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Post by tobyglyn on Mar 12, 2009 21:23:52 GMT
^ After reading a half dozen depressing Climate change related news articles this morning your post actually made me laugh out loud Thanks kiwistonewall!
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Post by Pooh on Mar 12, 2009 22:39:45 GMT
As is well-known by all thinking people,
1) The number of umbrellas sold in New York City is strongly correlated with increased egg production in South Africa.
2) The decline in number of Pirates is strongly correlated with increases in CO2 and Global Warming, and the return of Somali pirates is coincident with Global Cooling.
3) The Great Depression is strongly associated with the flattening or even decline of atmospheric CO2.
Pity that the current Administration has chosen #3 as its mitigation option. ;D
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Post by slh1234 on Mar 13, 2009 2:37:15 GMT
CO2 causes arthritis & wrinklesWell, it has for me - 50 years ago, when CO2 was much lower, I had neither. But as CO2 has increased, so have the wrinkles & arthritis. That's all the proof I need! And if anyone needs corroborating evidence, have a look at me .
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Post by Ratty on Mar 13, 2009 3:48:54 GMT
A policeman friend once told me that criminal activity drops in cold weather because the crims don't want to get out of bed ...
It follows that global warming must be responsible for any upsurge in crime.
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Post by ebrainsh on Mar 14, 2009 21:28:39 GMT
I thought the only good thing about the wind was that it makes clean energy from wind turbines. Wind Shifts May Stir Carbon Dioxide From Antarctic Depths, Amplifying Global Warming
ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2009) — Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last ice age--and could be repeated as manmade warming proceeds, a new paper in the journal Science suggests. Many scientists think that the end of the last ice age was triggered by a change in Earth's orbit that caused the northern part of the planet to warm. This partial climate shift was accompanied by rising levels of the greenhouse gas CO2, ice core records show, which could have intensified the warming around the globe. A team of scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory now offers one explanation for the mysterious rise in CO2: the orbital shift triggered a southward displacement in westerly winds, which caused heavy mixing in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, pumping dissolved carbon dioxide from the water into the air. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312140842.htm
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Post by hiddigeigei on Mar 15, 2009 0:02:33 GMT
This should be fun. How many catastrophic and horrific events can be attributed to CO2? To get this theme off the ground, our friend Dan Hogan from ScienceDaily posted this story today. Coral Reefs May Start Dissolving When Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Doubles
ScienceDaily (Mar. 10, 2009) — Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on ocean water are making it increasingly difficult for coral reefs to grow, say scientists. A study to be published online March 13, 2009 in Geophysical Research Letters by researchers at the Carnegie Institution and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem warns that if carbon dioxide reaches double pre-industrial levels, coral reefs can be expected to not just stop growing, but also to begin dissolving all over the world. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309162125.htmIt must have taken a whole lot of dissolved CO2 to have produced this:
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Post by ebrainsh on Mar 19, 2009 17:52:43 GMT
Arctic 5: climate is No. 1 threat to polar bears Mar 19 12:31 PM US/Eastern By DOUG MELLGREN Associated Press Writer OSLO (AP) - The very survival of polar bears depends on how well humans fight climate change, which is the biggest threat facing the giant carnivores, the five nations bordering the Arctic said Thursday. Representatives from the U.S., Canada, Russia, Norway and Denmark noted with "deep concern" that global warming was melting the Arctic ice that is home to polar bears and their main prey: seals. "Climate change has a negative impact on polar bears and their habitat and is the most important long-term threat facing polar bears," the five nations said in a joint declaration after a three-day meeting in Tromsoe, northern Norway. Without action, 60 percent of the world's polar bears could disappear by 2050, Norway's Directorate for Nature Management said separately. The meeting in Tromsoe was the first time in 28 years the Arctic nations had reviewed their 1973 Polar Bear Agreement, meant to protect the world's estimated 20,000-25,000 polar bears. www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97182N83&show_article=1&catnum=0
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Post by Ratty on Mar 19, 2009 22:26:32 GMT
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Post by ebrainsh on Mar 20, 2009 0:42:40 GMT
Of course its global warming's fault since SD placed this in their Global Warming section.
Major Losses For Caribbean Reef Fish In Last 15 Years
ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2009) — By combining data from 48 studies of coral reefs from around the Caribbean, researchers have found that fish densities that have been stable for decades have given way to significant declines since 1995.
"We were most surprised to discover that this decrease is evident for both large-bodied species targeted by fisheries as well as small-bodied species that are not fished," said Michelle Paddack of Simon Fraser University in Canada. "This suggests that overfishing is probably not the only cause." Rather, they suggest that the recent declines may be explained by drastic losses in coral cover and other changes in coral reef habitats that have occurred in the Caribbean over the past 30 years. Those changes are the result of many factors, including warming ocean temperatures, coral diseases, and a rise in sedimentation and pollution from coastal development. Overfishing has also led to declines of many fish species, and now seems to also be removing those that are important for keeping the reefs free of algae.
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Post by poitsplace on Mar 20, 2009 6:16:27 GMT
Of course its global warming's fault since SD placed this in their Global Warming section. Major Losses For Caribbean Reef Fish In Last 15 YearsScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2009) — By combining data from 48 studies of coral reefs from around the Caribbean, researchers have found that fish densities that have been stable for decades have given way to significant declines since 1995. I'd certainly concede that it's largely man's fault...but then we do actually eat the fish put chemicals in the water that kills coral (sunscreen), use bottom trawling that destroys reefs and probably cause blooms with our farm runoff. But hey, let's just say it's global warming (and of course assume its ONLY our CO2 that causes warming) like so many other things that have little to no relationship to warming or CO2.
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