Let the Climate battle begin....

The facts are sad, the climate deniers are weird.

Jay, facts are facts. Sad are those that try to use them for personal or political gain. I believe the debate is more on why, not if. Read this. http://cdapress.com/columns/cliff_harris/article_ed7e8add-56fa-5f6c-8a7a-c8d9839f0ba7.html

The following link is to a short, informative definition of how carbon dioxide influences the warming mechanism of the atmosphere. http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/083194.html

here is the pertinent description from that link that I just posted: "Most of the light energy from the sun is emitted in wavelengths shorter than 4,000 nanometers (.000004 meters). The heat energy released from the earth, however, is released in wavelengths longer than 4,000 nanometers. Carbon dioxide doesn't absorb the energy from the sun, but it does absorb some of the heat energy released from the earth. When a molecule of carbon dioxide absorbs heat energy, it goes into an excited unstable state. It can become stable again by releasing the energy it absorbed. Some of the released energy will go back to the earth and some will go out into space. So in effect, carbon dioxide lets the light energy in, but doesn't let all of the heat energy out, similar to a greenhouse." That's about as concise as you can get in describing the influence that carbon dioxide has on the atmosphere. BA

Once again the soothsayers of Gore. We, in the west, are experiencing the coolest summer on record. And the nation experienced one of the coldest winters on record. All the highly intricate studies and tests from these and so called scientists, (where are they coming from, their fabricated statistics were denounced last year.) They are also allowing fat Gore to make a few hundred million from his energy company. On a cruise to Alaska, we had an opportunity to have a biologist \ environmentalist on board who pointed out the diminishing glaciers and then pointed out the growing glaciers also. The balance of life. And when all is said and done, the earth like big, wet dog tired of his flees, just gives a big shake and we are history. She then moves on to the next life cycle for her.

Winter 2009-2010 was actually not that cold in terms of its ranking to the 30-year normals. There is a good review of the winter at this link: http://www2.ucar.edu/magazine/currents/wet-cool-and-wild-winter-2009-2010

From the NOAA report. "The report emphasizes that human society has developed for thousands of years under one climatic state, and now a new set of climatic conditions are taking shape. These conditions are consistently warmer," Makes me wonder why the receding glaciers, in Greenland, are uncovering 800 year old farms.

I've been looking online for the USDA average yields for 1970 compare to 2009 or even those decades and also the world population numbers for the same period. Maybe population growth is also due to global warming. But, it's raining again and I have to go shut off an irrigater. Could it be that global warming is Gods way to help us feed the world. Just a thought.

"Could it be that global warming is Gods way to help us feed the world. Just a thought." If this is true Mark then what is God's intention with the oil spill???? Human beings are drowning in their own greed, only those that profit the most are suffering the least. Climate change like oil spills know no boundries, both are a result of our ignorance and greed in using fossil fuel. In the history of human kind petroleum is an experiment, a blip in time but one that has made us able to support far more people then ever. Like all other animals once the abundance is consumed population will decrease to pre abundant levels.

The oil spill is a great example of the sheer power of nature and our inability to understand the complexity of it. Maybe that was Gods way of show us the futility of our actions Millions of gallons where released into the ocean and the well was just capped a few weeks ago. and already they are having difficulty finding the oil to clean it up. The microbes in the ocean have "eaten" the oil and fisheries are opening back up, and new sprouts of marsh grass are coming through the marshes that where deluged with the crude. Nature, and the planet has a way of taking care of these things that happen. We are but specks of dust compared and it is the height of vanity to think otherwise. Does densely populated modern lifestyle even cover 5% of the planet. Most of the earth is wilderness, or vast oceans. How can my pickup truck exhaust even affect the concentration of CO2 on 1 cubic mile of air. How many tons of CO2 do you emit by breathing? How about all the greenies show us how committed you really are and hold your breath.

Major contributors by a sizeable margin to additional CO2 are coal-fired power plants.