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Scientist Says Ice Meteors a Sign of Climate Change (Environut alert)
Reuters (Yahoo) ^
| Fri Sep 27, 9:54 AM ET
| Emma Ross-Thomas
Posted on 09/27/2002 9:06:27 AM PDT by narby
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Maybe I should have posted this in "Humor". But as they say, some ideas are so stupid that it takes an intellectual to believe them.
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posted on
09/27/2002 9:06:27 AM PDT
by
narby
To: narby
Today's junk scientist is tomorrow's applicant for a multi million dollar Federal grant. It's not about science, it's about free money for wild assed theories.
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posted on
09/27/2002 9:10:46 AM PDT
by
mgc1122
To: narby
The ice was blue with high urine concentrations perhaps? pesky jumbo jets...
To: narby
Now I get it, Global Warming causes Ice!
To: Phantom Lord
Now I get it, Global Warming causes Ice! Don't you understand science at all man. The great ice shelves in the sky are receeding and its all because you drove your SUV to work today.
To: narby
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posted on
09/27/2002 10:21:20 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
To: narby
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posted on
09/27/2002 12:11:03 PM PDT
by
mfulstone
To: narby
Here is the original article from
Science:
http://tierra.rediris.es/megacryometeors/megacryometeors.pdf
Like most popular news articles on scientific topics, the journalist has sensationalized and distorted the actual issues.
That aside, I don't know why Martinez-Frias calls them 'megacryometeors' since he is theorizing that they are hailstones, not meteors.
One of my favorite stories of 'scientific ignorance' involves meteorites. Aristotle reported stones (and frogs) falling from the sky and had his own theories. By the Enlightenment, Aristotle had been discarded and scientists assumed that falling rocks and frogs were ancient myths. When occasional reports would come in about falling rocks they would be discounted as tales from ignorant farmers.
In the late 18th Century there was a meetings of scientists in a French provincial city which coincided with a meteorite shower. The scientists finally believed that stones could fall from the sky when they saw it themselves. They literally had to be hit over the head with the evidence.
(Frogs and fish really do fall from the sky too.)
To: narby
Whoever said this got hit in the head with an ICE CUBE!
To: backhoe; madfly; Stand Watch Listen; brityank; OldFriend; Grampa Dave; editor-surveyor; ...
The damned envirofreaks get nuttier and nuttier all the time. They are the doom-saying astrologers of the 21st century. I remember Gore during the election saying how if he wasn't elected, there would be floods and storms and natural disasters. He might as well have predicted earthquakes and meteor storms and plagues of locusts.
To: Tailgunner Joe
Their problem is, they can't keep all their stories straight..one day it's warming, the next, we're headed for an ice age, and I just read yesterday that the "hole" in the ozone is shrinking... sheesh.. I don't even try to keep up anymore.
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:38:12 PM PDT
by
goodieD
To: Always Right
I remember a few years ago there was sooo much snow....was it in North Dakota.......that it was roof high in many places.......I actually heard a jackass on TV saying all that snow and bitter cold weather was the result of global warming.
They are idiots and they hope we are too.
To: Tailgunner Joe
The ozone hole over the Antartic is much smaller than it was two years ago. These morons need a lunch with Clinton.
To: Tailgunner Joe
I remember Gore during the election saying how if he wasn't elected, there would be floods and storms and natural disasters.Oh save us, Algore, please save us! (I watched video of this on TV last night -- it was awful).
Typhoon No. 21 heading toward Kanto
Yomiuri Shimbun
Typhoon No. 21, which is predicted to be the most powerful storm yet this year, was moving northward in the Pacific Ocean toward Japan Monday night, and is expected to affect the Tokyo metropolitan area Tuesday evening. It likely will land in the Tokai or Kanto areas between Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, the Meteorological Agency said.
The agency is calling for those in the metropolitan area to be prepared for high winds, heavy rain, tidal waves and landslides, as the typhoon might be one of the most powerful to hit the metropolitan area since the end of World War II.
Typhoon No. 21 was moving northward at a speed of about 30 kph in the Pacific Ocean west-southwest of Chichijima island of the Ogasawara Islands as of 6 p.m. Monday. It had an atmospheric pressure of 940 hectopascals at its center and winds of up to 162 kph.
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posted on
10/01/2002 7:07:53 PM PDT
by
altair
To: Looking for Diogenes; narby; backhoe; madfly; Stand Watch Listen; brityank; OldFriend; ...
Frogs and fish really do fall from the sky too. ...and COWS too. Really!
Hank
To: Hank Kerchief
To: Looking for Diogenes
meteor means - more or less - "things that fall from the sky", as in meteorology. Meteorologist call rain, hail, snow, etc collectively "Hydrometeors". So he's fine on strictly "Meteorological" grounds.
To: narby
Maybe I should have posted this in "Humor". But as they say, some ideas are so stupid that it takes an intellectual to believe them.
Of course, if there actually are such large ice masses falling from the sky, there has got to be some explanation. If they are so rare, it's not reasonable to assume that they are only now becoming more prevalent and that the reason for it is something that's not even occurring (global warming). There was a time when people who claimed to see rocks fall from the sky were laughed to scorn, and that by the scientific establishment.
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posted on
10/01/2002 8:22:41 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: narby
Sounds to me like just another form of "smite." Some days, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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posted on
10/01/2002 8:29:07 PM PDT
by
Mo1
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