Study: Global Warming is Real

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Selective statistics yet again.
Addressed many of the skeptics 'valid concerns'? I read nothing about the much greater impact of water vapor in the atmosphere than CO2. I read nothing about the impact of solar flares. I read nothing about the historical data showing much warmer and much cooler periods. I read nothing addressing why cooling is happening while CO2 levels rise exponentially.
I've seen a resurgence of global warming articles again. Climategate must have them rattled and scrambling to respond. USA Today just published an article detailed the "4th warmest January on record" yet Europe is engulfed in an extreme bout of cold weather.
http://theweek.com/article/index/224059/europes-unrelenting-deep-freeze-by-the-numbers
http://petitionproject.org/gw_article/GWReview_OISM600.pdf
http://theweek.com/article/index/224059/europes-unrelenting-deep-freeze-by-the-numbers

n8 of TX 2:36PM February 08, 2012

Oh, geewhiz! There once was an ice-age, but guess what??? it slowly melted- when did it STOP melting? It hasn't stopped. Stupid theory of global warming is all a money-grab. We have known for millenia that global warming is happening- i mean, one cannot have global warming and an ice-age at the same time. When the ice melts, its global warming, unless you build walls to the cosmos to stop it from happening in a part of the land...It has NOTHING to do with humans, however, since there is very little evidence of a massive amount of humans around for the ice-age... and its turn into a warmer environ...if its all human-related, wouldn't the Earth have needed a gob of humans to initiate the melting or global-warming of the ice age? Bullshoot! All crap, designed to grab another ton of money from the poor, overworked, beat-to-near-death-by-their-pollies taxpayers. The ice age is still melting. Big freaking deal! Is been doing that for a LONG time! You cant stop it, just like you couldn't start it. Leave it alone. Let nature take its course, and it will change when it wants to, not when you want to make a buck off it. What a huge scam! That is a bit like screaming in fright that there is AIR IN YOUR FACE! "Someone stop that from happening! It could explode your lungs! If there is a fire, you might burn more easily! EEK! Quick! Someone put a meter on my nose to regulate it, and - oh, add a coin drop on it, so that you can make money off my every breath... no dime, no breath. but whatever- just stop that nasty air from hitting my face! Its dangerous! Dangerous!" (sheer stupidity) But, you know, some would buy into it, because they are basically completely innocent, and they just cannot conceive of someone scamming them, --right in front of a TV, even! If its on TV, especially from a pollie, its likely gospel, right?

bumpkin of WA 2:28PM February 08, 2012

Get religion out of politics and have the faithful pray harder. This works for winning wars like Afghanistan and Vietnam, why wouldn't it work for this?

centralmnusa of MN 2:13PM February 08, 2012

I think it's just Alien poo

Charl of MO 2:47PM January 31, 2012

GREEN HELL...
Our economy has collapsed and the eco-ticians want to bury the body under more green regulation, fines, taxes and fees.
Beneath this obvious exercise in poor judgment is the false presumption that anthropogenic global warming even exists! And even if it does, isn’t warming better than a return to the glaciation cycle? I note, more stuff grows in a “greenhouse” than on a glacier.
The Pleistocene Epoch ended only about 10,000 years ago. With some variation, the earth has been warming during this “interglacial period”. However, about 900 years ago there was an extended period of ‘global warming” lasting over two hundred years. It was during this period that Norsemen settled Vinland, what is today Nova Scotia, and grew grapes! Yup, you guessed it, the world was warmer then and no cars, factories or fossil fuels... uh-oh...
Sea levels have been rising for about 20,000 years - nearly 500 feet. But still aren’t as high as when the polar ice caps melted in the past, when the world was once again... ah ...warmer than now. (By the way, the polar bears survived the “Medieval Warming")
What a great theory global warming is - whatever happens proves global warming ... Too much snow, “global warming” ... Too little snow, “global warming”... Too many hurricanes, too few, droughts - floods, and so on.
Remember AL Gore and the G.W. scientists after Hurricane Katrina? “This is just the first of the killer hurricanes. Every year we can expect more and more of these deadly storms.” Their “model” didn’t become reality - that happens - often. Remember the Gulf spill doomsday predictions? Now the envirotists can't find any lasting damage.
What if a cooling trend begins? Then the gurus of “meteorological/ environmental myopia” can say, “Look, we’re succeeding in saving the planet! We must continue our efforts!”
Alternatively, “Oh look, it’s still warming! We must have more restrictions and regulation!” You might say it’s a perfect scheme.
Further, I note that modern temperature records date to around 1850, near the end of the "Little Ice Age". So yes, global temps have been rising since - Thank God.
There is much to learn about the “Global Warming Hoax”... Check out the web site... Yeah, I know, every scientist who doesn’t buy into the eco- hysteria is on the payroll of “Big Oil”.
Global Warming is an ideal cudgel to control populations, economies and nations... Hunger for power drives progressives.
The scientists involved have gambled their reputations, received huge grants, and invested their lives in a theory. Global Warming has entwined itself around their very character - they can’t abandon, what has become, their personal and professional identity.
Finally, every religion has "deniers" - Environmentalism and its spiritual spin-off, "Global Warming", are no exceptions. The intolerant true believers would love to burn the heretics at the stake - but then there's that carbon-footprint deal.
Going Green Has Gone Too Far

R.L. Schaefer of CA 10:40PM January 27, 2012

@Bruce Tillsom So you don't have any sense of the environment being out of place? To me it's like people that are in denial after being diagnosed with a fatal illness.

Gary of PA 1:04AM January 26, 2012

There is little doubt that Global Warming is real. It is as real as 9999 is important to American Equity Mortgage. Ray Vinson started American Equity Mortgage with the 9999 so Global Warming is as real as American Equity Mortgage.
Henry W. Vinson

Henry W. Vinson of WV 1:14PM January 08, 2012

So if the temperature has changed 1degree C over the last 60 years, how many degrees has it risen in the 60 year period before that> And before that, and before that. There are no answers. The only answer is that the Earth has been warming since the ending of the Ice Age. There is NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF that the warming of the planet is man made.....NONE!!!!
The Sun has been changing it's patterns also that could very well effect temperature on Earth....
The Environmentalists want to scare everyone into believing that we are destroying our world. Does anyone remember that great sand storms that took place beck in the early 2000's? The skies became red and yellow over the entire United States. It was extremely scary. Where has all of the duct gone to? It has dissipated in the vast atmosphere just like everything else. he Earth has a natural way of healing itself. It happens every single minute of every day.

Bruce Tillsom of NY 11:12PM January 06, 2012

ENVIRONMENTALIST DOGMA AND THE PROGRESSIVE AGENDA MEANS A SHRINKING ECONOMY
Over the past 50 years, liberal, schools (Is there any other kind?) have churned out hundreds of thousands of Environmentalist zealots who have inexorably moved through the chain of command of the Department of the Interior, The EPA, The National Park Service, NOAA, as well as state and local Wildlife and Fish and Game Departments, and various state and local environmental commissions.
Each year these agencies add and strengthen regulations - each one a type of Lilliputian thread pressing us down, - slowly wringing and crushing the life out of energy production, industry, agriculture, outdoor access and recreational opportunities.
These bureaucracies of government are implementing an inexorable, laborious imprisonment - relentlessly confining and limiting our economic and outdoor freedoms to the point of prohibition of just about any industrial, energy producing or recreational endeavor or pursuit.
Small "e" environmentalism has been hijacked, distorted, and martialed into an intolerant, dogmatic religion, "Environmentalism". Its cohort, "Global Warming", provides even more impetus for societal penetration and control.
This New Age religion holds reign over the media, education, politicians, courts and the bureaucracies of government. It has penetrated the imaginary wall of separation between church and state. A wall initially concocted by progressives to fend off the evils of Christianity. This secular nirvana of ACLU fantasy, has been pirated and transformed by the followers of Gaia.
Now, Environmentalist theologians march shoulder to shoulder with progressive politicians - a Green phalanx pointed at the heart of our economic and personal liberties.
Our carbon footprint has become our soul, which must be purified by carbon credits, turning our thermostats down in winter - up in summer - recycling, walking to work, and eating and living "Green".
The truly zealous penitent can become crusaders in the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Center for Bio-Diversity or Friends of the Earth.
This One World Religion of Environmentalism, and its dogmatic spin-off Global Warming, are cancers eating into societies and civilization itself.
We must wake up and work to stop it before it's too late
America... no, the world, needs to awaken to this new, religious intolerance which slowly envelopes it -ruthlessly intertwining itself into every corner of our society - choking off what little personal and economic freedom remains.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:20PM December 24, 2011

The team looked at temperature data from 15 previous studies—
amounting to some 1.6 billion combined records dating back to 1800—on the subject.
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"Our biggest surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the warming values published previously,"
...............(amazing that every single time I read the same book it still has the same words..........wow what a surprise)
Muller and his daughter, Elizabeth, who co-founded the project, said they hope the study will help silence skeptics---------------(but they ain't biased-----------honest)
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The scientists found that one third of stations reported global cooling, but two thirds show global warming.
(does it get any more conclusive than this?)

sculptor of IA 5:49PM December 08, 2011