Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Global Warming: The Debate. The dude interviewed in this article has plenty of credentials, including being on the very first scientists to stuy the possiblity of global warming. According to him, computer models are predicting global warming as a result of human-caused gas buildup and such, but the actual data about real temperatures on Earth dispute the computer models. In real life, global warming does not exist, it only exists in the microchips of the computers they run the models on. Since there are so many things we don't know about weather and climate, the models are suspect from the start. They don't know things like at what point a cloud becomes visible, at what point does a cloud collect enough moisture to start dropping water in the form of rain, that sort of thing. Without knowing how it all works, any computer models are just a bunch of speculative bunk, and since the actual facts on the ground don't support the notion of global warming, I'm gonna worry about more pressing matters.

Did you know that the oceans have risen about 8" a century for the last thousand years? So the next time someone quotes you a statistic showing that water levels have risen 2" in the last quarter century, ask them if that means we can blame all our problems on whoever lived 1000 years ago when water started to rise at that rate. Then ask them what the hell any of it has to do with greenhouse emissions. There is no proven connection. Global wamring seems to be more a warning from the luddites than a real problem.

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