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Where's global warming?
Boston Globe ^ | March 8, 2009 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 03/07/2009 3:12:54 PM PST by neverdem

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To: neverdem

Uh...Denver....New records this week at 76 degrees.

Beat a 137 year old record!

Do you know what was causing “global warming” 137 years ago?

Buffalo farts!


41 posted on 03/07/2009 5:41:12 PM PST by G Larry (Obama's plan = "STEALING FROM THOSE WHO CREATE THE JOBS!")
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To: RightWingConspirator

You are correct about the historical lag of CO2 rise behind temperature rise. Thus CO2 increase has historically been a result of temperature increase, not a cause.

Unfortunately, the recent rise in anthropogenic CO2 caused by burning of fossil fuels is quite unprecedented, so past CO2 changes give us little information. This hasn’t happened before, so we cannot know what the effects might be.


42 posted on 03/07/2009 5:50:39 PM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan
the recent rise in anthropogenic CO2 caused by burning of fossil fuels is quite unprecedented, so past CO2 changes give us little information. This hasn’t happened before, so we cannot know what the effects might be.

Nya...it's all carp!

There is virtually no CO2 in the atmosphere.

43 posted on 03/07/2009 6:04:04 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: chapin2500

No problemo. You have been terminated.


44 posted on 03/07/2009 6:05:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: metmom

It was pretty nice out today, also, where I was.


45 posted on 03/07/2009 6:07:20 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: neverdem
I heard a podcast about the NASA Sat. that crashed a couple weeks ago.
It might have actually shown global CO2 being absorbed by plants and the oceans. The NASA folks were confessing how little accurate data they had co2 levels now.
46 posted on 03/07/2009 6:31:56 PM PST by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: Sherman Logan

Yes CO2 can trap radiation, but water vapor and clouds are much more problematic. We don’t know if man made CO2 has any effect on atmospheric levels at all. We therefore don’t know what to do about CO2 or how to do it. Therefore why worry about it?


47 posted on 03/07/2009 6:50:13 PM PST by JeanLM
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To: neverdem

Algore in a pith helmet hunting the wild globull war ming. There’s a thought. Where’s W-Al-Go?


48 posted on 03/07/2009 6:53:46 PM PST by combat_boots (Leave America poor, hungry, sick and defenseless. Wasn't that the plan? How's that Hopenchange now?)
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To: jedi150
Isn't it called “Climate Crisis ” now?
It's so hard to keep up with the politically correct “newspeak” language.
49 posted on 03/07/2009 8:50:40 PM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; chapin2500

>”You have been terminated.”<
-another satisfied customer! ;^)


50 posted on 03/07/2009 8:52:53 PM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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To: neverdem

“But considering how much attention would have been lavished on a comparable run of hot weather or on a warming trend that was plainly accelerating, shouldn’t the recent cold phenomena and the absence of any global warming during the past 10 years be getting a little more notice?”

Not only that... shouldn’t there be rejoycing on the part of those who are so panicked about global warming that maybe the catastrophe that they fear so much is not happening? No, instead they are depressed that the trend has turned, and are on their knees praying for a heat wave.

This reaction more than anything else proves that the real motivation behind the warmists has nothing to do with saving the planet but with controlling you and me!


51 posted on 03/07/2009 10:26:07 PM PST by aquila48
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To: goodnesswins
Hey goodness, it snowed for a good part of today in Skagit County. My dog has been couped up (snoring away on my bed 23 hours a day lately) way too long, and so have I, so we took a long walk in the snow just before twilight.

I didn't mind, but I don't know who would've wished more for for a huge blast of Co2, the trees or the dogs that stay out all night.

52 posted on 03/08/2009 1:10:43 AM PST by 4woodenboats (Retire the Left & RINO's in 2010)
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To: mc5cents
It has nothing, zero, zip to do with climate change, warming, cooling or anything else other than being a trace gas in the atmosphere and something we exhale with every breath

There's no doubt that when CO2 increases, temperature increases. The better question is whether the CO2 increases will cause "catastrophic" warming (whatever that is). But the actual increase from doubling CO2 from 280 to 560 ppm is 0.25C All the rest and the alarmism is a product of provably inaccurate models or self-serving assumptions.

53 posted on 03/08/2009 5:37:04 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
There is virtually no CO2 in the atmosphere.

It's the second strongest greenhouse gas. Ozone is the third strongest. All the rest are also-rans. The water vapor that does the bulk of the warming would not be possible without CO2. Take away CO2 and the air gets cold and dry and oceans freeze from pole to pole.

54 posted on 03/08/2009 5:44:33 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: palmer
I said there is virtually none in the atmosphere.

So how much is there, as a percentage?

55 posted on 03/08/2009 6:12:45 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: Sherman Logan
Unfortunately, the recent rise in anthropogenic CO2 caused by burning of fossil fuels is quite unprecedented, so past CO2 changes give us little information. This hasn’t happened before, so we cannot know what the effects might be.

First of all, humans account for barely 3% of ALL CO2 being released into the atmosphere.

Second, CO2 is a PLANT FOOD, not a POLLUTANT!

Third, Algore and his "diciples" are pushing their "religion" of global warming by quoting "the science is settled" with the same athourity that Jesus stated "I am the way, the truth, and the light."

One of these 2 statements is a lie, and I KNOW it is NOT the second one....

56 posted on 03/08/2009 8:19:30 AM PDT by dirtbiker (Obama is America's first Affirmative Action president....)
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To: ajay_kumar
Thanks! (for your insightful red-faced yelling) LOL!
57 posted on 03/08/2009 8:20:58 AM PDT by wolfcreek (There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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To: palmer
There's no doubt that when CO2 increases, temperature increases.

You have it backwards.

Temperature increases bring on increases in CO2.

CO2 levels trail temperature changes by 500-800 years....

58 posted on 03/08/2009 8:22:52 AM PDT by dirtbiker (Obama is America's first Affirmative Action president....)
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To: neverdem

Never fear, as soon as NORMAL spring/summer weather sets in, the whackos will be back wailing and demanding.


59 posted on 03/08/2009 8:24:23 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: dirtbiker
First of all, humans account for barely 3% of ALL CO2 being released into the atmosphere.

Possibly true. I'm not sure of your numbers. But utterly irrelevant.

For all practical purposes the other 97% circulates in the ecosphere, being removed from the atmosphere by plant growth and released back into the air when the plants (and the animals who feed on the plants and each other) decay or burn.

The net increase in CO2 we have been seeing for about the last 100 years is just about 100% anthropogenic, a result of burning fossil fuels that had sequestered massive amounts of carbon for millions of years.

Whether and how destructive that is can and should be debated. But that we are significantly increasing CO2 is just a fact. As is the fact that this has never occurred before and nobody on either side of the debate should be too positive on what its effects might be.

Note my tagline.

60 posted on 03/08/2009 8:26:52 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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