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Tells 60 Minutes That Doubting Global Warming Is Man-Made Is Akin To Believing Earth Is Flat

[notoobrite]

IPCC (Intergovernmental Politicians on Climate Change)
That''s them that started AGW
Have not read the definition of the word SCIENCE.

Science (from the Latin ''scientia'' knowledge.)
"Science means the knowledge must be based on observable phenomena and capable of being experimented for its statistics, logic, hypotheses and theories to be validated by other researches working under the same conditions."
Politics and science do not mix,just look what has happened to the weather, its changing again.

[notoobrite]

All I can say people is that I hope Al Gore has friends with very deep pockets, because he is about to get sued for billions, and that is him personally with all his companies and organizations as co-defendants. It has started in London. ( judges opinion, his film. scare mongering, and basically flawed.)

[noregion5]

Hats of to Al Gore and it is too bad others hord their fortunes and fame unless they personally profit. Somebody has to start somewhere with these threatening of life situations. Smart man to get out of politics, it is hard to work in an area when your hands are tied.

Some of you commentors on here seriously need to get a life, CBS should monitor better.

[white_negro]

gizmo1435 LOL.. What is your name in reference too? ingesting ***? I guess you have two things in common with the Gore Family. Tipper loves ***, but it must be from a freshly milked wild tree dwelling n_egro who is uncut with a curve. Much like you GIZ, Al loves t-bagging while taking big cranks from a herd of wild n-groes anxious awaiting their breeding session.

[gizmo1435]

thank goodness for freedom of speech, i am not often online, nor do i pay attention to comments of others, those that i have read this evening are indeed bewildering. I AM SURE MR. GORE HIMSELF MAY NEVER SEE MY COMMENT, BUT I HOPE SOMEONE WITHIN HIS ORGANIZATION DOES, MR. GORE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, I DO BELIEVE THIS IS A FIGHT WORTH FIGHTING, I DO NOT NEED TO WAIT UNTIL A PIECE OF THE U.S.A. FALLS INTO THE OCEAN OR THE OCEAN DIES TO BELIEVE. ONE SHOULD STOP THE FOOLISH COMMENTARIES AND PAY ATTENTION. USE OUR FREEDOMS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS FIGHT, AS YOU HAVE SAID SO WELL, ALL THE $$, OPINIONS, ETC. WILL NOT MEAN A THINK IF WE DO NOT HAVE A WORLD THAT PROVIDES AIR, WATER ETC......I AM ON YOUR SIDE AND HOPE THAT OUR NEXT PRESIDENT WHOM EVER SHE MAY BE WILL SUPPORT YOU AS WELL. I TOO BELIEVE YOU CAN DO MUCH MORE OUTSIDE OF POLITICS, BUT SHOULD YOU EVER DECIDE TO RUN AGAIN FOR PRESIDENT, I WILL BE THERE WITH BELLS ON TO SUPPORT YOU.

[gonzoid3]

You prove the adage that you can fool some of the people all of the time. Please EXPLAIN AWAY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GLACIERS THAT MORE THEN ONCE EXTENDED AS FAR SOUTH AS WHAT IS NOW MEXICO.Al Gore has taken what has been proven faulty science and has created a fantasy industry that the world has swallowed as truth. The hockey puck has been even questioned by the very scientist that came up with the bazaar notion.
Wake up children and smell the charlatans and fear mongers.How do explain Viking settlements under glaciers that have receded. Henry ford had nothing to do with melting hundreds of feet of ice.THE SKY IS FALLING is a control mechanism and it has worked beyond reason. The progressives that are trying to control your life I refuse to let them control mine, have use "Brave New World" and "1984" as blueprints ,not the warnings they were meant to be. Wake up kids you have been BAMBOOZLED. Stop the Obamaspeak and Gorespeak

[j_mcdonald-2009]

gaye5: "He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon."

Why don''t we let Ken write for himself?

Posted by g33kThug on February 27, 2008, 12:48:33, in reply to "Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age"

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the message. The stuff on the web came from a casual chat with someone who managed to misunderstand what I said and then put the result on the web, which is probably a big caution for me regarding the future.

It is true that the beginning of the next solar cycle is late, but not so late that we are getting worried, merely curious.

It is the opinion of scientists, including me, that global warming is a major issue, and that it might be too late to do anything about it already. If there is a cooling due to the solar activity cycle laying off for a bit, then the a period of solar cooling could be a much-needed respite giving us more time to attack the problem of greenhouse gases, with the caveat that if we do not, things will be far worse when things turn on again after a few decades. However, once again it is early days and we cannot at the moment conclude there is another minimum started.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Regards,

Ken

[the74blaster]

Posted by Gaye5,

Boy you people just do not give up! The fact is the sun is at a low point in its sun spot cycle and a cycle lasts approximately 11 years. The last two peaks were around 1991, 2000 and we are due for a peak in 2011.

I have heard conservatives stating it was an increase in the suns energy output that was responsible. Now you are telling me that the sun is not putting as much energy out so we are having a colder winter? I suppose if we have a hot summer you will tell me the sun suddenly started producing more energy.

The fact is we are seeing sea ice and glaciers melting from locations that have historically been frozen year round. The net loss of ice is a long term net effect that provides a great way of determining whether the climate of a specific region is changing.
We do not know the full impact of global warming but it is clear that the net loss of glacial ice from high altitudes and latitudes bears watching.

However, I suppose the critics of global warming will not agree until Memphis replaces New Orleans as a seaport.

[gaye5]

Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as "a drop in the bucket." Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to "stock up on fur coats."

He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.

The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.

It''s way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it''s way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.

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[gaye5]

And it''s not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma.

According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona -- two prominent climate modellers -- the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong.

"We missed what was right in front of our eyes," says Prof. Russell. It''s not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind''s effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt.

But when Profs. Toggweiler and Russell rejigged their model to include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator (then back towards it again), the role of ocean currents bringing warm southern waters to the north was obvious in the current Arctic warming.

[gaye5]

There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months.

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.
OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.

But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter''s weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature.

[gaye5]

Some of you might be interested in this. Australia has had the coldest SUMMER in 50 years..and the world has had the coldest winter..

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, February 25, 2008.

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.

OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades. but keep reading..

[mdmichaud]

I suppose I''m going to have to die before anybody will acknowledge what I have written in regards to global warming and some ideas to resolve this issue (as well as other issues) that I have conceptualized (almost a year ago in fact). Please, it drives me absoultely crazy when I hear Al Gore, or anyone else on TV saying "we need to think of something soon..."

www.notthatmike.blogspot.com

It''s all there, maybe they''re not the best ideas, but in fact somebody has thought of something. Please, just read the 1st 4 chapters, it wont take that long, I promise!

[goldesprit]

Stahl actually wants to listen to *** Cheny about global warming!!! (its on the 4th page of this..."interview".

The word creeep, comes to mind, Leslie.

Duh.

[s1ckd09]

It''''s all there, maybe they''''re not the best ideas, but in fact somebody has thought of something. Please, just read the 1st 4 chapters, it wont take that long, I promise!

Posted by MDMichaud at 07:37 PM : Mar 31, 2008

I did you a favor and tried to read your piece. I got through the first two chapters and had to stop, because your ideas make no sense, and the fact that you thought of "something" doesn''t help things. Doing "something" does not equate to doing something "good". First, your proposal for changing deserts into fertile land leaves out crucial elements like conversion rates and scale. How much water does it take to properly irrigate a certain area of land? What is the evaporation rate of a given surface area of water, considering changing temperature and humidity? Even if you solved that issue, you have the issue of having ground that will support vegetation, which is the much larger problem. Again, you probably suggest that all of this can be solved with enough money, but it cannot. Like most "solutions" being discussed today, the environmental cost of the solution would be much greater than the problem they are trying to fix. Biofuels is a perfect example. Biofuel production on any large scale is non-sustainable due to the enormous demands on water to produce biomass.

[lauren0211]

TELL CHRIS DODD TO SHUT THE ____UP!!
HEY GUY, NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
YOU ARE A SORE LOSER, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE!!
PAST CT RESIDENT SPRAKS OUT.
DO EVERYONE A FAVOR AND RETIRE OR MOVE TO THE KENYA

[rlmiz2]

I wonder why Lesley Stahl chose *** Cheney as a non-believer of Global Warming and didn%u2019t mention John Coleman as a non-believer?
John Coleman is the Weather Channel founder and he recently published an op-ed at ICECAP in which he called "global warming the greatest scam in history."

I made the mistake of watching a CBS News program after a sporting event - it won''t happen again.

[obama8years]

youtube.com/watch?v=LIe4d9Nmg9k

Obama is backing muslim extremist!

badbarack.org

obamatruth.org

OBAMA TIES TO HAMAS

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency today reports that the Wright, Jr., long-time pastor of Obama, published an op-ed piece signed by a Hamas leader. The item appeared in the July 22, 2007 edition of his Trinity United Church newspaper on the "Pastor''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s Page." Justifies attacks on Israeli civilians, and carries a supporting introduction by Mr. Wright.

Obama issued a statement strongly condemning these views of his pastor. "I certainly wasnt in church when that outrageously wrong [Hamas] piece was re-printed in the bulletin.


Obama is a long-time member of Trinity United, and his financial contributions to his church are reported to be substantial ("All told, the [Obama] couple gave $27,500 to [Trinity United] in 2005 and 2006," according to the New York Times of March 26). His moral support to the church has been unwavering. As more and more and more details of the extremist political positions of the church are revealed, Obamas response has been to distance himself from these, but also to repeat, over and over, that he didn''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''t know, that he wasn''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''t there.

I find it very difficult to believe that an intelligent, energetic, and very political man like Obama is perpetually ignorant about what goes on in the church to which he devotes so many of his resources. If he does get to the White House....

[cfin5]

Posted by Newshole at 04:56 PM : Mar 31, 2008-------First thing I should tell you is that I''m a "Constitutionalist", not a dem or rep. Next to say is that the Middle East will always hate us over there. They can''t even get along with different factions of their own religion,.....cuttin'' each others heads off they do. As regards to libs,....neolibs and neocons are the left and right arm of "globalism" which makes sure the arms are busy doing the shell game to fool the average American to keep our pockets empty. If the price of a barrel of crude is so high, why aren''t any of the oil-jacks pumping in my area? I would think that at 100 bucks a barrel these oil companies would be servicing those wells with Rolls Royce pickup trucks. I also noticed that when the pumps stopped pumping, the price of oil started climbing rapidly. We''re getting sqrewed I tell you. They''ve got to create a crisis to move forward in giving the Federal Reserve more authority over what we are told is legal currency......Think about it a bit. Last but not least, Al Gore wants to be the new "Charles Darwin" since his theories have been genetically proven to be impossible. The media and most bureaucrats are keepin'' a hush on this till they can get the public to focus on another shell game scam like the "Pyramid Scheme" ole'' E''Gore has started. All it will take is PURE SCIENCE to defeat this rascal just like it defeated Charles Darwins'' lie.

[mdmichaud]

I suppose I''m going to have to die before anybody will acknowledge what I have written in regards to global warming and some ideas to resolve this issue (as well as other issues) that I have conceptualized (almost a year ago in fact). Please, it drives me absoultely crazy when I hear Al Gore, or anyone else on TV saying "we need to think of something soon..."

www.notthatmike.blogspot.com

It''s all there, maybe they''re not the best ideas, but in fact somebody has thought of something. Please, just read the 1st 4 chapters, it wont take that long, I promise!

[seafang]

Well anybody who thinks ethanol is an energy source just doesn''t know much about energy. When we run out of or are forbidden to use fossil fuels, there won''t be any ethanol to use; well except for countires like France with their nuclear energy.

But so long as americans are stupid enough to fall for the ethanol scam, I''m not goign to tell the midwestern farmers to fleece them for all they can get. People who are that stupid about basic science don''t deserve to have money anyhow, so the farmers might as well take it off them.