Posted on 07/28/2007 11:16:09 AM PDT by Reagan is King
As Britain counts the costs of the worst floods in 200 years, Charles Clover argues the signs of global warming are now impossible to ignore A still from the Robert Carlyle film, Flood
Big Ben, the London Eye and Westminster Abbey awash. The submerged streets of London indistinguishable from the Thames. Admittedly, the above image, arresting as it is, is the stuff of cinematic trickery. But could it happen? One day, if we are not careful, it just might.
Of course, nowhere in the country are flood defences built to a higher standard than in London, because of the value, strategic and otherwise, of what lies behind them, so Trafalgar Square is unlikely ever to be as vulnerable as Tewkesbury, even though most of the capital is on a flood plain.
But if the floods of this week have taught us anything, it is that few events can be more extraordinary than the weather - and there is plenty of reason to think long and hard about the extraordinary weather we have recently been experiencing.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
That's an improvement?
Just asking.
The other conspiracy. I understand it was actually done in a studio.
Have you actually been to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Just asking.
http://www.americanjourneys.org/pdf/AJ-001.pdf
“Have you actually been to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?”
Personally, no. Friends and family have been there.
And, whose fault is it?
Charles, you're obviously a genious. Tell me. What caused the same magnitude floods 200 years ago?
It is possible to ignore global warming because its natural and we cannot do anything to stop it.
OR What did Mankind do to trigger the last Ice age then what Co2 emissions ended it?
Floods=global warming is an explanation that appeals only to simpletons looking to be provided with a readymade posture on an issue that precludes any further thinking while also providing them with a “we-care” attitude and some semblance of scientific “sophistication” as they dutifully parrot the talking points. Don’t ever try to dig deeper-—all you’ll get is more talking points, until even those run out, in no time, and you’ll finally be insulted as a idiot rightwinger, as these Goreheads about-face and get out as fast as they can.
Yo, Clive. Or Jeeves or whatever your name is, if it wasn't for Global Warming, Great Britain wouldn't even exist.
90,000 years ago, The Land of Tea and Crumpets was under a thousand feet of glaciers.
THAT is a FRameable post. Every Republican politician should have a framed copy in his office!
Karl Rove. He’s dialed down the hurricane machine the past few years just to piss off and confound the enviro whackos.
Looking at that pic, two words come to mind and their initials is “FM.”
The acholites of the new faith might as well say the fact night follows day is proof of human created global warming.
I guess since we now make enough food to feed the world, the poverty creation industry needs a new way to create suffering.
No not creationism. Though secular evolution does remind me of global warming in some ways. Particularly the insistent on blurring the gulf between organisms and purposely ignoring epigenetic differences while making assertions that man and apes are only slightly different genetically.
I hear so often these wonderful fairy tales being woven as if they are facts assigning purpose to evolutionary events as if the organisms were somehow driving their own evolution. The insistence on the purist idea of no purposeful mechanism in evolution while writing stories that act as if one moth consciously mimicked the genetics of a bad tasting moth so as to avoid being eaten. I believe the evolutionary process is an intelligent extraordinarily complex one.
We no more understand the extent of that complexity than we do that of climate. The arrogance is in proclaiming the debate is over because one group of scientists or politicians do not wish to acknowledge the debate.
Hmmm. The worst in 200 years. So does that mean that there were terrible floods in the past, but for the last 200 years they haven’t been that bad? So if it’s Global Warming causing THESE floods, does it also mean that the floods in the past were caused by Global Warming? Inquiring minds want to know.
Most hurricanes hit the U.S. in the months of September and October after the ocean has warmed through the summer months.
Last year was a bust for global warming alarmists, but they still have a shot this year.
And on the other hand, this article has an astounding theory about global warming and floods:
Water Experts Find Earth’s Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun
By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
A team of water experts says the pattern of droughts and floods in South Africa shows our global warming was triggered by the variability of the sun’s irradiance rather than by human-emitted CO2. They say variations in South African rainfall patterns are keyed to periodic reversals of the sun’s magnetic field—and to the constantly changing distance between the sun and the earth as both move through space.
In South Africa, alternate 11-year sunspot cycles produce opposite rainfall results. One complete “double sun cycle” occurs every 20.8 years: the “first” cycle brings a big flood, followed by a small drought; the next brings a big drought, followed by a small flood.
What about flatulence and male breasts?
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