Intresting global warming story

Hi,

Ran across this story on el reg and thought you might find it enlightening.

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dr del

well i'll tell you what i got out of it- even the big wigs in climate research still have no idea what the climate is doing.

also, after reading a little bit more, i get the feeling that the scientific community is rebelling against the status quo that gore established. you have hundreds of respected researchers now running away from the global warming theory to distance themselves from people like gore. i suspect over the next few years- unless some serious scientific proof comes out for either side- we will see the scientific community level out on the issue

I can't stand it when science gets mixed up with politics like this. Science should be science, and politicians should only be able to get at it from the outside... NOT the inside...

Now because of this, nobody is going to have a clear answer one way or the other, and whether or not global warming is caused by men, we sort of look like chickens running with our heads cut off right now...

I smile at things like this. I'd also like to point out, and I'll have to have a friend of mine dig it out, that most of those "scientists" who signed up for Global Warming were psychologists, and any Tom, Rick, or Harry who wanted to hop aboard. Gotta love it.

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Originally Posted by Melicious

I smile at things like this. I'd also like to point out, and I'll have to have a friend of mine dig it out, that most of those "scientists" who signed up for Global Warming were psychologists, and any Tom, Rick, or Harry who wanted to hop aboard. Gotta love it.

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True. You see the same thing with the anti-evolution crowd. They run around saying "we have a petition with 1000's of Ph.D's saying evolution is a farce" and then 99% of those Ph.D's aren't even in a related field. Both sides are always looking for ways to one up the other. So who really knows what the truth is?

No mention was made about any compensation or access to funds for personal research by any of those who once thought one thing, espoused it as truth, and have now changed their minds.

I'd like to know where the Earth has cooled. We are having hotter days more often than ever before. We'll be breaking records later this week as a matter of fact. Our rainfall is off severely.

How can the antarctic ice be growing when burgs the size of small cities are falling off daily? Has anyone looked at Iceland lately? The glaciers there have retreated, MELTED, for MILES AND MILES from where they were just a few years ago.

Who CARES if it's totally man made? The fact is, the Earth IS warming, the oceans are rising and whether you blame your neighbor or not changes NOTHING.

Also, that guy has been out of NASA for the last FIFTEEN years. I'm sure he is keeping right up with the forefront of research by all the reading he's been doing.

Let's hear from someone who's shoes have graced the halls of NASA in the last, oh.... let's say coupla years not decade and a half.

Politics aside, the world is changing. I don't see how 6 billion eating, breathing, pooping, farming, polluting occupants could effect something as big as the entire planet. Can you?

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Originally Posted by wilomn

No mention was made about any compensation or access to funds for personal research by any of those who once thought one thing, espoused it as truth, and have now changed their minds.

I'd like to know where the Earth has cooled. We are having hotter days more often than ever before. We'll be breaking records later this week as a matter of fact. Our rainfall is off severely.

How can the antarctic ice be growing when burgs the size of small cities are falling off daily? Has anyone looked at Iceland lately? The glaciers there have retreated, MELTED, for MILES AND MILES from where they were just a few years ago.


oh yea and for your information its greenland not iceland
Who CARES if it's totally man made? The fact is, the Earth IS warming, the oceans are rising and whether you blame your neighbor or not changes NOTHING.

Also, that guy has been out of NASA for the last FIFTEEN years. I'm sure he is keeping right up with the forefront of research by all the reading he's been doing.

Let's hear from someone who's shoes have graced the halls of NASA in the last, oh.... let's say coupla years not decade and a half.

Politics aside, the world is changing. I don't see how 6 billion eating, breathing, pooping, farming, polluting occupants could effect something as big as the entire planet. Can you?

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i dunno about your views on temps but here the temps are colder than the last few years. what i have seen is shifts from when it starts to get cold to when it warms up in the spring. on another note our planet rotates on more than one axis and personally i think our poles move somewhat over the years.
i have seen where they said ice has melted but yet there is also thickening of the ice in other places. heck at one time where i live was all ice im sure it will be eventually again in due time

I've never bought into global warming, though I was rooting for it so I could avoid winters like the one we are having now.

oh yes and its greenland not iceland