Posted on 01/10/2014 1:25:00 PM PST by Kaslin
Ray Stevens - “The Global Warming Song” - Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORyzsMZPPUg&list=RDxBOMjZU-aCE
Or ‘rejecting snow flakes’.
Democrats lied about;
Free Trade with Mexico: caused their farm economy to collapse and saw the rise of the drug cartels and push towards illegal immigration into the US
Free Trade with China: sold out US manufacturers for an opportunity to cash in on what they thought was a one way deal to stick China with US imports and it never worked destroying the US economic sector
Housing Market run by the Govt: lost out on people buying homes they couldn’t afford
Healthcare Scam: has devastated private and competitive health insurance plans, thus, screwing the middle class out of more money they need to survive
Welfare: no more than paid slavery
...and this list is small with the goof-ups by Wash DC and their obsessive need to keep getting elected into office only to turn around and lie to us all and destroy the very laws that give them the privilege to run for office in the first place.
...and Hillary Clinton is suppose to be the next big ticket...she’s a DRUNK - LIAR - ACCOMPLICE TO MURDER - and underhanded bitch that should never hold a public office again...
People, we need to do a better job of vetting these politicians - making it known what we find out - and not counting on the PRESS or GOVT for answers!
In this illuminating book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics -- the search for the laws of nature -- losing its way. Ambitious ideas about extra dimensions, exotic particles, multiple universes, and strings have captured the publics imagination -- and the imagination of experts. But these ideas have not been tested experimentally, and some, like string theory, seem to offer no possibility of being tested. Yet these speculations dominate the field, attracting the best talent and much of the funding and creating a climate in which emerging physicists are often penalized for pursuing other avenues. As Smolin points out, the situation threatens to impede the very progress of science. With clarity, passion, and authority, Smolin offers an unblinking assessment of the troubles that face modern physics -- and an encouraging view of where the search for the next big idea may lead.
Wow - that was excellent. We also need term limits.
yep.
The science of today is an attempt to use the scientific method to prove “uncertainty”. Nevermind their need for logic/certainty in their efforts.
The day will come when no-one will admit to ever being a part of the global warming movement. Alas it will have morphed into some other type of environmental consequential movement, that has nothing to do with global warming
Global greenishness or some such thing instead.
So what would disprove global warming?
Everything moves in cycles, which involves TIME.
TIME is beyond the comprehension of most humans.
To tell someone that a cycle may last for a couple hundred years causes them to yawn and move on.
For example, the Sun has a 22 year sunspot cycle, the North Atlantic Ocean Basin has a 30 year heating cycle, and the Northern Pacific Ocean Basin has a heating Cycle that is longer and more complex than the Atlantic.
Combining all these cycles, and unknown variables produces uncertainty for a long TIME prediction, and an educated guess for a short TIME prediction.
Each of these cycles are based on a set of assumptions that are tested against observations, the assumptions are revised, re-tested, etc, etc.
When tree rings, glacial moraines, sediments in lakes and Oceans are sampled and age dated we can begin to piece together the past.
The problem is that the impatience of an over eager non-scientist to jump to a conclusion without rigorous testing and re-testing produces a junk science which can achieve a cult status, such as we have today with Global Warming.
Back in the Red Earth People day the North Atlantic was so warm that they routinely traveled by water inside the Arctic Circle across waterways that are now coved by permanent Sea Ice.
After the last Ice Age, at 5,000 years ago was as warm as it got, and gradually, in small cycles, the Earths Atmosphere has been getting colder.
The good news is that there has never been a successful experiment that demonstrates a cause and effect relationship between the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and the temperature change of the atmosphere.
Hence, my FRiends, drink all the carbonated juvenile adult beverages that you want, and free yourselves of any guilt that the Libs might throw your way!
BTW, water vapor is our most abundant Green House Gas at 25, 000 parts per Million.
CO2 is only 400 +/- parts per Million.
Not that long ago, Global Cooling was all the rage. Caused by,of course, man. They listed the same causes and the same solutions as global warming.
When some global warming type chimes up, before they can even speak, insist that, without using circular logic, they describe what is seen if we are *not* experiencing global warming.
Not only won’t they do that, they can’t.
Right now they are trying to claim that *everything*, “from kittens to cucumbers”, proves global warming.
That is as mindless as saying if you add any two numbers of any kind, the result is always 3.
Obama and the warmists should be taking credit for cooling the planet in the winter and blaming republicans for heating the planet in the summer. Of coarse it doesn’t help that people like to vacation where it’s warm like Hawaii. Q
Why wouldn’t I want the planet warmer? I hate the cold.
Combining all these cycles, and unknown variables produces uncertainty for a long TIME prediction, and an educated guess for a short TIME prediction.
Reminds me of that Robert Heinlein story, THE YEAR OF THE JACKPOT, when all the cycles peaked at once.
A theory isn’t true because of contradictory evidence
is the same as
The functioning of the cycle of day and night and the reality of the sun.
In the view of the warm-mongers, nothing can possibly disprove it (and absolutely everything proves it unequivocally.)
First the phrase has to be defined: the rise in average temperature of the planet in response to manmade CO2
Disproving is hard when faced with a theory that morphs to fit the data. For example the climate modelers predicted that El Nino would become more common as the world heated rapidly. That prediction happened conveniently after the El Ninos of the 80's and 90's and relatively rapid warming.
More recently the modelers are predicting the opposite: more La Nina. Conveniently there has been more La Nina. They are of course careful to use phrases like "La Nina-like conditions". They use that to pretend that the "missing" heat is in the deep ocean, but in fact it is still missing.
The short answer is "global warming" is not a theory worthy of the name so there is no need to disprove it. "Climate change" is so loosely defined it cannot possibly be called a theory.
I'll add two more theories: "the rise in CO2 is manmade" and "CO2 absorbs IR". To disprove manmade CO2 one would have show net ocean outgassing of CO2, but most evidence points towards the opposite such as pH and isotope ratios. To disprove that CO2 causes warming, one would have to invalidate some basic physics about molecular structure and photon interaction. Since those are not visible one must use indirect evidence such as empirical measurements that show absorption of particular wavelengths when CO2 is in a tube and IR is sent through the tube (versus other gases in the tube). In short, there is almost no chance that either "manmade CO2" or "CO2 absorbs IR" will be disproven.
It should be kept in mind that CO2 absorbing certain IR frequencies efficiently in no way proves that "global warming" is real. But the underlying mechanics of manmade CO2 and CO2 absorption of IR are not easily disproven. So the easiest thing to do is show that CO2 warming is negligible. One really easy way is that temperatures have risen a negligible amount for 17 years (since 1996 which was actually a coolish year).
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