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150th Anniversary of Greenhouse Climate Theory
An anonymous reader writes "It was 150 years ago that John Tyndall, one of history's truly great physicists, published a scientific paper with the far-from-snappy title On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction. The BBC has an article on John Tyndall and his contributions 150 years ago to the physics behind the study of climate change."
What makes me sad is that one can ignore that some of the same people who are howling about global warming today were howling about a man-made ice age in the seventies, and expect the rest of us to blindly follow along. It's a bit disingenuous to claim that global warming was predicted 150 years ago, when a mere 40 years ago the alarmists were predicting the opposite.
My money is on "global warming" being listed as "discredited" in a few years as "global cooling" is now.
It is not and has never been about the climate. It is and has always been about control of money and resources.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
A a WarmMonger, you would seek to put people in fear so that you can control them, can direct them to do what YOU perceive as best for them. Green Slavery, run by the elite. How delightful.
As a libertarian who has actually been to a few Tea PARTY events, I can say that they have nothing to do with AGW, they are about reduction of federal power and reduced spending. You keep trying to paint the group as this or that when the reason people from all political walks are attracted to the group is simplicity of purpose.
The typical climate denier is like the 9/11 conspiracy theorist
Funny you should mention that since it's always the WarmMongers such as yourself that are claiming this or that group has secret backing of whoever, and throwing around sexual slang to try and discredit a group you fear philosophically instead of trying to understand what they are saying... truly if you looked at it from the outside you would look a lot more paranoid than any Tea Party protestor.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Damned Yankees, never did know what to do on a nice warm day. Its called sweet tea, and when added with a shade tree or even better an innertube and a creek is a damned fine way to enjoy a nice sunny day son!
Just dig you a pit, have you some hobo BBQ, fire up a fatty or crack a cold one (whichever floats your boat) and you and your sweetie just float the day away. Dang Yankees just don't know what's good, that's what it is.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I'm personally not buying the whole "Global Warming" bit, and I felt Al Gore's film was based primarily on FUD and Guilt (there were parts such as the little "story" about his child... irrelevant) and known-massaged numbers. Before somebody jumps up and down and screams "denier" or some other goofy label - let's be clear that I think there is some "Global Climate Change" going on, which we may or may not contributing to. The evidence has been shown both ways, and honestly I'm having a REALLY hard time believing either side considering all the bogus political grandstanding they've both had. It's time to remove the vested interests and get some real science done to figure out if we're gonna cook, cool, or just have to do this thing we've been doing for a few thousand years called Adapt. That's my two hopefully unbiased cents.
Cheers, DH.