Thursday, June 01, 2006

Studies Portray Tropical Arctic in Distant Past

The first detailed analysis of an extraordinary climatic and biological record from the seabed near the North Pole shows that 55 million years ago the Arctic Ocean was much warmer than scientists imagined — a Floridian year-round average of 74 degrees.

I'm not saying the world is getting warmer, it is.
The point is that we have very little to do with it. The earth gets warmer and cooler all by itself...
You want to talk about crazy extremist, go watch Algore's movie, or listen to crazy environmentalists speak.

You have to be pretty vain and egotistical to think that human beings have the power to change the course of Earth's climate

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dude, thats ridiculous. That was 55 million years ago. Plus, the Arctic floor wasnt even at the North Pole at that time. More relevent is the Greenland ice cap.

The Game said...

so you believe that global warming is caused by people???and that we can stop it???
talk about rediculous

Jim said...

No, Game, you are rediculous for thinking the people can't have any effect on the earth and its atmosphere.

Game, Scientific American, that well-known Communist tool of a rag, has reviewed 953 peer-reviewed studies from all over the world which conclude that global warming IS real and IS accelerated by humans.

Math and science has come a long way since you were a kid, I guess, but with huge amounts of data and amazing computer modeling, scientists can tell not only what is happening and how it is affecting water, flora and fauna, and weather but also what could be done to slow down the warming if we start now.

Or are you happy to just ignore it all and let great sections of the country flood. If you don't like illegal aliens or hispanics in Minneapolis, you're going to hate it when all us liberals are forced to move away from the coasts and into the midwest.

There go ALL the neighborhoods!

If you think man can't affect global climate one way or another, do not believe that a thermo-nuclear war could cause a "nuclear winter"?

The Game said...

Jim is comparing driving
SUV's to a nuclear war....is anyone thinking what I am thinking???

Jim can make claims about things that are not going to happen in our lifetime...as opposed to illegal immigrants destroying our communities this very minute...or Iran blowing up Isreal RIGHT NOW...

but lets worry about something that might possibly happen (no matter what we do) in hundreds of years...

Jim said...

No, No, and NO! We are not talking about hundreds of years from now. We are talking about my children's lifetime. We are talking about weather NOW.

What exactly ARE you thinking, Game? And aren't YOU the one who rails on about sticking to the topic. The topic here is Global Warming, no?

Can you please provide SOME kind of peer-reviewed scientific study (not paid for by an oil company or oil lobby) which refutes the case for human accelerated global warming happening now? Or refutes that something positive can be done if action begins now?

Can you? I'll read it. I swear.

Anonymous said...

So, according to game, if it doesnt happen in our lifetime, its not relevent.

Ron said...

Game, sorry to inform you that you have been taken in by the corporate propaganda on this.Cigarettes dont cause cancer,the tobbaco companies said that for years after they and everyone else already knew the truth(im a smoker) Jim is right.

Jim said...

What is it, Game? Is this whole Global Warming thing a plot against the Oil and Coal industries? A liberal, commie plot to destroy capitalism?

Dude, the solutions required to do something will require enormous investment, huge progress in technology, burgeoning industries for reducing pollution and greenhouse gasses. Smart people and smart companies will make MILLIONS of dollars solving these problems.

And the oil companies are in the energy distribution business. They are the experts. People will always need energy. The oil companies just need to develop the next generation of cleaner energy products to distribute.

Get with it man! This will be capitalism in its finest hour!

Jim said...

Clint, I've lost touch? All the existing 953 peer-reviewed studies are completely wrong? I've lost touch?

Why does this have anything to do with the "left wing"?

I would love to read your souce about this "error" that invalidates every study in existance. Please supply.

In the meantime, why don't you just continue to pretend everything is OK. Your children and your grandchildren will no doubt thank you for it.