07.02.2009 5:39 pm
Climate change deniers follow typical but strange pattern
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mr. O’Toole’s skeptical letter on global warming follows a typical but strange pattern. He denies that it’s happening and admits that it’s happening (but it’s natural). Let me address his errors. First, global temperatures have NOT cooled in the last decade. Here is what global-warming deniers must do to make this claim (other than outright lying): 1998 was an extremely warm year, so they compare the average temperature of the last ten years to 1998. This allegedly shows that temperatures are cooling. Unfortunately for them, if they select 1997, they must admit that every year since then has been hotter. If they select 1999, they must admit the same thing. If they choose ANY year on record prior to 1998, they must admit that every year after 2000 has been warmer. Only 1998 works for them. Scientists use all the data. They don’t pick and choose. As for the increased ice at the South Pole, warmer temperatures have allowed more precipitation to fall in the form of snow. As for climate changing naturally in the past, well, forest fires occur naturally too. That does not mean we don’t cause forest fires. If projections of 5°C warming in this century are realized, we will experience about the same warming that occurred over a 5 thousand year period at the end of the last ice age. That is not natural!
William Moran
Innsbrook


Ok nut case, I will sell you the JB Bridge too. A fool born every minute.
Given the PD’s agenda, is this really the best they could do? Noone offered a letter with even a hint of documentation? I love the last line, “that is not natural.” I would agree Mr Moran, if it cools 5 degrees C in this century, that would not be natural either. Pitiful.
Did you ever notice many the same people who deny the truth about climate change also question Germany’s extermination of the Jews in 1930? Is there a pattern here?
DThomas..what’s a noone? My grandmother wouldn’t take a sip of brady until after the noon school bus went by…
She called it a Noon-ee.
“Scientists use all the data. They don’t pick and choose.”
…as in hockey-stick?
Yep, a fool born every minute–then there is Garrison, the damn fool.
William is clearly an uneducated, Obama voter who incapable of making a rational argument. These are the people running our country? God help us.
Garrison would be comical except that he is serious. Funny how the left-wing fascists accuse those who argue against them of being fascists.
William and Garrison, why are you people that easy? Why do you believe whatever you hear? You sheeple are amazing to me. Why is the “Sky is Falling” mantra so easy for you people and frankly why do you believe this crap? The worst of it is that it’s ruining this country. Amazing!
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange
http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/GlobalWarmingPrimer.pdf
http://globalchange.gov
But I see your point, you would rather believe a minority, fringe opinion than most respected scientists in the world.
It’s similar to your political opinions….. you just LOVE that fringe, minority stuff….
It’s no wonder that most of the climate change deniers aren’t scientists, but folks who believe in creationism-as-science too
I don’t think we will ever agree on this until the polar ice caps melt….. some more …
http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/650-respected-scientists-challenge-global-warming-nonsense/
http://www.oism.org/pproject/
How about, it’s no wonder that most Global Warming, I mean Global Climate Change advocates voted for Obama, don’t really understand that if you follow the money trail that most of the scientists are bring funded by governments and if they say something different that their money will dry up. This whole thing is the biggest sham ever introduced to the public. Oh, lets not forget that Mr Gore has become filthy rich and stands to make hundreds of millions more. The very scientists that disagree with the scam have been ignored and shunned.
Oh, did I forget that the arrogance that we have that kind of impact on Mother Nature. How about the fact that atheists are leading the way with this one. When do I stop. You people are a joke.
Dave-
You have mentioned that you feel that man has little impact on nature before.
Does water polution NOT exist for you, or is it a natural occurance ? How about Chernobyl ? There are VAST sections of the ocean filled with plastics and other waste products man has dumped at sea. Coral reefs dying . Fish becoming extincet and entire species no longer around. The extintion of THOUSANDS of species of animals & palnts ? How about the smog, soot and dust that poisoned millions at the turn of the century until we found cleaner sources to run our business and heat our homes ?
Is there a limit on the number of fish you catch when you are out during the summer ? Why ?
The earth has more population now than at any other time in our history… and you think that what man does CAN’T effect the planet ?
Dave….. think about that again.
Isn’t there a tenant in your church that man should be a good shepard of the earth ?
http://atlantis2.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2425652n
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/06/020607073439.htm
HKCHAS, How can you possibly believe anything that comes from CBS news? They are proven liars, aka, Dan Rather. They have sacrificed their journalistic integrity and are totally in the tank for Ombama and his crew of socialists.
“Did you ever notice many the same people who deny the truth about climate change also question Germany’s extermination of the Jews in 1930? Is there a pattern here?”–GARRISON–
–FOR ALL TO SEE…ABSOLUTELY ONE OF THE MOST IDIOTIC COMMENTS EVER POSTED!
–Considering the source, though, not shocking. Should forever characterize the source as wantonly lacking in sense or class.
-Heard an interesting conversation yesterday on this topic on NPR.
A climatologist and earth scientist was explaining the relationship between CO2 gasses and climate change.
-Her model was that there is a .038 CO2 level naturally, that man’s contribution to this was around .00023. She went on to say that it would be comparable to dropping one droplet of hot water every 3 days into a 10,000 liter tub of cold water. In other words, no measurable effect.
-She went on to say that the relationship between CO2 and temperature change was a reverse osmosis effect. Simply, when the sun warms the atmosphere, more CO2 is created, not the reverse as global warmists would have us believe.
Rush said it. I believe it. That settles it.
How surprising to see the responses from the deniers….
join the anti-leftist agenda revolution!
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Mr. Moran, don’t bother wasting your breath or your typing fingers. The deniers, as a group, have decided that Global Warming and Climate Change are political buzzwords for some anti-american sloganeers.
Personally, I wish Gore had never gotten himself involved. He’s too polarized a figure to make the argument.
I’d really like to see something serious and science based from the deniers. In that sense, climate science is kind of like evolution. Because the deniers don’t like the conclusions, they deride it rather than try to understand it.
Looks like Colin Powell is admitting he screwed up.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/03/powell-airs-doubts-on-obama-agenda/
Personally, I wish Gore had never gotten himself involved. He’s too polarized a figure to make the argument.
I’d really like to see something serious and science based from the deniers. In that sense, climate science is kind of like evolution. Because the deniers don’t like the conclusions, they deride it rather than try to understand it.
— hs
11:26 am July 3rd, 2009
Polarizing? You mean like a guy that has made and stands to make beacoup bucks if he can get enough converts to his religion? Or like the guy that uses 100X the power as the average family yet derides the average family for “killing mother earth?”
If there wasn’t so much money in it for the Global Warming er Climate Change champions, they might have a better case. As it stands, there are a bunch of people and companies with big money to be made if enough people buy into the philosophy of Global Warm er Climate Change.
dr-debunk - please look up & send me (us) a link to that NPR program. I like to hear it. Thx!
Oh woe is us! I am a firm believer in climate change science, our salvation rests in reducing carbon dioxide by same sex weddings and habitat protection of the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse. I do admit to some puzzlement, carbon monoxide, a deadly poison is produced in the the same proportion as carbon dioxide during combustion and that increase caused by man is no problem. Go figure.
Democrats loiter around insane asylums seeking advice from inmates on avoiding commitment.
lunacy: that is EXACTLY my point about Gore.
I happen to think there is serious science involved here, and serious issues to discuss and try to understand. Turning it into a political food fight doesn’t help anyone.
Attacking the integrity of the researchers and pretending that the data doesn’t exist, doesn’t help anyone.
GE, now a failing company , is betting that enough stupid people are out there to push this scam, therefore, their stock prices may finally rise again to where it was before the current CEO took over. GE is in bed with Obama and is looking to make billions of dollars off this hoax. After all, if you can sell a pet rock, or bottled water from another water system, or some of these other idiotic ideas that people come up with, then you can find enough idiots to believe in this hogwash. FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL and start with Al The Fool Gore, who is currently making tons of money from this hoax.
You people who are so arrogant to think that man is responsible for anything are too arrogant to even talk about. Even George Carlin got it. This clip is well worth the time to view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q3upFx4FcA
I think you people have been brainwashed by your Messiah and his predecessors. They know it but you don’t. You obviously dont know history or choose to ignore it. Its been hotter and its been cooler. You cannot refute that. But, that doesnt matter. What matters is what makes you feel good. How about you keep these idiotic ideas to yourself and stop pushing it on us. You can wipe your butt with one piece of toilet paper. You can drive the little peddlepushers and let us drive what we decide. Whatever the case, please stop pushing this crap on the rest of us.
“dr-debunk - please look up & send me (us) a link to that NPR program. I like to hear it. Thx!”-EGOIST-
-Sorry, I mislead, that was WGN radio at 10:00-11:00 segment last night.
-I’m leaving in and hour and a half for the cabin…do your own research,
do enough of my own.
Superdave: actually, the next 20 years looks pretty good for GE and other energy equipment suppliers (Most of whom are overseas, but that’s a whole ‘nother can of worms). The fact is that huge amounts of money need to be spent on energy infrastructure over the next 10-20 years. Regardless of which technologies are chosen, the suppliers will be making pretty good money over that time.
The biggest open secret of the energy business is that the existing infrastructure of plants, transmission lines, and distribution systems is wearing out, and the decisions about what the next generation will look like are being made, right now. We’re talking about $Trillions of spending over the next 10-15 years. THAT conversation needs to be happening, and unfortunately, it’s NOT.
I sign off a 7:00 pm everyday, and almost 12 hours have gone by since the most moronic post I have ever seen appeared. Garrison, you actually posted that “Did you ever notice many of the same people who deny the truth about climate change also question Germany’s extermination of the Jews in 1930?” Please, either justify this or sign off for good.
Doubting,
-Not shocked that Garrison would do that, considering his history…called him out on it earlier, but guess he’s hiding under the floorboards with the other cockroaches. Good catch.
HS
I have read studies that said if the electrical grid that we currently have was brand new and continued pumping out at maximum capacity, that within 10 years we will be far short of our needs.
Everything is moving to using more electricity at the moment. PC’s to servers to mainframes are leading the charge. A more powerful computer uses more electricity. Modernize a factory and you use more electricity. Buy something new for the home and there is a good chance it will need more electricity. If electric power cars take off then there will be a boom in the demand for electricity. Look at Bill Gates House. You can wear a small badge. As you go from room to room the badge is read and the lights are adjusted to how you like it and if you like music the correct music starts playing. If each home has just 10% of what Gates has in his home then electrical demand would spike.
So Ge and other providers of the equipment are looking forward to bright futures. Not only because as you pointed out the current system is aging and needs to be replaced, but also the additional demand for electricity will fuel the coffers for GE.
The reason everything is down for GE is the uncertainty of the economy. Once that turns around and the demand for electricity goes back up, then GE will recover. At the same time the cost will be passed on to the consumer. So what is good for GE is not necessarily good for the consumer.
Doubting
I will admit that the comparison made me squirm, I would not have done so.
At the same time I have found you so willing to justify the postings by the right wing that I do not call on him to retract what he said.
Anyone see where Palin is quitting as Governor by the end of the month.
According to a statement put out by her office she does not want to be involved in lame duck politics. Her term ends in 2010 so she is quitting at least 6 months early.
Bob: Who on the right here has questioned Germany’s extermination of the Jews in the 1930’s? Some things are beyond the pale. One hint of justification for this comment? Where are you Garrison. Let’s hear it. I don’t know what Palin is doing. I am shocked.
Doubting
I did not say on this subject. On other subjects you have called people to question for their statements. Yet when those on the left make the same types of statements you can always find a reason not to call them out. You and your friends like to call me the twister. Well you are the mangler when it comes to justifying any statement made by the conservatives.
Doubting,
—That dog, Bob is off his leash. But not apparently on his meds, be careful
getting close to him. His bite is worse than his bark.
Look, what’s happened in the past has happened. I think I can justify everything I have said. This is different. This clown Garrison crossed the line by so far, it can’t go unchallenged. Where are you Garrison? Let’s hear one hint of holocaust denial by anyone on the right, by anyone else who doesn’t believe in the global warming hoax, or anyone else, other than the leader of Iran. Perhaps some of you other libs, care to make Garrison’s case?
Asti Lavista amigos totales…
Everyone have a safe and pleasant holiday, and somebody put Bob back on his leash!
Doubting
I have no doubt that you can justify anything you have said in the past. You sit there and mangle your response until in your mind it is justification.
You criticize the President of the United States for a bad joke concerning his bowling and special Olympics. If I remember correctly you said that it was proof that he thinks of the kids has sub human.
Then when point to statements made by Limbaugh, leading conservative spokesman, you justify it in that he was not the President of the United States. You never explained then at what level bad jokes or offensive statements start to be worthy of being denounced.
So I have no doubt you can mangle your own thoughts in order to justify your statements.
Bob: I was born in 1946, the holocaust was over, thank God. I have often wondered how many good people could have stood by, or even participated, in this truly horrible process. Please, don’t change the subject. Point out to me how I, or anyone else on this site, on either side of the political argument, has ever, ever, denied this horror? I don’t know if you embrace Garrison, but I demand an explanation for that post. I will be glad to argue past, present, or future opinions, positions, or facts at another time.
Doubting
I have not changed the subject I said that I would not have made that statement.
However, I have also said that I will not call him out on making the statement because I am through with the dual standards of the conservatives. I have seen you people say that you call your own out on statements. However, when the pedal goes to the metal you always can justify why the left statement was so bad and yours was justifiable.
I have seen you draw a line in the sand and I have seen you mangle that line to the point that it looks like a knot. I have seen you say this is the standard then excuse those on the right who cross the standard.
I know that you demand an explanation. However, I have seen those on the right either not answer a question or answer the question they wished had been asked.
I have actually written on this site about how many of us would have stood by and allowed the holocaust to happen. There had been extensive studies done on it in the 1960’s.
I was dismissed by the right wing has being unpatriotic for suggesting that Americans would do such. They call such studies as tripe.
So do not give me your self righteous stand, for you hold no standard that you are not willing to allow the right wing to slither under.
I am leaving now for I have a 6 year old nephew and a 8 year old niece who wish to see Ice Age.
Lets try this one. If you believe in Man made global warming then you are the same people the denied that the US astronauts landed on the moon. It makes about the same amount of sense as the idiotic comment that Garrison made.
I always go back to your governmental educational system that indoctrinates these idiotic theories and teach them to children and adult children like the libs. The will believe anything told to them. History does repeat itself. You can ALWAYS find people who must believe in the “Sky is Falling” theory.
Superdave: Am I right on this one. This moron, Garrison, followed my comment on global warming immediately by stating that those who deny global warming are aligned with those who deny the holocaust. Isn’t this over and above the normal discourse here? Where is this clown? Have you ever known anyone on this site, on either side, to deny the holocaust?
Doubtingthomas:
“This moron, Garrison, followed my comment on global warming immediately by stating that those who deny global warming are aligned with those who deny the holocaust. Isn’t this over and above the normal discourse here?”
It isn’t often that I come to the defense of Garrison but his mind was wandering because of immediate immense responsibilities. He has not been available to defend himself because of a previously scheduled tutu fitting for Best Something or Other at a same sex wedding.
Sage: As usual, I am signing off at 7 pm. But, as possibly you could tell, this bothered me. Actually close to another mentally challenged leftist, Nancy Pelosi’s, “the CIA lied”, and on and on, for which she has apparently skated. Please, lefties, take some responsiblility for your positions. Of course, it is so easy to live without values or benchmarks, makes life easy. Have a nice weekend.
Now Doubting, are you trying to bring any common sense to these liberals? All they do is go to the Daily Kos or other Socialist sites and copy and paste. The arrogance of these fools is almost comical. The only problem is that it’s serious now. They are trying to pass this cap and trade bill which will only hurt this country. How in the hell can you call yourself patriotic when they pass idiotic legislation? They wouldnt know what freedom was if it hit them in the face. What do they do on July 4th? They sure as hell cant celebrate freedom. How could they, unless they are hypocrites. I think I just answered my own questions…lol!
Doc/Gamecock—-
Do you live in Chicago or do you pick up WGN radio at night…. or was the reference to the SuperStation ?
William Moran:
I have a tendency to agree that the world is indeed heating up some places, and cooling down in some places…and the climate does really change.
But what bothers me is that NOBODY in the “man made climate change” community has even tried to explain just how it is that humans are causing “global warming” on Mars. Its happening, you know…Mars is losing its “ice caps” at the poles….
Whenever the proof comes in that SUV’s are causing Mars to warm…..then I’ll join up.
That’s the way our “Johna & the Whale” crowd de-bunks global warming…
Look at Mars! They don’t even have oceans!
Is that’s man’s fault!
I hear the planet Venus is experiencing global warming too.
http://www.heartland.org/custom/semod_policybot/pdf/22835.pdf
Doubting…
I know you have signed off, but get real when you ask for support from Dave who thinks he is super. That guy can find a liberal plot to ruin this country anywhere he wishes. A few examples the other day he was screaming about how Democrats are ruining the cities of course you agreed using just that cities started to decline in the 1960’s. However, he used KC has an example of how things were being done correctly. He of course failed to note that KC had a Democrat for mayor and had one for nearly 20 years. My favorite was when he tried to blam3e liberals for the demise of the big 3 using the argument that most conservatives that he knows own American cars and liberals owned the foreign cars.
You lack standards, you and Dave who is less than super, can justify anything a conservative does. However, let a liberal do the same and OMG they have brought and end to civilization. So get real.
Bob, who is sissy, is at it again. I mentioned that because of the Democrat rule of St. Louis that the city has gone down in population and KC is now considered a larger city. Unfortunately he cannot comprehend or he just is lying, which is no surprise. I guess when you cant even get the facts straight these things will happen. We Conservatives have to keep these liberal idiots in check. I wonder if he is still living off the taxpayer yet or did he get a job yet. Whatever the case, Bob is so arrogant as most liberals and thinks he knows it all. As you can tell we dont like each other. I just dont like sissies!
Dave who is much less than super
Boy am I going to lose a lot of sleep knowing that you do not like me.Last night I think I lost 1 second over that.
As for lying you own the title. You are either lying or denying. You keep pointing to STL and how the inept Democrats of ran that city down. You also point to KC and suggest that they have their act together.
Yet what you still fail to acknowledge is that the Democrats have ran KC for nearly 20 years. So when you point to KC and say that they know what they are doing you are saying the Democrats know what they are doing.
It is very noticeable when you point to STL you always mention the political party and you use it has proof that Democrats have ruined the cities. At the same time when you point to KC you leave out that KC is also ran by the Democrats. If you did then it would destroy your argument about how democrats cannot run a city.
It is also funny that this came as a bigger discussion of the cities and their problems. Yet all you see is political parties. You cannot see the many and various problems encountered by the cities as sprawl happened, not just in STL but other places as well.
Why all of a sudden he is whipping up such a frenzy over STL not being the biggest city in Missouri is beyond me since this is 9 year old information. I guess he needs something to complain about.
Of course he fails to mention that the STL SMA is the largest in Missouri. He also failed to mention that Missouri has been losing population, with some of the largest drops coming under Republican governors. However, that would not help his argument so he chooses to ignore such facts. Ge could not continue his tirade against the Democrats if he acknowledged such facts.
After all how serious can you take someone who tried to blame the big 3 problem on liberals buying foreign cars while conservatives were buying domestic.
I have not made up my mind if about Dave who is less than zero. Either he is in denial or he is just plain blinded by hatred or he is an idiot.
superdave, to bring it back to a discussion about global warming, reading your comments suggests to me that you believe 2 things, and that those 2 things prove that it’s all a hoax.
First, you argue that because the research is funded by those who stand to profit from a particular finding, then the research is tainted. Really? It seems that for most of the last 10 years, the bulk of the research has been funded by government agencies that have been led by figures who WERE deniers, and yet the published results have been dominated by findings that it’s real. At a larger level, you suggest that a profit motive taints the research. Doesn’t that suggest that to you science should be a communist/socialist enterprise?
Second, you argue that because the numbers are so small (a few parts per million) they MUST not be significant. Dave, have you read the research, understood the test protocols, and developed this conclusion independently? Have you, personally, read anything about HOW that conclusion was arrived at? You argue that even if atmospheric CO2 IS increasing, there is no proof that human activity is leading to the change. Really? What about the isotope studies that show that the proportion of the particular carbon isotopes in coal is increasing in the atmosphere? The only way those carbon isotopes can increase in the atmosphere is by the combustion of coal.
I could go on.
Okay, I have to give it up. Man-made global warming is a left-wing hoax. Sure the earth’s average temperature has been rising steadily for over forty years now, but so what? We’ll manage. I once saw this episode of ‘Outer Limits’ and people in the future were saved by musical pulses sent from deep space that caused them to undergo physical transformation allowing them to go outside without baking, so don’t tell me it can’t happen!
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090704/D997DOMG0.html
It’s so ridiculous to spend time on leftist idiots who dont have a mind of their own. If you goofs cannot do the research and follow the money trail then there is nothing I can do. In the history of our world there have been fools like you and the leaders have NO problems taking advantage of you. So, keep it to yourself but please dont spread the manure on the rest of us.
Dave–
I followed the money trail, and it led to The oil companies for the denial folks… thanks for the tip.
BTW
EVERYONE
A Happy 4th of July to ALL….. Celebrate our country’s birth
I wish I could celebrate our freedom but your side is continually taking it away. With this good as President our freedoms are being stolen from us at alarming rates.
If you can’t celebrate the country’s birth, if you can’t honor the United States on the 4th, then you are no American…
Shame on you Dave
My problem with Republicans on energy and the environment is that you can’t even get them to say the words ’solar’ or ‘wind’.
Is it because you can’t turn it into a commodity to be billed for?
Jellio
It cannot be what you suggest. Solar and wind is turned into electricity, and in the future in large quantities by power companies. They can bill for that.
I believe that conservatives are tied to the old ways and anything new scares them. They are unable to look at anything that did not exist 20 years ago.
HKCHAS
Earlier in this thread Less than zero Dave suggested liberals had no right to celebrate the 4th of July because we are a disease and do not know what freedom is.
Now he says he cannot celebrate the 4th.
So accordingly we must assume that Less than zero wanted the day called off.
Then they’ve had control for a very long time. We’ve been a fire culture for the last hundred thousand years, we’re still burning things to power our world.
Can’t they see power in the evolution of power? Or is it that the word ‘evolution’ doesn’t exist in their vocabulary as well?
Jellio
The word exists, but they do not teach it. Since they do not teach it then it is just a myth. After all fire was good enough for George Washington so it should be good enough for us.
People will cling to any speck of evidence that supports their political point of view. 1998 was a very warm year, therefore, since it’s been cooler from then on, there is no global warming. This is just the kind of singleminded ignorance that clouds decision.
Look at the overwhelming preponderance of evidence. What are most scientists saying? That is, MOST scientist, not a few research programs funded by the petroleum industry.
Global warming is a sick liberal hoax to raise taxes.
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=PNS&issuedby=OKX
It’s July 5th, 3PM and 71′ - okay never mind.
Jellio - the problem really is that the Democrat Post-Dispatch won’t tell
readers that Tom Carnahan has a WINDfarm company and will benefit from his
brother’s vote. Okay never mind that too.
Global warming, man-made or not, is occurring. The only real question is whether or not we jump on the economic opportunity that exists or do we let the Japanese and Europeans beat us to the punch.
Jellio (and Solar proponents):
How many KW/h do you suppose it takes to manufacture a 1KW/h panel? (how long does it take to break even on the power expended to make the panel)
How long do you suppose it takes for you to recover your unsubsidized purchase of your panels?
At something in the low 20s% efficiency, and roughly 1KW/m^2 on a sunny day, can you fit enough panels in your yard / roof-top… to power your A/C, oven, computer and flat-screen at once?
I’m anticipating the “I don’t have coal-fire plants in my yard either” argument; you could – how ever undesireable.
I was at a gay pride parade in Soulard over the holiday and it was HOT, I was sweating so bad…well I won’t go into detail. I think that people who do not believe in global warming are STUPID. One of the most intelligent points on this blog was when Garrison stated that people who deny Global Warming also deny the holocaust. This was classic liberal arguing at its best, like when Garafalo said anyone who goes to the tea party is a racist. To be able to say I am on the same side as these people is a privilege and makes me proud to stand right next to them. Back to Global Warming, I was very upset to see all the fireworks on the riverfront last night (while some people were busy blogging on this sight). These fireworks created alot of smoke and I could tell on my ride home that it was alot hotter than when I drove up to the riverfront so this firework smoke was already causing Global Warming, just an hour after it was released. It was also alot hotter today so all the smoke from all the fireworks and barbecues in the county already caused alot of global warming already. This 4th of july holiday should be dumped into the same category as Christmas and Easter–the “get rid of it” category. We should attack July 4th just as bad as we attack Christmas and Easter as July 4th ruins the environment. Lets get to it liberals, we need to start filing lawsuits against any city that displays red,white, and blue in July, these colors are offensive. However rainbow colors are OK so don’t file any suits against any display of those.
The Libtard
Libtard – you disappoint me; you must know it’s not the smoke from those fireworks, it’s the launching of them that pushes against mother earth, forcing us closer to the sun (heating us up). Ah crap, I forgot, the sun is unrelated to global warming. Ah crap, I meant climate change.
P.S. I forgot where we stand, did a previous blogger already find a site that “debunks” Newton?
Garrison: Not surprised you snuck in a post without explaining your absurd comment, comparing those who disbelieve global warming to holocaust deniers. Let me ask you this, have you ever noticed that union deadbeats who masquerade as entreprenueurs are gutless wonders?
Doubting..
I have noticed that conservatives demand answers from liberals, but then refuse to answer questions posed to them. Yet then they go on and on how their questions are not answered.
The Libtard
Love your post.
Did you see the movie “American Carol”. I watched it today for the first time. Laughed my arse off, since it was so truthful about libs.
Heinrich (Libtard),
Ain’t seen you in a while. Where ya’ been? I have a line on some really good Schutzstaffle parapernalia.
You libs are right, Global Warming is going strong!
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=PNS&issuedby=OKX
I love the comedy you people provide!
We’re all being fooled. Stoopid Dave found a spot on the planet where it’s actually cooler, so, Global Warming is a complete hoax.
Disregard NOAA, NASA, The Royal Society, 90% of the scientist in the world.
Dave-
Does that mean at night that the sun ceases to exist ?
Us libs have been wrong all along. Dave just has proven the sun doesn’t exist.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTc1MmVhMGYxY2UzNzAwMTJlODBjZjg2NDJjNmM2MWE=&w=MA==
jellio and HKchas
It is interesting talking to Zero Dave.
He has told me that I think I know everything. Yet he has given his opinion on Education, Business, Taxes, what he would consider give aways to those that do not deserve them, Crime, the cities and why Democrats ruined them, politicians, climate, health insurance, the media, family, children, who are pedophiles, why liberals do not deserve to celebrate the 4th, the constitution, and I am sure that I am forgetting some.
He says that he is for the children and speaking out on their behalf, the insinuation is that others are not. This came about during an exchange on education. Evidently if you do not agree with him that the public schools should be abolished then you are just pandering to unions and the politicians, evidently he believes no one can have a valid alternative opinion.
He is one that likes to point out that opposition is the purest form of democracy. Evidently that is only true if he is opposing you, if it is the other way then you are unpatriotic.
He is quick to demand answers and quick to declare victory if you do not answer. He is slow to answer questions, if he does at all.
He says he talks in generalities. Evidently if he calls 50 to 100 million people a disease then they are not to take it personally. Only when a person is named is it personal.
He was quick in the past to claim that liberals are trying to start class warfare. Yet he is also quick to point out that I cannot find a job. He does it in such away to suggest that if one is unemployed their opinion counts for less than his does.
He appears to only count wages as income, for even though I point out that I am paying my bills through investments he suggests that I am a burden on society because I have no current wages. He never answered my question as to if that means retired people living off of investments are a burden on society.
He is the ultimate victim.He is supporting everybody with his taxes. The fact that his car was broken into proves that cities have been ruined by democrats. You name it and he was a victim of it.
Every subject that comes up, everything negative is the fault of liberals. The one I liked the best was liberals are at fault for the Big 3 having problems. Accord to Less than Zero most conservatives buy American made cars but most liberals bought foreign made cars.
Yes he is a strange one and yet others like Doubting,,, looks to him to verify their opinion. He has two sets of rules one for himself and one for everyone else.
You people are so easy.
http://poneke.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/nina/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/02/19/january-2008-4-sources-say-globally-cooler-in-the-past-12-months/
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/04/world-temperatures-keep-falling-while.html
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080313_coolest.html
We can do this all day but it wouldn’t matter. You people believe anything you hear. You are so arrogant to think that we have that much power. You go ahead and keep believing the “Sky is Falling” theory, and I will stand back and laugh. In the mean time though, Al Gore gets filthy rich, all our energy costs will rise because of the silly cap and trade bull, and our taxes will skyrocket. Oh, lets not forget that we will be driving lawn mowers around due to the fact that this President is taking full advantage of this hoax to raise your taxes.
Amazing!
Look out Missouri
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1307200.html
If we get rid of carbon dioxide, how will trees live? If our trees die, what will happen to humans?
If I put ice in a glass, and it melts..does the water level go up? If an iceberg melts, does it increase the volume of the ocean?
Each side can provide scientists to debunk eachother’s theories. All I know is that it sure seemed cooler last year than previous years and it sure seems rainier this year than usual. I’m sure happier that I’m not having to water the yard as much. If this is global warming, I hope it continues.
I’m against the climate bill because there is NO proof that man is actually causing the increase in temperatures, and there is also no proof that carbon dioxide is the culprit in this warming trend. Carbon dioxide is an abundant gas that is absorbed by trees and exhaled by all mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Are we going to start getting taxed for breathing more? Are runners and athletes going to pay more taxes because they breath out more carbon dioxide? The earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years. What makes anyone think that our knowledge of recorded climate history (roughly 100 years)is enough to make staunch conclusions about how to deal with the problem?
This whole man made global warming scam is about MONEY! It’s another way to scare people into volunteering to pay more taxes to “fix” this so-called warming problem. However, no one really knows how to “fix” the problem, so our government is telling us that we have to TAX carbon dioxide output to solve the problem. It’s basically an easy way for politicians, governments and newly formed GREEN corporations to exploit tax payers and put the blame on industries which emit large amounts of carbon dioxide (ie power plants, factories, farms, etc. This is truly a scam of ultimate propotions to make the governments around the world more powerful while taking away rights of the individual.
Taxing carbon dioxide isn’t going to reverse climate change, it’s only going to line pockets of government criminals at the expense of the tax payer.
My new motto is “Don’t Tread On Me” - our government has a rude awakening if they don’t back off of the real owners of this country - the U.S. Citizenry.
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jun/30-state-of-the-climate-and-science
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A REAL science magazine with REAL scientist, discussing a REAL problem.
juanita the woofer is out of her cage again. Go get your Milk Bone.
“My new motto is “Don’t Tread On Me” - our government has a rude awakening if they don’t back off of the real owners of this country - the U.S. Citizenry.”
I think you mean the U.S. Citizenry that actually produces and works for a living. People that live off of the government are not the owners. Owners are responsible and contribute. I know that’s not popular right not but that’s how I see it.
So someone who is unemployed, pays their taxes etc. Is not an owner in this country?
What about the retired? They are not owners because they collect social security from the government and do not contribute? Though contribute can have many meanings.
So once again if someone makes $50,000 in wages does than mean they own twice the country of one who makes $25,000.
Now we have someone who says who and who is not an owner of the country. Since we are taught that the citizens own the country. We now have someone who strips us of our citizenship.
Give me a break will you. You are worse than a woman! Libs love that…watch her take off with that one.
Boob, those who have retired have paid their way. However, those that sit on their butts and do nothing and steal money from other citizen are who I am talking about. Either you are that stupid or just a trouble maker. Either way, it sucks!
Yes Juanita, it might be a real problem. However, even this article in Discover Magazine does nothing but speculate about the past and how the “ice sheets” are melting at an alarming rate. How do scientists know what led up to the last ice age? What melted the last ice age? There were very few carbon emissions produced by man 10,000 years ago - how in the hell did the glaciers covering half of North America melt?
This Climate Change issue is about one thing and one thing only…MONEY. Cap and trade will do NOTHING to thwart the USA, China, India, Russia, the majority of South America from emitting carbon emissions…it only makes money off of the emissions by taxing the corporations emitting carbon dioxide. The corporations pass these costs onto the tax paying consumer and voila! The Obama administration has an endless supply of tax revenue to spend wildly on social programs via the middle and upper middle classes.
This will be the largest fleecing of the American taxpayer in the history of the USA. It’s rigoddamndiculous!
I’m not saying that climate change isn’t happening, I’m just saying that the method of dealing with it is just plain crap. Anyone falling for this “cap and trade” nonsense needs to get his/her head examined. It’s all about Obama and Pelosi getting more money from us to further their socialist agendas.
Gaucho,
–They also didn’t seem to find it reasonable to have anyone in the article that wasn’t a “warmist,” or anyone who was from the other side of the argument. Now maybe they couldn’t find anyone.
–If they had asked Mitch Taylor, the polar bear expert and scientist who was “disinvited” from the recent GW conference, [because his views weren't "helpful"] bet HE would have participated. But then he doesn’t believe in the theory of MMGW.
–Discover is owned by Disney which is owned by ABC, get the “picture”…
Wow Zero dave what language.
So how many years do you need to work to have paid your way? Have you paid your way if you work 30 years at low paying jobs? If so then how many do you need to work if you are a CEO.
What if your unemployed after 33 years of working? What if you are unemployed after 33 years of working, but you have investments.
So a good conservative that is unemployed does not deserve to be considered an owner and a citizen?
It is your rules that we all are trying to understand. So please explain your stupid statement
I am the trouble maker.
YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS TAKING PEOPLES CITIZENSHIP AWAY.
Last week it was revealed that the EPA refused to include a report by one it its own investigators, a man named Carlin, because said report indicated that the earth is no longer warming, period. But, lets suspend reality, and assume that man made global warming is real. Put this absurd “cap and trade” bill to the test used by many successful businessmen. “How much will it cost, who will pay, and will it work?” Well, we all know it will cost trillions, and you and I and every productive employee and consumer will pay. There is noone else. If you believe this nonsense that the corporations will pay, you probably believe your employer pays half of you social security contribution. Of course, it won’t work. Where will the industries go that are subject to this huge tax? All that can, will got to China, India, etc, of course costing us what is remaining of our manufacturing industry, and therefore, millions of more jobs. Gaucho has it right, a huge money grab. But, furthermore, part of the planned destruction of the private sector.
Somebody pointed out that ice that floats on water does not change the volume of the water…this is absolutely true. (and is something that has been known as a basic physical fact for centuries) However, the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers are NOT floating on the water. They are sitting on land. When THEY melt, the entrained water will wind up….duh…wait for it…in the OCEANS. And, there is a LOT of water involved in those thousands of cubic miles of ice.
If you want to try to understand just how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere, how much there was a couple hundred years ago, and how much there is now, just look at the existing data.
There is no doubt that carbon levels have jumped tremendously in the last fifty years. Now, is it caused by human activity or cow farts? Are there that many more cows? Right now were right at about 390 ppm. Fifty years ago, it was just above 300ppm. For the last 250 years before that, it was never above 300ppm.
I know I’m waisting my time with this explaination. If you don’t want to believe that humans have severely impacted the environment, you won’t. As I’ve said, many times before, facts confuse the far right and only make them believe misinformation even more strongly.
Jellio
I can tell you that they will not believe what you said.
Heck they will not believe anything they say unless they say it.
What can you expect from people who are so arrogant that they believe that they now have the right to say who is and is not a citizen of the US, based on the criteria that they developed.
Dave–
The ill, the handicapped, the hospitalized, you know, those who are physically unable to work, ….. are they citizens under YOUR plan ?
Why doesn’t the Obama admin just come out and say they need the revenue to push their agenda and that means taxing any and everything, including carbon emissions? That would certainly give the cap and tax bill credibility and allow an honest up or down vote. The left continuously pushes, unjustly, “for the future of our global environment” while ignoring the burdens on future American citizens. Wind and solar will have their day when they are afffordable. For now, continue to develop all resources, for the good of our future generations.
“I know I’m waisting my time with this explaination.”–Jellio-
–Not as much time as you “waisted” in 3rd grade spelling. Maybe you have an “explaination” for that, but doubt it’s as good as your math.
–By your numbers we’ve increased 90 ppm over 300 years. Without a calculator, would have to say that’s about .334 ppm increase a year for 300 years. Or around .000025 percent. That is an infinitessimal amount.
About like dropping a droplet of hot water in a swimming pool every 3 days.
–But, judging by your spelling, maybe we should leave the math to the experts.
Sorry, De-dunk,
I should have had spell check on and running for you. If you’d crunch the numbers with something other than your fingers, you’d fine that carbon levels have jumped by over 30%, just in the last fifty years.
BTW, You are not a very nice person, are you?
Actually debunk is if your a conservative.
Notice he never corrects the spelling of the conservatives, which there are many misspelled words. Yet, if we can figure out what they are saying we do not correct the conservatives. Is it not pathetic that someone feels that they scored a victory simply because of a misspelled word.
Bob: Actually it should be “you’re a conservative.”
doubting..
Point taken, I am sure you will be as diligent with those of the conservatives.
After all you all should be even more careful seeing as though you now claim the right to disenfranchise citizens of the US. One day a citizen then you speak and the next not a citizen.
“BTW, You are not a very nice person, are you?”
— Jellio
“Yet, if we can figure out what they are saying we do not correct the conservatives.”-Boob
–Why Jellio, what ever do you mean? I just find it hysterical when useful-idiots get knocked off of their high horses. Don’t generally find intelligent people making grade-school spelling errors. But you be sure to point out any you find.
–Boob, at the risk of being pulled into your elliptical orbit, can understand your frustration.
–It took me days of trying to figure out what the hell you are trying to write until I realized that it was just a long and winding road of illogical and misspent illusions of misunderstanding and confusion so decided to say to myself that you were just a malingering
idiot with delusions of grand wisdom that allowed you to be somewhat intelligent sounding but basically just a windbag. Phew, that was tough.
Don’t see how you do it every day.
daffy-debunk
It must be great to be great in your own mind.
To say much and say nothing. To be an idiot and yet believe that you are brilliant.
To have an imaginary second self that you send on vacation.
Yes it must be nice in your world to have convinced yourself that you have said something when in truth you have said nothing
Daffy-Debubk
Frustration?
Since when have I been frustrated?
Every time you post you show your short comings and your lack of knowledge on any subject. So if either of us are frustrated you should be, for you are obviously struggling to understand the most rudiment concepts.
Dr DeBunk,
There were two lines in school. In one, I could have learned spelling and how to be a pompous ass. In the other I could learn deductive reasoning and critical thinking skills, along with a few manners. In this course of study, I could learn to do some simple math and understand that an increase of 300ppm to 390ppm in 50 years was a bit more than an increase of 0.334ppm per annum.
I hate to have to keep repeating myself, but….
Extremist on the right, when presented with facts that refute misinformation, tend to believe the misinformation more strongly. The truth makes them dumber, and angrier, it seems.
Boob,
–In that context, you would use RUDIMENTARY. Keep trying, but soon I will get bored with you, enjoy the ignominy while you can.
Jellio,
Wow, sounds like your school really sucked. No wonder you turned out the way you did.
Has pointed out elsewhere
Debunk posts with no original thought and only worried that he can find a problem in phrasing and not the idea.
He convinces himself that he is brilliant by not having a true original thought.
Hey Liver Breath BOOOOOB
All you do is repeat liberal talking points, and TWIST everyone elses words.
Magnum is correct about you being Mr. TWISTER. Nut job too!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we be…
Let us say for arguments sake that I do just repeat liberal talking points. That still puts me up on you for you have yet to repeat a conservative talking point or generate a thought other than to call people names.
So what does it say of you if you hold me in such low contempt and yet cannot even come up to my level.
As for twisting. I have seen conservatives attack liberals for what they said and examples they use. They then mangle all logic to justify the same by conservatives. So if I twist you guys have learned to mangle.
Jellio and Boob,
–Now that would make for a good vaudeville act. Boob could be the dummy, and Jellio you could be the dummy, oh…soooo, we’ve got some work to do on the format.
–Thanks for playing, but generally don’t get into serious policy issues with idiots, as it is a big waste of time. However, I will make time to burst their bubble, just to hear the squealing…
Once again debunk proves my point every time he posts.
Not only does he call us idiots but says he does not get into serious policy issues with idiots.
So he must consider us all liberal, independent, and conservatives to be idiots for he has yet to address a policy issue serious or not.
He might agree with someone, but without explanation, so in essence such agreements are nothing more than a bobble head doll agreement. He just sits there shaking his head and not presenting any reasoned argument.
At those times he disagrees his argument is nothing more than making snide remarks or catching spelling errors. That is not reasoned argument.
Yes gamecock and debunk should vacation together. They can leave their imaginary vacation in Hawaii and find an imaginary island somewhere. At that time they can bolster each others egos by pointing to the spelling mistakes that others have made and at that time they will think themselves brilliant.
Boob,
–Is this what you wanted…
“Did you ever notice many the same people who deny the truth about climate change also question Germany’s extermination of the Jews in 1930? Is there a pattern here?”–GARRISON–
–FOR ALL TO SEE…ABSOLUTELY ONE OF THE MOST IDIOTIC COMMENTS EVER POSTED!
–Considering the source, though, not shocking. Should forever characterize the source as wantonly lacking in sense or class.
–drdbunk–
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or this…
–They also didn’t seem to find it reasonable to have anyone in the article that wasn’t a “warmist,” or anyone who was from the other side of the argument. Now maybe they couldn’t find anyone.
–If they had asked Mitch Taylor, the polar bear expert and scientist who was “disinvited” from the recent GW conference, [because his views weren't "helpful"] bet HE would have participated. But then he doesn’t believe in the theory of MMGW.
–Discover is owned by Disney which is owned by ABC, get the “picture”…
— dr-debunk
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or this…
“The U.N.’s Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 11 National Academies of Science (including the U.S.), and NASA have all unequivocally said that climate change is real, and that humans are the culprets beyond a reasonable doubt.”…
“We are headed down a road which will in many ways be irreversable, and I am distressed to see that the road continues to be lined with a lack of knowledge and understanding”-Dan
–If indeed we are the CULPRITS, as most people spell it, and things are “irreversible”, as we also spell that; what would cutting CO2 by .00000025 do?
–It is the height of arrogance to think that ANYTHING we did would matter.
We could totally cut ALL man-made CO2 emissions tomorrow, and it would make no decipherable difference. One volcanic eruption spews more carbon into the air than all man-made CO2 EVER emitted.
“…even in a situation with less than full certainty, where the consequences of not acting are serious—justifies, indeed can obligate, our taking action intended to avert potential dangers. In other words, if enough evidence indicates that the present course of action could jeopardize humankind’s well-being, prudence dictates taking mitigating or preventative action.”…U.S Conference of Bishops-contributed by Dan-[funny how libs use religion...when it suits them.]
–Don’t know if it makes a good argument for “cap and trade”, but it makes a HELL of an argument for Iraq.
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See, I can do two things at once. Make my point AND poke holes in bubbles of hot gas.
Ah poor poor debunk, so he has made some statements.
Wow so he can do other things than an imitation of a bobble head doll.
I am impressed that, for once he came from behind is wall of arrogance and put some thought into a subject.
Now if he would do that on a regular basis, then some exchange of thoughts could be made.
However, he might have to call gamecock in order to get some additional thoughts on the subject.
“I’m against the climate bill because there is NO proof that man is actually causing the increase in temperatures, and there is also no proof that carbon dioxide is the culprit in this warming trend.” There’s volumes of proof out there for you to look at, but you can’t get your head out of your behind far enough for your eyes to read it.
This is just the kind of Neocon stupidity that wants to control the world. “Drill baby drill.” It’s as if they don’t even want to consider or explore the possibility of clean, renewable energy. I don’t have kids and I’m more concerned about the world we leave behind than every neocon-nutball parent I know. They could really care less. It doesn’t fit their lifestyle. They don’t believe it.
Neocon wingnuts, I’m just asking, what is wrong with researching renewable energy?
An extremely poor speller with horrendous penmanship was George Washington.
Imagine Washington posting on this site. Debunk would think he scored major points by ridiculing the spelling of George Washington.
Maybe Dr. D-bag should bone up on some very simple math before he proofs other’s posts.
Boob,
–Called game, he said to ask you to debunk this statement:
–It is the height of arrogance to think that ANYTHING we did would matter.
We could totally cut ALL man-made CO2 emissions tomorrow, and it would make no decipherable difference. One volcanic eruption spews more carbon into the air than all man-made CO2 EVER emitted.
–OK, go…
Today, OUR EPA head stated that the cap and trade bill will DO NOTHING for carbon levels, other greenhouse gases, or climate change it China and India are not on board. Of course both have made it clear they will not participate, so this destruction of our economy is being done with our knowledge that it will do nothing. Hope and change.
Just how many volcanic eruptions have we had in the last 50 years? Were there more or less in years previous? What has been the biggest impact on the earth in the last fifty years to drive up carbon in the atmosphere by 30%?
It can’t possibly be human activity. It must be cow farts.
” What has been the biggest impact on the earth in the last fifty years to drive up carbon in the atmosphere by 30%?
It can’t possibly be human activity. It must be cow farts.”-jellio-
–No, as it turns out, it’s termites…at least according to this guy:
http://www.forces.org/Forces_Articles/article_viewer.php?id=615 -
–Very interesting reading, must not be part of your consensus.
There’s no point.
I concede. Global warming is caused by termites and cow farts. Man has nothing to do with it. Continue burning stuff. Don’t look into renewable energy. We’ll never run out of things to burn.
Jellio,
–Don’t have the answers. That is the POINT. Nobody does, yet Obama is willing to destroy our economy and tax us to the nth degree, and for what?
–To try and reduce a greenhouse gas that is 98% of natural origin? If we COULD reduce by 10-20% that 2% of man-made emissions, then so what?
–Open your eyes and see the TRUTH, that nobody KNOWS anything for sure. Least of all Algore. THAT IS THE POINT.
–BTW, nothing personal, think you are a well-meaning and passionate person to be commended for your thoughts. Enjoy the give and take with you. At least you are spirited and can take a joke, unlike your dog, Bob.
De Bunk,
Can’t you even consider the economic sense of exploring renewable energy? “Drill baby drill,” doesn’t solve our energy problems, it just puts more oil onto the world market for the highest bidder to consume. It’s not our oil. It belongs to the company who pays for the drilling rights and licensing to get the oil.
Maybe solar and wind, as it is today, will not provide all of our energy needs, but science and invention should make it much more efficient if we just put some of our energy demand into that platform. I’m using your language, free market stuff. Has the oil and coal industry sewn up the legislative process just like the health insurance industry with millions of dollars to prohibit innovation, so that monopolies can retard growth?