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Weather Eye: earth's oval-shaped orbit creates strange effect
The Times ^ | 7/4/2008 | Paul Simons

Posted on 07/04/2008 7:52:08 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

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To: bruinbirdman

This makes perfect sense. All of those CO2 emissions have pushed our planet - our perfect, fragile, small, shining blue ball of a planet further from the sun, creating the slight cooling effect. But warming will resume, just as soon as the direction of the carbon flow changes and begins to push us towards the sun.

The only answer is change. We’ve got to change the way we’ve been living. Well, some of us. Me and Al don’t need to. We’ll take credit for green things people would do anyway or the ungreen things they might have done, but didn’t, and sell the credits to other suckers, uh, citizens wealthy enough to enjoy a guilt free carbon rich life through Enron’s, uh Al Gore, carbon trading scheme, uh market.

Yes, change is necessary. You’ve got to change your thermostat setting or we’ll help. You’ve got to change your vehicle to Smart Car or Pious, or we’ll help. You’ve got to change your light bulbs to cute, expensive curly cue ones, or we’ll help. You’ve got to change your fuel into corrosive, less efficient, food based derivatives, or we’ll help (oops, we already have). You’ve got to change your notions of uninterrupted power. You’ve got to change.

You’ve still got change? I want it. Give it here.

Who am I? I’m Big Brother and you will love me.


41 posted on 07/05/2008 5:47:12 AM PDT by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Nah, they are some of the classics, though there’s one more famous one I can’t recall.

I did find a couple myself, too...but can’t for the life of me remember them!


42 posted on 07/05/2008 9:22:59 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Ain’t it a weird coincidink that all the lottery winners just happened to have tickets that matched the numbers selected?!


43 posted on 07/05/2008 9:26:51 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: fso301

Actually, the average temp. may rise, but it is a very small rise.

The Earth is closer to the sun, in winter, and farther away, during winter (at least, ‘our’ seasons in the Northern Hemisphere).


44 posted on 07/05/2008 3:48:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: Gondring

I am well aware of the “anthropic principle.”

Nevertheless, I find it remarkable that the tolerances are repeatedly found to be extremely narrow.


45 posted on 07/05/2008 9:12:23 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: bruinbirdman
That means that the Sun will appear 1.7 per cent smaller in the sky and 7 per cent less bright

I noticed that this morning, but I wasn't going to say anything...

46 posted on 07/06/2008 1:23:07 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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