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Re: Dangers of Global Warming.
« Reply #175 on: April 24, 2009, 11:41:19 AM »
Was merely in response to your more veiled statement that I'm stupid for accepting non existant climate data from prehistoric times, which I did not.
And of course, you did this to create a strawman argument against logical thought process.

I have no trouble at all backing up my ideas in this matter.

If you don't want tit for tat, I suggest not employing subtle passive-aggressive strawman arguments against people who disagree with you.

Tell ya what, I'll change the post to 'pretend' where applicable so as not to derail the concept I'm putting forth.
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« Reply #176 on: April 24, 2009, 11:57:12 AM »
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« Reply #177 on: April 24, 2009, 11:59:16 AM »
Watch the name calling folks.

Don't think there was any, Bob.
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« Reply #178 on: April 24, 2009, 12:01:08 PM »
Brainwashed and passive aggressive. It's a wonder I can ever leave the house.

I am not a scientist. I was professionally involved in environmental activities for many years, but I never collected or analyzed the data. We had scientists for that. And the consensus among those scientists, as well as almost every other recognized climatologist in the world not on the payroll of an energy company (TV weatherguys notwithstanding) is that climate change is real. You don't have to accept that. You don't have to accept that the Earth is round. Look out your window. It looks pretty flat to me too.

But just because you don't accept it does not make it any less true. Will there be tropical fruit growing in Minnesota? No. Will there be more violent hurricanes, more extreme droughts, heavier floods, a change in climatological conditions around the world? That's what the experts say. I believe them.

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Re: Dangers of Global Warming.
« Reply #179 on: April 24, 2009, 12:12:05 PM »
I never said you were brainwashed, but you took that to yourself.

I also never said 'global climate change' isn't happening.

What I've said is that it's a natural process, and has been for billions of years. We have a pattern of global climate change, and to assume we can do anything about it is absurd.

I've stated this earlier in the thread, and to a greater degree, no point in writing it all over again. If you are interested in what I've had to say about it, and understand that I don't doubt 'change', I only doubt the causes and motives of people telling me the causes.
Also, it seems that since you disagree with my statements, you aren't willing to look at the data as being indicative of factual data, without being correct. Try to look at my statements for what they are, instead of me trying to prove that "global climate change ain't happenin, Joe", because that's not what I'm trying to say.
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« Reply #180 on: April 24, 2009, 12:31:17 PM »
That's what the experts say. I believe them.
Are these some of the experts you believe?  More from the above posted website....

"Have you heard the latest from Nasa's Goddard Space Center?

This is great, you have to love it.

According to Goddard Space Center's latest report, October of 2008 was the hottest October ever recorded. SHOCKING!!!!

These guys have to know the facts and are warning us of our inevitable doom, right????

Well, not so fast.

As a matter of fact, they are LIARS with an agenda.

Here are the facts. Don't take our word for it, check it out yourself. When there were smart people who did not agree with the data, they did their own research of the BS agenda and data. I guess the Goddard Space center, who should be embarrassed beyond belief, should come clean and admit they are LYING. The facts are that the report was lying. The data collected included September data, not October's and for anyone that understands seasons understands that October is significantly COLDER than September. New Jersey had a major snowstorm this year in October, the earliest snowstorm most of the locals can remember. They lied.

And their "professional" response? They stated that they can not be responsible for the data they collect.

Wow, and these people control our space missions? I think people should be immediately fired. They are government employees that work for us, and they lied to promote a specific agenda. Either that, or their incompetence is staggering. Either case, fire them. We can not afford the incompetence in our economic situation today."


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« Reply #181 on: April 24, 2009, 12:36:04 PM »
We know the impact excessive production of CO2 can have on the climate. This has been the primary cause of global climate changes in the long dead past, according to scientists. In prior ears it was cause by volcanic activity and other natural phenomena, at least according to those who study forensic climatology. That is, indeed, a natural process and immune to anything we try to do to change it.

Fast forward to today. Manufacturing, electrical generation and internal combustion engines produce CO2 - beyond what already is naturally generated. Meanwhile, the planet's ability to cleanse these higher than natural levels of CO2 production are being compromised. Plants breath it in and exhale oxygen. But humans are deforesting huge sections of the planet for agriculture, mining and providing residential areas for an ever expanding population. I do not believe those facts are in dispute.

So you're suggestion, as I understand it, is that any impact these human activities have on the planet is not significant to planetary change.

We had a power plant near Austin that produced 900,000 TONS of emissions into the air every year until it was closed a couple years back. That was one lignite burning generation plant. Look at the amount of emissions again. That is an empirical fact. Measured, monitored, tested and peer-reviewed. Now multiply that by the hundreds of thousands or coal and lignite burning plants planetwide.

That has no impact? Or, are you saying, that whatever impact it is having is not significant compared to the changes the planet itself is naturally producing? I just don't remember us entering a new volcanic age.

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« Reply #182 on: April 24, 2009, 12:36:46 PM »
I'd also like to add a bit more to the 'ice melting oceans rising' argument.

I had stated that there would be a 1% increase in the volume of water created by the ice melting. Someone took this too mean a 1% increase in total volume.
This is not the case. It increases 1% by what the icebergs themselves already displace in the water, which is a fraction of a fraction of the total volume of the ocean.

Even if this were the case, lets see what we have for all the ice on the planet...

2.2% of the water in the world is ice
97.3% resides in the ocean

Some 90% of all ice in the world is on land. That means we would be raising sea level by about 2% if all the ice in the world melted.

I need to do some math, and find out what that equals in actual water levels caused by an increase in the volume of the sea. Back with that later.
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« Reply #183 on: April 24, 2009, 12:41:37 PM »
Food for thought on the ice issue.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question473.htm
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« Reply #184 on: April 24, 2009, 12:48:09 PM »
I don't generally go to the space agency website for climate analysis, TT, just as I don't visit the EPA website for information about shooting a rocket into space. My background was governmental environmental regulation and the scientists I know and listen to vocationally and avocationally study the impact of man's activities on the ecology. Do some have agendas? Of course, we are talking about people. Does an agenda dictate their consensus? It could not. The ones who disagreed would loudly denounce those with an agenda. That's what's missing here. Any sort of consensus among a recognized scientific community disputing man's contribution to global climate change. That's what adds weight to their arguments. They all took different intellectual routes to arrive at the same conclusion.

These are guys who can't even agree if ambient ozone is bad for you. But they agree that our current path leads to environmental catastrophy.

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« Reply #185 on: April 24, 2009, 01:59:33 PM »
I think you like the sound of your own voice, and you are entitled to your opinion because thats all it is.
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I think you like the sound of your own voice, and you are entitled to your opinion because thats all it is.
Hey, that works two ways, doesn't it?   ;D

What would be your explanation to changes in climate that are happening in OTHER parts of the world, yes the planet goes through cycles, this is a fact, the other fact that is glaringly obvious to me is that even if the climate differentials we are experiencing at the moment were part of a bigger picture you wouldn't accept it until you were sitting in your lounge with your feet in whatever ocean it is nearest you.
A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.

I believe I started in the discussion way back by saying the earth has been in a warming cycle for the last 10,000 years.  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=48371.msg509501#msg509501
I thought your dispute was that it was us humans that are causing it.  And, we must all pay in some way to change it back to 10 or 50 years ago.

All this "smoke and mirrors" crap is just that, paranoid delusional rubbish. Get off the conspiracy band wagon and offer some theory as to what you think is actually happening.
See: http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=48371.msg509501#msg509501

In Australia we have had, in the last 10 years, more record weather events than any other time in our history,
And what percentage of that history is that, in terms of the earths 4.5 Billion years age?
I maintain that if the earth sneezed, that's the equivalent to a small part of the first inkling of that pre-sneeze itch.  And, you know, sometimes that itch doesn't even generate a real sneeze.

our "Island" is ancient and we have some of the oldest land structures in the world, untouched because of its remoteness, and through every survey done so far the changes that are happening here have happened before but at a much slower rate.
So, do you expect there areas to remain unchanged for 10,000 years?

You give this "change" absolutely no chance of happening,
Another straw man argument?
Actually, I guarantee it will change, given enough time, whether humans remain in existence or not.  The first big meteor that comes along and we're done, no mater how much CO2 you've saved.

and i hope you are right, but i can't say 100% that it is happening and you CAN'T say it isn't.
Where was this argument manufactured?  Wasn't this about what the >cause< if it happening?

I waste my breath once again.... ???
Yes, it would appear so.   :-\  With all that CO2 you are producing, don't you feel guilty about killing future generations?  :-X
What astounds me is that you've bought into the "smoke and Mirrors crap", to coin a phrase, from the global warming/climate change alarmists, that fosters the belief that human's are the cause for a trend that's been ongoing for thousands if not millions of years.
If, I say IF, humans were the cause, who gets to decide what parts of the herd needs to be culled?  The elite?  "Sorry, human #543017556, you have to die because you are sucking up oxygen and making CO2, and there's a good chance you'll make more little CO2 generators.  The earth told us that this we can't have that happen, go stand in the Soylent line, or else!"

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« Reply #186 on: April 24, 2009, 02:19:36 PM »
I don't think anyone is suggesting we address the problem by disallowing people from breathing, TT...
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« Reply #187 on: April 24, 2009, 02:23:37 PM »
I don't think anyone is suggesting we address the problem by disallowing people from breathing, TT...

Though it would probably be the quickest, most efficient way.....
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« Reply #188 on: April 24, 2009, 02:28:29 PM »
Only is human activity is the cause.....
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« Reply #189 on: April 24, 2009, 02:34:36 PM »
Only is human activity is the cause.....

That's true, and I'm assuming it is because that's what all the experts tell me (except for the experts that tell me it isn't) :)

I mean, honestly, if we weren't here, we'd have nothing to complain about, one way or the other, right...?
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« Reply #190 on: April 24, 2009, 02:43:23 PM »
Hi Mlinder, don't forget , on top of the 1% you have to add the expansion of the water as it warms. This seems to get left out of the equation most of the time. As the water heats up {and it is as it melts} it also expands, adding to the problem.

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« Reply #191 on: April 24, 2009, 02:51:22 PM »
Hi Mlinder, don't forget , on top of the 1% you have to add the expansion of the water as it warms. This seems to get left out of the equation most of the time. As the water heats up {and it is as it melts} it also expands, adding to the problem.

Mick

Mick, again, water is the only thing that expands both frozen and as it heats up. It expands quite a bit more frozen than it does as liquid before it becomes gaseous. If it all reached gaseous stage, we'd have larger problems than rising coastlines :)

If you are referring to the entire ocean expanding as it heats, you are correct. It does do that. About .006% per 20 degrees celcius above 4 degrees celcius
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« Reply #192 on: April 24, 2009, 02:57:31 PM »
Another thing to throw into the equation is the frozen tundra in Russia, if the surface ice melts completely, and it is melting, there are literally millions of tons of methane sitting waiting to be released, i know in the past this has happened but with a little help from our polluting ways this will increase any warming that is under way now.


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« Reply #193 on: April 24, 2009, 02:58:55 PM »
I don't think anyone is suggesting we address the problem by disallowing people from breathing, TT...

No, not directly...yet.  But, there is indirect intent if the slavery thing doesn't work out as the elitist's plan for the rest of us.  Isn't that the whole idea behind the impending "carbon taxes"?
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« Reply #194 on: April 24, 2009, 03:07:46 PM »
And Mlinder, when I say my opinion is based on what the experts think... I know what they think because I have actually spoken to many experts one-on-one. I have read the scientific literature. It was my job.

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« Reply #195 on: April 24, 2009, 03:10:10 PM »
And Mlinder, when I say my opinion is based on what the experts think... I know what they think because I have actually spoken to many experts one-on-one. I have read the scientific literature. It was my job.



But have you read what I've said my opinion is on experts, Patrick? It's a few pages back.... but experts are experts for whoever is paying them. I'm an expert witness for some tech issues. I get paid to be one.
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