asperity Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 A composite picture of the globe taken on 3rd February 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 It doesn't show the floods in OZ or the draught in the Amazon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 American comedian and philosopher Bill Maher has been bemoaning the origin of the term GLOBAL WARMING. A better terminology would have been Man Made Climate Change -- since the belief arose that man made chemicals, fossil fuel consumption, atomic and hydrogen bomb testing, could have effects on the planet that could be harmful to life as we know it. Back in the late 1950s my people would notice a difference in the weather pattern and say to each other: It's the atomic bomb!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 In the Feb. 7 issue of The New Yorker, an editor dissected Obama's State of the Union Address recently noting that there was almost no notice of Climate Change or Cap and Trade issues. I loved a couple of the metaphors such as 'climate change bills that pass the House go to the Senate where bleeding is the treatment of choice.' And at the end the editor says: Mother Nature is getting impatient and she has a Hot Temper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 I have been one of the biggest critics of global warming doom - mongers, but can,t help thinking that something untoward is going on. happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 Climate Change has been happening for the past 4 billion years, not just "since records began". The BBC are very good at this sort of thing, never quote time scales longer than 200 years, and referes carbon as "dangerous" I'm sorry, but NOx, CH4, and H2O are bigger greenhouse gases per PPM than CO2, For those old enough to live through the 70's, Global cooling was a bigger threat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 we always got bad weather everytime the yanks sent up a saturn V or a shuttle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 It's all down to natural variability. There are cyclical changes to sea surface temperatures that drive weather patterns. This is why we get warming periods and cooling periods. There is more to it than the warmists try and fool us into thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 According to science, the Earth has transformed from a ball of molten rock and gas to the extreme of becoming an ice ball; and throughout it's 5billion years or so existence, has had periods extreme climate fluctuations. IF Extreme Weather Events are to become regular events, any claimed "damage" has already been done, so all that's left is to ADAPT accordingly to the new enviroments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 5, 2011 Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 Back to the picture. Isn't it normal to get snow at this time of the year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 Yes it is. The point is that 10 years ago the "scientists" were telling us that snow was a thing of the past, and even now they are trying to tell us that its "localised". Localised to the northern hemisphere and antarctica alright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugtifino Posted February 5, 2011 Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 More mindless scaremongering from the misguided "boffins": "Mass tree deaths prompt fears of Amazon 'climate tipping point'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/03/tree-deaths-amazon-climate Keep on burning those tyres folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted February 5, 2011 Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 its from the guardian what a suprise we do need trees though, plant life is vital to the carbon cycle. trees exhale oxygen, we take in oxygen. With enough land the energy crisis would be over as we would generate electricity with wood, and the resultant carbon dioxide is food for the trees that will grow and inturn, be used for electricity generation, no more messing about with inefficient wind turbines, subsedised by the bill and tax payer, this system is practically renewable. Trees are vial in my opinion, as is recycling, reducing consumption, etc. Anthropogenic global warming is a scam, and its reassuring that many on this forum thinks in a similar dimention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 5, 2011 Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 Pity the profit makers didn't think like that before decimating the rain forests. An action that has played a great part in the erratic weather conditions around the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 5, 2011 Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 Agree with your tree arguement Rick - we should be planting more. However, HMG are just about to privatise OUR forests and International Corporations are busy thinning out forests to plant rape seed for bio-fuel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugtifino Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 ...carbon dioxide is food for the trees... Yeah, it's like Baby Bio for the Big Boys. Oh, my aching sides..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Considering that Carbon dioxide is an ingredient needed for photosynthesis. Ricky is correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Seems they don't teach basic biology in schools nowadays! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 No they teach PC environmentalism instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Courtesy of Al Bore?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Don't trees also trap co2, which they release when they are burned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Hence the point in planting more of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Trees also give off CO2 when the leaves fall off and decay. It's all part of the natural cycle. Historically CO2 levels in the atmosphere are at a low level and the biosphere would benefit from some CO2 enrichment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Does that apply to evergreens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Of course it does, because evergreens do shed their leaves, which you would know if you'd ever walked through the woods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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