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Global cooling? How times have changed . . .

Beast

Beast

Turbo Monkey
May 23, 2002
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I recently found this article, dated April, 1975:
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf

Interesting to see the massive shift in the past 30 years.

One perspective -
"Global warming" is kind of a misnomer, because actually parts of the earth get colder while other parts get warmer. The poles are getting warmer, and ice is melting into the ocean, which is affecting the ocean currents, which directly affects the temperature all over the place. The warm gulf currents change and go somewhere else, and that part of the US gets colder, etc.
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Old Man G Funk

Old Man G Funk

Choir Boy
Nov 21, 2005
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Not really that interesting. Global cooling was never accepted as mainstream when it came out. Scientists take a lot of flack for it, but it was a minority position that was quickly overturned due to lack of clear evidence. That is vastly different from the current situation where we have a position that is accepted by the vast majority of scientists with an abundance of evidence for global warming.
 
N8 v2.0

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
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The Cleft of Venus
There's now global warming thanks to asshats like this jerkoff and his gas burning ways:


Al Gore visits Berkeley, charges up Prop. 87 rally
SAYS MEASURE TO FUND GREEN ENERGY HELPS TACKLE CLIMATE CRISIS
By Rick Jurgens
MediaNews

Former Vice President Al Gore appeared in Berkeley on Monday to lend his celebrity and reputation as a crusader against global warming to a measure on California's Nov. 7 ballot that would tax oil companies to raise $4 billion for green energy projects.

``I'm here to change peoples' minds on the climate crisis and to support Prop 87,'' Gore called to a group of reporters after he emerged from the ``100 miles per gallon'' Toyota Prius that brought him to a noontime rally in a sun-drenched park behind Berkeley's City Hall.

His motorcade also included three motorcycles, two limousines and a Dodge Ram 1500 light duty truck.
 
Old Man G Funk

Old Man G Funk

Choir Boy
Nov 21, 2005
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N8 said:
There's now global warming thanks to asshats like this jerkoff and his gas burning ways:


Al Gore visits Berkeley, charges up Prop. 87 rally
SAYS MEASURE TO FUND GREEN ENERGY HELPS TACKLE CLIMATE CRISIS
By Rick Jurgens
MediaNews

Former Vice President Al Gore appeared in Berkeley on Monday to lend his celebrity and reputation as a crusader against global warming to a measure on California's Nov. 7 ballot that would tax oil companies to raise $4 billion for green energy projects.

``I'm here to change peoples' minds on the climate crisis and to support Prop 87,'' Gore called to a group of reporters after he emerged from the ``100 miles per gallon'' Toyota Prius that brought him to a noontime rally in a sun-drenched park behind Berkeley's City Hall.

His motorcade also included three motorcycles, two limousines and a Dodge Ram 1500 light duty truck.
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Because it is Gore's fault that the security detailed to him isn't very green?

BTW, he does buy credits to offset his CO2 consumption.
 
Reactor

Reactor

Turbo Monkey
Apr 5, 2005
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Local cooling caused by global warming. is possible. Global cooling isn't happening.

Global warming has reached the tipping point. There are all sorts of unexpected side effects.

Warming has reached the point where Perma frost in the northern hemisphere is thawing are returning carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. Which in turns speeds up global warming. The global co2 level is higher any time since we started measuring it. We near the point at which global warming is irreversible.

In some parts of the ocean algae blooms caused by warm temperatures and hi co2 levels and phosphates are killing fish in swaths hundreds of miles in diameter, be preventing the ocean water for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere. The fish suffocate. The algae does absorb some co2, but soon dies and returns the carbon to the ecosystem.

There is a huge body of evidence on global warming, at this point the scientific community no longer is arguing on if ti's man made, or exists, they only disagree if it will be a catastrophe or total disaster.
 
BurlyShirley

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
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Ran across this quote todays and found it fitting:

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
- Robert Frost
 
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