Soooooo, where is the Warming?

[DC Muskie]

I will be leading a mass exodus from church while holding my Ronald Reagan sign.

I'm picturing this:

[paulxu]

Maybe you should find somebody else besides Reagan to put on the sign.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...816_story.html

[94GRAD]

Global warming doesn't have anything on extinction!

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/envir...ill-us-n378586

[Strange Brew]

Global warming doesn't have anything on extinction!

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/envir...ill-us-n378586

Fear not 94, the gov't will fix it.

[XU 87]

Boy it's cold in Cncinnati today. This global cooling is really starting to concern me.

[xu82]

Boy it's cold in Cncinnati today. This global cooling is really starting to concern me.

Have a hot toddy and forget all your fears.

[muskienick]

I assume that it will be 60 degrees below zero tomorrow here on Hamilton Avenue in NCH due to the global cooling trend being discussed on this thread. That, or maybe you right wing whackos will finally grow up and realize that life practices have to change just a bit to keep our planet functioning in a manner that will extend our existence for a few years moire.

[94GRAD]

I assume that it will be 60 degrees below zero tomorrow here on Hamilton Avenue in NCH due to the global cooling trend being discussed on this thread. That, or maybe you right wing whackos will finally grow up and realize that life practices have to change just a bit to keep our planet functioning in a manner that will extend our existence for a few years moire.

I assume the planet will quit functioning, after doing so for 14 billion years, just after I die so I'm good

[Snipe]

I assume that it will be 60 degrees below zero tomorrow here on Hamilton Avenue in NCH due to the global cooling trend being discussed on this thread. That, or maybe you right wing whackos will finally grow up and realize that life practices have to change just a bit to keep our planet functioning in a manner that will extend our existence for a few years moire.

Nick, we are currently in an Ice Age, that was what I was taught in Catholic School. This Ice Age has lasted for millions of years. I am not kidding. I am totally serious. You can look it up.

Many people think that the last Ice Age was 10,000 or so years ago, but those people are pikers. 10,000 years ago was just the last extent when the ice reached the furthest until it began retreating. We are now in a period called an interglacial. That is when the ice retreats for awhile before it extends again. We are still living in an Ice Age, which has lasted for millions of years. Every human that has ever lived has lived in an Ice Age. Humans have only been around for one or two hundred thousand years. Ice Ages were here before us, and I predict they will be here long after we are gone.

Manhattan was under a sheet of ice taller than the highest skyscraper, and it wasn't even close during the last extent. Think of Ohio. Think about miles thick layers of ice, largest around the Great Lakes region. Get this, the ice was so think around the Great Lakes that the earth is still rebounding from the weight of the ice compressing the crust. And we have been warming for 10,000 years, yet every year the elevation of the Great Lakes gets higher. It isn't because of the shift of tectonic plates, it is because of the massive weight of the glaciers is no longer there. It is incredible Nick! It is SCIENCE!!!

I love Science.

I concede that the earth has been warming. In fact I have conclusive proof that the earth has been warming for 10,000 years! Why?

SCIENCE!

And for humans, I think 10,000 years of Global Warming has been a good thing. I think another 100 years of Global Warming would even be better. I don't see this warming of our globe as a threat to humanity, and it isn't even on our threat horizon. A warmer world is a better world for us. And this planted has been much warmer than now, and life thrived.

We spend a billion dollars a day globally on Global Warming. We could spend that money on real threats, like the millions of kids that go blind or die because of poor water and malnutrition, or the millions of kids that die from malaria, or the people that die because of air quality and improper venting of homes. Why? Science!

SCIENCE!

I could list the top 100 causes of death and disease for poor Black children across the world, but White people like you want to use the money to stop our planet's inter glacial to return us to a new Ice Age. Racist! As a Black woman who happens to be a lesbian, that offends me.

SCIENCE!

What I admire about you Nick is that you know that you are better than your political adversaries, who are foolish and naive. If only they would listen to your SCIENCE! The whole world would be better off if people like you were in charge, and they had to acknowledge and respect your SCIENCE!

[Masterofreality]

Yes,

Let's base opinions and billions of dollars of wasted resources on a few decades of measurements- actually in reality a couple of decades of flawed computer model predictions- rather than looking at the globe over thousands or millions of years. Then, let's take those flawed models and predict the most dire, catastrophic outcome.

Man's hubris over how much he thinks he controls- both negative and positive- is amazing.