Posted on 08/05/2012 6:19:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Forget the Olympics. Want to watch records being broken? Turn on the weather report.
Everywhere you look, Mother Nature is grumpy. Even skeptics are starting to come around. While no hurricane or heat wave is direct proof of warming, the worldwide pattern of record-breaking weather extremes most certainly is.
Accepting climate change as fact isn’t an inconsequential choice. Extremes in heat and cold are buckling highways, railroads and runways. Floods routinely overwhelm drains and streams. Sea levels could rise a foot by 2050, threatening coastlines worldwide. Adapting our infrastructure to new weather realities requires a committed population.
Retrofits will take generations. The cost is incalculable. Imagine the cost of ignoring it.
Climate ignorance is a self-inflicted wound. Citizens can no longer sit on the sidelines and pretend it’s a political position.
If the people who control the decisions and the purse strings continue to deny climate change, whether for politics or ignorance, a lot of folks will be left under water.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.nj.com ...
Global warming my arse!
Over the last two thousand years the earth has actually COOLED slightly even with ALL the human activity that has occurred in that period so say REAL scientist!
The judicious use of emotionally charged language in the article is quite revealing.
The term “climate change skeptic” has fallen out of vogue, because “skeptic” is not emotionally-charged enough.
Therefore, “skeptics” have become “deniers”, which sounds an awful lot like “holocaust deniers”.
Oh, I’m SUUUUUUUUUUUURE that’s not intentional. ;)
climate is changing. always has, always will. Not much man can do about it
These maroons (a little Bugs bunny lingo) have discovered that we have summer and winter.
How arrogant of them. The state I live has 140 years of weather records so far. How shortsighted and uninformed to speculate that we have any idea of what “normal” is.
Please, let me translate this one.
What this means is that enough time has passed since the global warming farce discovered at the Climate Research Unit at England’s University of East Anglial that most people, if they paid any attention at all to the scandal in the first place, have now forgotten about it and we, in the media, can start pushing the farce again as truth.
Its not even about climate. Here in Michigan we’re fighting the idiots who want to tear out all the dams that could produce the greenest “RELIABLE AND PROVEN” energy there is.
You're setting yourself up if you ask for this. I'm sure that if mathematical proof is wanting, they can always find a mathematician or two to whip it up.
It's not too late! Pay up now, you cheap *&*^*^%!
“Winter is just around the corner.”
Yep, and it is the “Sun” Stupid. We are coming out of the longest, quietiest and deepest sunspot minimum in my lifetime. It has been know for over 100 years that during sunspot minimums and maximums weather is more variable. Now we are seeing huge flares and this too shall pass.
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The Next Grand Minimum
http://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/mission/
“The Maunder Minimum was named in honor of Edward W. Maunder, an earlier astronomer who had examined the period between 1645-1715 when sunspots became extremely rare. It was also a period when the world experienced successive crop failures.”
“During one 30-year period within the Maunder Minimum astronomers observed only about 50 sunspots, as opposed to the thousands in modern times. The science is robust, and based on a systematic program of observations conducted by the Observatoire de Paris. The Maunder coincided with the coldest part of the so-called Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America experienced bitterly cold winters.”
Hottest driest summer in a long while in my part of the country. I’ve even got full sized trees looking like they’re dying.
It happens and next year is another year.
I wouldn't be ignorant if they just told me the answers, but it seems to be a secret.
And darn if i didn't save my decoder ring from that 1978 box of cereal.
It must be global warming....it’s been REALLY hot here the last two months, and.....uhhh, what’s that? I live in Mississippi, where it ALWAYS gets hot in July and August?....nevermind.
And I COULD get his by a falling piano while on my way to cash my lottery ticket.
Retrofits will take generations. The cost is incalculable. Imagine the cost of ignoring it.
Exceeded only by the cost of succumbing to discredited hysteria.
If the people who control the decisions and the purse strings continue to deny climate change, whether for politics or ignorance, a lot of folks will be left under water.
If the people who make the decisions elect to waste trillions defending against a fabricated bogeyman, a lot of countries are going to be left insolvent.
Warming also means longer and more productive growing seasons, less use of fuel for heating.
Then how come I have been able to turn off ac every evening around 9pm and sleep with windows open. I am in central Florida and I can’t remember ever doing this. Global warming my a@@. Yesterday morning it was 66 degrees.
But I’ve never denied climate change. In fact, I’ve always stated climate change occurs regularly. For a period of about thirty years starting in the late 1940s, the climate in the northern U.S. cooled dramatically. By about 1980 the pattern reversed, and we are now in a period of slight warming. But if co2 affects the weather, why did the climate cool in the late forties when the U.S. was in the midst of a great post-war industrial expansion which spewed billions-trillions more co2 into the atmosphere than pre-war?
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