fashioned teacher)
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To: drellberg
Tell them to conjur up Hannibal from the dead. In his day, just 2200 years ago, the earth was so warm that what is now arid Algeria was one of his allied states called Numidia, a lush tropical country. Roughly 1000 years later, the Norsemen were settling in what is now Greenland and even planting grapevines in what is now Newfoundland. This nice warm spell begin to end about 1000 a.d., sending them to conquer warmer countries like England and, by 1100 a.d., largely abandon the areas they'd colonized from Greenland westward.

Global warming will take its own course and have very little to do with man's activity, unlike microclimates which man can very well screw up with deforestation, overgrazing, etc.

Shutting down modern industry and getting everyone to ride bicycles will do about as much to combat global warming as taking a leak on the beach will do to add to the supply of water in the ocean.

If, in fact, global warming is the imminent danger so-called scientists claim, a proper response would be to get people to move to Siberia and digging a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Qatarra Depression, a move that would create a new 7000 square mile sea, enough to displace the estimated water in the polar ice caps. It would also turn the largely uninhabited area surrounding the new sea from desert into coastal climates similar to the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

And this is just one example. Other large inland seas such as the Caspian, Aral and others are in dire need of water.

65 posted on 01/13/2007 8:28:24 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: drellberg

The Earth is not static. For millions of years, average temperatures have either gone up or down in long-term trends. This is caused by the sun.

The whole hysteria about it being "our fault" is nothing more than international socialism/communism's attempt to bring down the USA, their chief adversary, via the Kyoto Protocols. The KP would force the US to pay out gazillions of dollars to third world countries and assist them with anti-pollution technology. For free, of course.

The leftists want a socialist world government. They're prone to fear-mongering, Eco-hysteria being one of their many tools to achieve this. The belief that global warming will destroy the world is but the latest one of many hysterical notions created by the Left. 7 years ago it was Y2K, 15 years ago it was "the dying oceans", 20 years ago it was "acid rain" and the "ozone hole", 30 years ago it was exactly the opposite -- global cooling, "the coming Ice Age". 40 years ago it was Rachel Carson's "The Silent Spring." (which did away with the valuable pesticide DDT, causing millions of unnecessary deaths [malaria]in the third-world countries lefties are so concerned about)--and on and on and on.......

I learned a long time ago to ignore the sonzabitches.



66 posted on 01/13/2007 8:29:17 AM PST by Zman516 ("Allah" is Satan, actually.)
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To: april15Bendovr

Yes, and we all know to listen to Mr. Heston, he was Moses, he's got a direct line to God;)

just funnin'

If anthropogenic global warming is true, then how are we causing the Martian polar ice caps to melt? A simple question the Lefties are never able to answer.


67 posted on 01/13/2007 8:30:40 AM PST by Sudetenland
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To: drellberg
How about junkscience.com website. It's not too much for kids to handle.

Also there's a great middle-school age text about envirnomental issues called," Facts, not Fear". Its put out by Regnery publishing, written by Micheal Sanera and Jane Shaw, and covers all the so-called envirnomental crises.

It uses real facts and economics to counter each of the so-called environmental crises. I have my middle-schoolers read it for science in our homeschool- it's excellent.

68 posted on 01/13/2007 8:32:17 AM PST by Red Boots
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To: Red Boots

If you can't project the weather "FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD" with certainty for a week, you can't project it for the next 20 years. It's simply one of those uncertainties.


69 posted on 01/13/2007 8:37:58 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: drellberg

This site has a lot of good scientific information:

http://www.sepp.org/

And this one provides some satirical humor

http://www.ecoenquirer.com/


70 posted on 01/13/2007 8:42:58 AM PST by Albertafriend
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To: drellberg
If you want to have some fun, just agree with them and purpose solutions they might not expect (and certainly would not want to hear).

This editorial shows how to handle it :-)

71 posted on 01/13/2007 8:45:10 AM PST by Tribune7 (Conservatives hold bad behavior against their leaders. Dims don't.)
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To: goldstategop

Seattle has been in the teens at night for the last few days and is frozen solid.


72 posted on 01/13/2007 8:47:15 AM PST by ShandaLear (Perfect People Need Support, too.)
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To: ShandaLear
I'm in Upstate New York. It was unusually nice for December and early January but I'm feezing my butt right now and the temperatures are BELOW the norm.

There is no gd norm. It's cold in the winter and warm in the summer.

The crops grow and then there's snow and please tell Gore where he can go.

73 posted on 01/13/2007 8:53:03 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: drellberg
...disrupting the life cycles of native plants and animals....

Whatever happened to the notion of adaptation?
74 posted on 01/13/2007 9:04:44 AM PST by mirado ('...)
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To: drellberg
I need to get up to speed. Can anyone recommend a good open-minded, even analysis of the underlying basic science? I'm not inclined to think that global warming is a non-issue. I just want an evenhanded and credible account. Ideally, I would have citations to seminal articles so I could go dig them up in the library.

Read Michael Crichton's "State of Fear". It is a impeccably footnoted utter devastation of the global warming myth set against a fictional backdrop. You'll love it.

75 posted on 01/13/2007 9:11:03 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: drellberg
Well...in case no one else has mentioned it, there is a really good FICTION book out there that is a fun read on global warming.
http://www.amazon.com/State-Fear-Michael-Crichton/dp/B000HOJGL8/sr=8-1/qid=1168708310/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0432554-4640149?ie=UTF8&s=books

Michael Crichton fictional analysis is, however, backed up by many, MANY references.
I am not a scientist, so I don't know how to interpret the data he cites other than on the face of it.
But...the book really slams the whole idea, AND more importantly, gives some scope into the idea of the media/government needing a topic that will SCARE the populace.

It is a fun read..even if it is fiction ;-)
76 posted on 01/13/2007 9:14:45 AM PST by M0sby (((PROUD WIFE of MSgt Edwards USMC)))
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To: DouglasKC

:-)


77 posted on 01/13/2007 9:16:47 AM PST by M0sby (((PROUD WIFE of MSgt Edwards USMC)))
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To: drellberg
Meltdown! The world is feeling the heat of global warming. (Please help me!)

The earth has been in a cooling trend for the last 35 years. Most of the (small) amount of warming occurred in the 70 or so years before that. We're still warming up from the mini-Ice Age of the latter half of the second millennium. The earth still hasn't made it back to the 10,000 year global average temperature. Go to Science & Environmental Policy Project for lots of good information and many helpful links.
78 posted on 01/13/2007 9:20:43 AM PST by aruanan
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To: drellberg
This article was posted on Free Republic just a few days ago.

NOAA Reports 2006 Warmest Year On Record In US

Review the chart that accompanies the article. In particular, the "long-term mean" -- which is more relevant to the discussion than the year-to-year data.

Note how, in 1895, the long-term mean was 52.8 degrees.

Follow the dead straight line all the way across the chart to 2006, where the long-term mean was...52.8 degrees.

In other words, according to NOAA, last year was pretty damn hot. But NOAA's data also establishes that there has been no evidence of a long-term warming trend in the US over the past century.

79 posted on 01/13/2007 9:23:01 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: ShandaLear

21 degrees this morning in Las Vegas...won't get much above freezing today at all.


80 posted on 01/13/2007 9:23:26 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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