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Unread 01-24-2012, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Central Illinois -
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Is "Global Warming" dead yet?

Nobody is shouting the sky is falling anymore. Maybe funding has dried up, or the Bubble has Burst.

I guess the tooth fairy and Santa Claus still exist for children.
It's 'dead' for alot of Americans, along with most of their brain cells.
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Unread 01-24-2012, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Lewes, Delaware
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I'll simplify it for you.

The point is to ridicule you and rub it in your face. I think the point was obvious to most.
That's not nice, while I was working outside today I passed gas and the hole in the ozone layer opened up enough to burn my retina's.
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Unread 01-24-2012, 08:38 PM
 
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Is "Global Warming" dead yet?

Nobody is shouting the sky is falling anymore. Maybe funding has dried up, or the Bubble has Burst.

I guess the tooth fairy and Santa Claus still exist for children.
Many millions of trees in Texas are already dead from drought or burned up by fire due to Global Warming. Most Texans had never lived through anything like the Summer of 2011.
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Unread 01-24-2012, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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That's not nice, while I was working outside today I passed gas and the hole in the ozone layer opened up enough to burn my retina's.
Your retina's what?
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Unread 01-24-2012, 10:49 PM
 
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I've heard there are still "Sonic Boom Deniers". My grandfather donated hunreds of dollars to "Sonic Boom Thinktanks" and "Sonic Boom Activists" back in the good old days just to help prove Sonic Booms existed.

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Many millions of trees in Texas are already dead from drought or burned up by fire due to Global Warming. Most Texans had never lived through anything like the Summer of 2011.
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Unread 01-25-2012, 12:05 AM
 
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It's 'dead' for alot of Americans, along with most of their brain cells.
yeah, its too bad that so many liberals have burned out brain cells.
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Unread 01-25-2012, 12:24 AM
 
Location: Tujunga
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Is "Global Warming" dead yet?

Nobody is shouting the sky is falling anymore. Maybe funding has dried up, or the Bubble has Burst.

I guess the tooth fairy and Santa Claus still exist for children.
Its the theory that fits the evidence and is accepted by the research of all major respected scientific institutions. That doesn't make it certainly true, just very probable and the only thing to reasonably think is happening, unless you reject observable evidence.

The scientific argument is long over - the question is one of politics now, if thats what you mean.
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Unread 01-25-2012, 08:37 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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read what i said again. i am NOT confusing climate change and weather. i merely pointed out, in a comical manner which you seemed to have missed completely, that in the winter time, the cries of global warming tend to dissipate, only to return when the weather turns hot again, like in the summer months.

as i have pointed out MANY TIMES IN MANY THREADS, i agree that there is climate change, i DO NOT however believe that it is driven by man, but rather it is a natural process. there are MANY things that affect the planets climate in many different ways. so to lay the blame on one or two things is flat out wrong, and ignores real science.
So what do you believe is the natural process other than man that would have caused GW, many recognized scientists do believe it is man made, to what do you atribute the change?
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Unread 01-26-2012, 12:30 AM
 
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So what do you believe is the natural process other than man that would have caused GW, many recognized scientists do believe it is man made, to what do you atribute the change?
Benjamin Franklin.
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Unread 01-26-2012, 08:18 PM
 
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So what do you believe is the natural process other than man that would have caused GW, many recognized scientists do believe it is man made, to what do you atribute the change?
and many other recognized scientists believe that climate change is natural. in fact many of those recognized scientists that first believed that climate change was man caused have in fact changed their stance.

what many seem to forget is that there are many things that are causing climate change, the vast majority of them are quite natural. things like the orbit of the planet, the orbit of the sun, cosmic radiation, the tilt of our planets axis, the change that is happening in the earths magnetic field, changes in volcanic activity, changes in solar activity, changes in the ocean currents, etc.

as i have said many times in the past, man can have a small, localized effect on the planet, but it is generally short term. this planet has gone through 4.5 billion years of constant climate change, and ALL of it was natural, until, according to those with a political agenda, now when suddenly man has the huge effect on the global climate.

and they keep saying this DESPITE evidence in the geological and ice core records to the contrary.
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