Monday, April 10, 2006

I know I'll get hollered at for this ...

... but, according to this fellow, There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998.

2 comments:

  1. Actually, only a tiny fraction of the world's glaciers have been studied. The ice cap on mainland Antarctica is growing thicker. The point of the article I linked to had to do with the "many thousands of independent scientists" who "have long appreciated - ever since the early 1990s, when the global warming bandwagon first started to roll behind the gravy train of the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - that such short-term climate fluctuations are chiefly of natural origin." There is evidence of "global warming" on Mars. This would doubtless be because of Solar activity, which would also, of course, affect Earth. As Brian of Nazareth said, we can think for ourselves. We can look things up on our on, not just rely on what the media gatekeepers choose to tell us. There is no place in science for fideism.

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  2. Well, I don't get my science from movies, not even my social science - so I don't think of penguins as promoting family values either. The peninsular ice shelf in Antarctica has been calving icebergs at a higher rate recently. According to the climatologist at University of Colorado who wrote the paper about this, it has nothing to do with global warming, but is a recurring phenomenon. Such calving, however, would effect penguin breeding options.In my previous post I referred, not to the penisular shelf, but to the mainland. My point is that the data on this subject are inconsistent and contradictory and therefore not a sound basis for drawing grand conclusions about what it going to happen decades from now. Here is some info on Mars's warming. I don't think one can simply dismiss this information and the information about the iceberg calving and the information about the Antarctic mainland ... because a movie suggests otherwise.

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