Posted on 10/29/2011 7:36:28 PM PDT by CedarDave
Climate change brought on by global warming is real, and a panel of physicists says to ignore it is to increase the chances of a global catastrophe.
We dont know whats going to happen, but we do know something bad is going to happen, Mark Boslough, a physicist with Sandia National Laboratories, told ... the New Mexico chapter of the Fulbright Association.
In little more than a hundred years, the Industrial Revolution has brought astounding advancements in technology and life comforts, but at what price? Boslough asked. The potential consequences could range from inconvenient weather to global catastrophe, he said.
Meanwhile, fellow physicist Professor David Gutzler of the University of New Mexico said there is an abundance of scientific evidence from trusted international sources that growing carbon dioxide levels causing climate change can be attributed to humans.
Its possible, according to some models, that temperatures could rise an average of more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and almost 8 degrees F in summer by the end of the century. Thats compared with a total global change in average temperature of only 1 degree in the 20th century.
... Around the world, climate change could cause hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, wildfires and other natural disasters.
Saying he was speaking from a business perspective, Jeff Sterba, former CEO of PNM Resources, outlined some obstacles to addressing global warming, including naysayers who deny the existence of a problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
This has to be the most idiotic quote of the century.
Yep - this must be obvious - especially with the early-season snowstorm blanketing the NE...
Odds are good NONE of them have read the Widom/Larson paper about the solar corona ~ which presents everybody in the AGW community with the problem of recognizing that the Sun has TWO, not just ONE source of energy.
To wit: A Low Energy Nuclear Reaction in the Corona ~ about which we know little or nothing, and a High Energy Nuclear Reaction in the Core. The official climatological models DO NOT CONSIDER the LENR energy source and barely recognize variation in the HENR variations ~ to say nothing of cloud cover caused by cosmic rays, and clumping of rare gases.
It's interesting that LENR research has among its enemies the AGW (anthropogenic Global Warming) crowd, Hindu Fundamentalists who worship the Sun god or his mother, or both, the Mob, Solar power, windpower, wave power, and probably even the guys who want to use vibrations to power nanobot computers imbedded in your body.
I feel surrounded by high tech Luddites!
Early snowfall in NYC is meaningful. Having the warmest year on record in Abu Dhabi isn't!
Global.Reduction.International.Force.To.Eradicate.Repulicans. Grifter
They’ve got no idea of the magnitude, or the cause. It’s gonna be big, and it’s gonna happen because there are too many people.
Sub WhatsGoingToHappen()
print "What's going to happen?"
print "Something bad."
End Function
What more proof do you need? I'm satisfied he knows what he's doing.
This completes the explanation: Besides the Fulbright Association, the forum was co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico and the UNM Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
The Global Warming or Climate Change lobby is a front for a group of very wealthy people who seek to corner ownership coal and other carbon-based resources, after first driving their prices to near zero. It’s all about acquiring those assets cheaply.
***Climate Change due to Global warming, may indeed be real.***
Snow in the panhandle of Texas, Kansas and Colorado.
Snow in Yankeeland.
Just like it did 25 years ago when the gloom and doomers were blaming it on that new word “El Nino”. Yawn.
Very seldom will those who crow about globull carbon dioxide borne warming being real, quantify the expected effect and rank it next to other notorious factors such as water vapor, volcanic emissions, and cloud cover (which has strong demonstrated links to sun spots, and a mechanism has even been elucidated).
In the meantime the rain forests of the earth are begging for more carbon dioxide. It’s yummies for their chlorophyll tummies.
Abu Dhabi is dry. A downtick in temperature in a place where there’s a lot of humidity in play represents a larger delta in energy than an equal uptick in a barren, parched desert.
Some places in my state are supposed to get 20” of snow by the end of this storm. Since the Civil War, I think we’ve gotten a total of 4 inches of snow in October.
Can we get a little of that ‘warming’ they’ve been talking about for years and years? Please?
I wonder if these assholes have looked out their windows recently. It had been snowing from Virginia to New England today, with near or freezing temperatures.
So cold that our pumpkins froze their stems off.
I can now go outside and collect frozen string beans, peppers and tomatoes and save them for next year.
It’s so cold for October that I have a formed a new singing group - “Five Cat Night” - you should see my dining room floor. Wall to wall cats. Even the mice are sleeping there.
I need another hot chocolate.
Looks like these scumbag “scientists” are on the prowl for government grant money again.
(yawn)
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