[countrydummy]

Well??? Interesting thoughts!

[Semper Paratus]

Funny, was realy The Onion, right?

[countrydummy]

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Global Warming is the most brilliant theory ever created. All results, no matter how counterintuitive or even contradictory, all strengthen the theory!

That's some serious kickass science!

[anniegetyourgun]

Whatever it is, it most assuredly must be Bush's fault......

[pghkevin]

What ever happened to el nino? Thought that was the "cause" of the weather patterns that caused the wet norhteast winter?

[Smedley]

The record-breaking blizzard of 2003, which left more than two feet of snow in some areas of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, was "very much in line with the predictions of climate models" that predict human-caused "global warming," according to an environmentalist in Washington.

Hmmmm! So far I have heard re global warming:

Record heat wave -- global warming is to blame.

Record rains -- global warming.

Record cold -- global warming.

Record drought -- global warming.

Seems that this man-made global warning is causing all sorts of weather. I wonder if these geniuses would predict that global cooling would cause the same stuff.

[South40]

Global warming = blizzards?

Sounds reasonable to me!

[Ramius]

It's as if these folks think that there is actually some way that the global climate to remain identical from year to year?

No cycles? No up trends, no down trends, no mega-cycles?

It is a naive and wholly unrealistic view.

[South40]

[NativeNewYorker]

a climate change policy specialist with the Environmental Defense Fund

Watermelon. U Texas Masters in Public Policy according to their annual report. NOT listed as one of their science "experts", so she's just a spinner.

[Jhensy]

"It's very hard to link one event for sure, but certainly, increased extreme events like this are very, very much in line with the predictions of climate models, definitely," Carey told CNSNews.com.

Very, very telling.

[EggsAckley]

It's not all about warming, it's really about the changes in our climate and our environment

Hey, Melissa!! Irrelevancy sucks, don't it?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Environmental Says Blizzard Consistent with 'Global Warming' Trend

I thought it was consistent with Winter.

[uncbob]

So how come HOT summers aren't consistent with a Global cooling trend

[katana]

The CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions generated by the very first automobile that rolled off the assembly line here in the U.S. are still in the atmosphere. They accumulate over time

That is nonsense. CO2 is a product of combustion fueled by oxygen and carbon compounds (coal, oil, wood, food, etc.) and is basically an excreted gas leftover from those processes. It is absorbed and used as a catalyst by (I think) all terrestrial plant life forms except those living underground and on the deep sea floor. The by-product of that is more oxygen!

The CO2 emissions from the very first automobile has recycled through the environment countless times in the past 100 years. Unless it has arrived from outer space, all the oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and all the chemicals that are combinations of those elements, have been here on this earth for billions of years. Nature continually moves them, breaks them down, and recombines them over and over again through the eons.

Change is constant but balance is continually restored through very natural processes. The earth cools to an ice age, warms to an age of tropical growth, and then cools again. This is proven through physical examination of ice cores and basic geology. Maybe the amount of CO2 has risen slightly over the past 100 years, but that has almost certainly happened many times before and there are natural processes which will correct for it.

How anyone who claims to be an expert in earth sciences would say something like this is beyond me. This is stuff I learned years ago in college chemistry, biology, and geology courses, at a time when the climate boogey man was The Coming Ice Age !

[WilliamWallace1999]

The CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions generated by the very first automobile that rolled off the assembly line here in the U.S. are still in the atmosphere. They accumulate over time," Carey said.

What an idiot. This line alone blows any credibility she may have been able to eek out. CO2 is in a constant cycle in nature. Photosynthesis is the conversion of H20 and CO2 to carbohydrates. Each and every day that the sun comes up, CO2 is leaving the atmosphere. At this point in human history we just happen to be burning it faster than nature is makin' it. The variables and range of errors in the model suggesting global warning are far too great to blame anything on modern man. During volcanic periods in the past, atmospheric CO2 was much higher and the world survived. CO2 levels came down, and the earth cooled again. We are only beginning to understand the wonder of nature. Global warming freaks are part and parcel of the anti-globalisation eviro-nazi movement and NOT SCIENTISTS.

[anguish]

"The way to reduce CO2 emissions or greenhouse gas emissions is a poor economy and high electricity costs," Horner said

Nopes. It's called nuclear power.

[richardtavor]

As a Geologist, I know about global warming and cooling. They are called ice ages, and we have had many. They would probably say the first global warming was caused by dinosaur farts. BTW, the Environmental Defense League was formed in the late 60's by a group of lawyers and dishonest and disreputable scientists. Their motto was "Sue the bastards." Their first court case was to get DDT banned, and their dishonest scientists used the same faulty scientific method: come to a conclusing first, and then gather all of the data that supports your conclusion and disregard any non-supporting data. Unfortunately, The EDL is not the only ones guilty of this--many in academia are also guilty.

[anoldafvet]

I heard some idiot the other day trying to explain that the recent severe weather is still consistent with global warming. His reasoning was that so many people were out of work that we were not creating as many greenhouse gases, but that when the economy improves it would be back to record heat again.

[Renegade]

Yeah, and because the space program poked so many holes in the atmosphere our weather will never return to normal.