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HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER ICE STORM
HEARING NOTICE
Tue Feb 13 2007 19:31:25 ET
The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?”
The hearing will be rescheduled to a date and time to be announced later.
DC WEATHER REPORT:
Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning. Total ice accumulation between one half to three quarters of an inch. Brisk with highs in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph...increasing to northwest 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 18. Northwest winds around 20 mph.
Originally posted by BitRaiser
Congrats on demonstrating that you don't understand what Global Warming is.
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And you want to argue that Climate Shift isn't a reality?
Open your friggen eyes!
Nature 443, 161-166 (14 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature05072
Variations in solar luminosity and their effect on the Earth's climate
P. Foukal1, C. Fröhlich2, H. Spruit3 and T. M. L. Wigley4
Abstract
Variations in the Sun's total energy output (luminosity) are caused by changing dark (sunspot) and bright structures on the solar disk during the 11-year sunspot cycle. The variations measured from spacecraft since 1978 are too small to have contributed appreciably to accelerated global warming over the past 30 years. In this Review, we show that detailed analysis of these small output variations has greatly advanced our understanding of solar luminosity change, and this new understanding indicates that brightening of the Sun is unlikely to have had a significant influence on global warming since the seventeenth century. Additional climate forcing by changes in the Sun's output of ultraviolet light, and of magnetized plasmas, cannot be ruled out. The suggested mechanisms are, however, too complex to evaluate meaningfully at present.
Originally posted by RRconservative
1st of all, I don't believe Global Warming is caused by man. I believe it is caused by natural cycles of the Sun.
2nd of all, I don't believe oil is a fossil fuel. I believe it is a natural resource from the Earth.
Man-Made Global Warming is just a scare tactic for anti-capitalists.
Originally posted by Long Lance
How on earth are we supposed to falsify a hypothesis which is designed to be always right ?
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Any scientific hypothesis and theory can be falsified, GW apparently can't be, so take this to 'Conspiracies in Religion', please.
Originally posted by BitRaiser
One of the main points that people don't often understand about global warming is that it doesn't require man to make a huge impact in order to destabilize the climate.
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Originally posted by sp00ner
Wow... did he really imply that it was due to cold? It's due to freezing rain that's being carried by a storm system. You can't even try and not lie can you? The article clearly states "inclement weather" not.. "So cold that all molecular motion has stopped"
A simple falsification would be to show that there is no trend in warming of the globe.
But global warming is not a theory, it is actually a fact. The causes are more the theory.
Originally posted by Long Lance
uh, well, if you're inclined to respect only graphs and charts for evidence, please understand that this kind of thinking works both ways and therefore urge everyone refrain from using weather catastrophies as ammunition in the GW campaign. thanx.