Somewhere far, far to the south where it is summer, a group of global warming scientists are trapped in the Antarctic ice. If you missed the irony of that situation, it is because much of the mainstream media has glossed over that rather inconvenient bit of hilarity. As an example here is an Associated Press story that avoids mentioning the real mission of the scientists aboard the icebound Russian ship:
ZitatThe Snow Dragon icebreaker came within 7 miles (11 kilometers) of the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy, which has been stuck since Christmas Eve, but had to retreat after the ice became too thick, said expedition spokesman Alvin Stone.
The Akademik Shokalskiy, which has been on a research expedition to Antarctica, got stuck Tuesday after a blizzard's whipping winds pushed the sea ice around the ship, freezing it in place. The ship wasn't in danger of sinking, and there are weeks' worth of supplies for the 74 scientists, tourists and crew on board, but the vessel cannot move.
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If you use a single event in a silly attempt to prove a point about a long-evolving phenomenon they you open the door for someone equally silly to counter with their event of choice. 1). CO2 increases trapped heat in the Earth's atmosphere. 2) mankind produces huge volumes of CO2. Both are facts.
Quote: A guest wrote in post #2 If you use a single event in a silly attempt to prove a point about a long-evolving phenomenon they you open the door for someone equally silly to counter with their event of choice.
Funny, I don't remember hearing that from the Global Warming kooks when they were using silly, isolated, warmer-than-usual events to panic people with their dishonest, self-serving, scam.
Quote: A guest wrote in post #2 If you use a single event in a silly attempt to prove a point about a long-evolving phenomenon they you open the door for someone equally silly to counter with their event of choice. 1). CO2 increases trapped heat in the Earth's atmosphere. 2) mankind produces huge volumes of CO2. Both are facts.
Quote: A guest wrote in post #2 1). CO2 increases trapped heat in the Earth's atmosphere. 2) mankind produces huge volumes of CO2. Both are facts.
“Huge” is a rather subjective term when used in the context of the entire Planet Earth. Also “huge” is the amount of solar energy that is generated by the Sun which can dwarf the effect of any variables that man affects.
It is a fact that the temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period were higher than they are today and that was followed by the Little Ice Age that literally starved the Viking settlements in Greenland.
It is a fact that, 15,000 years ago, the region that is now Seattle was buried under an ice sheet that was 3,000 feet thick and it required a “huge” amount of Global Warming to make that ice melt.
It is a fact that there was not a single Chevrolet or factory during any of those “huge” historical Climate Changes but the changes occurred anyway, going back and forth between warming cycles and cooling cycles.
It is a fact that there was a Global Cooling cycle from the 1940’s to the 1970’s and that, by the mid-1970’s, the hysteria centered around preparing for the new Ice Age disaster.
It is a fact that there is a “huge” amount of money to be made and a “huge” amount of wealth that can be transferred by claiming that climate cycles can be controlled by Man if enough wealth changes hands. When a particular "science" is rather "soft" and consists of playing with mathematical models you build yourself, then the most significant variable in such "science" is the whatever answer those with political power or with the power to give out millions of dollars in grants want to hear.
Even in the "harder" sciences where you actually experiment with biological organisms and not mathematical models of your own creation, if you want to believe that rabbit blood can cure AIDS and you have $19 Million to back up your desires ....... That result can easily be arranged if the price is right.
Quote: A guest wrote in post #2 If you use a single event in a silly attempt to prove a point about a long-evolving phenomenon they you open the door for someone equally silly to counter with their event of choice. 1). CO2 increases trapped heat in the Earth's atmosphere. 2) mankind produces huge volumes of CO2. Both are facts.
Number 2 depends ENTIRELY on how you define the meaning of the word "huge". A fart in a small closet can be huge. A fart in a football stadium is never noticed,but TWO farts in a football stadium can accurately be described as a "huge increase".
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