Global Warming Is Probably A Farce
I believe it is just another conspiracy to keep people in jobs. Everything is exaggerated for the sake of sensation and organizations like Green Peace cash in on it by thriving on the people’s fears.
We only have data for less than 200 years and now some people want to create panic by applying a few years worth of data to the entire history of Earth. It’s like as if you can paint the whole picture by picking up one tiny piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
Yes, it is a fact that the planet’s mean temperature is rising by about one tenth of a degree Centigrade per century but that is to be expected. After all, we are coming out of an ice age. It is also true that places with a higher population density had a steeper increase in temperature than the norm but other areas have gone colder. We don’t even know if the rate of warming is increasing or decreasing.
Now they concentrate on those places that are getting warmer while ignoring the places going colder and bombard us with selective statistics. By using a different set of statistics it will be just as easy to proof the Earth is in fact cooling down. For all we know, we may be having cycles, spanning several centuries, of rising and dropping temperatures.
Okay, so the mean temperature of Earth is rising very slowly but we don’t know how much of that is caused by man. Astronomers say that every planet in our solar system is warming up to the same degree. So, are we responsible for that too; or do we blame the Martians and the Saturnians for that? There is just is not enough data to prove anything.
Our few factories and car exhausts are farting against thunder when compared to nature’s own pollution. A single volcano eruption can cause more heat, pollution and environmental damage in one week than all of mankind can do in years. Yet, Mother Earth coped with it every time.
Yes, I agree, we should be responsible and we should prevent pollution wherever we can but there is no reason to inflate figures or to brainwash us with selected data to proof something that is not certain at all.
Have a great day.
Comments (111)
STEAK KNIVES!
i thought you were kidding until I followed your link. Amazing. Has it been reviewed by peers?
::hug:
Leave that card alone. Every time I played it i got into trouble.
For every action there is a reaction, so I suspect the Sahara will blossom but unfortunately the makings of a new desert in Southern Africa is underway. Cat can confirm how much water is available in and around CapeTown
It's bad. We're still going to kill each other for water. When it rains a bit like last Sunday, everybody runs out with buckets to collect as much water as possible.
I just wrote my Congressman a letter thanking him for spending so much money on this research and just asked him one thing to do for me, sir if you have any money left could you please buy my Grand Daughter a pair of shoes.
it's rather cool here in Capetown as well. Midsummer, early evening around sunset and the temperature is 18 degrees C (60.8 degrees F). Did not check it earlier.
A simple method by which to guesstimate Celsius to Fahrenheit -
Just flip these sets of numbers around...
28 c = 82 f
16 c = 61 f
04 c = 40 f
AND
It also works just as easily to convert f to c!
Cool, huh? And scientific!
Cool, it's not accurate but close. I still do it the long way on a calculator
that is F=C * 8 / 5 + 32
and C= ( F - 32 ) * 5 / 8
Uhhhh...Y'all Saffers?
Desertification is gonna be the LEAST of your problems...
Things are lookin' pretty grim for Hawaii also
BUT...
The Great Lakes - such as Lake Michigan
I'm just pessimistic. Maybe we can make a deal with the polar-shift lady to warn a a week or two before the event so we Capetonians can scoot off to Antarctica to await the tropical paradise in parka suits. Maybe you must buy some property next to one of those frozen lakes; it should be a good investment. One must be ready when it happens.
I hope you find such an alternative more comfortable.
More bad news?
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.....and Folks,lets keep Pollution and Change of Climate separate!
I had a quick look and will bookmark it to look into from time to time.
There are so many scares flying around. Global warming, asteroid strikes, polar shifts and many others but of the lot an ice age scares me the most. We don't even need an ice age. We just need a few degrees cooler and the shorter growing season will shrink our harvests enough to starve a whole lot of people to death.
Anyway, it is bed time for me. Have not read for two days now. Shocking!
You're just in time, I was about to log off. 30 after midnight here.
No I don't know where they are.
Conrad posted a very nice joke on Miclee's blog on the same topic. It does more or less answer your question. You must have a look.
I must went to sleep now, it is too late to go.
seems that we have a mini ice age beginning.
And yes.
Dr. Shakhova essentially described a methane digester nearly three times the area of Texas (2 million sq. km) and twelve MILES (20 km) deep, containing about 1/2 of the world's continental shelf methane under just 150 ft. (50 m) of water.
the world has gone crazy and we're helping it on. We keep those people in their jobs and pay their salaries. I think we should stop voting for parties instead of voting for the man to represent us
We can predict anything and it will happen if we wait long enough.
Our planet is still full of mysteries. Many things that we don't know yet. We probably know more about the surface of the moon than what we know about the bottom of our deepest oceans.
It is in page 2 with my response to it. We are now on page 4
Got Snow?
Roof-Avalanche!
Snow, snow. and more snow. It's coming out my ears now.
Mindboggling! Not fit to rule ourselves!
As if those with a vested interest (billions of dollars) in raping the planet will just meekly dismantle their own assets to give way to something cleaner which will put them out of business. The will hang on to them until the last cent was wringed out of fossil and nuclear fuels.
There are already more viable green energy generating or harvesting apparatus but they will suppress them till the very end.