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Posted on 05/15/2007 10:20:31 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
Rising temperatures in the Middle East more than 8,000 years ago directly led to the invention of money. The carbon emitted from cars and power plants in your neighborhood may be causing destructive hurricanes.
These and tens of thousands of other surprising connections are being made on a new online database called K-Web, or Knowledge-Web, to be released this month. The Web site will allow users to trace more than 30,000 connections between science, economics, history and the weather.
Created by science journalist James Burke, the site aims to explain, in real-world terms, the impact of melting ice caps, rising carbon dioxide levels and warming oceans. It will allow users to see the direct effect of carbon emissions on their neighborhood, businesses and national economies.
~snip~ By breaking down scientific reports into simple language, K-Web will explain social, political and cultural phenomenon as they relate to climate changes. For example, if a user looks up global temperatures in about 7000 B.C., he not only will learn that they were rising at the time, but also will be able to follow links showing that those temperatures allowed farmers in what is now Iraq to grow more grain. As a result, those farmers adopted a trading system of tokens that led to the world's first recorded monetary system.
Burke says that the meaningful change needed to fight global warming won't come from accepting science alone, but from understanding the gray area between climate change and economics and politics. He hopes K-Web will illustrate those relationships.
In recent years the science of climate has entered popular culture, making it easier to understand relationships between rising carbon dioxide levels and daily life, says Laurie David, producer of An Inconvenient Truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
...and me pounding stakes with a sledgehammer in my backyard is causing dishes to fall off shelves in China.
Layering on another level of made-up crap, and calling it “science”...
Those are the ones that occur during Democrat administrations...
So... we never had any hurricanes before cars and trucks?
Global warming is CAUSING the increase in CO2.
CO2 is NOT causing global warming.
Much of the world's CO2 is dissolved in the oceans. As they oceans warm slightly - they release more CO2 into the atmosphere.
Try it for yourself. Pour a warm beer into a glass and then pour a cold beer into a glass. Which one foams the most? This is simple physics.
These idiots have it totally ass-backwards.
As they oceans warm = As the oceans warm
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Maybe I'll start a web site that shows the cure for global warming; the vast redistribution of America's wealth on a global scale.
So Global Warming HAS happen before... in 7000 B.C it's was natural, good and let to a boom for mankind ...but in 2000 A.D it's now unnatural, evil and will lead to the doom of mankind?.... way to think logical
Apparently we should all just ignore the difference between correlation and causation.
Two things often happen simultaneously or in sequence without one causing the other.
Here are some basic questions I can’t seem to find answers to: What is the temperature of the globe? How is it measured? What is the the accuracy of that measure? For how long has it been measured in this way?
Once we get a handle on the basics, we might be able to reason from there. But everything I have seen thus far has just skipped over steps one to ten.
How is it measured?
Rectal thermometer.
In a land not far away, a once powerful and vain "soothsayer"- a predictor of the future, called out to the people in the town square and bade them listen to his tale of dire portent.
"A great wrong has been done me when I was deposed as your leader, and continues to be done to this very land." he said. "You must atone for these crimes, and bow before me as your lord and protector."
The crowd fell silent. "As proof of what I say, and as a taste of the punishment that can be visited upon this land, I shall cause the sun to dim and then grow dark before your eyes this day." The people murmured, then openly scoffed at this.
But just then, the sun did actually grow dim, and then turned quite dark. The land was bathed in an eerie pallor, and the stars appeared at midday. The people gasped, and then fell to their knees supplicant to the soothsayer's will.
They could not dismiss the soothsayer's power and the wisdom they perceived, and in an instant they were like sheep in the control of the soothsayer. High above, the Moon slowly passed from in front of the Sun, and the light of the star shone again upon the land.
Though anyone with knowledge of the heavens could have told you that the darkness at Noon was none of the soothsayer's doing, it was far too late to change this belief amongst the rabble in the street. The land had a new lord, much to the people's sorrow and regret, as they soon discovered.
I’ll need to check out k-web, but don’t sell Burke short, he has produced some very good videos in the past, including ones on the changing climate and its effect on us.
The notion that he included the warming of 8000 years agod is good to hear.
I don’t think he’s a Believer.
Works out real good, since solar eclipses average 35-38 years between sites around the world.
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