FishWisher wrote:
Gosh, wouldn't it be refreshing to have them say, for a change, "We
don't know"? They don't know. I don't know. But I do know they don't
know the temperatures of a few hundred years ago - and certainly not a
few thousand.

I gotta think this whole warming nonsense is nothing more than a tool
for those that wish our technology would just plain stop. Pure
politics.

I am old enough to remember when the same folks were spouting off about
"global cooling". Go ahead - say "I don't know". Yeah, right.

Dale

Dale,

Like you, I remember back in the 70's or 80's all the "experts" were
talking about global cooling, all the news reports about the coming ice
age, it was everywhere. And then the weather started getting warmer,
and they stopped talking about the next ice age, and started talking
about global warming. Didn't they blame it on the same gasses?

I remember when they tried to blame it on Freon getting up there and
destroying the ozone layer. One little problem, Freon's heavier than
air, it stays down here with us, not up in the ozone layer, they
stopped talking about it.

I guess the "experts" changed their minds about global cooling. Anyone
want to guess what they'll come up with 10 or 20 years from now when it
starts to cool off again? Unfortunately, the young people of today
never heard these reports, they were too young, or weren't born yet. So
they beleave what their told and taught. And the news people are just
looking for a story, they don't really care if it's true or not, their
just telling you what the experts said, that's their out. Anyone that
knows anything about statistics can tell you a one degree change in a
short period of time (400 years out of the life of this planet is less
than a blink of an eye, over thousands of years, you may have
something) is insignificant. But hey, it keeps all the "experts" off
unemployment.

Capt John wrote:
FishWisher wrote:
Gosh, wouldn't it be refreshing to have them say, for a change, "We
don't know"? They don't know. I don't know. But I do know they don't
know the temperatures of a few hundred years ago - and certainly not a
few thousand.

I gotta think this whole warming nonsense is nothing more than a tool
for those that wish our technology would just plain stop. Pure
politics.

I am old enough to remember when the same folks were spouting off about
"global cooling". Go ahead - say "I don't know". Yeah, right.

Dale

Dale,

Like you, I remember back in the 70's or 80's all the "experts" were
talking about global cooling, all the news reports about the coming ice
age, it was everywhere. And then the weather started getting warmer,
and they stopped talking about the next ice age, and started talking
about global warming. Didn't they blame it on the same gasses?

I remember when they tried to blame it on Freon getting up there and
destroying the ozone layer. One little problem, Freon's heavier than
air, it stays down here with us, not up in the ozone layer, they
stopped talking about it.

Not true! even though is heavier than air, it will mix and by current,
get into the stratosphere easily, when in it's gasseous state:

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/env99/env256.htm