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Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years
thatguywhoiam writes "Congress asked, and the scientists have answered: 'The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer. The
National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the 'recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia.'"
To: Mr. George W. Bush.
Please accept that Global Warming Exists.
Signed,
The rest of the whole damn world.
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Every couple months, a small group of "scientists" rushes out, states that the Earth is the warmest ever, ignoring any facts, then go back to hide for another couple months. For those that care to look for themselves, the hottest year on record was 1998, and temperature has held stable since 2001. So yeah, you've been lied to, again, by the enviro-alarmists, but that's how they get funding. A little set of facts to start off with can be found at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFiZDAyMWFhM GIxNTgwNGIyMjVkZjQ4OGFiZjFlNjc=. There is no excuse for the blatant stupidity and carping that passes itself off as science simply to scare people into giving them money. You need to go somewhere else, stop making flamewars about junk science, and go back to empirical observation and the scientific method.
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Stop commenting as AC's and then modding them up. No one likes you, the truth is not in the middle, and republicans are jokes on every level. At least you believe in God, but you manage to fuck that up too by using His name to preach hatred. Please die in no less than 3 fires.
Ex nihilo nihil fit.
That's one pathetic troll.
You might think you're being cute or a smart troll or something, but basically you just sound ignorant.
No, I think the "whingey" people are those of poor character who don't like to be reminded of their laziness, poor character, the harm they're doing to humanity and the planet, or their general unwillingness to give a shit or do their part and carry their own weight in the world.
The greatest whinging in the world are people who say "boo hoo, I can't sacrifice even a little bit to try and conserve power or pollute less, or do anything to stop screwing the rest of the world."
The entire world's scientific community agrees global warming is happening and the consequences will be catastrophic if left to continue. Anyone not concerned due to that is either a fool or just flat out immoral.
Boohoo. So what if the planet is getting warmer. If you can't stand the heat, then get off the stinkin planet.
I am tired of the 'global warming' crap. And no one really cares about 'global warming'. If people did care, they wouldn't continue to buy SUVS and Gasoline cars. Actions speak louder then words.
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Maybe the folks like Rush Limbaugh wouldn't be fighting so hard against it if every proposed solution to global warming wasn't just a rehash of 1970's style socialism. (OK, maybe Rush Limbaugh is a bad example because he is just a reactionary demagog parroting the conservative party line, and would rally behind Bush if Dubya declared a "War On Carbon"... but replace Rush Limbaugh with some other *sentient* individual critical of the idea of global warming).
If you look at the popular enviornmental movement, the sollutions to global warming and pollution in general are:
1. The government managing and controlling industry and manufacturing.
2. The government limiting resource consumption, and then rationing the limited resources.
3. The government creating a vast domestic police state to monitor enviornmental law compliance.
When Marxist economics became discredited in the 80's, the totalitarians abandoned Marxism and jumped on to the enviornmentalism bandwagon. If you look at the modern enviornmental movement, it has changed from the scientific based movement that incorporated people from all over the political spectrum, to a radical left-wing ideology that blames all enviornmental problems on "capitalism" (they like to ignore the enviornmental catastrophy in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and many Eastern Bloc socialist economies... not this is not hipocracy, because their goals are political not enviornmental).
When the people organizing "enviornmentalist" marches in Washington D.C. are openly declaring their intention to "Destroy Capitalism!", and when the so-called "Green" party incorporates a whole bunch of political ideology that has absolutly nothing to do with climate, pollution, or science... well, those of us who aren't too fond of having our enviornment "protected" by Uncle Joe are naturaly going to try to oppose you.
Even moderate "Al Gore" enviornmentalists support retarded things like the Kyoto protocal (Which will *INCREASE* CO2 emmissions by moving heavy industry from highly regulated first world countries in North America and Western Europe, to countries with virtually no enviornmental regulation like China who aren't required to meet a CO2 quota... and by discouraging zero-emmission energy production like nuclear power and things like forest conservation, because the Kyoto protocal explicitly forbids nuclear energy and forest conservation from being used toward Kyoto reductions... not to mention helping large politically connected multinational corporations who were the ones lobbying for Kyoto, by creating "tradable carbon credits" and carbon taxes that will drive everyone but a tiny corporate oligarchy out of buisness).
Whatever bush admits won't change a damn thing.
If humans are to blame for global warming, then that blame goes back at least a century.
Plenty of stuff to blame on bush, but not global warming.
Just because Al Gore whines, doesn't mean he's helping anything either. In spite of what many people think "raising awareness" is no BFD. SUV's are as popular as ever.
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I feel apathetic about the current situation.
Scientist 1: global warming is for real
Scientist 2: is not
Scientist 1: rly it is
Scientist 2: rly it is not
And who am I supposed to believe? I don't know. Right now I don't care either way.
Sigh... Why can't climate change deniers go out to a cliffside and expose the lie of this so called "theory of gravity?"
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Well... Trying to have a discussion about this topic was fun, but now that I can see how pointless it is I'm really losing interest. Those of us on the side of science might as well save our breath (er, keystrokes). Some people in the mold of G.W. Bush like to be handed an opinion and then twist logic and reality to fit that opinion. Really... How is it that natural selection hasn't wiped out troglodytes that can't understand a simple article due to their preconceptions? Is it because they don't believe in evolution either?
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