Science and Society

I don't trust their numbers one bit. Here in South Central Wisconsin, we only broke 90 degrees twice in 2008. Normally we have around 20 days a year that are well into the nineties.

And has anyone seen some of the places they put their measuring instruments? Many are in parking lots that obviously weren't there 50 years ago.

GISS and the IPCC crossed the fine line between "cherry picking" data and outright fraud years ago. Follow the money!

More likely the report was delayed because of icy travel conditions.

year 1960: Global cooling caused by CO2 emmissions will bring the planet into the next ice age!!

year 2000: Global cooling caused by CO2 emissions will turn the planet into a desert!!!

year 2020: Global cooling/warming caused by CO2 emissions from overpopulation has damaged leading scientists brains. Solution: eliminate 2 billion people to save the planet and the retarted scientists.

Al Moron is still trying to sell his books! This is a living joke.

The entire concept that taking a snapshot in time and extrapolating the end of the world from it is a complete joke. Unfortunately Al Bore & his group of frauds have manged to scare enough people into believing it.

I wish these same people would give me their money and lives to bet in the stock market based on two hours of data coming off the Dow Jones.

Liberals yak all the time about how Bush has destoyed everything since the big bang, the real game being played is this foolishness about global warming, oops, now the PC term is "climate change". The planet has undergone these kinds of changes many, mant times in the past.

I keep waiting to hear these clowns tell us the Model T emmisions created the Dust Bowl storms!

Algore! I don't know how that has anything to do with the topic, but that's usually the response to these kinds of stories.

Mike_C: "The entire concept that taking a snapshot in time and extrapolating the end of the world from it is a complete joke."

No scientist has ever done that.

adam: "Global cooling caused by CO2 emmissions will bring the planet into the next ice age"

No scientist ever said anything of the sort. When you put quotes around something, you are not supposed to have just made it up.

"Scientists say last year was coolest since 2000, but temps still rising." - What?

Bill

They are referring to different time-scales. "Climate" is usually defined as a long-term average, usually at least 20-30 years. That is because many of the year-to-year variations in temperature are due to various anomalies and random events, and are not indicative of "climate."

The point is, whether this year was warmer or cooler than last, has very little to do with climate change.

"The planet has undergone these kinds of changes many, mant times in the past."----1) That's about a stupid as saying man can't cause forest fires because nature caused them long before there were humans. 2) How did these natural climate changes work out in the past for the creatures living at the time? Maybe we should ask the woolly mammoth or the sabre toothed tiger. Climate change, artificial or otherwise, will not wipe out life on earth. It'll just make it VERY unpleasant for us.

just listen to Rush Limbaugh, Professor at the Rush Limbaugh Center for Advanced Conservative Studies and get your biological and geological information. whatever you do, do NOT believe the people who have PhDs in fields relevant to global environment. if you got the chills this year, there's no global worming, silly.

seriously, bury your head in the sands. just don't take us down with you. some of us have hope for the earth because unlike many, we don't plan on getting teleported away when end times or rapture comes.

your hatred of higher learning is astounding and no wonder why our nation's education system is in its dismal state.

reason, rationalism and science are all the devil's work. lol.

jock59801: "No scientist ever said anything of the sort. When you put quotes around something, you are not supposed to have just made it up"

i find it funny that they are still talking about it, its a complete contradictary of the current theory

adam

Congratulations, you found a stupid scientist.

But the few scientists who speculated about an ice age in the 1970s were not talking about CO2, but rather particulates from air pollution.

Someone did a review of the scientific literature recently, and found that there were actually more scientists in the 1970s predicting warmer climates than cooler ones.

We are lucky that we got a one year break from the horrors of global warming.
Just kidding...everyone knows global warming is a hoax.

Mr. Jock59801,

Do the terms "Interglacial", "Pacific Decadal Oscillation", Solar cycle 24" and "El Nino Southern Oscillation" mean anything to you? Have you read the paper by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas demonstrating the link between solar activity, cosmic particles and cloud formation? Are you aware that the relation of temperature to CO2 is an inverse log function? The predictons of the IPCC's GCM's made only 10 years ago have diverged dramatically from observations. The game is up and the fraud has been exposed. Throw another log on the fire and do your homework.

Brian

Yes, I have heard of all of those things. They all affect the climate. So? So does CO2.

Gore needs to travel more in his private jet. It is cold where I am. Maybe Al can heat up the place with his travels.

Mr. Jock,

Terrific! Then you do understand the forces and mechanisms that determine climate on earth. Only one point remains.

CO2 is an insulator. The first 20ppm account for most of the insulation. Further increases have ever diminishing effects.

Similar to insulating your house, once you've achieved a certian value of insulation, adding more insulation will have no measurable effect.

At the current concentration of 380ppm, additional CO2 is irrelavent to temperature and climate as this data from PNAS clearly demonstrates.

My apologies for the referrence to doing your homework. You obviously have.