Climate change

[rowlow]

I haven't heard much in the political spectrum or news about Climate change or Global warming. Even though there are crazy heat waves, storms, etc.. Is it the norm now?

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Went to a local astronomy club lecture about sun spots. Apparently, there is good evidence that the sun is heading into a dormant stage (normal cyclical activity) for sun spot production, which means temps may actually cool a bit. This may offset warming for a while, but when the sun spots reappear....

 

[thaiturkey]

Climate change is natural and brought about by the sun's activity. Don't fall for the guilt trip propaganda.

Once the world economies are back on track and 'they' can't scare us s***less over that any more, climate chnage will be pulled out of the cupboard and thrown at us again.

 

[hemet dennis]

It's been cooler here then normal. If anything in Calif. can be called normal.

 

[Fierlin1182]

It seems the weather is getting somewhat more extreme recently, but i agree that we're heading for cooler temps, in the natural cycle. "Global warming" has been happening for centuries.

 

[thaiturkey]

Some of the lower reaches of Britain's rivers would freeze in winter several centuries ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames_frost_fairs

Britain had a mini-ice age. You might think that comparing the weather today with how is was then would reinforce the suggestion that the earth is warming up. Fine, but what's nasty is the further claim that's it's all man made and things are about to go beyond the point if no return. During my life time in England, we have hard very cold winters, mild winters, wet winters, hot dry summers, lousy wet summers, hot March weather followed by a poor summer and hurricanes. There's no sudden change in one direction.

Any suggestion that what we think we are experiencing is other than the natural cycle of things is unfounded. If the earth is warming at the moment it's certainly not, as someone suggested the other day, the fault of the babyboomer generation. 98% of the earth's carbon emissions are from animals and plant life. Increased sunspot activity warms the earth. That stimulates life and living creatures create more carbon gases. Warming precedes increased carbon, it doesn't follow it.

 

[chickened]

Can only beat a dead horse so long.

 

[Royd]

I find this very interesting. A whole page of posts and not one AGW amonst them....Four years ago, half of the political spectrum were screaming, "If we don't do something, we are all going to die."

Aren't we all glad, now, that Cap and Trade didn't get stacked on top of ACA....Come on, be honest.

 

[EweSheep]

I remember talking this with my Dad and he said he remembers this as a little boy about the "so called" global warmings. So did my Grandparents. If it has been ongoing for THAT long, obviously something IS keeping the Earth intact. It is not like it will explode and it is what Mother Nature has intended to do for so long.

 

[chickened]

There are still a few things about the earth little arrogant man just simply does not have the foggiest about.