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Considering the host of other major problems that this country is facing, it truly is ironic that the federal government is spending so much time and energy fighting a problem that doesn’t even exist.
Speaking of ironic, a team of “climate change scientists” that had recently gone down to the Antarctic to study “global warming” had to be rescued by helicopter when their ship got stranded in the ice…
A group of climate change scientists were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2, after being stranded in the ice since Christmas morning. But the majority of the broadcast networks’ reports about the ice-locked climate researchers never mentioned climate change.
InverseLookingGlass
reply to post by bobs_uruncle
So just to understand, you look at this and see cooling to an ice age?
It's getting warmer
Or you would rather latch on to a weather event and wildly extrapolate to predict an ice age?
BTW, the Earth's ice content is at a low for the last 500,000 year
Here in southern California it is still hitting near 80 degrees Fahrenheit. That is unusual. I have lived in Southern Cal off/on since 1994.
HanzHenry
InverseLookingGlass
reply to post by bobs_uruncle
So just to understand, you look at this and see cooling to an ice age?
It's getting warmer
Or you would rather latch on to a weather event and wildly extrapolate to predict an ice age?
BTW, the Earth's ice content is at a low for the last 500,000 year
I wonder how much the FUKU nuclear material collecting at the arctic is playing a role in this polar vortex (or whatever it is)?
Nuclear Winter?
Or you would rather latch on to a weather event and wildly extrapolate to predict an ice age?
Mamatus
Al Gore is a hypocrite with a personal agenda but he is a very smart guy. Deniers on the other hand are not smart at all. It takes a real kook to ignore Climate Change.
LINK
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a report that doesn’t find much evidence of “climate change” or “global warming” based on human activity, but nevertheless rushes to assure readers that the problem is still serious. Not so fast, says the Heartland Institute and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change it supports:
“Whereas the reports of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn of a dangerous human effect on climate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as costs,” the non-governmental panel announced, rolling out a hefty report with a succinct “summary for policymakers” to back up their claim.
HanzHenry
I wonder how much the FUKU nuclear material collecting at the arctic is playing a role in this polar vortex (or whatever it is)?
Nuclear Winter?
As the Arctic region warms faster than most other places, however, the Arctic sea ice melts more rapidly and for longer periods each year, and is unable to replenish itself in the briefer, warmer winter season. This can destabilize the polar vortex and raises the barometric pressure within it.
For two winter seasons (2009/2010 and 2010/2011), the polar vortex was notably unstable. In addition, another measurement of barometric pressure—the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)—was in negative mode, weakening part of the barometric pressure "fence" around the polar vortex. This instability allows the cold Artic air to break free and flow southward, where it collides with warmer, moisture-laden air. This collision can produce severe winter weather in some regions and leave milder conditions in other parts of the northern hemisphere.
roadgravel
Here in southern California it is still hitting near 80 degrees Fahrenheit. That is unusual. I have lived in Southern Cal off/on since 1994.
Normal weather cycles probably can't be measured in only 20 years.edit on 1/6/2014 by roadgravel because: (no reason given)
InverseLookingGlass
reply to post by bobs_uruncle
So just to understand, you look at this and see cooling to an ice age?
It's getting warmer
Or you would rather latch on to a weather event and wildly extrapolate to predict an ice age? That seems to be the preferred path of corporate propaganda. It's foolish, but many people who can't understand science, yield to these manipulations. The polar vortex is being knocked off it's axis of rotation by warming. It just happened to hit North America this year. A few years ago it was Europe. The polar vortexes should be increasingly unpredictable, asymmetrical and have less sway in the global system.
BTW, the Earth's ice content is at a low for the last 500,000 years. I understand people have varying critical thinking ability. IMO you got short changed. I would send an urgent letter to God or Santa to get that upgraded.
benrl
The stupidest part about Global warming, is not if its real or not.
Its the thought, that if there is no consequences than we don't have to be good stewards of our planet.
It is insanity to continue to pollute the planet the way we are whether it has long term consequence like Global warming or not, we should still take good care of this place.