Boxer sees global warming up close (heh)

Orange County Register ^ | July 28, 2007 | DENA BUNIS

[Baladas]

WASHINGTON Leading a bipartisan delegation of 10 colleagues to Greenland, Sen. Barbara Boxer said today she saw first-hand the effects of global warming and received a plea from the country's officials to do something to change it.

"I think everyone who has seen this is changed,'' Boxer, D-Calif., said in a telephone interview from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. "Imagine flying in a helicopter and seeing this massive glacier that's five miles wide and 500 miles long...following it as it's crashing into the sea.'' The glacier they flew over is the fastest moving one in the world, she said.

Boxer said she decided to organize this weekend trip to Greenland so she and other senators could better understand the information they have received from sources such as scientists, reports and former Vice President Al Gore's movie.

[Baladas]

Heh. Stop that glacier!

[sourcery]

Basic References:

• Hostages to a hoax
• Water Experts Find Earth’s Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun
• Milankovitch Cycles and Glaciation
• The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change (PDF)
• Up against the warming zealots
• When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming
• Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
• Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
• Geophysical, archeological and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change (PDF)
• Gamma rays and climate (PDF)
• Temperature vs. Cosmic Ray Flux
• Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development (PDF)
• Proof on Ice: Southern Greenland Was Once Green; Earth Warmer
• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
• The Past and Future of Climate (PDF)
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• IceCap

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

• Science, not politics
• Statistics needed
• The original denier: into the cold
• End the chill
• They call this a consensus?
• The limits of predictability
• Unsettled science
• Models trump measurements
• The ice-core man
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
• Polar scientists on thin ice
• The sun moves climate change
• Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
• Read the sunspots
• Forget warming - beware the new ice age
• Little Ice Age is still with us
• Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

• Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
• The Global Warming Myth
• Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
• Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
• IPCC Scientists Challenge Al Gore’s View of Global Warming Consensus
• Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
• CO2 Science
• Global Warming and Climate Forcing by Recent Albedo Changes on Mars
• Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
• The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
• New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
• Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
• Global Warming as a Religion
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (By David Evans)
• Global Warming: it's not caused by greenhouse gases says academic
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse
• GREENIE WATCH
• Why Global Warming Would be Good for You
• Global Warming Primer (PDF)
• Global Warming: An Official Pseudoscience
• Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
• Fiddler On The Roof
• Debating Global Warming
• Climate Resistance

[JennysCool]

It was originally named “Greenland” for a reason, Babs.

Just returning to form, you idjit.

[ArmstedFragg]

Uh... Barb... it’s summer.

[Pontiac]

Sen. Barbara Boxer said today she saw first-hand the effects of global warming and received a plea from the country's officials to do something to change it.

"Imagine flying in a helicopter and seeing this massive glacier that's five miles wide and 500 miles long...following it as it's crashing into the sea.''

Yes Barbara get out in front of that glacier and demand that it stop.

On a more serious note why on Earth would the officials of Greenland want global warming to stop?

With their growing season lengthening and the amount of arable land increasing why would they want it to stop?

Or are they just pandering for more international aid?

[JennysCool]

On a more serious note why on Earth would the officials of Greenland want global warming to stop? With their growing season lengthening and the amount of arable land increasing why would they want it to stop?

Now, come on, you know the Goreacle demands no possible benefits of the earth warming a degree or two be mentioned in public! To the Re-Education Camp for you!

[Global2010]

She had to fly there?
Couldn’t she just watch a DVD?

I could show her Global warming let my 3 Yellow labs all pant on her on a warm day while having hot flashes.

[TChris]

Yes! Stop Global Warming^TM!

Stop plate tectonics! Earthquakes kill!

Put an end to violins!

Visualize whirled peas!

Free Tibet (with purchase of Mainland China)

[Pontiac]

To the Re-Education Camp for you!

I repent.

Forgive me Lord Gore for I have sinned against you and Gia. (I am a Heretic).

[JennysCool]

Genuflect and repeat the appropriate algorithm and there may yet be hope. Now ... begone!

[Pontiac]

Forgive my carbon footprint Lord Gore for I drive a F250 with the air-conditioning on.

I’m not worthy!

I’m not worthy!

I’m not worthy!

(Genuflecting while backing away)

[jws3sticks]

How much did this useless boon doggle cost the good people of America?

I wonder if they used Nancy’s jumbo jet, to boot?

[CrappieLuck]

I have been to the edge of the earth and I can assure you, it is flat

[kittymyrib]

Babs, the inevitable “Big One” will wipe out the Bay area long before “climate change” occurs. And Big Government, the god all liberals worship, won’t be able to do a thing to prevent either.

[conserveababe]

This may make Babs pass Patty bin Murray for the title of dumbest Senator.

[cgbg]

Watching glaciers move in the ocean must be as exciting as watching grass grow.

It would have been nice if the OC Register allowed someone with some credentials to point out that the Honorable Senator is full of horse-hockey.

:-)

These "global warming" press articles are getting wackier by the day. Somebody must be putting LSD in the media's water coolers--there is no other reasonable explanation for their irrational interminable propaganda wave on this subject.

:-)

[TLI]

Boxer said she decided to organize this weekend trip to Greenland so she and other senators could better understand the information they have received from sources such as scientists, reports and former Vice President Al Gore's movie.

Yep, that's it then. Forget the GENERATIONS of true scientific research. Let's all go watch ALGoring's movie and take a weekend jaunt to Greenland in the summer.

Why, I bet she even took some pictures with her iPhone!

These folks run around loose? And we pay them for this B.S.? They should be in an institution.

[Hazcat]

I am encouraged that the commenter’s on the source page are not falling for this either.

[goldstategop]

Babs Boxer is an idiot. How do you stop a glacier?

"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 Palelologus

[Always Right]

Imagine a world where massive glaciers covered most of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin and imagine the horrors if that glacier disappeared. I mean something like that has never happened before until SUVs.