The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat

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[Old Professer]

Not trying to make you the victim here of a spur of the moment urge on my part but I need to post this before it slips into the black hole of marvelous utterances heard but never noted; I went out in the garage just now to here the closing exchange between a caller from Arizona and Michael Savage that had pre-empted the local programming an hour early only to hear this construction coined of what is too close to the most marvelous utterance I ever heard.

In a conversation about powerful women, success and politics, the caller referred to men who had become de-semenized; imagine that, desemenized, De-semen-ized.

We live in a world of such people now; no C.O.Jones among the lot of them.

We’ve become a nation of followers.

AGW is B.S.

I await your next pronouncement with bated breath and baited hook.

[Old Professer]

This may be the only graph in captivity that matches the linearity of the CO2 trend graph.

Desemenized, I’m still laughing.

[Old Professer]

The ‘here’ here should have been hear; I’m not sure where I am anymore.

Catch anything?

[djf]

“Less rapid warming...”...

Luv it.

Think of the arguments ten years from now, “It ain’t an “ice age”, it’s “less rapid warming”

[MediaMole]

Measuring global warming is too much like counting the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin.

[AFreeBird]

This is one of the most mind numbing things I've ever read here:

Dinosaurs ruled the world, and they were extremely large, and even the pterodactyls could fly. This was because the Earth was smaller, had less ‘mass’, and therefore less gravitational pull.

They started dying out, in part due to catastrophic asteroid collisions, but some survived, and would exist today.

The ‘real’ reason is that ‘they couldn’t pull their weight, anymore’.

You're either missing a great big < /SARCASM > tag, or.. well, I don't what. But something is missing.

[Horusra]

Interestingly enough, I have seen this theory actually put forth in video form, its interesting stuff.

http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html

[Hiddigeigei]

Ever hear of the interesting “hollow earth” theory of the Koreshan Unity group?

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hollow/morrow.htm

[Horusra]

Yes I have, fun stuff. :-)

[redpoll]

>>>If you really want to go crazy, or otherwise enjoy sanctimonious blather delivered by smug and condescending pinheads with no external genitalia, try listening to the CBC on the internet for an hour.<<<

From the moment we cross the border at Sumas, Washington, until we get to the transmitter in Northway, Alaska, we have to suffer through CBC for four days. You’re so right, it’s incredibly biased.

Fortunately, most of the Canadians I’ve met have been really nice people. The border guys are little snots, though. One of them asked me if I had any firearms and I said I did. Then he asked me if I had any ammo, and I said, “No.” His response: “Well, you’re half smart.” On another occasion they ripped my entire car apart, complete with dogs and a whole platoon of border guys. They found a Phillips head screwdriver I had lost between the seat cushions.

*sheesh*

[billorites]

"Fortunately, most of the Canadians I’ve met have been really nice people."

Boy, that is the truth. It's a great country. With great candy bars and super micro breweries.

My regular road trip through Canada allows me to listen to NPR from upstate New York for about 5 hours. I lose it around Ottawa.

Last summer, after being forced to switch to CBC, I listened to them talk for a full hour about butter. Actually, they talked about a butter competition. A New Brunswick creamery (buttery?) was competing in an international butter competition in Denmark. They had competed previously, but 2007 was the first year that they had gotten to such a level as to compete in the unsalted division. That, apparently, is a very big deal.

They talked about this for an whole uninterrupted hour. How you label butter for competition, how you pack it for transoceanic travel, aesthetic considerations for presentation...

I dearly love Canada, but it's entirely possible that they're all nuts.

[UCANSEE2]

“Some times the nuttiness of my fellow freepers wobbles me.”

I may be nutty as a fruitcake, but what I said is true.

If you think the continents float around all willy-nilly, running into each other like bumper cars, then you should do some more research.

There are no ‘gaps’ between continental plates large enough for any of the plates to ‘move’ around independently of other plates.

The ‘floating plates’ part of tectonic theory is just what they told you, because they had no better answer. But it still is wrong. Those who continue to believe in it, are now in the FLAT EARTHER category.

[Hiddigeigei]

When I first took geology back in the early 1950s, the teacher laughed at poor old Alfred Wegerner.

By the late 1960s when, as a graduate student I knew Emilani at the University of Miami, plate tectonics had become a fundamental theory of geology. Plate tectonics doesn’t postulate that the continents simply drift around bumping into each other. There is considerable evidence for sea-floor spreading at mid-ocean ridges driving continents apart and subduction where plates meet.

I have no idea of your academic background, but I suspect you haven’t seriously studied geology. In our free society you have every right to believe any sort of pseudo-scientific balderdash you please. I also have the right to roll my eyes when I hear it.