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bradclark1 10-29-07 10:02 PM

I take major scientific organizations over what? A couple of for hires you keep throwing up who have been discredited time and again on this thread.
There isn't one major scientific organization that you can name that backs your beliefs, not one but you think you know more than them. Go ahead. Believe what you want to believe. You already proved you read what you want to see not whats there and then freak when your attention is brought to it. If you ever find a major scientific organization that backs you up let me know. We both know you won't.
This shows you've lost. When you get this idiotic you know you've lost.
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BTW, how do you live? Do you drive a car? Do you burn fossil fuels? If so, why? You're killing the planet. How much electricity per day do you burn typing on this forum. Do you actually do anything real to push your cause, or do you just plant your rear-end in front of a forum that has no ability to enact your "concerns for your grandchildren"?
Further discussion is pointless I think.

Sea Demon 10-29-07 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bradclark1
I take major scientific organizations over what? A couple of for hires you keep throwing up who have been discredited time and again on this thread.
There isn't one major scientific organization that you can name that backs your beliefs, not one but you think you know more than them. Go ahead. Believe what you want to believe. You already proved you read what you want to see not whats there and then freak when your attention is brought to it. If you ever find a major scientific organization that backs you up let me know. We both know you won't.
This shows you've lost. When you get this idiotic you know you've lost.
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BTW, how do you live? Do you drive a car? Do you burn fossil fuels? If so, why? You're killing the planet. How much electricity per day do you burn typing on this forum. Do you actually do anything real to push your cause, or do you just plant your rear-end in front of a forum that has no ability to enact your "concerns for your grandchildren"?
Further discussion is pointless I think.

Actually, they haven't been discredited. Nor have any other voice of opinion on the matter that doesn't think we're all going to die. And yes, every single scientific organization cannot prove the link adequately to man-made warming. I question alot of the voices from proponent orgazniation and think many are political in nature. Why? Because they themselves are inconsistent. They themselves show many different discrepencies, and changes in their own data over time. Let's see some of the stuff that NAS says 2 years from now. I bet it will change. How many warming cultists pointed to increasing hurricanes as a sign of our impending global warming doom? Where were the hurricanes this year? Can you answer that? No you can't. Is there any reason why they don't even address their own innacuracies in these predictions? Well yes. Because they themselves don't know, can't predict weather patterns from year to year...month to month, and therefore cannot truly see what climate changes, fluctuations etc. we'll see in 10, 15, or 20 years. They have been wrong for the last 30 years in predicting massive global cooling and other matters of environmental scares. There are specific reasons why I remain a skeptic. This is not a political matter as much as it is a matter of scientific method. You want to destroy or radically alter our nation, and world using trends that can't be forecast accurately. Doing that may actually create more problems than you want to fix. And implementing radically all that new technology will take time, and it will be risky if done all at once. And expensive. And dare I say, the fabrication of all this new solar, wind, hydro, etc. equipment will probably emit megatons of the emissions you're so afraid of. Another thing that any thinking person should look at is the historical contexts of fluctuations throughout multiple centuries. I will never allow anybody to simply dismiss that data, or just simply explain it away without question so cheaply. The fact that many of these scientists give themselves a liferaft of credibility by saying key words like "maybe", "possibly" and others for when things look different from their own predictions show that they are often skeptical of their own results. Therefore, I take the National Academy's comments about "everyone agrees with man-made warming theories" as not very credible. I will listen to what they have to say. But I still think they leave alot of questions unanswered.

In addition to this, I think it is very relevant how you yourself live. What type of car you drive, and if you yourself burn fossil fuels considering what you propose hysterically is very relevant. I know Al Gore ain't alone. Also, what business do you have owning, much less operating a computer? How did that computer get to your desktop? Was the fabrication of it without greenhouse emissions? How about the fabrication of your car? Even if a hybrid? When they were built, was there any emissions from the production of it? Of course there was. How about thef abrication and processing of the materials alone, before manufacturing even starts? How about shipping those things to your door? Was fossil fuel not burnt to get it to your door? Does that not make you part of the problem if you own those things? Do you grow your own food? Or do you go to the grocery store? Does the food at a grocery store just magically appear? Or does it have to be trucked in. In refrigerated cars no less? Does that not make you part of the problem? Or are you...bradclark1 specially exempt.....and arrogantly dismissive of all other people who live in our world? You can leave the topic if you wish. I'm not going anywhere. I know it's wrong not to question the hysteria of people in this movement, pushing for things before the matter is adequately solved. They have not done this to many people's satisfaction. I certainly am for alternative energy myself. But you harcore enviro's hurt the push for it more than you help. Regular folks are normally turned off by such brutish fanatacism.

Sea Demon 10-30-07 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by bradclark1
Further discussion is pointless I think.

Of course it is, once you get asked the truly relevant and tough questions.

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There isn't one major scientific organization that you can name that backs your beliefs, not one but you think you know more than them. Go ahead. Believe what you want to believe. You already proved you read what you want to see not whats there and then freak when your attention is brought to it. If you ever find a major scientific organization that backs you up let me know. We both know you won't.
This shows you've lost. When you get this idiotic you know you've lost.
Actually it's not idiotic to ask questions. But you fear these questions, because it's a splash of reality for you. Our world cannot afford what you want. You buy wholesale supposed facts you accept without any thinking on your part, or questioning of any data. I'm not looking for confirmation from scientific organizations, like you seem to be. I'm looking for them to prove their gloom and doom predictions and it's foundations in man-made sources. And they are not doing a very good job of convincing me and many others. You take it by the spoonful and refuse to actually think for yourself. I admit, I don't have a meteorology background. Other than knowing what I have to know to be a pilot. But I do have a BS in an engineering background, and in my Master's program had to study some coursework in organic chemistry, specifically the nature of hydrocarbons. Doesn't make me an expert in any way, but I know that you have to look at data in a certain way. And once discrepencies show up, you need to address it and ask why. What are your credentials that enable you to be so dismissive? What have you acheived in the field of climate science that makes you such an expert? And gives you the know how in interpreting any of the data fielded by any of these people? What meteorological programs have you taken that makes you think any of their data is actually any good? Especially since 30 years of predictions have not shown very great accuracy.

Fish 10-31-07 07:55 AM

firewood to the discussion:
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Humans at war with Earth on climate change says James Lovelock

29 Oct 2007

We could be on the brink of natural disaster and even the gloomiest predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report are underestimating the current severity of climate change, Professor James Lovelock will say at a public lecture at the Royal Society(1) the UK National Academy of Science today (Monday 29 October 2007).
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=7226

Fish 10-31-07 08:48 AM

Anyway, while discussing the eventual global warmig, we start with protecting measures.

My vilage has a 500 meters weak spot in the dunes, waterstaat (the organisation for waterworks) made the dicision to fix that.

The first pic is made at the end of the summerseason, the first dragline is starting to remove the top layer to reuse later (plant seeds).
http://aycu30.webshots.com/image/337...5899768_th.jpg

The second post is made from the roof of Huis Ter Duin a big hotel.
(the first pic was made near the yellow cabin a litle left and below the middle of the pic.

http://aycu08.webshots.com/image/333...7237768_th.jpg

And a drawing about what they have in mind.

http://aycu27.webshots.com/image/325...8642548_th.jpg

Vessel pressing sand to the shore.

http://aycu02.webshots.com/image/305...1207389_th.jpg

Spreading.

http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/308...2116185_th.jpg


Putting the basaltblocs in place.

http://aycu05.webshots.com/image/326...5215648_th.jpg

The head of the new dike is visual here.

http://aycu09.webshots.com/image/317...0649881_th.jpg

Sea Demon 11-05-07 07:54 PM

I thought this was interesting. I'm sure it's not all inclusive either, but it outlines more than a century of climate disaster hysteria and how none of it came true.

http://www.businessandmedia.org/spec...fireandice.asp

Boris 11-06-07 09:55 AM

Hey, has this video been posted yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI

Basically it uses clear, and generally sound non-scientific reasoning to answer the climate change question... simplifying the debate and not dealing with the overall situation.

Sea Demon 11-08-07 01:33 PM

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I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.
In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped. The sky is not falling. And, natural cycles and drifts in climate are as much if not more responsible for any climate changes underway.
The founder of the Weather Channel speaks. His insight over the "planet in peril" warming stuff is very interesting.

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-b...lobal_warming/



DeepSix 11-08-07 02:55 PM

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Thought your rule would always last
There were no lessons in your past.
I think the current popular argument about climate change is missing missing the mark on both sides. It certainly lacks perspective. Humans have a definite impact on the environment. In science, every action has a consequence - some great, some small. But nothing has no result. Global warming is not a new idea. To hear it politicized on the news you'd think it was just discovered last month. At the same time, it's specious to say that every climatic change is a dramatic one that directly results from the presence of one form of life. There is considerable disagreement as to whether evolution is largely a "baby step" or a "giant leap" process. There are plenty of examples of both kinds.

Man does have a pronounced effect on the natural environment, but, that said, I think it's too easy to argue about how many angels can stand on the head of a pin. Unfortunately, it seems that most discussion of "saving the earth" only has meaning to people in terms of their beach houses or gas prices. It's not the earth we should be concerned about - it's us. Applying the word "catastrophic" to natural processes is a laughably arrogant attitude - as arrogant as assuming the universe isn't big enough for more than one life-filled planent or as arrogant as atheism. But I digress. Catastrophic climate change would only be catastrophic for us. Mother Nature can look after herself quite well with or without us. The earth always keeps its balance one way or another; it is a holistic system of which we are one of many expendable components. We may be unique but we are not irreplaceable.

Oil is a finite resource - unless you consider that it never goes out of production and that in a few million years the peat-rich eastern third of my state alone will produce trillions more barrels of it. The trick, obviously, is not to burn up the barrels we have and then have to wait for the earth to restock. Sea levels have risen, yes - but on the other hand they've always risen and fallen and will probably continue to do that as long as the earth remains a planet. Ice ages come and go - as does all life.

In other words, it ain't just about the weather. In my opinion, Man will not be around as long as his current ecosystem; however, if we want to try to extend our longevity, we should be concerned about more subtle factors than fossil fuel or sea levels - disease for one. Virii and bacteria are evolving, too, with direct and indirect input from us. They are far more sophisticated than they seem, we know less about them than most people think, and these meek but resilient little buggers might indeed inherit the earth. Overpopulation is another factor. It makes no difference if the sea level rises a hundred feet if a population exceeds its ecosystem's carrying capacity first. At our current rate of increase, we'll starve to death long before we have to worry about "catastrophic" climate change.

Then, of course, there's always the possibility of a comet or a 10-mile-wide asteroid....

Anyhow. I just think a little wisdom is worth more than the fortune we have ammassed in knowledge.

Sea Demon 11-15-07 10:12 AM

NASA says Arctic does an about face on circulation levels.......

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131

Doesn't bode well for the "climate disaster" crowd at all. This isn't what the enviros predicted would happen here. In other words, skepticism on global doom and gloom is totally warranted.

joea 11-15-07 12:23 PM

Well said DeepSix. :up:

bradclark1 11-15-07 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Sea Demon
NASA says Arctic does an about face on circulation levels.......

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131

Doesn't bode well for the "climate disaster" crowd at all. This isn't what the enviros predicted would happen here. In other words, skepticism on global doom and gloom is totally warranted.

Still can't read beyond what you want to see. Further down you will see:
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Morison cautioned that while the recent decadal-scale changes in the circulation of the Arctic Ocean may not appear to be directly tied to global warming, most climate models predict the Arctic Oscillation will become even more strongly counterclockwise in the future. "The events of the 1990s may well be a preview of how the Arctic will respond over longer periods of time in a warming world," he said.

Sea Demon 11-15-07 01:56 PM

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Sea Demon 11-15-07 02:05 PM

Note also how Morison leaves himself a liferaft for his own future credibility. Using words like "may well be" doesn't sound too sure himself. Gee Mr. Patient, you have a small headache.....let's do major brain surgery just in case its out of control brain hemorrhage. That's basically the direction the enviro-movement wants us to take. No thanks.

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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Sea Demon
NASA says Arctic does an about face on circulation levels.......

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131

Doesn't bode well for the "climate disaster" crowd at all. This isn't what the enviros predicted would happen here. In other words, skepticism on global doom and gloom is totally warranted.

Still can't read beyond what you want to see. Further down you will see:

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Morison cautioned that while the recent decadal-scale changes in the circulation of the Arctic Ocean may not appear to be directly tied to global warming, most climate models predict the Arctic Oscillation will become even more strongly counterclockwise in the future. "The events of the 1990s may well be a preview of how the Arctic will respond over longer periods of time in a warming world," he said.

Actually no. I read that too. But the fact that they couldn't even predict this trend doesn't give alot of faith in any future projections any of them can make. Like I said, skepticism is warranted as their own data changes over time. That's the only thing we can count on. And nature seems to do it's own natural changes regardless of what disastrous projections they can conjure up to sell to the public. This story is very damning to those that claim humans are killing the planet. Especially when their projections always come back to bite them in the rear. Perhaps you can learn how to interpret data correctly and leave your rampant enviro worshipping at the door.


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