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Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data
An anonymous reader writes, "We've known since 2004 that the past 440,000 years have shown atmospheric carbon dioxide levels varying between about 200 and 300 ppmv, the difference in extremes being the difference between advancing ice sheets and our current clime. In 2005 the data were analyzed back to 650,000 years and were found to be much the same — Al Gore was proud to be able to show that then-new analysis in his 2006 movie An Inconvenient Truth. Now all 800,000 years of the ice column have been analyzed, and the data show much the same pattern, according to the researcher: 'When carbon dioxide changed there was always an accompanying climate change. Over the last 200 years human activity has increased carbon dioxide to well outside the natural range' — to 380 ppmv."
Actually what it proves is that for the last 800,000 years the solubility of CO2 in water hasn't changed, so when the water freezes and the dissolved gasses bubble out, the CO2 level is the same.
The result of The Threat of Global Warming(TM) is that it will be used as an excuse to implement everyone's pet project, no matter what it is. No matter how inapplicable.
Just you wait. Bush will declare that we must invade Iran to stem The Threat of Global Warming. It will just be another excuse to create and enforce draconian changes, but the actual handling of the problem will never happen...
There is no possible way that they can extract statistics like that from 800,000 years worth of ice. Ice doesn't stay static - it melts, moves around, freezes again, etc. Besides, how can they accurately determine the age of the ice? Carbon dating? Pff. Carbon dating isn't accurate enought to extract accurate numbers. This is bullshit.
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Consider that my sense of humor might not be identical to yours. I don't appreciate humor based on nothing but incorrectness. Perhaps that's why I couldn't stand more than five minutes of Dumb and Dumber.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
What is there about the conservative beliefs and worldview that makes them automatically spend less money and shrink government? Nobody's been able to show that. On the other hand, there's a lot of evidence to indicate that conservatives will grow the parts of the government that they like (security and military apparatus) and shift all the spending over to the military rather than reduce budget. Everything they cut in social programs winds up being spent for guns and pork.
There just aren't any fiscal conservatives, and that is the truth. (As a sidenote, Libertarians sometimes get really confused because they think that the conservative ethos of masculine strength and self-reliance is the same as the libertarian ethos of independence. They are not the same, and libertarians should stop making that mistake. Libertarians who split themselves into half-Republicans and half-Democrats (socially liberal and fiscally conservative) are COMPLETELY missing the point.)
If you're going to describe what conservatives are, it helps to properly define them. Regurgitating the talking points isn't the same as an accurate description.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
> all 800,000 years of the ice column have been analyzed
Congratulations. You've covered 0.017% of the Earth's age, and, more specifically, a period infested with almost constant, murderous ice ages.
But that doesn't sell governmental power grabs to control the economy that socialist arguments last century failed at, does it?
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