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Author Topic: The Latest Global Warming Flip Flop  (Read 553 times)
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« on: January 23, 2008, 06:39:37 AM »

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Global Warming means less hurricanes this year, as opposed to the previous theory that it would mean more.

After Katrina, Global Warming was going to cause more and more powerful hurricanes, now the theory has reversed.
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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2008, 06:54:28 AM »

Personally, I think it is fair to say that we just don't know as much about Mother Nature as we sometimes think. We certainly don't know enough to say that we are causing a rise in temperatures.

That being said, I also don't see any harm in being good stewards of the land...that would actually be a good thing. As would weening off of oil, especially foreign.
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2008, 07:42:28 AM »

Personally, I think it is fair to say that we just don't know as much about Mother Nature as we sometimes think. We certainly don't know enough to say that we are causing a rise in temperatures.

That being said, I also don't see any harm in being good stewards of the land...that would actually be a good thing. As would weening off of oil, especially foreign.

I could not agree more.

We are not great with weather, let alone climate. The problem is very complex.

I personally feel, drowning in our own waste is a poor epitath for the human race - makes sense not to poison ourselves.
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2008, 12:29:55 PM »

Environmentalists have said that among the bad things which could happen were "more hurricanes". They didn't say it would happen. They said it was a possibility.
The just excluded "more meteor rainfalls" and "more earthquackes" because it had nothing to do with climate.
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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2008, 05:07:39 PM »

Its currently 66 in Baltimore, mostly cloudy. It was in the low 70's today. In FEB!

I live 495 feet above sea level, so it'll be a long time before the compound is waterfront property.

Bring it.
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« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2008, 05:47:27 PM »

Personally, I think it is fair to say that we just don't know as much about Mother Nature as we sometimes think. We certainly don't know enough to say that we are causing a rise in temperatures.

That being said, I also don't see any harm in being good stewards of the land...that would actually be a good thing. As would weening off of oil, especially foreign.

Agree wholeheartedly.  I doubt man is 100% or even 10% responsiblefor any climate fluctuations.  However there are plenty of REAL pollutants in fossil fuels.  We have cut them way back as opposed to say the 1960's, still we can do without them altogether.  Probelm is, the environuts are opposed to ALL forms of energy...hell they even object to windfarms now (kills the very stupidest birds you know)
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« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2008, 01:08:55 PM »

I do think the human kind changed the climate since it started burning coal (then other fuels) in industrial quantity.
But I also think that as long as we don't make the problem worse, there won't be doomsday disaster. No hurricane, no giant snowstorms and no Statue of Liberty wrecked in sand.
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