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To: Libloather
The report, which cites thousands of peer-reviewed articles the United Nations-sponsored panel on climate change ignored, also found that "no empirical evidence exists to substantiate the claim that 2°C of warming presents a threat to planetary ecologies or environments"

Well, the whole crops-withering-and-animals-going-extinct thing was always a little amusing. In plain English, the question "What would happen if the average temperature were 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit hotter 100 years from now?" is answered with a shrug of a farmer's shoulders. Nothing.

It wasn't a bad scam, though, as long as it lasted, and that was long enough to put Algore in a very nice, high-carbon-footprint mansion. IIRC, phrenology lasted about 30 years before it got hooted off the scientific stage. Not a bad run at all.

That doesn't mean we won't hear shrieks of impending doom every time the summer is a hot one in Cambridge, Ithaca, Madison, Austin, or Berkeley. Or, for that matter, Washington D.C., wherein everything including human life is weighed in the calculus of political power. We haven't heard the last of the snake-oil salesmen, and they're still after our collective wallet.

12 posted on 09/18/2013 5:55:03 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
"extinct thing"

The question they never seemed to have asked themselves as they predicted calamity is that if the earth was at one time much warmer than it is now (and it was), why are we and all the other flora and fauna still here instead of having died a scorching death millions of years ago? Or even as recent as about one thousand years ago.

21 posted on 09/18/2013 7:40:45 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Billthedrill
IIRC, phrenology lasted about 30 years before it got hooted off the scientific stage. Not a bad run at all.

WHAT? What are you trying to say? Does this mean that the funny bump on my head really doesn't mean that I'm Queen of the World?

I'm stuned...
27 posted on 09/19/2013 6:43:55 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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