This, Pete above, and several other CORPORATE-PAID SHILLS want to muddy the water for the DO NOTHING BUT PROFIT corps they work for.

“Naturally occurring water vapor makes up 95% of greenhouse gases. The proportion of CO2 (the next biggest contributor) that is anthropogenic is very small (around 2-3% of total atmospheric CO2).”

Which is enough to tilt the balance. Greenhouse gases is not the whole picture — it’s SOOT as you very well know. Global dimming, from soot, in fact, is reducing the impact of global climate change by a factor of 10. If we cleaned the air, we would see a far larger result of the soot we have put into the air.

However, you are right, it’s not just greenhouse gasses. It’s also deforestation, big time.

Count on the corporations to get right on that.

To attribute climate change to anthropogenic CO2 is silly given the overwhelming primacy of water vapor and the vast majority share of naturally occurring CO2 in the CO2 equation. Don’t you see this? How can you not see this?

Next time you read a Global Warming study, see how they handle water vapor. Most likely it will be ignored That should be your first clue that something ain’t right.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see one day where the third-world (and maybe other) countries of the world launch a class-action suit against the US, the greatest polluter, for billions if not trillions of dollars. It would mostly be fair.

http://www.tekno-world.blogspot.com

There is consensus in the scientific community that global warming is real, and man-induced.
Comment by Gregor Samsa — January 30, 2007 @ 8:35 pm

Men like you just need to stop passing so much gas when they talk. Like your doing now. That would solve the emission problem and tangentially the global warming theory.

So, in a nutshell gents, and unladylike ladies as well, purchase an item in the health and beauty aids section of any grocery store a product called Beano. That`s B E A N O it will reduce your methane gas output dramatically. There already is a cure for global warming available and it is as close as your nearest grocery store.

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No one has ever prevented Hansen from talking to Congress, or the media for that matter. He has only done it to himself.

Of course, he expected NASA to pay his way to Iowa so he could announce his support for John Kerry. Maybe he felt he was being muzzled since NASA wouldn’t fund his politcal agenda.

BTW, the Union of Concerned Scientists were part of an advocacy campaign to sell climate change using the word “harbringer” to describe weather events. That term was picked up by other leftist advocacy groups, and numerous government agencies including NOAA and the Fish and Wildlife Service. The UCS has been schooled by Dr George Lakoff. The UCS has an agenda of promoting climate doomsday (Lakoff says facts don’t sell climate change, but scary words will) is hardly presenting an unbiased survey here.

This superficial survey that Waxan touted is just another attempt on their part to “pick the best, and leave the rest”, clouding the policy debate on climate change.

http://physorg.com/news89292896.html

“The late Paleozoic deglaciation is the vegetated Earth’s only recorded icehouse-to-greenhouse transition, yet the climate dynamics remain enigmatic.”

This is a badly-written sentence and/or a lie.

The ‘vegetated Earth’ has had many glaciation cycles.

What is ‘only,’ is the recorded evidence — our only direct evidence (as a result of ice core studies on the existing icepack).

So his sentence really makes no sense, which is not a good characteristic of PUBLISHED scientific thought.

Given the rhetoric, the man is either sloppy, a liar, or a fool. And all three are also possible.

I wonder if my post will be displayed above psst’s too.

So many virgins tossed into fire for the superstitions and hatreds of the evil.

Don’t trust the HAL.

That’s hilarious, Wilco. LMAO.

You should have seen the GLEAM in the eyes of the scientists who testified before Waxman’s committee today — wow, they were so HAPPY to be teling the truth.

The industry hack wasn’t so happy. Watching CHAIRMAN Waxman rhetorically gaveling him down was a joy to all involved.

Science, in service to the truth? Or throwing virgins into the volcano?

ARGH!

Funny…an earlier post pointing out that Seixon was posting at 3:30 a.m. disappeared. hmmmm.

Comment by psst… — January 31, 2007 @ 3:26 am

is off by some 3+ hours???

ThinkProgress is losing ALL CREDIBILITY HERE!!!!!

Closed System
Is is a system that transfers energy, but not matter, across its boundary to the surrounding environment. Our planet is often viewed as a closed system.

Dick Cheney made the following statement in late 1999:

By some estimates, there will be an average of two percent annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead, along with, conservatively, a three-percent natural decline in production from existing reserves. That means by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional 50 million barrels a day.

Later he commissioned a report w/ this passage:

The most significant difference between now and a decade ago is the extraordinarily rapid erosion of spare capacities at critical segments of energy chains. Today, shortfalls appear to be endemic. Among the most extraordinary of these losses of spare capacity is in the oil arena.

http://dieoff.org/Olduvai.gif

Ah, now it all makes sense…

Yes, I agree with you on Singer’s possible motives for trying to “debunk” global warming. However, I do think we are on more solid ground when we point out the consensus in the scientific community.

Being accused of “desperately” wanting to believe was really funny. It doesn’t get any richer than that…