Those things almost deny gravity don't they?
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.
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I believe in climate change! I believe it is cyclical, and us puny humans can’t do anything about it. I also believe that politicians use it as a power grab, and to enrich themselves.
At both poles typically the average annual temperature is -49 F. Worst case scenario by the models is a global increase in about 7 degrees.
At -42 F not much melting going to happen.
These grant money whores used to be real scholars who used their time to write in the numerous academic journals that shared their intellectual knowledge around the world. The phrase, “publish or perish,” was the phrase used to describe the need to further one’s career by the merit of what you published. Now, the direct method of trolling for government grant money bypasses the academic route. It bypasses the scrutiny of ones peers and takes advantage of the ignorance of Congress. Lucky this is not at a time when men believed in a flat earth and the earth as the center of the universe.
Touche`. LOL
“Brain”???? What brain?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3265383/posts?q=1&;page=12#12
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3265383/posts?page=24#24
The voice of experience
“Arctic sea ice extent in February averaged 14.41 million square kilometers (5.56 million square miles).”
I guess technically we have to give him to the end of the year.
And while the Arctic ice is at the low end of the average coverage, the Antarctic ice cover is above average. I imagine that there is some sort of balancing act between the two poles that helps moderate our climate for life. Just like the moon is the perfect size and distance and regular orbit to provide tidal action that cleanses the tidal areas and supports near-shore life.
Those things almost deny gravity don't they?
Believing man causes global warming is like believing unicorns cause rainbows... Only 13 year girls and Biden would fall for it.
No one is denying climate change. However, many of us do deny global warming due to anthropological activities such as burning fossil fuels.
Carbon dioxide is to forests as oxygen is to all the earth’s mammals.
when I was in HS, freshmen/sophomores had to take either a biology class or earth science 101. Apparently today’s dimwit politicians and news reporters were not capable of taking a biology class?????
<<< “I think it’s close to mindless,” Mr. Biden said. >>>
Joe knows mindlessness.
Global Warming proponents can never defend their positions, so they just lob insults at those who disagree with them.
Humans have mass so they do cause gravity.
The ingredients along with Sandy were a deep upper trough with a strong shortwave moving along it. That enabled an upper low to cut off and absorb Sandy. Sandy hit southern Jersey, far from the worst surge. The surge was bad because of the large wind field like you say. The winds were even strong on top of Mount Washington.
The same strong extratropical transitions happens almost every year, Even in 2012 there was already a storm almost as strong as Sandy, hit Newfoundland. A comparative storm was Hazel 1954. Different path but similar dynamics.
More volcanoes recently but not a record by any measurement. The best proxy for volcanic activity is the stratospheric aerosol readings Check Fg 1 in this paper http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/5205/2013/acp-13-5205-2013.pdf and the recent volcanic activity is still 10 times less than Pinatubo.
As for comparison, man's 30 Gt of CO2 is well above Pinatubo's 45 Mt. Generally the ratio of all man's CO2 per year to all volcanic per year is about 100 to 1.
So let's say man's net contribution is 100ppm on top of 290 or 300 ppm. The warming effect of CO2 is logarithmic. Here's a nice picture of it:
The added warming from man's CO2 is the sum of the short bars to the right of 290 or so. Not a lot, but more than the 0.28% (0.0028) in your pie chart. The likely reason the pie chart is wrong is that is uses natural outgassing (200 Gt carbon) but ignores natural ingassing (also about 200). Man is 7 Gt but all outgassing. 200 divided by 7 is 28. The ratio in the pie chart is 16, so closer to reality, but still not correct.
It's common error to not consider net CO2, I'm not sure they made that error but they are off by the same order of magnitude.
CO2 is being depleted.
True up to the industrial revolution. It was a problem and now we don't have that problem any more.
As the oceans fill up with more algae and there is more plant life, more CO2 is being used. Also true. Plus various chemical reactions cause more carbon to precipitate out in the ocean.
This balance between the photosynthesizers and the methanogens is the true story of the Earth’s temperature regulation.
A nice summary of the picture in the long run. In the very short run the balancing is done by weather. If one area gets too warm convection increases and there is localized cooling. The earth is constantly getting rid of heat various ways (ultimately all radiated). Those speed up with local and regional warming.
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