Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html

Gilligan wrote:
Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html

Do you think that global warming is a problem?

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Gilligan wrote:
Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html

Do you think that global warming is a problem?


Only when the sun is out.

Gilligan wrote:

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html



Well, as I implied earlier, and Dave pooh poohed, most Global Warming
models predict more violent storms, wider extremes of temperature,
droughts, floods, (not in the same place at the same time ;-o ).
Certainly the most recent average surface temperatures measured from
space indicate that the planet is warming, there are two big questions:
Is the rise significant enough and likely to increase for a long enough
period of time to constitute "Global warming", and, is there anything
practical we can do about it?

There are few who doubt that the answer to first is yes. It's the latter
question that opens the big can of worms, i.e., "Did we cause it, and if
so can we stop it?"

Cheers
Marty

Martin Baxter wrote:
Gilligan wrote:

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html



Well, as I implied earlier, and Dave pooh poohed, most Global Warming
models predict more violent storms, wider extremes of temperature,
droughts, floods, (not in the same place at the same time ;-o ).
Certainly the most recent average surface temperatures measured from
space indicate that the planet is warming, there are two big questions:
Is the rise significant enough and likely to increase for a long enough
period of time to constitute "Global warming", and, is there anything
practical we can do about it?

There are few who doubt that the answer to first is yes. It's the latter
question that opens the big can of worms, i.e., "Did we cause it, and if
so can we stop it?"

From what I've read, the models predict that the extremes will get
worse the farther you get from the equator.

And there does seem to be a pretty strong correlation between the rise
in greenhouse gases and the rise in temperature. Of course, that's all
there is between smoking and lung cancer: a pretty strong
correlation...

Do you smoke, Gilligan?

The One wrote:
Gilligan wrote:

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html


Do you think that global warming is a problem?


Heck...it was a problem when it happened 6 million years ago....

"The One" wrote in message
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Martin Baxter wrote:
Gilligan wrote:

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html



Well, as I implied earlier, and Dave pooh poohed, most Global Warming
models predict more violent storms, wider extremes of temperature,
droughts, floods, (not in the same place at the same time ;-o ).
Certainly the most recent average surface temperatures measured from
space indicate that the planet is warming, there are two big questions:
Is the rise significant enough and likely to increase for a long enough
period of time to constitute "Global warming", and, is there anything
practical we can do about it?

There are few who doubt that the answer to first is yes. It's the latter
question that opens the big can of worms, i.e., "Did we cause it, and if
so can we stop it?"

From what I've read, the models predict that the extremes will get
worse the farther you get from the equator.

And there does seem to be a pretty strong correlation between the rise
in greenhouse gases and the rise in temperature. Of course, that's all
there is between smoking and lung cancer: a pretty strong
correlation...

Do you smoke, Gilligan?


There's also a strong correlation between World Wars and a sitting Democrat
President in America.

Gilligan wrote:
"The One" wrote in message
ups.com...

Martin Baxter wrote:
Gilligan wrote:

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html



Well, as I implied earlier, and Dave pooh poohed, most Global Warming
models predict more violent storms, wider extremes of temperature,
droughts, floods, (not in the same place at the same time ;-o ).
Certainly the most recent average surface temperatures measured from
space indicate that the planet is warming, there are two big questions:
Is the rise significant enough and likely to increase for a long enough
period of time to constitute "Global warming", and, is there anything
practical we can do about it?

There are few who doubt that the answer to first is yes. It's the latter
question that opens the big can of worms, i.e., "Did we cause it, and if
so can we stop it?"

From what I've read, the models predict that the extremes will get
worse the farther you get from the equator.

And there does seem to be a pretty strong correlation between the rise
in greenhouse gases and the rise in temperature. Of course, that's all
there is between smoking and lung cancer: a pretty strong
correlation...

Do you smoke, Gilligan?


There's also a strong correlation between World Wars and a sitting Democrat
President in America.

So we're veering off physical, measureable correlations and going to
social ones?

Nah. That dog don't hunt.

Gilligan wrote:
Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html




Just to put this 1in1000-year drought into context...my own observations
over the past three years indicated a drought severity approaching that
of the late 1930s. I'm using the condition of some 1000 miles of
country, from south of Adelaide to the far northeastern corner
(literally) of the state of South Australia, which I traverse eight or
nine times a year. If the drought worsens then it would approach that of
1914-1917, when the River Murray actually stopped flowing. And it could
be really bad, and reach the levels of the early 1890s, which all but
destroyed Australia's then agricultural economy. So that must make,
counting the present one, _four_ 1-in-1000-year droughts over the last
120 years.

Now that senior government experts and commission appointees are into
serious hype and panic, expect no further useful or meaningful
strategies or actions to emerge.


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ATLANTA, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have found a potentially important
mechanism by which chemical emissions from ocean phytoplankton influence
cloud formations.

We need more Whales.

Flying Tadpole wrote:

Gilligan wrote:
Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html




Just to put this 1in1000-year drought into context...my own observations
over the past three years indicated a drought severity approaching that
of the late 1930s. I'm using the condition of some 1000 miles of
country, from south of Adelaide to the far northeastern corner
(literally) of the state of South Australia, which I traverse eight or
nine times a year. If the drought worsens then it would approach that of
1914-1917, when the River Murray actually stopped flowing. And it could
be really bad, and reach the levels of the early 1890s, which all but
destroyed Australia's then agricultural economy. So that must make,
counting the present one, _four_ 1-in-1000-year droughts over the last
120 years.

Now that senior government experts and commission appointees are into
serious hype and panic, expect no further useful or meaningful
strategies or actions to emerge.

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