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Feb 19 2008, 08:39 PM
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![]() DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/global_wa...2/19/73798.html
QUOTE Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:55 AM By: Phil Brennan Article Font Size Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming theory? Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly “lost†ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels. Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming. The Daily express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to a melting iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need to fight climate change and has been used by former Vice President Al Gore during his "Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind’s alleged impact on the global climate. Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of August when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population has soared in recent years. As winter roars in across the Northern Hemisphere, Mother Nature seems to have joined the ranks of the skeptics. As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception — Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather. Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow. Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents. AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster relief office told AFP. Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and four remained missing as of Saturday. An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including 7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can province, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, according to the Pioneer newspaper. In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England, according to the Express, which reports that experts say that February could end up as one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with the freezing night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C until at least the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus company's efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold weather. Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The agency reported that public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed. Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were snowed in. More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C. Temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C. If global warming gets any worse we'll all freeze to death. No! This can't be! This doesn't coincide with the liberal political agenda! *HRMPH*! REPUBLICAN PROPAGHANDA I TELL YOU! -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Feb 19 2008, 08:45 PM
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CHEE CHEE Group: Members Posts: 5,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: trapped in the hoezone layer Member No.: 39 |
im having a hard time finding the source for that article within the NOAA. i am willing to bet its actually not saying that at all. but yeah totally sounds like a legit article /sarcasm
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Feb 19 2008, 08:48 PM
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![]() DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
im having a hard time finding the source for that article within the NOAA. i am willing to bet its actually not saying that at all. but yeah totally sounds like a legit article /sarcasm It looked to me to be about as legit as every left-wing whacko column I read stating that we need to abandon the industrial revolution so that spotted owls can be free and a bunch of hippi scumfucks can feel good about themselves -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Feb 19 2008, 08:51 PM
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CHEE CHEE Group: Members Posts: 5,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: trapped in the hoezone layer Member No.: 39 |
but there are numerous articles from the NOAA and on their site that is in support of global warming. i also like how in the article it talks about all these places that were so cold and snowy this january without mentioning that they were not record breaking and that the other parts of the world not listed, Australia for example, had their highest temperatures on record
QUOTE * The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for January was the 31st warmest on record, 0.32°F (0.18°C) above the 20th century mean of 53.6°F (12.0°C). * La Niña, the cold phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, persisted in the equatorial Pacific. The global average ocean surface temperature in January was the 17th warmest on record, with a monthly anomaly of 0.45°F (0.25°C) above the 20th century mean. * While large parts of China struggled with a series of severe winter storms that crippled transportation at the start of the Chinese New Year holiday, it was the warmest January on record in Australia. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, temperatures were 3-4°C (5-7°F) above average across large areas in Western and Central Australia. The January 2008 average temperature for Australia was 2.21°F (1.23°C) above the 1961-1990 mean, which exceeded the previous record of 2.09°F (1.16°C) set in January 1999. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/2...14_coolwet.html dont you have a 12 hour shift of manual labor to do in an oilfield or something? -------------------- Little monkeys making money
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Feb 20 2008, 03:23 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
Cat is the universal expert on everything.
"Australia has had its hottest January on record, therefore it must be pollution, therefore you must never drive a V8 gasoline vehicle again, QED." |
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Feb 20 2008, 05:01 PM
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![]() From Atlantis to Interzone Group: Global Moderators Posts: 2,512 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Somewhere in space and time Member No.: 65 |
Impala are you trying to start shit with people? Because that's really what it's beginning to sound like.
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Feb 20 2008, 05:32 PM
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![]() DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
-------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Feb 20 2008, 05:46 PM
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![]() From Atlantis to Interzone Group: Global Moderators Posts: 2,512 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Somewhere in space and time Member No.: 65 |
That is seriously the most awesome thing I've ever seen.
-------------------- Holy shit, pebkac, you're awesome! "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde |
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Feb 20 2008, 05:51 PM
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CHEE CHEE Group: Members Posts: 5,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: trapped in the hoezone layer Member No.: 39 |
Cat is the universal expert on everything. "Australia has had its hottest January on record, therefore it must be pollution, therefore you must never drive a V8 gasoline vehicle again, QED." i was just pointing out flaws and irrelevant conclusions in the article that was posted. if you dont believe in global warming you are pretty much just considered a retard. sorry but thats true! and its the NOAA that is one of the sources stating it has a whole hell of a lot to do with pollution. im not just pulling this out of my ass (and even in a period of global climate change, ice can and does increase IN THE WINTER. just like the story in that article about the polar bear clinging to an iceberg in the summertime. ice tends to melt then. overall theres still less ice!) -------------------- Little monkeys making money
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Feb 20 2008, 06:01 PM
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![]() Eric The Sexy Group: Moderators Posts: 831 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 30 |
i had someone try to convince me that the fact that their ski resort had less snow over the past couple years proves global warming....
i laughed....hard that is all i'm gonna say about global warming |
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Feb 20 2008, 06:27 PM
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![]() damn it, someone beat me to this... I've been waiting for the perfect time. -------------------- ![]() |
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Feb 20 2008, 06:39 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
i had someone try to convince me that the fact that their ski resort had less snow over the past couple years proves global warming.... i laughed....hard that is all i'm gonna say about global warming that's exactly what I'm talkin about. Suddenly everybody's an expert. "It's hot outside OMG global warming ozone layer glaciers melting gas mileage pollution death destruction nuclear ARMAGEDDON!" |
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Feb 20 2008, 06:41 PM
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that's exactly what I'm talkin about. Suddenly everybody's an expert. "It's hot outside OMG global warming ozone layer glaciers melting gas mileage pollution death destruction nuclear ARMAGEDDON!" yeah I think everyone can agree that that is annoying... ...same thing with being so staunchly against it as well with the fingers in their ears going <la la la, I don't care about whatever article you show me I don't believe it> -------------------- ![]() |
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Feb 20 2008, 06:44 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
Impala are you trying to start shit with people? Because that's really what it's beginning to sound like. I could honestly give two shits what it sounds like or any of you guys' analysis of every damn thing I post as having some malicious intent. It just so happens that I disagree with most of the people on here about almost everything. Keeps it interesting IMHO. I typically put about as much sarcasm & caustic verbage in my posts as other's responses to me. But I suppose the the way it works is that the person with the least popular opinion is in fact the least popular person, right? Or is that most popular to hate? |
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Feb 20 2008, 06:45 PM
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![]() Group: Members Posts: 926 Joined: 2-May 07 Member No.: 1,015 |
I don't care about you disagreeing with everything. It does make it interesting.
I just hate emoticons. -------------------- ![]() |
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