Let's take a long, cool look at the dangers of global warming

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 08/10/03 | Bjorn Lomborg

[petuniasevan]

Bjorn Lomborg BUMP!

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We all know that if man had never existed, the temperature of the planet would remain constant for eternity.

[sauropod]

study ping.

[anniegetyourgun]

"It is not something that the doom-mongers want to hear. It does not fit in with the claim that global warming is becoming a "weapon of mass destruction".

And, if I hear another screaming ninny on the left use this term one more time, I'm gonna sue 'em.

[StatesEnemy]

I dunno....

We seem to be breaking all sortsa records these days.

[hgro]

The wrath of God is being visited on the French and Germans. Give them a few months and they will be coming, hats in their hands, looking for the U.S.A. to bail them out one more time.

[OK]

He did fail to mention that the activity of humans has not caused any climate change. He is still in agreement that CO2 from machines makes the weather warmer. One volcanic eruption can put out more "greenhouse gasses" than humans have created in their entire existence. The whole thing is a big hoax to enable wealth transfers and controls.

[Mears]

Paris came 1 degree short of breaking the record set in 1947.

Did they blame it on global warming then?

[aculeus]

Cool it wackos!

[MissAmericanPie]

Last night the Science channel had two Danish scientist that have pretty much proven that it is the sun that is producing global warming, and has in the past. Large explosions on the sun also effects low cloud cover on the Earth.

They ran a chart of sun activity side by side temprature charts of the Earth and they were identical as were recorded cloud cover.

Of course some socialist scientists screamed to high heaven that this can't be. But they pretty much have the evidence that there is nothing man can do about it, and that there is nothing man has done to cause it. The closing comment went something like, "If these Danish scientists are correct and the evidence is mounting that they are, how are todays scientists going to explain to themselves or excuse the damage they have done to man, including the dishonest taxes inflicted on individuals using junk science?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Rate_Determining_Step]

Bjorn bump!

[Uncle Sausage]

Astronomers deal in billions of years, evolutionists deal in millions of years, global warming little red hens deal in hundreds of years. The thermometer was invented roughly 300 years ago, annualized weather records may go back only 200 years and in the last 30 years we've been "faced with doom" from both global cooling and global warming.

[Mike Darancette]

The whole thing is a big hoax to enable wealth transfers and controls.

It is a religion complete with Gods and Devils.

[GatekeeperBookman]

I fear the Scandinavians. Greenland was a frozen ice rink until those Vikings came! It was their huge bonfires which melted that ice. Thus, they had a local 'global warming' event & were able to plant crops. Bad, blond Europeans-male dominated to boot. There is no other explanation.

[GladesGuru]

The French/German heat wave is caused by Euro-wenie socialists still steaming over their Iraq fiasco.

[Joe_October]

A quick form to help out Liberals if they have to think of a crisis in the heat of the moment.

We have a problem - (fill in the blank). It is a serious crisis. It hurts woman, children, and minorities worst than rich people because (fill in the blank). It is a terrible problem and is caused by America doing (fill in the blank). We have a long history of this and other cultures and people would have never done such an evil thing.

We have only one option to save ourselves from certain doom. Increase taxes on the wealthy or whoever and let the Liberals invest it in whatever will fix the problem.

If you don't agree with us, you are a racist, homophobe, idiot, mean-spirited, rapist with small genitalia.

[WhiteyAppleseed]

The answer to these seemingly insurmountable environmental problems is of course more governmental control. It's a given that government is somehow immune to the greed so readily accredited to American business.
O! If only the scientists watching the heavens would come down from the mount and predict the next eclipse that will happen, perhaps the frightened masses would listen and cede all control.
Or could it be that the cause for our impending doom is our collective lack of faith--should we sacrifice a thousand virgins?
Our founding fathers may have been enlightened, but they apparently weren't enlightened enough to foresee the danger of a marriage between Science and State. I don't know if anyone else has looked for evidence that they may have given the matter consideration--the little evidence I've discovered is that John Leland said, Government has no more to do with the religious opinions of men than it has with the principles of the mathematics."

[stiga bey]

You are so right! Whenever I get someone yakking in my face about emissions and warming, I point out that Mt. Pinatubo put out more CO and CO2 in its first day of eruption in the early 1990s than the entire United States industrial base has in the whole 20th century. They never have a reply for that, but it never changes their mind, either. Depressing how wed they are to their ideology in spite of very simple logic.

Another good way to stop them is to ask them how much they think sea levels would rise if the entire north pole were to melt overnight. Most people will guess somewhere between 10 and 100 feet. Then you can make them and their warming myhthology look stupid by pointing out that, no, the rise will be zero...the pole is floating ice, and it displaces exactly as much water as it occupies.