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Biden: Denying Climate Change ‘Almost Like Denying Gravity’
The Washington Times ^ | March 07, 2015 | Phillip Swarts

Posted on 03/07/2015 12:38:03 PM PST by Steelfish

Biden: Denying Climate Change ‘Almost Like Denying Gravity’

By Phillip Swarts -March 7, 2015

Vice President Joe Biden slammed those who question climate change, saying that ignoring the scientific evidence is “almost like denying gravity now.”

“I think it’s close to mindless,” Mr. Biden said in a preview clip for the upcoming season of HBO’s Vice.

The vice president pointed specifically to 2012’s Hurricane Sandy as an example of how climate change is making the world’s weather patterns more severe.

“All of a sudden people who were saying it couldn’t happen; they’re now knowing they have to plan for another one of these storms, and another and another and another,” Mr. Biden said, Mediaite reported Friday.

He also pointed to Wall Street financial institutions that are starting to plan and make investments based on the effects of climate change.

“When the financial institutions begin to price in the cost of carbon for cost of doing business, you know it’s reality,” Mr. Biden said.

According to NASA, atmospheric data for the past 650,000 years shows that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has never been higher than 300 parts per million — until 1950. Now, in 2014, the level is estimated to be at 400 parts per million.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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>> ‘Almost Like Denying Gravity’

Tell it Chuck, fool.


101 posted on 03/08/2015 1:23:18 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: jonrick46

Sorry but that site, “skeptical” science, is complete crap. In fact the say your point (CO2 being a tiny percentage of CO2) is a “myth”. Do not go there or link there any more, it will rot your brain.


102 posted on 03/08/2015 1:23:23 AM PST by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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Tell it to Chuck, fool.


103 posted on 03/08/2015 1:23:43 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: palmer
Meant to say "manmade CO2 being a tiny percentage of CO2".

They are correct that it is a myth but their argument (and most other stuff on that site) is one-sided propaganda. It is not a "science" site by any stretch, it is a paid site to push the catastrophic warming myth.

104 posted on 03/08/2015 1:26:16 AM PST by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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To: Steelfish
Cooling is warming, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
105 posted on 03/08/2015 4:13:27 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; sickoflibs; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker

He’s been great impeachment insurance for Obama, no doubt.


106 posted on 03/08/2015 6:26:03 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Bellflower

You are right. They tried glow bull cooling back in the 70s and that didn’t stick. The weather changed. They then tried glowbull warming and when that didn’t work out, it became climate change. The sheep are going right along with the (un)settled science.


107 posted on 03/08/2015 6:27:26 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: GOPsterinMA

I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason he was picked as VP...


108 posted on 03/08/2015 1:32:57 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Steelfish
Like denying gravity, huh? Now . . . where have I heard something very much like that before . . . ?

Oh, that's right! From evolutionists right here at Free Republic!

109 posted on 03/08/2015 1:35:39 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Triple
"Didn’t Al Gore himself predict that the east coast would be under water and the Arctic ice would be gone by now?:

I hear tell that algore guzzles his drinks -- because he believes that, if the floating ice in them melts, they will overflow...

110 posted on 03/08/2015 3:59:46 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Triple
"Didn’t Al Gore himself predict that the east coast would be under water and the Arctic ice would be gone by now?"

Better stated:

"Algor's head is full of mule dung!"
Archimedes — ca 250 BCE

111 posted on 03/08/2015 4:10:16 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Triple
"Didn’t Al Gore himself predict that the east coast would be under water and the Arctic ice would be gone by now?"

Even a fifth-grade science fair project proves that algore is full of it...:


112 posted on 03/08/2015 4:21:06 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: TXnMA

Is the explanation at this link true or not?

http://phys.org/news5619.html

I don’t know.


113 posted on 03/08/2015 4:34:21 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: Steelfish

“So Mr. Biden.. how much if I BUY not only the BRIDGE you’re SELLING, but how much more do you want for the WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE?”


114 posted on 03/08/2015 6:49:02 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Steelfish

Well, Joe, Say it Ain’t So! We’re obviously not tropical and growing massive alagae all over the Arctic Ocean like we were 50+ million years ago, so yes, climate did change. You know, we’re also not seeing giant skyscraper trees or giant mosquitoes everyday either, thanks to having less CO2 than dinosaurs did. Any other details I missed? Oh yeah, how exactly is the climate going to be in all numbers 20 years from now. It would have been good if Joe and the IPCC had a better number set than the Farmer’s Almanac did. And I think Elsa the ice queen is at large now...


115 posted on 03/09/2015 7:08:51 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; sickoflibs; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker

” He’s been great impeachment insurance for Obama, no doubt.”

He is a dutiful whore for Obama as well.


116 posted on 03/09/2015 8:39:27 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: savedbygrace
The explanation is, indeed, (to a minor extent) true -- but the demonstration given is a BIG LIE!

Note the "fudge factor" in the experiment:

"Figure 1: A freshwater ice cube floats in a beaker of concentrated saltwater. Note that the ice cube floats much higher in the saltwater than it would in a glass of freshwater because saltwater has a greater density."

The saltwater in that beaker is, apparently, a saturated solution of salt. (Note how absurdly high the ice floats.)

Sea water is far less concentrated with salt than that demo sample, (and, thus, much less dense). The density difference between freshwater ice and sea water is tiny -- almost negligible... (Remember: the vast bulk of an icberg is, notoriously, below the surface -- hence the term, "the tip of the iceberg"...)

That demo is the sort of quacktrickery that is typical of the "Climate Change Religionists".

117 posted on 03/09/2015 10:08:06 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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118 posted on 03/09/2015 11:37:05 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( _\\//)
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To: Steelfish

And this was the guy that was Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that questioned the veracity, intelligence and integrity of Clarence Thomas!


119 posted on 03/09/2015 11:40:56 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Biden: Denying Climate Change ‘Almost Like Denying Gravity’

It's also like denying Unicorn's existence...

120 posted on 03/09/2015 1:51:46 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama on Hillary: "I did not have TEXT with that woman"... Freeper hoosiermama)
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