It’s not just that it’s disappeared from media headlines this year - shoved off by the credit crunch and natural disasters, for example. It can’t be ignored that 2007 came and went as another very warm year - the 7th hottest on record since 1850 according to the World Meteorological Organization.
But it wasn’t a record. In fact that was 1998, a full 10 years ago - the year of an exceptional El Nino, a Pacific weather pattern which heats the whole globe. So is global warming not living up to the hype?
Two weeks ago Leibniz Institute’s Noel Keenlyside stirred an academic hornet’s
nest by saying that we may have to wait longer - a decade or more - for another
peak year, because a natural weakening in ocean currents may be cooling sea
temperatures.
Many scientists flatly rejected the idea, saying Keenlyside had over-estimated the effect. But some pointed out that a recent switch in a weather pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation could indeed cool temperatures globally.
Along with the gratuitous photograph of floating ice, this author actually covered a little of the other side. Well one paragraph anyway.
Meanwhile one or two doubters are already saying the present lull in warming
casts doubt on just how far manmade greenhouse gases are influencing the climate. MIT’s Richard Lindzen reckoned that if it was as bad as all that temperatures would be rising faster.
What do you think?
Well, what do you think? You could always comment here, there, or both.
It sure seems like just about everything can be blamed on anthropogenic global warming these days. From acne or the end of beer as we know it, to psychiatric illness and smaller brains, it all can and has been attributed to that evil global warming. And of course it’s all our fault for improving our lives through the use of energy. More specifically it’s all or mostly America’s fault.
As crazy as the alleged effects are, the causes are getting pretty absurd as well. We all know that CO2 is the alleged culprit. We are also told that we have to make drastic changes to the way we live - even pay taxes on the CO2 we are responsible for. But now we can add research to the seemingly endless list of human activities contributing to global warming. According to Hervé Philippe, a Université de Montréal professor of biochemistry, his own research produces more than twice the amount of CO2 than the average American. (44 tons vs. 20 tons respectively).
I did my PhD on nucleotide sequencing in the hope of advancing our knowledge of biodiversity, but I never thought that the research itself could have a negative impact on biodiversity,
he said, during a recent biology department symposium.
The solution?
For universities, he recommends having less frequent international conferences, increasing the use of video-conferences, avoiding research on well explored topics, reducing publications and evaluating the amount of CO2 produced by research projects
So there you have it: Global Warming is official caused by hot air from the researchers themselves.
University of Montreal (2008, May 7). University Research Contributes To Global Warming, Professor Discovers. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 8, 2008, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080507155305.htm
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More hysteria over the world melting and flooding at an ever increasing pace. If even a quarter of what they say is true I think we would have drown already. For at least 30 years they have been screaming about rising sea levels and drastically increasing temperatures. It’s turned out to be about .7 degrees over the last century. Whatever, I’m going to go drive aimlessly around town in my Hummer dragging a boat. That ought to make Al Gore angry
Now that Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace prize for his efforts in deceiving the masses - I have decided that gathering large quantities of fuel oil and burning it at all hours strictly to generate CO2 for the atmosphere is a good idea, I think I will get right on that - perhaps I can catch up with the emissions from Gore’s private jet. Continue reading ‘Greenland is Melting and what YouTube users say about it’
Proving once again that environmental hysteria knows no bounds, hundreds of morons sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide. Oh yes, hundreds of hydrophilic humans signed a petition to ban the common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life and covers 71% of the Earth’s surface. You’ve probably figured out we’re talking about water here, not some insanely dangerous chemical that makes your internal organs dissolve. So why would they do such a thing? Simple, because they are uninformed morons who will jump at the chance to climb onto any bandwagon that sounds like a good cause.
Water, aqua, dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO), hydrate, hydric acid, hydrogen hydroxide, hydrohydroxic acid, hydroxic acid, hydroxilic acid, hydroxylic acid, oxidane, or even ?-oxido dihydrogen - Call it what you want, I’m sure we can all agree that without it we would be in serious trouble. It would be more understandable if one of the more obscure terms sere used, such as “Will you sign this petition to ban hydroxylic acid?” or Will you sign to ban oxidane?” Even then I would expect intelligent people who are protesting issues in an attempt to change global policies to at least ask some questions. If you don’t know what it is why not ask?
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium.
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