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But perhaps the one aspect of global warming research that nearly everyone agrees on is that more has to be done. NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise is involved in a number of projects that aim to monitor and analyze climate change. A number of Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite missions have either already been launched or are slated to be launched over the next several years. Instruments aboard these satellites will take unprecedented measurements of the Earth and the sun that are relevant to climate change. The EOS Terra satellite, launched in December 1999, retrieves global readings of land surface temperatures, snow cover, atmospheric aerosol levels, cloud properties, methane, vegetation density, and a host of other variables that influence climate on a global scale. The measurements are taken over the entire globe once a day, often taken at resolutions of 1 km or less. Taking measurements by satellite is much more efficient, consistent, and timely than taking measurements in situ on the planet’s surface.

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NASA’s Missions to Study Climate Change

In doing my research for an article I am writing on global warming, I, too, saw Leonardo DiCaprio on Oprah last week and happened upon your raping of our first ammendment on your blog.

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The Global Warming Conspiracy Theory

yesterday i saw the film "the day after tomorrow"...it was such a good movie...abt global warming and ice age and everything..makes one wonder where earth will end up if we keep exploiting natural resources in this way..

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day after tomorrow

We are running out of oil, the earth is becoming warmer, and our cities can't handle any more people than they have now. In fact the earth is pretty much on its last legs, because if Ice Ages or global warming don't get us, surely the bird flu, or an asteroid will.

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Some Things Have Always Been the Same - Crying Wolf Department

Climate modeling is science’s attempt to try and understand the earth’s complex climate system and all its inherent processes. Arguably its most important roles are to discern whether anthropogenic forcing is responsible for the current global warming trend and to predict future increases in the earth’s average temperature as green house gas emissions continue to rise. This is accomplished using mathematical equations.

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CLIMATE MODELING F.A.Q.

How do we spur the invention of a 200-mpg car or promote genome sequencing for $1000 or less? How do societies contend with the accumulation of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere, the accompanying global warming and the rapid acidification of the world's oceans? How can the media be transformed into a forum where scientific discovery is heralded as it was during the Apollo program's glory days?

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PopTech! Conference 2005

Greenland’s ice cap has thickened slightly in recent years despite wide predictions of a thaw triggered by global warming, a team of scientists said on Thursday.

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Greenland ice cap thickens slightly

All I can conclude is that this global warming stuff is real, and we’re going to lose a lot of our coast to it.

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Carlos Guerra - Survivor of 9 Hurricanes

In this journalist's humble opinion, Baltimore today subscribed to the “any attention is better then no attention” theory. I mean reallyv- as beautiful Baltimore may be, that’s all they got. Next thing you know somewhere, anywhere, Wisconsin will be diverting your news away from the war in Iraq, global warming, and corporate fraud in order to bring you the latest update on the Arab hostage situation at the local Cheese Factory.

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Baltimore bomb bust

This doesn't really surprise me.... the arctic and antarctic regions of this planet have been seeing some of the strongest effects of global warming, with average air temperatures rising and glaciers showing signficant melt. It only makes sense that the warming would affect the ocean water itself. Unfortunately, these effects are not going to limit themselves to just the polar extremes.... its tempting for some to think that we are just going to lose a few obscure animals in a place that no one ever visits, so who is going to care? However, the Antarctic and Arctic oceans are important food resources for birds and mammals (particularly whales) that migrate there to feed before returning to more temperate water. Extinctions at the extremes of the globe will have effects that reach far into our own familiar territory.

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Last chance to see.... penguins?

I’m going to use the word “diagenic” to describe phenomena in which a single cause results in two opposite effects. Eg the global warming theory where the tropics heat up but areas near the poles freeze, hyperfocus and hypofocus in ADD.

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Diagenesis

Why do the public seem to believe everything that the media prints? The case regarding global warming is quite shocking. Moreso to believe that our schools are turning out hundreds of thousands of youngsters who allegedly achieved high grades in their science exams yet don't actually know what a scientific theory is.

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Global Warming...

President Bush is taking more liberal positions. For example global warming. He used to be against it. Now it’s the Republican plan for heating homes this winter. � Jay Leno

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LohC

We now find ourselves in a funny predicament. Being mostly blind to our own paradigms, we’re having a hell of a time figuring out what to do with ourselves. Lots of gloom and doom talk with terrorism, global warming, peak oil, nuclear proliferation, overpopulation, ozone holes, super-bugs, etc. All of this stuff comes about because of unintended consequences of unchecked growth.

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Opposable Thumb to Opposable Mind

A few weeks ago, while cooking, I was peeling leeks, tomatoes and carrots. Throwing all those peelings into the dustbin made me think about one frightening thing: “I am so selfish: this rubbish will be carried to the incinerator, and this will use petrol and produce CO2. Burning it will consume a lot of energy and cause dioxin air pollution. Global warming will cause hurricanes so strong that Louisiana will be flooded, disturbing world economy. I must react!”.

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How can I be so selfish?

High on the fear stakes is Muslim fundamentalist terrorism, global warming, H5N1 chicken influenza, Irans nuclear ambitions, North Korea and the A-Bomb, China taking all of our jobs etc etc.

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Climate of Fear

All the recent natural disasters, compounded with ongoing International terror strikes and American leadership errors, are giving me a bad case of the Doomsday Blues. Let’s face it, with rampant population and its resulting poverty, global warming and its resulting catastrophes, and WMDs and their resulting mass destruction, it seems like without a whole lot of peace, love and understanding… we’re fucked!

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Doomsday Blues

Contestants must have their names mentioned in either the USA Today or New York Times as many times as possible for any reason during a week-long period. Special consideration will be given to those contestants whose mention is linked in some way to global warming, or in the same sentence as either the word “reform” or “maverick.” The contestant with the fewest name appearances is eliminated.

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The Apprentice: John McCain

Great, who needs to actually worry about the dramatic and deadly shifts that global warming will cause for us, not to mention our children and their children etc. etc….Deadly natural disasters, whatever….Worry? Who needs it when there’s more gas to put in your Hummer. If I didn’t already think Intelligent Design was junk science this would prove it to me. Intelligently designed? People? Are you kidding?

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This Has to be a Sick Joke

This study clearly illustrates, however, that vegetation type change even in the natural system is a first-order climate forcing and represents another global heat change effect (global warming is discussed in our August 29th blog). While the role of arctic vegetation in the carbon budget has been extensively investigated, its role in the surface energy budget has not. This new research further demonstrates why we need to look beyond the radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, and the other well-mixed greenhouse gases if we are going to be able to understand global warming and climate change in general.

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Why is Vegetation Type a First-Order Climate Forcing?

Crok's article - that I remember pretty well - explains that the analysis of the "hockey stick graph" revealed that this main pillar of the "global warming theory" was nothing else than a result of flawed statistics and raised questions about the integrity of the world climate research.

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Dutch journalism award: Kyoto is junk

What I do understand is that there are people out there who do understand AD a lot better than me, and they're trying to find a cure. Which costs money. And I understand that our congress has just thrown another $50 Billion down Bush's War on Terr'r commode. I wonder how much closer that money would have brought those researchers to a cure for AD. And diabetes, heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular disease, Multiple Sclerosis. Hell, galloping dandruff and global warming for that matter.

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Tau and the Cost of Curing Alzheimer's

“The columns have been driven deep into solid ground,” explains Dick van Gooswilligen from the construction company. “They are even strong enough to withstand currents you would find on the open seas. As global warming causes the sea level to rise, this is the solution.”

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Amphibious houses

Did global warming contribute to the Gulf Coast disaster, and the thankfully smaller scale destruction of Hurricane Rita?

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Global warming and big storms

As I said in my previous post liberals appear to be continuously stuck on stupid, and this is especially true with regard to alleged global warming. I found an article Friday from a British paper that confirms exactly what I was saying. The gentleman who is the subject of this article is supposedly “one of Britain’s leading scientists.” This is a very scary thing for Britain. Notice how he interprets the “growing violence” of these hurricanes:

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Color me Loony

Before I come off as any more cruel and insensitive than I just have I do need to make a point to say that I understand not everyone knew of the mandatory evacuation. Then again, when did it become the duty of our government to go door to door and hold the hand of every individual who isn’t willing to keep up on important happenings in their own country or their own state? When did it become the duty of our government to babysit the people who live there? The answer: never. Sure, there are large groups of people who claim that the government didn’t do its job in warning people that a hurricane was coming. Had the tables been turned, however, and had the government simply failed to adequately remind people that, say, tax day was looming, none would have complained. Examples such as this lead me to believe that people love to blame their government for things that they are too uninformed, too lazy, too ignorant, too ashamed, or otherwise too ill-equipped to handle. And you know what? That isn’t right. In fact, the moment we start to complain that we are not living in a country that holds the hand of each of its citizens through every natural (and notice I said natural–as in Mother Nature–here, not a consequence of Dubya, of global warming, or of someone forgetting to pay the power bill) disaster that we experience is the moment that we can expect to lose so many of the rights we do have as citizens of this country. Simply put, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot have the government hand-holding along with the freedoms we feel so entitled to. It is either one or the other. And I, personally, am glad to take freedoms and their consequence of being made to take responsibility for my own actions (be it staying informed, evacuating once a mandatory evacuation has been issued for the city I live in, or something else) over the loss of these freedoms any day. In fact, I am willing to bet that most people would prefer their “freedom” over the kind of government we would have if all of the things we moan and complain about once tragedy has struck were realized.

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Katrina

That dailykos browsing is a problem though. Upsetting things appear there all day long. I want to know true problems. I want to see what’s there, not pretend all is lovely when all isn’t. But yeesh, a person can only handle so much bad news. My government is corrupt and inept, the economy is ready for a bad fall due to record deficits, global warming is truly happening now what with all that ice and snow melting up north so that even reindeer are now in jeopardy, and then you have your avian flu.

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I wait.

Hurricane Katrina should serve as a warning that the world must not ignore the consequences of global warming, the former US Vice President Al Gore told a gathering of international leaders on Saturday. If these concerns stay limited to the podium, scientific papers or seminar panels, is yet to be seen.

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‘Katrina warns, global warning can’t be ignored’: Gore

Lest any of ye scurvy-ridden bilge rats forget, only you can prevent global warming… Arrr!

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Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Global warming; a subject that's been in the news a lot recently due to Hurricane Katrina. No, I'm not convinced; we're always seeing reports of extreme weather events on TV...the hottest for 500 years, the wettest, the driest, the worst season for hurricanes, the ice caps are melting, the Gulf Stream might dissipate etc. etc. etc.

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Global warming...Why I'm not convinced

This article in The Washington Post describes the ongoing – and newly intensified – debate about global warming. And this paragraph, in particular, implies (but does not answer) a fascinating question:

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Agendas

This candy bar was nougat, caramel and almonds. See peanuts are OK, but they are trashy. Almonds are the bomb. So after trying to market that bad boy for a million years, M&M/Mars got tired. They probably lost all their talent to RJ Reynolds "smoking is good for you" division, or TexaChevronPhillipsOilWad's division of "global warming isn't real but if it is it's good for you now look over there, is that Julia Roberts and the twins?" division. Anyway, they just laid down in the road and died.

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Aborted Rant of the Day

So what should the U.S. really be doing? We should be completely removing our dependence on oil. We should be cleaning up our water and environment, taking steps to end global warming, species extinction, human hunger, disease and famine. We should be investing heavily into solar, wind and geothermal power. We should be making sure that every resident and citizen has healthcare. We should be educating our children (and by that I also mean telling them the truth about the world). We should end poverty in this country if not in the world. And we should be getting rid of television commercials and making sure that if you have 500 channels then there damn well better be something to watch on TV. OK, maybe I'm asking for too much.

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Bush's Plan - Return to the 60's

Here are some intriguing weather predictions which come from a somewhat improbable source. The author is not, as you might expect, Greenpeace or David Suzuki, but rather Munich Re, one of the largest insurance companies in the world. If this analysis is anything to go by, it would appear that the insurance industry is not waiting for the rest of us to decide whether or not global warming is a serious issue.

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Accu-Weather Forecast For The Rest of Your Life

'The effect of global warming was at most second order,' he wrote, 'and probably not present at all.'"

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The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and Hurricanes

Hurricane Katrina has left waves of debate over global warming behind. The cold-shouldering of the global warming issue by the US has come to the fore once again. Environmentalists the world over are criticizing President Bush for USA’s refusal to come on board the main UN plank to combat climate change.

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Post-Katrina, the world wakes up to global warming

Seriously though, we do need to manage our resources better. The link between emissions and global warming may not be well proven, but what about the toxins, heavy metals, tons of high longevity plastics. Yeast may outlive us all!

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Yeast - fecken stupid or what?

Personally, I would bet on some microbe that is able to break up water. But anything that reduces the world's dependence on the few oil-producing nations, reduces pollution, slows global warming, and makes us safer would be very welcome indeed.

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Good news on the hydrogen front

I’m sure you now realize how important it is that your students are taught this alternate theory. It is absolutely imperative that they realize that observable evidence is at the discretion of a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Furthermore, it is disrespectful to teach our beliefs without wearing His chosen outfit, which of course is full pirate regalia. I cannot stress the importance of this enough, and unfortunately cannot describe in detail why this must be done as I fear this letter is already becoming too long. The concise explanation is that He becomes angry if we don’t. You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

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Spaghettie God

What a putz. (And what is with him using an AOL email address?) Someone on the left needs to tell him to use some of his massive amount of money to buy a clue. Moore continues to affirm that he actually has no idea whatsoever about how the country works. Bush is the left’s favorite scapegoat. Him and “global warming”. Let me quote Chrenkoff:

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Moore offers his wisdom

The loss of forests has a profound effect on the global carbon cycle. From 1850 to 1990, deforestation worldwide (including the United States) released 122 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere, with the current rate being approximately 1.6 billion metric tons per year. In comparison, fossil fuel burning (coal, oil, and gas) releases about 6 billion metric tons per year, so it is clear that deforestation makes a significant contribution to the increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. Releasing CO2 into the atmosphere enhances the greenhouse effect, and could contribute to an increase in global temperatures (see Global Warming Fact Sheet, NF-222).

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Deforestation and the Global Carbon Cycle

Reversals of truth are interesting—and frequent—phenomena. If you’ve been following the news on the damage caused by hurricane Katrina, surely you must have heard of hardcore leftists blaming it all on so-called “man-made global warming” [N.B: now it seems to have become simply “climate change” though—as if there were anything constant about climate but perpetual change!].

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Katrina: Human Life vs. The Nature Cult

After a couple nights kipping free at the aires we arrived in Haute Savoie, the French alps. I was let out on the 'lastic leash and we wandered up to a viewpoint and I looked up. . .and up . . .CRICK! . . and up. Mont Blanc! 4800 metres! That's like 3 miles UP, what a monster mountain. My hugely sensitive cat eyes just stared and stared unblinkingly at the high heavens, at those perfect peaks of perpetual powder. The only hill I've ever seen is that rise on Norbury common which is lucky to hold a slush drift in the depths of winter, what with global warming.

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CATHEAD SAILS TO FRANCE

The EU and China have signed an important agreement on global warming which recognises the huge economic, social and environmental importance of climate change – and the influence China will have on it in the future. Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, agreed on a “China-EU Partnership on Climate Change and the Security of Energy Supply”, a wide-ranging cooperation in energy and climate change matters.

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China-EU Environmental Agreement

The barrage of Hurricanes hitting USA’s Southern Coast, including Katrina, may have occurred anyway, but their likelihood was aggravated by Global Warming is apparant. With New Orleans increasingly becoming a cesspool pervaded by violence, rape, starvation and looting, maybe every country, including USA, will now utilise hindsight and sign the Kyoto Treaty!

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Effects of Global Warming

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

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New Orleans

There sure are a lot of people talking about how hurricanes are stronger now than they used to be, and that it is _obviously_ the direct result of global warming. Let’s see what sort of information we’re able to find to support these claims.

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Hurricanes Worse Now Because of Global Warming?

Interesting piece from John Naughton this morning, commenting on a finding that a fifth of our US cousins think the sun goes around the earth. The original article talks about other gaps in US science knowledge and worries that Americans can’t follow debates about cloning or evolution. Well if they want to believe the world came into being 6000 years ago as apposed to the 4500 million, let them. I’m not too worried about a 100 million Americans with the wrong ideas about how the world came into existence. What I am worried about is that the strongest country in the world is not signing up to the Kyoto agreement because its inhabitants mostly couldn’t tell you the difference between a warm front and global warming. And global warming affects all 6500 million of us on this planet.

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Americans don’t know the earth goes round the sun

Just watching the devastation in S. America.According to the politicions,global warming is one of the less important issues and only given slight attention due to public pressure.

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A Serious Blog (for a change!)

You knew Robert Kennedy Jr. was a nutjob…what Kennedy isn’t? But, this is the mother of all insanities…RFK Jr. is blaming hurricane Katrina on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour!!! Why? Because Barbour wasn’t too keen on killing the US economy with the bogus Kyoto treaty. Ya know, the global warming treaty that would have derailed the entire US economy, costing all of us trillions of dollars, while the biggest pollution culprits (read China and India) got away without having to make the same costly changes!

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RFK Jr. Blames Hurricane on Mississippi Governor!!

After denying to sign the Kyoto protocol it is quite clear, that president George W. Bush is one of those who is to be accounted guilty for the disaster in New Orleans by hurricane Katrina. Mr Bush negated that exhaust gases are the reason for the global warming and so the US were and are the highest producer of theses gases in the world. So the little higher temperature of the water in the Gulf Of Mexico led to the few extra mph that busted lots of houses more.

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Bush responsible for Hurricane ‘Katrina’?

If it is true, as suggested by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, that global warming, caused possibly by volcanic activity. resulted in the extinction of 95% of life forms and effectively suffocation of the oceans...then it's all up for Harry Ramsdens I feel!

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TRIBOLITE AND CHIPS.. THE END.

“Pastafarianism,” as the belief has come to be known, has, according to the letter, over 10 million adherents. “I’m sure you now realize how important it is that your students are taught this alternate theory,” Henderson wrote. “It is absolutely imperative that they realize that observable evidence is at the discretion of a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Furthermore, it is disrespectful to teach our beliefs without wearing His chosen outfit, which of course is full pirate regalia.” The website includes a graph demonstrating compelling evidence which links global warming to the decreasing number of pirates worldwide.

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Of Spaghetti Monsters and People

Huh? So what are you saying oh wondrous leader? Was he duped into believing that the army was there to wear flowers, grow crops, and hand out flyers about ‘global warming’? I am sorry but everyone knows the military is a bunch of killers. Are you saying Casey was not able to make decisions about his life on his own? Why did you not stop him?

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Cindy's Daily B.S. From Camp Coward

You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

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yet more piracy

A federal judge here [San Francisco] said environmental groups and four U.S. cities can sue federal development agencies on allegations the overseas projects they financially back contribute to global warming.

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The Courts May Decide Global Warming Questions

There’s all kinds of talk back east bout global warming; most of the discussion seems to center on whether or not the phenomenon exists. Well, I can attest to its existence.

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Global Warming - a Personal Perspective

I have a problem with how it's presented. I can guarantee once a person starts asking the right questions, the hard ones, the critical ones, the skeptical ones they'll think twice about Christianity. Once we start injecting theology the waters get very mirky. For example, I attended a PCA church here in Corpus a few months ago and was really put off by the teaching of sinful nature and predestination and some old fart tarnishing the name of my old former senator John McCain (the one and only Republican I actually respect - he even acknowledges global warming unlike a few prominant figures). "It's in the Bible!" He said (sinful nature and predestination, not global warming; maybe that's why the Christian Right doesn't much care for all things environment) as I was questioning him. Really? So I ain't got a choice whether I go to hell or not? Well, I'll be damned (literally). It don't make a spit of difference what the hell I do then does it now? Oh, I'm born bad? Wow, that makes a lot of sense now. Adam and Eve really screwed it up for the rest of us. That's fair.

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Selling Christianity

Methane is an extremely efficient greenhouse gas which may contribute to enhanced global warming when free in the atmosphere, and such free methane, would then be considered a pollutant rather than a useful energy resource. However, methane in the atmosphere reacts with ozone, producing carbon dioxide and water, so that the greenhouse effect of released methane is relatively short-lived. As a pollutant, significant biological sources of methane are termites, cows (ruminants) and cultivation (estimated emissions 15, 75 and 100 million tons per year respectively.

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Natural Gas

Why the hell does Focus on the Family even have a position on global warming? It is Focus on the Family.

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Religion Journal Review

There is reason to believe that this trend of accelerating progress may end. The end of the growth of progress will probably not come due to overpopulation, global warming, or nuclear holocaust, although any of these could theoretically create havoc. Rather, the human race could soon see its rate of progress slow significantly as a result of the simple fact that it has already tackled most of the easy problems and is facing diminishing returns to ingenuity.

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Hard Problems

They seem to have an issue with global warming. Brings to mind a time when Greenpeace placed a large "Global Warming is Coming" banner across the street from BP in Anchorage a few years ago.

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Senator John McCain Global Warms My Beach

[…]at the Brookings Institution, its environmental boss detects a whiff of terminological politics. “Polling data suggest that much of the public considers the term climate change less threatening than global warming,'’ says David Sandalow. “As a result, politicians eager to downplay risks tend to use the term climate change.

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War of Words

Whereas some meteorologists believe that there is not a link between gobal warming and storms, there has also been a recent model study on how the storm statistics can be affected by a global warming that we failed to mention in the previous discussion. Furthermore, a new analysis published in Nature by Kerry Emanuel ('Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years') points to a high correlation between the power of the TCs and the sea surface temperature (SST). This paper is also discussed in The New Scientist. He suggests that a likely consequence of a future warming is an upward trend in the destructive potential of TCs. Emanuel argues that a net power dissipation is a better indicator of TC threat than their frequency or intensity alone.

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Storms & Global Warming II

New Scientist reports more worrying global warming news. Russian researchers have discovered an area of peat bog the size of France and Germany (so big then) that is normally engulfed in permafrost is lacking it’s permafrost. The ice melting could result in the release of billions of tonnes of normally contained methane gasses into the atmosphere. That, my friend, is bad for the environment. Apparently this ecological time bomb has been slowly going off over the last three to four years.

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Siberia melts

Very few scientists are willing to blame global warming, the theory that carbon dioxide and other manmade emissions are trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere and causing a worldwide rise in temperatures. Yet few are willing to rule it out.

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Mysterious changes hit Pacific Coast

it looks like we’re in store for bigger, badder tropical storms . . . for some time to come. this ap article discusses new studies suggesting that global warming is wreaking havoc on the tropical regions of our planet.

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what’s the forecast?

You’ve probably already heard more about this than you want to regardless of which side of the fence you fall on, but I want to present what I think is a relatively novel argument. The gist is that dealing with global warming as if it was caused by man is sensible based on a risk analysis using a sort of Dutch Books style argument.

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My take on global warming

It is a good thriller with a controversial look at Global Warming and Eco Terrorism. It is a work of fiction but Michael spent three years researching, and provides foot notes for, a vast body of research on the topics the characters in the story deal with. No matter what your position on these issues I hope you check out the book, keep an open mind while reading it, and then begin asking some real questions about how “scientific” information is presented. Both sides of the argument distort the true data to suit their view and if you are any kind of conspiracy theorist, the State of Fear is surly no joke.

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Michael Crichton’s State of Fear

What is happening to the black family in America is the sociological equivalent of global warming: easier to document than to reverse, inconsistent in its near-term effect—and disastrous in the long run.

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Black Families Are Failing

But his story became rather important to our little group. We all wanted to come up with our own story that had the word "World" in the title. One of my friends had to the foresight to think up a story called "Water World" where the whole world was submerged under water because of global warming. My blatant rip off of this was called "Land World" where, for some reason I couldn't think of at the time, all the earth's water evaporated.

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Nerf World

Oh, and for those of you who are hoping the end is in sight, check out the graphic below from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. Yes, all the red means its going to be hot for a while. God bless SUV's and global warming.

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Record heat in Wyoming, flights cancelled in due to heat

Looking down, I admired my new adornment. Embossed on the soft caramel leather band were the words "Stop Global Warming." Almost immediately, I was aware of wearing a bracelet. I was also aware of an unfamiliar warmth. Not the global sort, but that which radiates from one's Inner Virtue.

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Kathleen Parker: Easy Virtue

Looks like it’s on the people of America to show leadership on preserving our future in the face of global warming….

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Scientist Testifies on Global Warming

The Carolina Journal relays the comments of Fred Singer during his recent speech in Raleigh. Singer takes the dispassionate logical view of global warming and Kyoto that so differs from those on the Left who choose to use the issue for their personal political gain.

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Fred Singer on Global Warming

“It’s the krill that drive the food web dynamics off this coast,” said Ellie Cohen, the executive director of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory. “Their absence has tremendous implications for everything out there, right up to the humpback and blue whales. We don’t know if this is a result of global warming or some natural cycling, but without the krill, you could be looking at a food web collapse.”

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Plankton Vanishing Off NorthWest Coast

Given that the G8 meetings start today, and given that terrorism is NOT on the agenda this year, given that George Bush probably doesnt give 2 fucks about global warming or poverty in Africa which ARE on the agenda, isnt it just too much of a strange coincidence? Yes, you could probably argue the fact that terrorists targeted this G8 day on purpose BUT if that really were the case and leaders were to be the targets, why target london and not Scotland????? Which is where the meetings being held. Also why target London transport systems and with minimilistic bombs that havent really killed anyone??? How Im seeing this is perhaps yes perhaps the Bush administration have got their fingers in the pie of this somehow in an effort to push terrorism back onto the table at the summit...forcing poverty and environmental issues to be swept under the carpet once again. Its a sad sad bloody state of affairs, especially that Tony Blair, the main pusher in the 8 leaders wanting to eradicate poverty, has to be pulled away from the summit in order to clean up someone elses mess in london. Perhaps im wrong but i think this is a HIGH HIGH possibility of whats actually going on. Dont think I been watching too much Michael Moore either, i havent, ive always thought...............theres more to the story than meets the eye!

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London Bombings 07 July 2005

"All of a sudden," he continued, "the media began asking, 'Is she selling out? Is she abandoning her principles?' But if John McCain, who's pro-life, works with Hillary on global warming, he's a man of principle moving to the middle."

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Bill Clinton, in his first non-lie of the summer, tells Dems not to worry, Hillary is still an abortion fan

"It's what I call tropical nights," said Phillips, adding humidity and smog are playing a role as well as a lack of rain. "That's what global warming is all about. It is not the daytime highs but the nighttime lows that are higher than what our parents and grandparents experienced."

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Summer of '05 sizzles

Reducing pollution levels in the air could lead to much higher levels of global warming, researchers have warned.

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Clean Air and Wind Power Get the Kiss of Death

How reassuring to know that my state is hopping on the issue of the day and spending our money on a state commission examining global warming. If the article by N&O writer Wade Rawlins today is any indication, we are in for an expensive and misleading journey.

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Global Warming

Western civilizations' out-of-control humongous footprint has brought humanity to the brink of twin disasters, the first being global warming, which is very real and is something humans must and will deal with in one way or another: either by making the decision to adapt to our planet's limitations, or in pain and suffering as we destroy the Earth and ourselves along with her.

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introductory post: small footprint

"Given the above caveats, if t