Global Warming in Action

March 22nd, 2008 By: Michael van der Galien | Tags:

Perhaps someone can tell the weather Gods that we’re supposed to suffer from Global Warming? It’s March yet it freezes and it’s snowing down here in the Netherlands.

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  1. TruthOut
    March 22nd, 2008 at 23:22
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    Climate Change is perfectly natural and normal. We are spending billions and billions chasing a ghost.

    FACT: We are currently enjoying the end of a warm interval (interglaciation) between ice ages. Our interglaciation is called the Holocene. The last interglacial (before the last ice age) was called the Eemian. The Eemian Interglacial was WAAY HOTTER THAN TODAY AND CO2 WAS SKYROCKETING AS WELL!!! Modern Man was not here yet during the Eemian but if we were some Al Gore type would have been blowing hot air and blaming "human activity."

    Thank God the Earth naturally warmed up from the last ice age, because my country – Canada – was covered by ice several kilometers thick about 12,000 years ago. These warm interglacials typically end after about 12,000 years so statisticly the next ice age is getting close

  2. TruthOut
    March 22nd, 2008 at 23:24
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    We should all be concerned about pollution and toxic waste, but CO2 is not pollution.

    CO2 IS NATURAL AND GOOD: We all produce CO2 every time we exhale. Trees take in CO2 and produce oxygen from it. If we somehow removed all the CO2 from the atmosphere all plants would die the same day, and human extinction would follow. There really is not much CO2 in the air. CO2 is only 0.038 % of the atmosphere, and only about 5 % of that is man made.

    The simplistic notion that “CO2 causes global warming and controls climate” is equivalent to saying “hot dog sales cause recessions and control the economy “. It’s a childish oversimplification of an extremely complex topic.

    If there was no greenhouse effect Earth’s temperature would be -30 C degrees, and essentially uninhabitable.

    Peace to all – do some reading on Holocene and Eemian and you will begin to understand that mother nature has her own rhythm, and humans definately do not control the climate.

  3. Claudia
    March 23rd, 2008 at 00:37
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    TruthOut, water is also natural, but that doesn’t mean that Katrina wasn’t a disaster because of the water. The greenhouse effect is natural and necessary, just like water, that doesn’t mean that a bigger greenhouse effect, caused by excessive quantities of the natural CO2 would be positive for life on the planet.

    Oxigen is very natural, I dare you to try to breath air that is 99% Oxigen instead of the usual 20%. Why not, it’s perfectly natural eh?

  4. Michael Merritt
    March 23rd, 2008 at 02:08
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    Global warming is about unpredictable weather, not that we’re going to die from heat exhaustion.  Hurricane Katrina, anyone?

    And 1: Yea, it occurs naturally, but we are contributing to it this time around, speeding it up.

  5. alan
    March 24th, 2008 at 12:51
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    The latest news about <a href=http://www.lifeofearth.blogspot.com>climate change</a> is so alarming (the right wing would say alarmist) as to make many people want to plant their aching heads in the sand. Some scientists using advanced computer models now argue that if we want to stop the Earth from warming, the amount of carbon we should be emitting is … none. None? As in, zero? As in, shutting down the global industrial economy? After all, global energy demand is expected to accelerate until at least 2020. Yet attempts even to slow the rate of increase of carbon emissions have paralyzed world politics for more than a decade.

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