Global warming deniers debunked
On 9/5/2011 9:46 PM, HeyBub wrote: Higgs Boson wrote: But was that "mantra" you are citing a popular ""sky is falling"" thing, or was it solid science, backed by 99-44/100 of serious scientists, like global warming? Let's not mislead by comparing apples& oranges. Science Very good Bub. You left out a poignant quote. "Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds — the so-called circumpolar vortex—" Perhaps Higgs can run this stuff through his grammar checker and see if it should have any effect on his mental illness... -- Jack Liberalism is a Mental Disorder http://jbstein.com Time Magazine - Monday, June 24, 1974 [within your 30-40 year time frame] "...when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. "...the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age. "Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round." And more... Read mo http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...#ixzz1X8HOSAu7 |
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