Anyone sick of the 'green'/Global warming stuff yet?
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The British Nationality Act (1981), effectively redefining "citizenship", was in force before the war, the Govn't weren't too concerened about Falkland nationals applying to enter to Britain or their welfare, until the envasion. The result was, simply, shear luck that Thatcher won her "good war".
And while Britain's attention was focussed on the war...
Legislation was passed to reduce the funds, via license fees, to the BBC. The BBC at the time wasn't showing the Govn't in it's best light.
The Employment Act 1982.
Legislation to prevent homosuxual teachers from proselytising.
Legislation to limit freedoms of the press.
And many many more, we'll all know in a few years, or sooner if Gordon get's his way (A diversionary tactic yet again).
And while Britain's attention was focussed on the war...
Legislation was passed to reduce the funds, via license fees, to the BBC. The BBC at the time wasn't showing the Govn't in it's best light.
The Employment Act 1982.
Legislation to prevent homosuxual teachers from proselytising.
Legislation to limit freedoms of the press.
And many many more, we'll all know in a few years, or sooner if Gordon get's his way (A diversionary tactic yet again).
Les
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Now men's razors are on the hit list...
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.
And the warmalist hype must have forgotten this...
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.
And the warmalist hype must have forgotten this...
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.
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From the British Antarctic Survey -
Glacial ice seems solid but under the tremendous pressures it experiences in the ice sheet, it will flow like a viscous liquid. This means that the ice sheet does not continue to get thicker as new snow falls but, under the action of gravity, flows over and around obstacles toward the sea. The ice sheet acts like a conveyor belt, taking ice from the atmosphere and delivering it back to the sea. Whether the mass of ice entering balances the amount leaving is the subject of considerable research.
So the experts don´t know then!
Glacial ice seems solid but under the tremendous pressures it experiences in the ice sheet, it will flow like a viscous liquid. This means that the ice sheet does not continue to get thicker as new snow falls but, under the action of gravity, flows over and around obstacles toward the sea. The ice sheet acts like a conveyor belt, taking ice from the atmosphere and delivering it back to the sea. Whether the mass of ice entering balances the amount leaving is the subject of considerable research.
So the experts don´t know then!
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Actually there was an earthquake that causes the glacier to rip apart and drift off... something the media has neglected to mention:
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Preliminary Earthquake Report: PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Preliminary Earthquake Report: PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
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Actually there was an earthquake that causes the glacier to rip apart and drift off... something the media has neglected to mention:
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Preliminary Earthquake Report: PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Preliminary Earthquake Report: PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
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That's all our fault as well because we walk too much and the combined vibrations of our careless walking is magnified in deep rock which causes massive earthquakes! The horrific quake experienced by the UK last month centered in Market Rasen is proof; we're having more earthquakes and its the people who walk places who are to blame! I demand vibration taxes be applied to shoes, with extra £100 levies on running shoes because they obviously cause more vibrations! We're going to cause volcano's next! MARK MY WORDS!!
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Actually there was an earthquake that causes the glacier to rip apart and drift off... something the media has neglected to mention:
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Preliminary Earthquake Report: PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Preliminary Earthquake Report: PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
There was a prog. on avalanches on last night. The guy mentioned one about a glacier being part of an avalanche and made a comment about how GW *could* have been part of the problem. Then they go on to say that volcanic activity in the area probably heated the base of the glacier so it was more prone to slip-slide away!!!!!! So in this case they mentioned the real reason but also managed to get GW in there as well ...
Repeat often enough etc etc ..
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I may have said this on another thread (or even this one!) but I was at a hotel in Sale when we had the UK quake - the next morning the receptionist mentioned the quake and 'wasn't GW causing some funny happenings these days ..' ... I despaired!
There was a prog. on avalanches on last night. The guy mentioned one about a glacier being part of an avalanche and made a comment about how GW *could* have been part of the problem. Then they go on to say that volcanic activity in the area probably heated the base of the glacier so it was more prone to slip-slide away!!!!!! So in this case they mentioned the real reason but also managed to get GW in there as well ...
Repeat often enough etc etc ..
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There was a prog. on avalanches on last night. The guy mentioned one about a glacier being part of an avalanche and made a comment about how GW *could* have been part of the problem. Then they go on to say that volcanic activity in the area probably heated the base of the glacier so it was more prone to slip-slide away!!!!!! So in this case they mentioned the real reason but also managed to get GW in there as well ...
Repeat often enough etc etc ..
Dave
I just heard from a friend in the Brighton area, they've just had the coldest Easter in 64 years. Can anyone else confirm that?
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Any change in the natural world away from what we consider to be normal is now the fault of human induced climate change.. and we're evil planet killers if we dare to suggest that the viewpoint is very obviously dumb.
And yes, I know the people saying that its happening have lots of letters after their name - but one of my ex's was at Cambridge and was proof enough that a very intelligent person can be ****ing stupid.
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I heard something about the world being overdue an ice age by about 10000years. I believe that the earth warming is the normal cycle tht preceeds this ice age.
I'm just doing my bit to try and get nature back on track
I'm just doing my bit to try and get nature back on track
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Ahhh.. but its "climate change" now - any variation of more than 2 degrees from a seasonally adjusted "Norm" is now all our fault.
Any change in the natural world away from what we consider to be normal is now the fault of human induced climate change.. and we're evil planet killers if we dare to suggest that the viewpoint is very obviously dumb.
And yes, I know the people saying that its happening have lots of letters after their name - but one of my ex's was at Cambridge and was proof enough that a very intelligent person can be ****ing stupid.
Any change in the natural world away from what we consider to be normal is now the fault of human induced climate change.. and we're evil planet killers if we dare to suggest that the viewpoint is very obviously dumb.
And yes, I know the people saying that its happening have lots of letters after their name - but one of my ex's was at Cambridge and was proof enough that a very intelligent person can be ****ing stupid.
There is nothing to consider what is normal temperature, there is a "scientific" value for that, and that is the average temperature between 1961 and 1990. I believe this is the "norm" the IPCC uses to determine variance.
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But it was pretty chilly.
But then it was the earliest easter for 95 years - So from that you can extrapolate that global warming is happening
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Point me to a period in the climate history of the Earth where climate didn't warm. Also, how is "warming" determined? Is it the upward temperature deviation from the "norm"?
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Has anyone mentioned that in the late middle ages the Thames used to freeze solid because the winters were so harsh: or that the Romans grew grapes in balmy Northumbria in 200AD,becaue it was so warm?
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Al Gore and the IPCC are trying to "hide" those two, but very important, actual facts.
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Hey, you're the one that brought up Brighton having the coldest Easter for 64 years. But you failed to mention that it was also the earliest easter for 95 years - You should work for the IPCC
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But it is you who states that, because of the earliest easter in 95 years, global warming is happening. I asked you how is this determined when "normal tempeature" is set at the average between 1961 and 1990. Seems to me to be very flawed "science".
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The old 'how is warming defined'. Take a look at http://climatesci.colorado.edu/publi.../pdf/R-321.pdf which sets out major problems with surface temperature measurement ....
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THE WINK MEANS I WASN'T BEING ENTIRELY SERIOUS.
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Oh, hey. The oceans are cooling now - maybe, just maybe, we'll all be saved by the bell - just when it was thought we were all *doomed ....
From ESR | March 31, 2008 | The oceans have stopped warming!
he oceans have stopped warming!
By Dennis T. Avery
web posted March 31, 2008
This year of 2008 is starting out cold—but according to the "consensus" climate watchers it's still likely to be one of the "top 10 warmest" in the thermometer record before it's over. After all, the Greenhouse gasses continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.
OceanBut wait. Something isn't following the Greenhouse script. The oceans, which contain 80 to 90 percent of the planet's heat, have recently stopped warming!
Over the past 4-5 years, "there has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant," Josh Willis of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently told National Public Radio.
Nothing very significant—except the ocean warming trend has stopped?! This, in the midst of the biggest furor over global temperatures and climate overheating in human history?
Willis monitors the data from a nifty new set of Argo ocean buoys. They not only record sea surface temperatures but periodically dive 3,000 feet under water and record sub-surface temperatures as they rise back up. These wonderful new Argo floats say the oceans have been cooling slightly for the past 4-5 years, instead of accentuating a continuing global warming trend.
But how can the ocean warming stop? Greenhouse gases have continued to spew from Chinese factories. Even Europe's Kyoto-bound economies are still increasing their greenhouse emissions. There should be no relief from the planet's heating.
Except that over the last 13 months, the earth's thermometers have dropped for the first time in 30 years. Three global monitoring sites measured a decline of 0.5 to 0.7 degree C.
Now we learn that the ocean warming stopped even earlier, 4-5 years ago.
We should have been expecting this, because the sunspot index turned down nine years ago. There's a 79 percent correlation between the sunspots and the earth's sea-surface temperatures—with roughly a ten-year lag.
Is ten years the time required for the oceans to respond to changes on the sun?
There is nothing in the climate record that ties the earth's temperatures to CO2 levels. Al Gore's movie showed Antarctic ice core temperatures and CO2 moving closely together through four different Ice Ages. Gore implied that more CO2 leads to higher temperatures. But Gore reversed cause and effect. Three different Antarctic studies show the temperatures change 800-1200 years before the CO2 levels. Higher temperatures cause more CO2 in the air, not the other way around.
The big question is what warms the oceans. It it CO2 or sun? For the past nine years, CO2 has continued to rise in the atmosphere, but the earth hasn't gotten warmer. The sun is winning the debate.
NPR asked Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmosphere Research where "all the extra heat from the CO2" was going. He said it was probably going into outer space, through the "natural thermostats, including clouds," which can either trap solar heat in earth's atmosphere, or deflect it out back out into space.
Thank you, Dr. Trenberth, for finally admitting that the earth does, indeed, have natural thermostats such as clouds. And what seems to control those natural thermostats? The level of activity on the sun, through varying numbers of cosmic rays that create more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that deflect solar heat back into space.
It's unthinkable, but what if there's no "extra heat" being trapped by CO2 right now? What if CO2 levels don't matter much? What if the earth is starting to cool in response to the sun's declining level of activity? What an inconvenient truth. ESR
Dennis T. Avery is a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC and is the Director for the Center for Global Food Issues. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Hundred Years, Readers may write him at PO Box 202, Churchville, VA 2442 or email to cgfi@hughes.net.
Dave
From ESR | March 31, 2008 | The oceans have stopped warming!
he oceans have stopped warming!
By Dennis T. Avery
web posted March 31, 2008
This year of 2008 is starting out cold—but according to the "consensus" climate watchers it's still likely to be one of the "top 10 warmest" in the thermometer record before it's over. After all, the Greenhouse gasses continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.
OceanBut wait. Something isn't following the Greenhouse script. The oceans, which contain 80 to 90 percent of the planet's heat, have recently stopped warming!
Over the past 4-5 years, "there has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant," Josh Willis of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently told National Public Radio.
Nothing very significant—except the ocean warming trend has stopped?! This, in the midst of the biggest furor over global temperatures and climate overheating in human history?
Willis monitors the data from a nifty new set of Argo ocean buoys. They not only record sea surface temperatures but periodically dive 3,000 feet under water and record sub-surface temperatures as they rise back up. These wonderful new Argo floats say the oceans have been cooling slightly for the past 4-5 years, instead of accentuating a continuing global warming trend.
But how can the ocean warming stop? Greenhouse gases have continued to spew from Chinese factories. Even Europe's Kyoto-bound economies are still increasing their greenhouse emissions. There should be no relief from the planet's heating.
Except that over the last 13 months, the earth's thermometers have dropped for the first time in 30 years. Three global monitoring sites measured a decline of 0.5 to 0.7 degree C.
Now we learn that the ocean warming stopped even earlier, 4-5 years ago.
We should have been expecting this, because the sunspot index turned down nine years ago. There's a 79 percent correlation between the sunspots and the earth's sea-surface temperatures—with roughly a ten-year lag.
Is ten years the time required for the oceans to respond to changes on the sun?
There is nothing in the climate record that ties the earth's temperatures to CO2 levels. Al Gore's movie showed Antarctic ice core temperatures and CO2 moving closely together through four different Ice Ages. Gore implied that more CO2 leads to higher temperatures. But Gore reversed cause and effect. Three different Antarctic studies show the temperatures change 800-1200 years before the CO2 levels. Higher temperatures cause more CO2 in the air, not the other way around.
The big question is what warms the oceans. It it CO2 or sun? For the past nine years, CO2 has continued to rise in the atmosphere, but the earth hasn't gotten warmer. The sun is winning the debate.
NPR asked Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmosphere Research where "all the extra heat from the CO2" was going. He said it was probably going into outer space, through the "natural thermostats, including clouds," which can either trap solar heat in earth's atmosphere, or deflect it out back out into space.
Thank you, Dr. Trenberth, for finally admitting that the earth does, indeed, have natural thermostats such as clouds. And what seems to control those natural thermostats? The level of activity on the sun, through varying numbers of cosmic rays that create more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that deflect solar heat back into space.
It's unthinkable, but what if there's no "extra heat" being trapped by CO2 right now? What if CO2 levels don't matter much? What if the earth is starting to cool in response to the sun's declining level of activity? What an inconvenient truth. ESR
Dennis T. Avery is a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC and is the Director for the Center for Global Food Issues. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Hundred Years, Readers may write him at PO Box 202, Churchville, VA 2442 or email to cgfi@hughes.net.
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He'll lose his funding if he speaks out like this. Interesting read though. Would be interesting also to know where these bouys are.
Report after report now refutes the "consensus" on warming. Shame really, the young and gulliable have already been gripped by fear and bullied into feeling guilty for living and breathing, and are willing to hand over extra to placate that guilt.
Report after report now refutes the "consensus" on warming. Shame really, the young and gulliable have already been gripped by fear and bullied into feeling guilty for living and breathing, and are willing to hand over extra to placate that guilt.