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   fennec said, 3 months ago

   McCoy, check your sources. World ocean temperatures are the highest in recorded history. Wake up , man. The oceans are more significant than air temps.
   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090820/ap_on_sc/us_sci_warm_oceans_2

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   GNWachs said, 3 months ago

   @fennec

   No, not the highest in the world’s history. 10,000 or 100,000 years ago they were higher. Since 1900 they are up 0.3 degrees.

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   meowdam said, 3 months ago

   How can anyone believe that Man’s activity is not influencing the Climate?
   Deforestation , Carbon based fuel, we are changing the environment and the environment generates huge influences on weather and long term weather is called climate.
   I travel a lot mostly in Asia and everywhere you see pits of pollution , dried river beds or flooded areas , regions reporting droughts that have never been dry before , other places entire mountains sides are collapsing under torrential rains that never before reached so far north or inland. The climate seems to be turning upside down.
   Last year the Mekong had the largest variation in flow ever recorded i.e. the low water level was lower than ever and the high water level was higher than ever . WTF is going on ?

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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   McCoy can also prove that Ronald Reagan sailed the seas and discovered America, for the Pope, and Queen Isabella. Ferdinand got stuck as referee between Nancy and Jane Wyatt.

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   GNWachs said, 3 months ago

   @meowdam

   Absolute perfect answer. The presence of human beings is indeed having ecological effects. So Obama proposes the US spend yet another $trillion (cap and trade) while the Chinese, Indians and other polluters do absolutely nothing. They have responded and said no they won’t make the changes Obama has asked of US business.

   Taking your word as gospel what you see in Asia won’t change and we will destroy our ability to compete with the Chinese all for naught.

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   meowdam said, 3 months ago

   A sad impasse with ramifications beyond any of our lives.
   So do we all run headlong into the abyss holding hands or perhaps pushing and shoving each other?
   Are these the only choices? we are currently ruining this planet much faster than we can fix it .
   China alone could destroy the environment just by burning all its coal. India has been an unregulated dumping ground since WWII , India’s pollution problems would make the USA superfund cleanup project bankrupt just in assessing them.
   There is real profit in polluting. Beatrice foods comes to mind. I could name a hundred others but this one is ironic.
   The Chinese know every trick in the book and are making some up right now. They have serious deep social problems and keeping the economy chugging is the only way for them to avoid another Revolution . I wouldn’t be surprised if China broke in to a confederated state of China with 7- 10 semi autonomous states . This terrifies the Honchos in Beijing. Next Step would be independence.
   So self consumption becomes a matter of social survival , makes the health care issue seem simple eh..

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   GNWachs said, 3 months ago

   Wow, meowdam, I am impressed. Thank you for your knowledgeable articulate informative comment. I wish the radical environmentalists here would read it.

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   dutchfrog said, 3 months ago

   “and now we go to the next page for a cartoon that is really funny”.

   …

   Never seen a cartoon more pretentious than this one.

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   ynnek58 said, 3 months ago

   That’s what happens when you get that many bodies stacked one on top of the other (same for India).

   BTW, is that the same Al Gore that has the 16 room mansion that he was paying $4K a month to heat and cool? The guy is a dip wad.

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    parkersinthehouse said, 3 months ago

    ynnek12 and antsy - old news, rectified, bunk

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    5639 said, 3 months ago

    For insight into global warming conflict of interest, search: Media Ignore Al Gore’s Financial Ties to Global Warming

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    believecommonsense said, 3 months ago

    ^ actually you could dispense with the last two words of your post and it would be even more true
    (gosh, that wasn’t very nice of me, but just sayin…..)

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    fennec said, 3 months ago

    GNW, the report refers to water temps, not global temps and to the period over which we have records, not geological history. The devil is in the details, you know.

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    Penny PennyPenny said, 3 months ago

    Mother Nature is seriously going through menopause, replete with VOLCANIC hot flashes!

    She’s actually reaching out to us through Al Gore!

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    David said, 3 months ago

    Apparently the man-made global warming lobby doesn’t know anything about science either.

    A consensus does not prove a theory no more than a consensus would make two plus two equal five.

    Repeated experimentations that consistently provide the same result is what proves a theory. Consensus does not equal evidence.

    The real fact of the matter is that there is little data to work with in predicting climate change. In fact, there is too little data to make a prediction much past a few months. They filled in the blanks to make it work and then bang! A computer model that tells them exactly what they want to hear about climate change.

    Evidence does not lie and the man-made global warming advocates have little actual evidence that supports their claim yet they have “consensus”. A real scientist knows better.

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    johnking said, 3 months ago

    Meowdam, how cananyone believe that human activity is causing climate change? It is beyond doubt that there have been many climate changes in Earth’s history, the previous ones not conceivably due to man. But, the current change is dogmatically and quite implausibly blamed on humans. Mindless nonsense!

    Your observations from Asia are mere anecdotes, the worst sort of evidence and are non sequiturs. You see flooding
    and declare it must be from global warming. That is science? It is more mindless nonsense. Trouble is that a vast amount of money is going to be wasted as a result of such gullibility.

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    Anthony 2816 said, 3 months ago

    So many informed viewpoints.

    And then there’s ANandy’s, who puts his own profits ahead of anything else.

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    Redeemd said, 3 months ago

    Boy, Mother Nature could use a good make-over.

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    wbr said, 3 months ago

    it was warmer 1000 yr ago grape grew in greenland - i conserve energy because i do not like high energy bills

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    HUMPHRIES said, 3 months ago

    Germany has been keeping weather records since 1848. The weather patterns have been extremely erratic since 2003.

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    funnystuffwiley said, 3 months ago

    global warming causes a global cooling:

    if the temperature rises then more polar ice caps melt. this flow of fresh water disrupts the ocean currents which transfer heat up from equator. when the ocean currents slow down the temperature drops. If the currents are disrupted enough so that they stop, we’ll be thrown into an ice age.

    but hey, let’s listen to glenn mccoy. after all, he is a scientist. oh wait…

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    nomad2112 said, 3 months ago

    Where I’m sitting it’s late August and it’s 68 degrees. I think it’s time to invest in even more attic insulation before we have another record freeze.

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    Bluejayz said, 2 months ago

    I wonder how long this same debate continued on Mars before their water and air dried up and blew away.

    Sadly, neither India nor China (nor the rest of the world, for that matter) will do anything substantive until a major human catastrophe wakes people up, but then it may be too late.