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2009-10-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

~~Global Warming~~ Climate Change - "I'll be back?"

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-10-01 11:21|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 until July 2017

You guys are coming late to the party. By 1980 we all are going to be toast due to a combination of overpopulation, resource depletion and famine. Famous authors have said so.

On a more recent note, the other day we talked about the requirement in science to both share your data and show your calculations. Over at WUWT they work the latest climate data scandal. (Warning: geekiness at the link. Can you say dendrochronology?)

Looks like the tree ring data used to generate the 'hockey stick' graphs has been ruthlessly cherry picked. If you use the full dataset, the graph ends up with the same slope as your average pancake. The money quote: "The trend is flat as road kill for the past 2000 years, though it does show an ever so slight cooling."

Posted by SteveS 2009-10-01 15:11|| 2009-10-01 15:11|| Front Page Top

#2 primitive agriculture -- burning forests, creating methane-emitting rice paddies, etc. -- produced enough greenhouse gases to warm the planet at least a degree.

The archaelogical evidence says the opposite. Agriculture as the primary means of food acquisition post-dates the Holocene temperature maximum.

This is just part of the campaign to make GHGs the primary climate driver and has no scientific basis.

Posted by phil_b 2009-10-01 18:26|| 2009-10-01 18:26|| Front Page Top

#3 "Global warming" is like an STD, it is hard to get rid of and keeps coming back....This ~~Inconvenient Truth~~ Convenient Lie was ~~invented~~ fabricated by Al Gore. Another achievement of Gore was to invent the internet. The hawking of snake oil made Gore a very rich man. The green car, to be manufactured in Finland and backed with taxpayer money will also make him a bundle. If cap and trade goes through, more for Gore.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-01 23:35|| 2009-10-01 23:35|| Front Page Top

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