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The photo is pretty cool to look at...snow in Jerusalem.

 

But unfortunately that really doesn't look good for the planet. Can anybody say global warming? Here's some interesting facts.

  • China has the coldest winter in 30 years.
  • Brazil has an incredible heat spell
  • Eastern Russia was so cold that the traffic lights stopped working
  • Bush fires raging in Australia
  • Unexpected storms in the Middle East
  • Flooding in Britain
  • Tornadoes hit southern Italy
  • and of course Sandy has wrecked the coast of NY and NJ
  • 2012 was the warmest on record

 

What do you think we should do? I'm going to lash a boat to my porch and invest in Scotch.

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Submitted by James_Taibleson on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 23:31

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James Taibleson

Neither you, nor I, nor D+ undergrad science student (and divinity school flunk-out, law school dropout, masseuse-groping and richer-than-Romney through his sale of his station to oil-stained, woman-abusing, homosexual-slaughtering, blood-drenched jihadist barbarians) Al Gore are scientists. But unlike so many of the central-planning, government-worshiping folks who mean well but refuse even to THINK, I have been paying attention to ALL sides of this issue since the one-world-government central planning elites decided to destroy freedoms that the central planning worshipers of mega-government were unable to destroy on the battlefield, through the brilliantly conceived, so-called "Man-made Global Warming" hoax. One of the things that I have learned during my quest for TRUTH amid the rampant LIES is that we are in an interglacial period (between ice ages), and that ice ages have durations far greater than interglacial periods. Does it strike you as slightly odd that your idling car is being blamed (not, of course, Al's fleet of limos idling for hours outside of one of his catastrophe conferences) for the Earth's ever-changing climate? Have you noticed that the central planners who dictate how we should live have refused even to MENTION THE SUN, and solar flares and sunspot activity as primary factors? Have you used your critical thinking skills and even CONSIDERED what would motivate those who have deliberately excluded the prime, and perhaps ONLY factor? It would be comical, except that the stakes are so tragic. We are being dictated to by one-world government elites who have destroyed many thousands of pages of documents, removed hundreds of years of Little Ice Age data, have slandered and smeared dissenters, have falsely accused ANY DISSENTING scientists of being on the take (as they themselves--the totalitarians that they are--have been documented to be doing)? Rigged testing stations are part of the mix as well.
A high school science student would receive an F GRADE if she were to conduct such a sham of a "study." To all who have believe there is little need to fight back against the savagery of Global Jihad, while insisting on an all-out battle against "Man-Made" Global Warming (i.e., the WEATHER!!), take out your calculators.
Planet Earth is at least 4,500,000,000 years old, and rigged computer-model data from the past 200 years is being advanced as received fact. A small kernel of critical thinking skills, a healthy dose of skepticism as to the suppression of key data, some real research on this hoax, and you would feel quite ashamed at your susceptibility to shrieking propagandists who have tried to take over this issue, just as they have with other very, very serious subjects. You may at some point become upset at the rampant lies, suppression of data, and false accusations by the central planners against those who promote TRUTH. But the air of moral superiority that has its state-worshipers basking in self-congratulation is a powerful force.
What really frosts my little buns (warming, frost, get it?) is the ever-present the moral superiority proclaimed by the central planners over us drooling rubes who are so hopelessly stupid (and EVIL!! ) that we MUST be told how to live. After all, in issue after issue, those who promote freedom, liberty, property rights, science and common sense are portrayed in the media and by the state-worshiping central planners as MORAL REPROBATES.
In conclusion, please consult your computer models, and let me know which week in March I should go to the Sandestin Resort on the Redneck Riviera. I want to be absolutely sure as to which time slot would be best. If the same computer that so vividly shows Empire State Building's antennae sticking through the 1200-foot high waters atop what used to be Manhattan could just tell me the weather eight weeks out, you could save my vacation from DOOM!

Submitted by ToddWeiss on Sat, 01/12/2013 - 01:12

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Todd Weiss

While I prescribe to the idea... "less smog and pollution is a good idea". I don't buy into global warming at all. Impossible to extrapolate a trend with only 70 years of data when our planet is estimated to be 40 billion years old.
Rona Gura

My mother-in-law told my husband and I that we need to raise up our house onto stilts because it's only going to get worse.

Submitted by Erik_Scheibe on Sat, 01/12/2013 - 03:33

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Erik Scheibe

While I recognize the inevitability of climate change, I find conservation to be a naive and irrational solution to a growing problem. That doesn't mean that we should be ignorant or abusive towards the environment, but rather that science is a better solution for the problem of overpopulation and technological expansion than conservation. That brings me to a conversation I had a couple of weeks back that I will feature in my blog this coming week...
Corey Bearak

The Golden mean remains my standard and clearly bad environmental impacts make sense to avoid. Anyone recall what NYC airs was like in the 60s. There is a reason it is no longer that bad. Science empowers us to avoid bad outcomes by choosing more sensible behaviors. Make the right choice for yourself.

Submitted by InsightAndEnergy on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 23:34

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David Alexander

Those who don't believe that human-caused climate change is underway, should look at some of the graphs available; my sense is that some form strong opinions about the issue without carefully studying the facts, or may pick a very limited and distorted set of information. There is a lot to read, but for me (with scientific training) the evidence is quite strong that significant effects, human-caused, are affecting the planet and will become stronger.

Here is a great collection of scientific information including graphics (scroll down). The chart of greenhouse gas density over 20,000 years is particularly dramatic, while some other charts portray more subtle or complicated information.

http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/global-warming-mapsgraphs-2/

I have studied a wide range of articles and books, and there is a great deal of evidence that climate change is taking place. I have not seen studies that show there is greater turbulence in climate than ever (such as snow in Jerusalem and cooling/heating in other locations). To me, the turbulence does not automatically point to climate change until there is thorough analysis of weather turbulence over a long period of time, and that may be very hard to do accurately since changes are daily, while factors like global temperature can be determined fairly well for 800,000 years using ice records and other methods.

Just saying... it is good to do some investigating and study before forming opinions on the topic.

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