Sometimes the comic AGW (anthropomorphic global warming) headlines just write themselves. This is one of them.
Here's the gist from the UK's Register:
"Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday - the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922....
"The bill creates an enormous bureaucratic apparatus for monitoring and reporting...
"Recently the American media has begun to notice the odd incongruity of saturation media coverage here which insists that global warming is both man-made and urgent, and a British public which increasingly doubts either to be true....
"Yet anyone looking for elected representatives to articulate these concerns will have been disappointed....
"It was all deeply sanctimonious...
My take on AGW?
It's a secular religion fueled by western guilt and tinged with western self-hate, draped in the great mythological construct of our day: pseudo-science. Mixed in with a bit of genuine science.
And that's the way the snow Ball bounces.
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This is why it is referred to as climate change. Since though the overall average temperature of the earth is rising, there will be colder areas and warmer areas.
The poles have much lower average temperatures than the equator. Because of these differences and the energy they represent, we have wind, and air masses that move around.
Increasing the overall average temperature increases the overall energy driving the wind. That causes more severe weather, and yes you will get snowstorms more frequently at times, especially around the equinoxes.
So globally overall we have warming. Locally we have change, since the warming could well bring more cold air from the poles.
As always, the scientists could be wrong. They certainly admit that, they would not be scientists otherwise.
Do you think it is possible your theory could be wrong?
Usually the crazies are the ones who are convinced they cannot possibly be wrong.
Err.. where are the warmer areas these days dude above? It's like the sun is slowing down, so how can we have global warming? Back to the spinmasters... (real conservative)
Anonymous:
If it's cold, it's local; if it's warm, it's global -- got it.
Check this out:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39973/113/
Remember -- global warming is also happening on Jupiter and Mars. Man-made?
Anon: could I be wrong? Well, I don't think I'm wrong about the bit about science being mixed in with anti-western ideology. I don't think I'm wrong about the anti-western capitalism/prosperity/economic development part of it, and I don't think I'm wrong about the tinge of cultural self-hatred that is at the root of this.
On the science side of it, I'm pretty confident that man's contribution to global warming is relatively minor and not worth destroying our economies over and not worth handing our freedoms over to those who would like nothing better than to use the environment as a pretext for assuming more control over our lives.
The Earth is just an awesome self-regulating mechanism. And the idea that the ocean levels will start to fall when this man Obama is elected President is just delusional. Delusional with a capital "D".
Gotta turn the lights out and power down the computer now -- generating too much C02.
Thanks for commenting.
Shorter rkball: No, I could not be wrong.
Thanks for playing.
Err.. where are the warmer areas these days dude above? It's like the sun is slowing down, so how can we have global warming? Back to the spinmasters... (real conservative)
The Arctic is warmer than usual for the Arctic.
The Sun is slowing down? Does that mean it will not cross the galactic equator in 2012?
Remember -- global warming is also happening on Jupiter and Mars. Man-made?
The warming of other planets is how we measure the natural warming. That is so we can subtract it out, leaving the amount that is not accounted for by the sun.
The earth is warming more than the planets. About half of the observed warming is not explained by the sun changes observed in other planets.
"Thanks for playing."
You're welcome!
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