Monday, February 2, 2015
Governor's visit to Springfield postponed
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Wasn't the Governor's visit to include an address of the devastating impact of global warming? "Unspeakably horrid!"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRVem_VnUo
This storm is a result of global warming. The oceans, because they are warmer, produce more moisture thru evaporation and guess what it ends up as. SNOW ...Da
DeleteThe prevailing winds delivering this storm are from the Northwest. There is no open water in that direction for thousands of miles. Try again.
DeleteNot talking about "Lake Effect" here, talking Global. So if it came from the NW then where did all the moisture come from ?
DeletePlease help us understand that . Simon Bar Sinister must be at work, Sweet Polly PureBread call Under Dog.
"Lake effect" will give you four feet of snow in Buffalo. This moisture could have come from all the bodies of water in the world, as the atmosphere is global. A warmer atmosphere will pick up moisture anywhere. My guess would be that since it came from the southwest, it came largely from the Gulf of Mexico.
DeleteOr Washington DC.
DeleteGreat Lakes are north west. That is a crap ton of water.
DeleteFor the avid disciples of Sean Hannity, here's the skinny on how global warming (now generally referred to as "climate change") causes major snowstorms: As the atmosphere heats up, it can hold more water. When a mass of warm moisture-laden air hits another that is sufficiently cold, snow results. In the global warming scenario, since the warmer air has more moisture, more snow falls than usual.
ReplyDeleteAs our atmosphere radiates its heat into the fringe of outer space, we will never have a time when air masses will not be cold enough to cause snowstorms, so we're just going to have to put up with Sean Hannity declaring climate change isn't happening every time a major city has to shut down.
And for you disciples of CNN, this has happened several times throughout the course of the earths history. This earth has been around much longer then weather record keeping (1800's).
DeleteAl Gore invented global warming the same way he invented the Internet
DeleteOH NO!!!! It's snowing in Vermont and everyone is hiding in there little rooms praying that they will survive such an event.
DeleteNo wonder Vermont can't get anything done, they have a bunch of whimps running the show.
Climate Change (Mother Nature) vs. Humans:
ReplyDeleteMother Nature Wins!!! Always has, always will.
Chuck, enough with the climate change SNOW JOB! A few snow flakes should be much ado about nothing, but the lamestream media can't resist trying to hype these storms into "historic" proportions. In reality, the storms haven't gotten any more severe, it's just that society has grown softer and weaker in its ability to cope with adversity of any form.
ReplyDelete2:28, Machinist led with a claim on this one. I was only responding.
DeleteI don't have information about snowstorms, but I do have data about hurricanes and tropical storms-- in the last 20 years, there were 149 hurricanes; in the 20 before that, 103; in the 20 before that, 117; the 20 before that, 108. Tropical storms, it's even more disparate.
I am aware that Springfield has people who watch Fox News, and I feel somebody has an obligation to counter its right-wing propaganda. Of course, now that the Republicans in the House have voted that climate change is happening, maybe Sean Hannity will shut up.
(And maybe we're not getting softer and weaker; maybe we're just getting smarter. There's no reason to have schoolchildren die in snowdrifts on their way home from an early closing.)
This was one of two traps set up by Democrats to get their opponents on the record as disputing the authenticity of human-caused global warming. But it didn't go as expected.
DeleteSen. Jim Inhofe co-sponsored the amendment with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who introduced it. Inhofe can claim credit as a primary inspiration for the amendment, having literally written a book called, "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future." But Inhofe joined Whitehouse and urged its passage.
The climate changes all the time, he said, citing both scientific and archaeological evidence, back before man learned how to make fires. With that distinction drawn -- the climate changes, and that change isn't a hoax, even if the role of humans is -- the vote was held. Only Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) voted 'no.'
But the Republicans killed the section which stated that humans were responsible for the drastic increase. So, they're into denial of science, primarily to ensure the fossil fuel industries are served what they pay for in Congress.
DeleteAnd the Democrats believe that 344 Million Americans can "fix" this issue with tax dollars. As one user stated, regardless of what humans do Mother Nature will take care of herself, always has, always will. Remember studying about the blizzard of 1873? I'm sure the 31 Million Americans at the time had little influence on that.
Delete9:21-- This issue can only be fixed by leaving the fossil fuels undisturbed. As you point out, Mother Nature will resolve the problem once we do that. However, it will take about 200 years to stabilize global temperatures.
DeleteTaxes don't have to be used to do it. It is accepted by the scientific community that the world can sustain a 2,000 watt use of energy per person if we continue to use fossil fuels. Americans, however, use 12,000 watts per capita, and most other First World countries are above the tolerable level. If we all cut back to 2,000 watts, problem solved without taxation! If we don't, then tax policy could be used to encourage people to use less or to encourage the development of alternative energy to replace the use of fossil fuels.
On the other hand, there are people who think they win if they die rich...
Al Gore along with former president of Mexico Felipe Calderon and their colleagues on the The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate announced last month a new plan to drastically cut CO2 emissions in urban areas. Spend $90 trillion over the next several years to redesign all the cities on Earth so people live in more densely packed neighborhoods (forcing everyone to move into new taller buildings that have only tiny-size apartments) along with improved mass transit so that cars can be banned. They hope to persuade the world’s leaders to commit to their plan. But seems like it would take more than just a tax on energy use to raise such humongous funds. Currently, there is only about $60 trillion dollars in the entire world economy.
DeleteBoth are true. In the natural cycle, the world can warm, and cool, without any human interference. For the past million years this has occurred over and over again at approximately 100,000 year intervals. About 80-90,000 years of ice age with about 10-20,000 years of warm period, give or take some thousands of years.
ReplyDeleteBlaming it on fossil fuels is stupid, no real evidence to back it up.
ReplyDeleteAgain mother nature with take care of itself. There is no proof fossil fuels are finite as well. They are not escaping our earths atmosphere, or at least there is no proof of that. Where is it going then? How was it created? Will mother nature create it again? You don't know either way! Live your life! Science is science but it's a lot of theory.
Runuts?
ReplyDeleteHe absolutely is, 6;53.
ReplyDeletePut your facts out then.
DeleteNEWS FLASH! Taking the hint from European, Femdom protestors, CG is reported to be running around neekid on the town square waving a protest sign screaming, "blasphemy!" Seems another, substantiated report was released just today further debunking global warming.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html