CowboyRon
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Sorry, not you Newberry, I copied the wrong one.
Sorry, not you Newberry, I copied the wrong one.
Yeah, I don't like clicking on links and then have my machine go to some website that gets me recorded in the FBI database.
I was a sysadmin on Unix systems. There was a site "freshmeat.net" I went to it frequently and downloaded software, this was about 2000. I got severely reprimanded. Until I showed them that it was the largest site for FREE unix software on the net. Freshmeat.net later became freshmeat.net ][ and is now Freecode.com.
I also got in trouble for transferring massive pictures at night during I think the Bosnia war. They (the Pentagon) throttled our 100Mb connection back to 1 Mb because we were obviously transferring dirty pictures. We were scanning in hardcopy maps and hardcopy aerial imagery and transferring them amongst labs for analysis. It took a week to get it reinstated and set us back probably 3 weeks.
THEY ARE READING AND WATCHING, and often cannot understand what they are seeing and WILL ASSume the worst.
S'cuze me, there are a bunch of men in trenchcoats carrying shortbarrel guns at the door. I thought hunting season was over.
Globally last year was the 15th warmest on record.
It's been awhile since I read a post with so much erroneous information and conclusions in it.Cat_Driver - How Gullible are you people? SERIOUSLY.
Yeah, scientists lie. They just lie all the time. You just can't trust the bass_turds. They tell ya it's going to rain and you get dry. They tell ya it's going to be sunny and it rains. Just can't trust them. Oh, wait a minute - that's all about weather and teevee weather critters are chosen for their cleavage. No science there.
Weather is not about climate change or global warming, but when weather becomes a-b-n-o-r-m-a-l it could be a sign of change. Long term change means your crops might not make it, anymore. Farmers know better than others the consequences of unwanted rain and if rain becomes unpredictable in his corner of the world it's a problem. If the entire US mid-west farm zone becomes a heat sink without rain...well, a lot of people will have problems. Reading up on Africa, its expanding deserts and agricultural destruction might help in understanding the human cost. I assume we are concerned with our future.
What scientists do is explore and investigate in search of facts. They do so in rock formations, ocean sediment, tree rings and ice layers that go back thousands of years or more. Scientific analysis of what is found helps measure air quality, temperature, geographic shifts and climate change, for instance. Comparing the results of these scientific investigations gives them a record of - in the case of climate change - how the Earth has transformed over millennium. In the days of dinosaurs they found global warming was the result of a comet or asteroid collision with Earth. So much dust and what-have-you was blasted into the atmosphere that it turned day into night and hence no more dinosaurs.
Some animals survived that cataclysm, but not the dinosaurs. You could say, the animals that die first, from global weather changes are the coal miner's canaries in the coal mine. The miners did not sit about bitching about the dead bird, by the way.
Anyway, science is not about proving what one believes to be true. Science is about truth.
So, 2 questions: Using your football field analogy - Why can you be so sanguine about Earth's destruction in the blink of an eye? Understanding the mechanisms that are creating our looming, environmental catastrophe and possible extinction, why are you so forgiving of the minuscule cabal that is so recklessly destroying our lives?
BTW, who was the CBS scientist that wrote that puff piece?
Anyway, science is not about proving what one believes to be true. Science is about truth.
Well take time to read the threadI have a Doomer friend who sends me horribly depressing links to predictions about the effects of climate change and I'm an idiot for not being able to resist reading them.
So, I haven't read the nearly 150 pages of this thread and wonder if this essay about methane releases in the Arctic has been posted. The title alone should provide great fodder for discussion:
Global Extinction within one Human Lifetime as a Result of a Spreading Atmospheric Arctic Methane Heat wave and Surface Firestorm
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The article abstract: Although the sudden high rate Arctic methane increase at Svalbard in late 2010 data set applies to only a short time interval, similar sudden methane concentration peaks also occur at Barrow point and the effects of a major methane build-up has been observed using all the major scientific observation systems. Giant fountains/torches/plumes of methane entering the atmosphere up to 1 km across have been seen on the East Siberian Shelf. This methane eruption data is so consistent and aerially extensive that when combined with methane gas warming potentials, Permian extinction event temperatures and methane lifetime data it paints a frightening picture of the beginning of the now uncontrollable global warming induced destabilization of the subsea Arctic methane hydrates on the shelf and slope which started in late 2010. This process of methane release will accelerate exponentially, release huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere and lead to the demise of all life on earth before the middle of this century.
Arctic News: Global Extinction within one Human Lifetime as a Result of a Spreading Atmospheric Arctic Methane Heat wave and Surface Firestorm
Help! Somebody refute this with some opposing SCIENTIFIC truth so I can get to sleep tonight, please!
crash325 said:Government Funding = Money from Taxpayers.
The government does not make money it takes it from you and me.
Interstate highway = That was more than paid for with fuel tax. Where did the left over go??? On & On you name it, space, canal, or what ever.
Again the Government does not have money other than what it takes from the people and spreads around.
No one makes money. We all just take it (from customers or our boss) and spread it around.
Hope the nay sayers are having a real nice HOT summer, enjoy it boys!
Hope the nay sayers are having a real nice HOT summer, enjoy it boys!