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Post by hoyawatcher on Jan 31, 2011 19:10:10 GMT -5
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Post by Boz on Jan 31, 2011 19:50:35 GMT -5
Didn't South Park already do this?
If Malawians start spontaneously combusting all over the place, don't say they weren't warned.
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Post by TBird41 on Feb 2, 2011 11:48:44 GMT -5
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 2, 2011 14:21:42 GMT -5
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Feb 4, 2011 15:50:16 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Feb 16, 2011 20:17:33 GMT -5
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Post by SDHoya on Feb 16, 2011 23:49:01 GMT -5
Global wetting?
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Post by SirSaxa on Mar 11, 2011 17:37:35 GMT -5
Climate Change Poses a Major Challenge for the U.S. Navy in the ArcticSeems the US Navy, Marine Corps, DOD, and the Intelligence Community have been overrun by Democrats who have hoodwinked them into believing that Climate Change is actually real. ExcerptsClimate change will pose major new hurdles for U.S. naval forces, forcing the military to grapple with an emerging Arctic frontier, increasing demand for humanitarian aid and creating rising seas that could threaten low-lying bases, the National Academy of Sciences said yesterday.
The analysis, conducted at the Navy's request, echoes similar reports authored by the Defense Department, the intelligence community and the Navy's own Task Force Climate Change.
But while changing conditions in the Arctic present the most immediate, obvious implications for the U.S. fleet, according to Busalacchi, the new report also outlines emerging issues in other parts of the globe. They include an increased demand for Navy and Marine Corps aid during humanitarian crises.
Such missions are likely to emerge as the greatest change to U.S. naval forces' current operations, the science academy says, warning that climate change is likely to cause more frequent or severe droughts, floods, storms and other disasters that could strain military resources and national security missions.
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Post by Boz on Mar 11, 2011 18:31:44 GMT -5
Translation: "Don't cut our budget."
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Post by TBird41 on Mar 14, 2011 12:39:29 GMT -5
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Post by SirSaxa on May 6, 2011 15:54:28 GMT -5
Two more studies -- from highly regarded sources -- support the overwhelming consensus among the international scientific community regarding the climate change crisis we all face. Climate change driving up food costs - the journal ScienceExcerpts WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- Global climate change has already taken a toll on the world's food production, driving up the price of food by as much as 20 percent, a new study indicates.
The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, examined how rising temperatures has affected the world's major food crops: corn, wheat, rice and soybeans. Climate Change: The Vatican Enters the FrayExcerpts Now, the Vatican is stepping into the political controversy surrounding climate change by endorsing a study commissioned by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Vatican’s non-denominational scientific arm, which makes the case for a strong policy response to the risks posed by the accumulation of greenhouse-gas emissions in the atmosphere.
Global warming is melting mountain glaciers, spawning severe risks to sensitive ecosystems and putting the future of humanity in peril, the study concludes.
“We are committed to ensuring that all inhabitants of this planet receive their daily bread, fresh air to breathe and clean water to drink as we are aware that, if we want justice and peace, we must protect the habitat that sustains us,” the study states. “The believers among us ask God to grant us this wish.”
The study was prepared by an international team of scientists for the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Vatican’s non-denominational scientific arm, and will be delivered to Pope Benedict XVI. The analysis focused heavily on the adverse impact of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable regions and societies.
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Post by hoyainspirit on May 16, 2011 7:29:21 GMT -5
Climate change denial becomes harder to justifyQUOTE“CLIMATE CHANGE is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”
So says — in response to a request from Congress — the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the country’s preeminent institution chartered to provide scientific advice to lawmakers.
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Post by EasyEd on May 16, 2011 9:27:21 GMT -5
Is this the same group of people who forecast the coming Ice Age a few years back?
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Post by SirSaxa on May 27, 2011 16:40:28 GMT -5
The Pope, the Pentagon, and now... A Republican rising star?!?!?! The latest to endorse man-made climate change? NJ Governor Chris Christie: “In the past I’ve always said that climate change is real and it’s impacting our state,” he said in a press conference yesterday. “There’s undeniable data that CO2 levels and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are increasing. Decade average temperatures have been rising and temperature changes are affecting weather patterns and our climate.”
OK, so climate change is occurring. But is mankind to blame? To get an answer to that crucial question, Christie says, he has been meeting with experts and scientists for the last few months to discuss the issue in depth, and has also done considerable reading and study on his own.
His conclusion:
“When you have over 90 percent of the world’s scientists who have studied this stating that climate change is occurring and humans play a contributing role, it’s time to defer to the experts…. we know enough to know that we are at least a part of the problem.” GOP’s Chris Christie: Climate change real; man contributes
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Post by Boz on May 27, 2011 16:58:12 GMT -5
Since you put such stock in Chris Christie's opinion, I am glad to know that you must also agree with him that cap-and-trade is "a gimmicky system that will not work."
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Post by SirSaxa on May 27, 2011 17:04:58 GMT -5
Since you put such stock in Chris Christie's opinion, I am glad to know that you must also agree with him that cap-and-trade is "a gimmicky system that will not work." The first step is an honest evaluation of the overwhelming scientific evidence, free of ideology. Once every acknowledges what the entire world, outside the Republican Party knows, Man-made Climate Change is REAL -- then we can work together to find the optimum solutions. I am not wedded to any particular solution or set of solutions. As you may recall, Boz, I also think we should be converting as much as possible from Coal and Oil to Nat Gas -- as a transition fuel. It's not clean, but it's far less dirty than the other two. AND, we have tons of Nat Gas right here in the USA.
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Post by hoyainspirit on May 27, 2011 18:06:52 GMT -5
Since you put such stock in Chris Christie's opinion, I am glad to know that you must also agree with him that cap-and-trade is "a gimmicky system that will not work." Heaven forbid you and Christie prefer a carbon tax to cap and trade!
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Post by EasyEd on May 27, 2011 18:36:42 GMT -5
Some scientific studies say there is a relatively short-term (3-4 years) increase in temperatures due to volcanic eruptions such as the current ones in Iceland, with some past eruptions leading to increases in certain areas of up to 4 degrees C. Other scientific studies don't agree with this but it should not be ignored in the who caused what discussion. Despite what the "overwhelming consensus" says, I'm still a skeptic on man-made global warming because scientists told us the direct opposite a few years back, no one seems to know how sun activity has influenced our temperatures, and there's still the question of why Mars is warming just like earth. On the latter, the rationale seems to be it was caused by sun activity.
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Post by SirSaxa on May 27, 2011 18:54:42 GMT -5
and there's still the question of why Mars is warming just like earth. This from the exact same poster who has claimed it's impossible to measure the average temperature here on earth, but enthusiastically embraces scientists' ability to measure the average temperature on a planet 50 million miles away?
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Post by Nevada Hoya on May 27, 2011 23:31:15 GMT -5
Everybody will be happy to know that there are about 400 commonly used (presently or in the past, e.g., freons) that have a greater (in some cases much greater, like almost three orders of magnitude) global warming potential than carbon dioxide.
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