It's time to pray for global warming

[jimboky]

If you're wondering why North America is starting to resemble nuclear winter, then you missed the news.

At December's U.N. Global Warming conference in Poznan, Poland, 650 of the world's top climatologists stood up and said man-made global warming is a media generated myth without basis. Said climatologist Dr. David Gee, Chairman of the International Geological Congress, "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?"

I asked myself, why would such obviously smart guy say such a ridiculous thing? But it turns out he's right.


The earth's temperature peaked in 1998. It's been falling ever since; it dropped dramatically in 2007 and got worse in 2008, when temperatures touched 1980 levels.

Meanwhile, the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center released conclusive satellite photos showing that Arctic ice is back to 1979 levels. What's more, measurements of Antarctic ice now show that its accumulation is up 5 percent since 1980.

In other words, during what was supposed to be massive global warming, the biggest chunks of ice on earth grew larger. Just as an aside, do you remember when the hole in the ozone layer was going to melt Antarctica? But don't worry, we're safe now, that was the nineties.

www.mlive.com/opinion/flint/index.ssf/2009/01/its_time_to_pray_for_global_wa.html

[newyorker]

I'll be out back burning tires, and revving the engine of the SUV..

[radge]

Before you take it as read, you have to ask which organistaions produced the figures and what type of axe do they have to grind. Ask that about anything and everything you read that claims to be fact, especially information based on statistics. Im not saying we are warming or cooling but you cant help but acknowledge our lifestyles are affecting our surrounding environment. The real question is how much of an issue is it?

[Charles Martel]

Just as an aside, do you remember when the hole in the ozone layer was going to melt Antarctica? But don't worry, we're safe now, that was the nineties.

Except no one said Antarctica was going to melt, but increased exposure to UV was going to damage human health, which is something I am well aware since I lived in the southern Hemisphere. Thank goodness the world moved away from CFCs the threat of the ozone hole is now contained, and will eventually repair itself in about 70 years.

The earth's temperature peaked in 1998.

Except what you didn't say is that eight of the warmest years on record occurred since 1998, and that all fourteen warmest years on record all occurred after 1990.

See graph:

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080116114150.htm