Posted on 11/28/2006 7:21:31 AM PST by theBuckwheat
EUREKA, Nunavut Territory -- Scientists are peering into the clouds near the top of the world, trying to solve a mystery and learn something new about global warming.
The mystery is the droplets of water in the clouds. With the North Pole just 685 miles away, they should be frozen, yet more of them are liquid than anyone expected.
So the scientists working out of a converted blue cargo container are trying to determine whether the clouds are one of the causes - or effects - of Earth's warming atmosphere.
"Much to our surprise, we found that Arctic clouds have got lots of super-cooled liquid water in them. Liquid water has even been detected in clouds at temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 F)," said Taneil Uttal, chief of the Clouds and Arctic Research Group at the Earth Systems Research Laboratory of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
"If a cloud is composed of liquid water droplets in the Arctic, instead of ice crystals, then that changes how they will interact with the earth's surface and the atmosphere to reflect, absorb and transmit radiation," said Uttal.
"It's a new science, driven by the fact that everybody doing climate predictions says that clouds are perhaps the single greatest unknown factor in understanding global warming."...
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
It is obvious by a story like this one, that science still is learning significant facts about how the atmosphere operates. It is thus doubly foolish for anyone to propose, let alone accept, ideas for "fixing" any climate change that may be (and I stress may) taking place. That those who are frantically advancing worries and handwringing about so-called "global warming" are not slowed down in the slightest by any recent discoveries about the atmosphere tells us all we really need to know about their proposals.
We naturally are suspicious when Big Tobacco funds studies about the safety of cigarettes. We should be just as suspicious when Big Government funds any science. We only have to look at how grantees propose to increase the size and power of government to "solve" climate change to verify our suspicions.
Global warming is just a tool of the leftists in their attempt to gain control. Science is secondary and only useful when it supports their agenda. This information will be completely ignored by them.
With the most recent discoveries, some are crying "EUREKA", but I believe Nunavut.
In a recent argument with a liberal about global warming the liberal claimed that the spread of disease was the result of global warming. She cited a CDC study that removed the people moving around factor from the equation.
She went ballistic when I called the study "garbage" due to the removal of an important factor. Real science doesn't simply remove factors to achieve a desired result. Real science includes all factors and cautiously accepts the results and continues to conduct tests until there is either confirmation or acceptance that the results are inconclusive.
Anchorage has suffered thru unseasonably cold (well, for us anyway) for the last 30 days.
I, for one, am ready for a little global warming. At least to get things back to 'normal'.
Normal? Well hete it is daytime 25, nite 10 - last 30 days daytime 0 to 8, nite, -10 to -20.
With the collapse of Marxism in the last century, "environmentalism" probably attracted some leftist nutjobs.
I'm one of the minority of freepers who thinks that global warming may be being caused by humans.
However,I'm not going into this issue with a set of ideological blinders. I'll let my views evolve as we understand more of the science. Articles like this one are useful for pointing out how much we still have to learn about climate change.
Despite the undercertainty about science change, I still advocate research toward getting away from using gasoline. Let's say we go to nuclear power and fuel cells and ethanol and discover that global warming wasn't a threat after all. Nevetheless, we would have still bankrupted the Saudis and the Iranians.
I don't know much science, and you sound like you do.
Do you think we even have global warming occurring?
I live in the Midwest. When it comes to "Global Warming" (especially from Nov to March)---I say, "BRING IT ON"!!!
Where's "here?"
Whoops...have to read the entire post.
Anchorage.
bookmark for later.
I know you think you're just letting off some steam, but posts like that can be very polarizing.
Slamblowe snowshowers are an urban legend. Just ask Dallas Cowboy great Don Meredith! If Green Bay had had Alglobal on the sidelines they would have been able to deal with this climate change!
In other words, our puny human minds still don't know jack.
It's a combination of the sun, the earth's axis and orbit, and the cycles of the ocean current and jet stream, mingled with the occasional rare catastrophic event.
But you can't get a lifetime government-funded job by saying this.
They must not have received the Algore memo.
The medieval warming period was warmer than now, according to information we have. But that doesn't fit the Luddite global warming religion, so it's simply ignored.
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