[Graybeard58]

Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.

If you want on or off this ping list, let me know.

[TomGuy]

It's Global Warming all the way up to 14 degrees this morning in Oklahoma.

And allot of that Global Warming is still stuck to the tree limbs and powerlines.

[facedown]

"Warmists".....perfect.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I'm still waiting for them to explain the expanding glaciers.

Where do ice ages come from again? Global warming?

[N2Gems]

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[Zeppelin]

[Izzy Dunne]

Waterbury Warmists Warming Warnings Waning.

[Spok]

The entire controversy over man made global warming has become so polarized (no pun intended) and politicized that its proponents are dug into an enormous credibility chasm. If they're serious about this allegedly desperate situation, they need to make some effort to legitimize their position by divorcing it from partisanship. Of course, they won't because they can't. For some odd reason, CO2 generated by socialist countries doesn't seem to be harming the environment.

[Izzy Dunne]

At the present rate, it would be more than 9,000 years before CO2 reached 1 percent.

Al Gore must be spinning in his grave.

[Rumplemeyer]

Just a thought, from about 1830 until about 1940 the USA burned mostly coal as fuel for the industrial engine of the country and any change in climate temperature doesn't seem to be noted. Wouldn't you think that all the resulting emissions for that period would have had an effect? and wouldn't that effect been changed by the emission restrictions introduced since?
Just wondering.

[Froufrou]

In San Antonio today, it's 30 with freezing rain, snowing in Houston and Kerrville, and nobody - I mean nobody - is talking about global warming.

[relictele]

Liberal global warming gameplan: if any evidence contradicts our viewpoint, immediately move goalposts.

[RightWhale]

U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

It's the UN and an NGO. The UN itself is an NGO. That it contains the word 'governmental' in its name doesn't make it any part of government. It is an instutition of some kind: an NGO.

[sionnsar]

A lot of that global warming stuff is falling outside right now -- third or fourth time this winter, when we usually get it once, maybe twice, a winter.

[LC HOGHEAD]

FINALLY-----Common Sense !!!!

[four more in O 4]

All the global warming hype is nonsense, specifically it is opinion. Peroid. Opinion marketed as fact.

When they can tell me precisely what the weather will be in one month, then and only then, I'll begin to believe their predictions about the weather in 10 years.

Silly humans and their opinions.

[CedarDave]

Added Global Warming as a keyword for this article.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

CO2 is abundant on Venus, a hellishly hot planet that warmists say portends earth's fate unless mankind curbs its greenhouse-gas emissions now.

Mars also has an atmosphere composed almost entirely of CO₂ and has a surface temperature cold enough to freeze CO₂ as dry ice at the polls. The major difference between the two is Venus has 10,000 times the water vapor of Mars. Venus is also closer to the sun then Earth and thus receives more solar energy. Mars is further out then Earth and receives less input energy.

While it is true that CO₂ is a "greenhouse" gas what the warmists conveniently ignore is that water vapor has about four times the effectiveness of CO₂ as a greenhouse gas and is about 70 times more prevalent in our present atmosphere.

When you look at the projections of the warmists, the ordinate of their graphs are generally in percentages. I would remind all that a change in concentration of 1 part per million to 1.5 parts per million is a 50% increase and thus sounds much more dramatic.

Regards,
GtG

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Its "fourth assessment report," due out in February, will conclude civilization's threat has been overstated, so it will lower its warming projection SWAG to 2.7 F to 7.5 F, and it's sea-level SWAG to a 17 inch rise.

There....that's better.

SWAG: An acronym for "Scientific Wild Ass Guess".

[samm1148]

It is warming; no doubt about that. The assertion that man is doing it is what the Gaia people are harping about. Just my two cents but I've observed that most science is logical: Steven Hawking writes about relativity in a way that the layman can say "oh yeah; that makes sense."

I'm not claiming to be able to debate relativity with a mathematician, but it makes sense to me. The global warming argument of man being responsible just doesn't make sense.

A few posters on here are good examples of the opposite of critical thinking: When they assert that global warming is caused by man they: cherry pick facts to support their arguments; never confronting the con argument, frequently use circular reasoning,and never resolve past criticisms of their pet theories. They just move on to a new explanation.

I just wonder where the money trail leads. It seems to me that our last orgasm of environmentalism went into the pockets of bureaucrats and a conglomerate of waste management companies.

By the way a great post from Rumplemeyer:

"Just a thought, from about 1830 until about 1940 the USA burned mostly coal as fuel for the industrial engine of the country and any change in climate temperature doesn't seem to be noted. Wouldn't you think that all the resulting emissions for that period would have had an effect? and wouldn't that effect been changed by the emission restrictions introduced since?
Just wondering."

When I say the Mother Gaia argument doesn't make sense this statement referenced above is what I mean: Why haven't the reduced emissions influenced the environment? We were told that acid rain was the big horror in the seventies and that there was another ice age on the way. What happened there? Mother Gaia's followers haven't explained the foul up there; what happened?