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New Zealand Weatherman on Global Warming: 'It's All Going to be a Joke in 5 Years'
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Posted on 05/18/2007 12:20:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: Dilbert56

Hear, hear!


101 posted on 05/18/2007 4:46:55 PM PDT by Crazy Jim (There are known unknowns and then there are unknown unknowns. - Donald Rumsfeld)
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To: Crazy Jim
My point was, airplanes didn’t fall from the sky, elevators didn’t cease to function and civilization didn’t come to an end. My stepdad seriously believed the computer chips in his car would dissolve and the distribution of food and fuel would end. His neighbor laid in silver coins, cases of Johnny Walker Scotch and Basmati rice for barter.
No doubt some computerized aspects of our daily life needed to be corrected. But like the Y2K story, global warming gets bigger every time the story is told.
102 posted on 05/18/2007 4:51:08 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Sweet Hour of Prayer
Michael Crichton

"www.crichton-official.com"

"Aliens Cause Global Warming"

A lecture by Michael Crichton
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
January 17, 2003

My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today.

103 posted on 05/18/2007 5:02:36 PM PDT by Crazy Jim (There are known unknowns and then there are unknown unknowns. - Donald Rumsfeld)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
My point was, airplanes didn’t fall from the sky, elevators didn’t cease to function and civilization didn’t come to an end.

That's because we fixed the problems. If we had not then some bad things would have happened. (IMHO) (Because I know the things I fixed would have caused some serious problems.)

As to your stepdad, he over-reacted, but I took prudent step like I would for a huricane.

Does your stepdad's neighbor need any help with the scotch? ;-)

104 posted on 05/18/2007 5:11:36 PM PDT by Crazy Jim (There are known unknowns and then there are unknown unknowns. - Donald Rumsfeld)
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To: Crazy Jim

No; some of the Basmati rice showed up in our pantry, tho...


105 posted on 05/18/2007 5:54:18 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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106 posted on 05/18/2007 6:06:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (G*d bless and heal Virginia Tech!)
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To: Dinsdale
State of Fear.
107 posted on 05/18/2007 8:28:31 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: Dilbert56
Dilbert56 said: "So we techies screwed the lawyers. It's a good thing"

Well said. The technical organization that I worked for had about 300 people, just as many computers, and many thousands of programs.

The list of Y2K issues contained about 2000 items. Some were very small, just consisting of a need to inventory what programs were being used and where. Other systems relied on various schemes of utilizing the date, and many of them had to be modified to prevent the systems from malfunctioning. It was neither rocket science nor was the effort trivial.

You correctly characterized the situation. "What level of failure do you want?" The level we wanted was such that our multi-million dollar business was economically unaffected. We succeeded.

108 posted on 05/18/2007 8:33:08 PM PDT by William Tell (RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
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To: Sub-Driver
The political spin is the greatest part of the plan.

The Darwinian/Marxist socialists still believe in world-wide domination. They believe in global redistribution of wealth, just as the U.S. Congress seems to believe in domestic redistribution of wealth (through the graduated income tax; etc.)

The global warming club (Gore and friends) is simply one component of the overall united effort to move the wealth of the north to the southern continents, and the political, social and moral powers from the West to the East.

To do this you must incessantly blame the North and the West for ALL of mankind’s ills, and get naive Westerners to weep sorely for people who prefer darkness to light in the South and in the East.

109 posted on 05/18/2007 8:40:03 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: Sub-Driver
Climate change: a guide for the perplexed

see entry entitled "CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas

110 posted on 05/18/2007 9:18:26 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Add this to your link list:

Climate change: a guide for the perplexed

As noted to the author of the thread in the post above, the entry entitled "CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas is relevant to Augie Auer's frequently repeated, just as frequently incorrect, point.

111 posted on 05/18/2007 9:20:40 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: GreenAccord
In the book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming, the author (Chris Horner) cites that the southern hemisphere has experienced only a .05 degrees Celsius per decade warming, a rate of increase discernibly different from the northern hemisphere.

Horner doesn't point out the obvious difference between the hemispheres primarily responsible for this dichotomy: the large difference in ocean vs. continental area between the two hemispheres. The ocean is a moderating factor in the warming of the SH.

Climate scientists, of course, are perfectly well aware of this.

112 posted on 05/18/2007 9:24:09 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: sand88

The article was extremely erroneous.


113 posted on 05/18/2007 9:25:11 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: FreedomCalls

The warming of the oceans during the 5 deg. C global temperature change between glacial and interglacial conditions is only responsible for about 10 ppm of the 80 ppm change in atmospheric CO2 concentrations (see my profile, point #5). For the currently much smaller temperature increase, the increase in CO2 from warmer oceans is essentially negligible.


114 posted on 05/18/2007 9:28:13 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: Publius6961
Volcanic activity is not nothing.

For CO2 it is. See my profile, point #1.

115 posted on 05/18/2007 9:29:15 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: Sub-Driver

Kyoto Al Gore invented the internet and is the discoverer of global warming. What a great resume.........better yet, what a great epitaph!


116 posted on 05/18/2007 9:29:28 PM PDT by Doctor Don
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To: MinorityRepublican
I remember the Ozone Layer Theory. What happened to it? We don’t hear about it anymore?

Stratospheric Ozone (NOAA)

117 posted on 05/18/2007 9:32:04 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: Tokra
The oceans are warming and releasing more CO2.

Numerous oceanographic measurements indicate that the oceans are a net sink (=absorbing) atmospheric CO2. As they warm, they will absorb less, a positive feedback that will potentially augment the increase in atmospheric CO2 due primarily to fossil fuel emissions.

118 posted on 05/18/2007 9:34:47 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: Ditto
Don't ask the IPCC. There models don't include water. They pretend it isn't there.

No credible model of global climate could exclude water vapor.

Full report of IPCC Working Group 1

See Section 3.4.2

119 posted on 05/18/2007 9:38:30 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: Dinsdale
You are confusing the total change in atmospheric CO2 (pretty much, as measured at one place, too, but that is an aside) with CO2 change directly attributably to increasing human emissions of CO2 through fossile fuel use.

They are not the same.

120 posted on 05/18/2007 9:41:01 PM PDT by JasonC
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