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2008-12-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-10 14:56|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Color me officially agnostic, but I do think that this might come in useful in the discussion.

Posted by Perfesser 2008-12-10 15:16|| 2008-12-10 15:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Why, just yesterday as I was chizling snot off my lip I was thinking to myself, "What is the sunspot forecast?" Last I heard, it was for minimal activity.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-12-10 15:48|| 2008-12-10 15:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Denialistas! The sun has NOTHING I tell you NOTHING to do with the planets temperature.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-12-10 15:56|| 2008-12-10 15:56|| Front Page Top

#4 But...but...but...

"It is critical for us to get a much better understanding of the impact of climate change in some parts of the world," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. Pachauri said he was concerned that negotiators were sparring and probing and leaving key decisions for the last moment.

...and, dammit! I've got to protect my phoney baloney job!!

"My concern is that if we leave everything to the end, we might end up with a weak agreement that doesn't really address the problem," he said.

Last year, Pachauri's IPCC, which collected the work of more than 2,000 scientists, said climate change is "unequivocal, said climate change is already happening, and is caused by human activity."

It listed likely effects of global warming: arid regions will grow dryer,

Haven't seen it...

rising seas will flood coastal areas,

Just drove through Boston. They had a big water main break at Quincy Market, but the city's not under water...

melting glaciers will flood communities downstream and then dry up the source of future water supplies,

So...floods will make water go away? Interesting.

and up to 30 percent of all plant and animal species may become extinct.

May?

Since then, new evidence has emerged showing that ice caps in the Arctic and Antarctic are melting, which threatens to dramatically raise the level of the oceans and flood coastal cities and low-lying islands. "Small island states are living in a state of fear," he said.

But Pachauri said there was no conclusive evidence the world is in imminent danger. "I don't think we should jump to conclusions if we get material that is based on the last one or two years," the Indian scientist said. The IPCC issues its reports every five or six years.

You mean conclusions like...climate change is "unequivocal, is already happening, and is caused by human activity."? Conclusions like that?

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-10 16:56|| 2008-12-10 16:56|| Front Page Top

The Debate IS OVER!

Posted by Jusoque Dark Lord of the Jutes3360 2008-12-10 17:25|| 2008-12-10 17:25|| Front Page Top

#6 If you haven't read Michael Crichton's State of Fear, you owe it to yourself to do so.

As I've said for more than a decade now, AGW is a crock started by people out to make the biggest cash grab in world history--the invention of the trillion-dollar carbon cap-and-trade market.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-10 17:28|| 2008-12-10 17:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Let's remember that there was acompany who strongly lobbied for the thesis of MMGW and the assorted super market of carbon credits. It was called Enron.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-12-10 17:47|| 2008-12-10 17:47|| Front Page Top

#8 As I've said for more than a decade now, AGW is a crock started by people out to make the biggest cash grab in world history--the invention of the trillion-dollar carbon cap-and-trade market.

Unfortunately for them other swindlers were pushing worthless paper with Wall Street, at Fannie Mae, and in oils future speculations so that other Ponzi schemes already have raided the bank. Now if they're willing to take some negative interest freshly printed Treasury Bills....

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-12-10 19:16|| 2008-12-10 19:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Nonsense, the warming measured on both Earth and Mars is caused solely by Republicans driving SUV's.

Posted by DMFD 2008-12-10 19:16|| 2008-12-10 19:16|| Front Page Top

#10 ION REDDIT > NEW STUDY FINDS WARMER TEMPERATURES MAY LEAD TO LONGER LIMBS.

IOW, UFO ABDUCTIONS + "GREYS" ALIENS = HUMANS BEING KIDNAPPED, ETC. BY FUTURE HUMANS = DESCENDANTS, as affected then by simil FUTURE SOLAR/SUN SHENNANIGANS???

When the NON-BORN ATTACK!

D *** NG IT, YOUR ORION BIKINI BABES CAN STAY BUT TAKE YOUR WEIRDO SOLYENT PURPLE PIZZAS BACK TO SPACE WHERE IT BELONGS, AND STAY OFF OUR FUTURE ANCESTRAL LAWNS [shaking future ancient GEEZER MUMMY/ARCHAEO-FISTS angrily].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-10 22:12|| 2008-12-10 22:12|| Front Page Top

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