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How dare the facts not fit our Global Warming narrative...
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I hate to admit it but the world is warming. It hit me the other day while sitting out petting my pig.
There was an Ice Age where huge swaths of the world was covered in ice at places close to a mile thick. I know it had to be at least 3500 feet thick because I hiked the boulder moraine that is at the top of Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire and moraines are left by retreating glaciers.
So the planet warmed up for whatever reason and the glaciers melted, and have kept melting and are still melting and will more than likely keep melting regardless of if we drive electric cars, stop eating beef or revert back to being cave men.
Because the ice started melting of its own accord without coal usage, excessive cow flatulence, or any hint of vehicle exhaust, or manufacturing residue.
Call me crazy, ignorant or just ornery but if we are to believe science, why then would we not take into account the fossil record and the epochs that we learn about in school, the cretaceous and Jurassic periods were supposedly pretty darn warm. Heck for a large meat eating lizard to run around rending and tearing apart other big lizards it had to have been pretty warm day and night to support it's cold blooded nature.
So then when someone calls the scientists bluff why would we not take a minute and say "you just may be rite, there's historic evidence to support your argument". Also some of our more seasoned members may recall the late 60's and 70's when the scientists were preaching doom and gloom about global cooling and a second potential Ice Age and famine and pandemonium due to less crop production.
Nothing wrong with pursuing more energy efficient and pollution free processes, that's good for everyone , but leave the BS out. Because in the end the planets going to keep doing what the planet does, warming and cooling. Yup the Ice has been melting, will melt and will continue to melt until the next Ice Age when it'll pile up and move out and leave us more great moraines atop mountains to hike over.
All this from sitting and enjoying a coffee with a pet pig.
There was an Ice Age where huge swaths of the world was covered in ice at places close to a mile thick. I know it had to be at least 3500 feet thick because I hiked the boulder moraine that is at the top of Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire and moraines are left by retreating glaciers.
So the planet warmed up for whatever reason and the glaciers melted, and have kept melting and are still melting and will more than likely keep melting regardless of if we drive electric cars, stop eating beef or revert back to being cave men.
Because the ice started melting of its own accord without coal usage, excessive cow flatulence, or any hint of vehicle exhaust, or manufacturing residue.
Call me crazy, ignorant or just ornery but if we are to believe science, why then would we not take into account the fossil record and the epochs that we learn about in school, the cretaceous and Jurassic periods were supposedly pretty darn warm. Heck for a large meat eating lizard to run around rending and tearing apart other big lizards it had to have been pretty warm day and night to support it's cold blooded nature.
So then when someone calls the scientists bluff why would we not take a minute and say "you just may be rite, there's historic evidence to support your argument". Also some of our more seasoned members may recall the late 60's and 70's when the scientists were preaching doom and gloom about global cooling and a second potential Ice Age and famine and pandemonium due to less crop production.
Nothing wrong with pursuing more energy efficient and pollution free processes, that's good for everyone , but leave the BS out. Because in the end the planets going to keep doing what the planet does, warming and cooling. Yup the Ice has been melting, will melt and will continue to melt until the next Ice Age when it'll pile up and move out and leave us more great moraines atop mountains to hike over.
All this from sitting and enjoying a coffee with a pet pig.
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SSgt Christopher Brose
CSM Richard StCyr, I like your point about "the late 60's and 70's when the scientists were preaching doom and gloom about global cooling." Then, as now, it wasn't ALL scientists. But then and now, I'd be willing to bet that it was many of the SAME scientists. There is a lot of money to be made in the panic industry, much more than in the mundane industry.
I'll bet your pig is smarter than a lot of people who are getting ulcers over global warming.
I'll bet your pig is smarter than a lot of people who are getting ulcers over global warming.
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Parts of the planet get warmer while other parts of the planet get colder. Can anyone think of a time when it wasn't like that? No reason to freak out about it now.
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That was 2013; this year it hit an all-time record low:
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-02-antarctic-sea-ice-extent-lowest.html
We'll have to wait and see where the maximum winds up in September.
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-02-antarctic-sea-ice-extent-lowest.html
We'll have to wait and see where the maximum winds up in September.
Antarctic sea ice extent lowest on record
This year the extent of summer sea ice in the Antarctic is the lowest on record. The Antarctic sea ice minimum marks the day – typically towards end of February – when sea ice reaches its smallest extent at the end of ...
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Sgt Wayne Wood
Science is science unless it's ideology driven... flawed computer models are exactly that. Complex chaotic systems do not lend themselves to interpretation.
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