Comments on: Panel: Global Warming Caused By Humans

Delegates From 113 Countries Agree There's 90% Chance Climate Change Caused By Humans

[thorn180]

Everyone thinks the catastrophy is upon us!!!

Ice caps melting; Deserts growing?

More Water equals more Irragation!!!

Are we so stupid to ignore the obviouce(sp)!!

The Garden of EDEN IS before US. Plan and work for the future and quit crying.

prophet spyder

[j-whitman]

Bush says -- "If these scientists didn't have smoking guns, we wouldn't have so much greenhouse gases"

[olgreyghost]

jeb:

Why is it you liberal Democrats and your partners in crime, conservative Republicans, continue to think you have all the answers when all you can come up with as a solution is more government? Y'all appear to be blind to the fact that most of our problems are either created or exasperated by government.

Try selling your solutions to the people instead of shoving it at them at the point of a gun which is what all government action boils down to be (try disobeying the government and see if they don't send men with guns to help you comply). You seem to have a problem with SUV's. Hey, invent one that carries the same payload with the same amount of safety at the same price that runs on a more fuel efficient engine. People will buy it because it saves them money and only a idiot wouldn't want to save money. Your biggest problem of getting it to market will be government interference.

The Unabomber was a start but you need to do more research on those who have been harmed by government action in the name of "saving the planet." Look into the history of DDT or watch a few episodes of Penn & Teller's TV series, "Bullsh-t." And there's no need to apologize. Small minds always denigrate to insults and I have come across so many in my life. You just need to take a number...

[legendary240]

Obi Wan help us - you're our only hope! PUH-LEASE! People in the future will look back on us like we were a bunch of loons. Global Warming exposed the land where you live today - aren't you glad?

[lars008-2009]

there were many ice ages....... not just one....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age
Many glacial periods have occurred during the last few million years, initially at 40,000-year frequency but more recently at 100,000-year frequencies. These are the best studied. There have been four major ice ages in the further past.

[lars008-2009]

a little increase in sea level is hardly catastrophic....

glaciers covering the earth, now that is catastrophic....

what caused the glaciers to recede 16,000 years ago then? i don't think there were 6 billion plus people driving cars, etc etc etc

i guess that means you are for eliminating say 90% of the worlds population and puninishing countries like china, india and muslims for having 1.3 billion people.....

[frankly6]

The National Academy of Sciences looked at every published, peer-reviewed, scientific study done on Global Warming in the last ten years. 100% of them agreed on three things:

1. Global warming is real.

2. The consequences of Global Warming will be catastrophic for all life on this planet.

3. Global Warming is caused by man.

The world scientific community has been united on this for years. The so-called debate is just a disinformation campaign funded by fossil fuel dependent industries who stand to loose a lot of money as the planet shifts to more sustainable ways of doing things.

[lars008-2009]

you are off a few years.......
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/
When most people hear the words Ice Age, they think of glaciers covering much of North America and Eurasia, animals like mammoths and saber-toothed cats, and Cro-Magnon people painting cave walls. These things come to mind because the words "Ice Age" often refer to the last time that glaciers extended over a large portion of the Earth's surface. The ISM online exhibit The Midwestern U.S. 16,000 Years Ago provides more information on this glaciation in the Midwestern United States.
The amount of ice on the Earth's surface has varied greatly through time. For example, the extent of ice in North America has changed dramatically since the height of the last glacial advance 20,000 years ago.

During most of the last 1 billion years the earth had no permanent ice. However, sometimes large areas of the globe were covered with vast ice sheets. These times are known as ice ages. Illinois has experienced changes in rocks and fauna during these times. This Web module tells how some of these changes happened. Knowledge of the changes and their causes helps increase understanding about ancient rock formations and animals remains found in Illinois sites as evidenced in the Museum's specimen collections and site reports.

[lars008-2009]

geeeee that explains all the previous global warmings and ice ages....... when there were no humans.....

i guess you would prefer the last ice age with glaciers covering most of the northern hemisphere.......

[stormcharity-2009]

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[lars008-2009]

Real Climate meet Real Science!!!!

Unstoppable Global Warming documents the reality of a moderate, natural, 1500-year climate cycle on the earth. The Chilling Stars explains the why and how.

The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change by Henrik Svensmark, Nigel Calder
The Chilling Stars relates how Svensmark%u2019s team mimicked the chemistry of earth%u2019s atmosphere, by putting realistic mixtures of atmospheric gases into a large reaction chamber, with ultraviolet light as a stand-in for the sun. When they turned on the UV, microscopic droplets%u2014cloud seeds%u2014started floating through the chamber.

%u201CWe were amazed by the speed and efficiency with which the electrons [generated by cosmic rays] do their work of creating the building blocks for the cloud condensation nuclei,%u201D says Svensmark.

The Chilling Stars documents how cosmic rays amplify small changes in the sun%u2019s irradiance fourfold, creating 1-2 degree C cycles in earth%u2019s temperatures: Cosmic rays continually slam into the earth%u2019s atmosphere from outer space, creating ion clusters that become seeds for small droplets of water and sulfuric acid. The droplets then form the low, wet clouds that reflect solar energy back into space. When the sun is more active, it shields the earth from some of the rays, clouds wane, and the planet warms.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chilli
ng-Stars-Theory-Climate-Change/dp/184046
8157
http://www.realclimate.org/

[lars008-2009]

Real Climate meet Real Science!!!!

Unstoppable Global Warming documents the reality of a moderate, natural, 1500-year climate cycle on the earth. The Chilling Stars explains the why and how.

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (Paperback)
by Dennis T. Avery, S. Fred Singer
Singer and Avery note that most of the earth%u2019s recent warming occurred before 1940, and thus before much human-emitted CO2. Moreover, physical evidence shows 600 moderate warmings in the earth%u2019s last million years. The evidence ranges from ancient Nile flood records, Chinese court documents and Roman wine grapes to modern spectral analysis of polar ice cores, deep seabed sediments, and layered cave stalagmites.

Unstoppable Global Warming shows the earth%u2019s temperatures following variations in solar intensity through centuries of sunspot records, and finds cycles of sun-linked isotopes in ice and tree rings. The book cites the work of Svensmark, who says cosmic rays vary the earth%u2019s temperatures by creating more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that cool the earth. It notes that global climate models can%u2019t accurately register cloud effects.
http://www.amazon.com/Unstoppable-Global-Warming-Every-Years/dp/0742551172
http://www.realclimate.org/

[lars008-2009]

Real Climate meet Real Science!!!!

Unstoppable Global Warming documents the reality of a moderate, natural, 1500-year climate cycle on the earth. The Chilling Stars explains the why and how.

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (Paperback)
by Dennis T. Avery, S. Fred Singer
http://www.amazon.com/Unstoppable-Global-Warming-Every-Years/dp/0742551172

The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change (Paperback)
by Henrik Svensmark (Author), Nigel Calder (Author)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chilling-Stars-Theory-Climate-Change/dp/1840468157
http://www.realclimate.org/

[connapa]

GEE! And I thought it was from the methane that cows produce. What was I thinking?

[bigwhtpony]

Boys and girls, let me 'splain it to you.....this old earth is about 4.5 billion years old. In about 4 billion years, our sun will expand to ten thousand times its current size and envelope this old earth.

Death by fire. Meteors the size of small planets flying around out in space just itching for a chance to run in to us. This nut job in Iran promising to make all us "infidels" pay. The lunatic Chavez is now an offical dictator.

What's the problem? We're all going to die, it's just a matter of when.

The really sad part is, all your ranting and raving on a CBS comment blog isn't going to change a *** thing. So ya'll try and have a nice day, and be nice to each other! :)

[mnelsonix]

Hubris to think humans are so powerful as to change global weather. The US will slow down polluting (Manufacturing jobs are disappearing here) but do you think Asian countries will?

We may be doomed but not by global warming!

[bigwhtpony]

It's pronounced "Tarjay", not Target! And I say there's a 100% chance that the a**holes from 113 countries are chicken littles - waiting for the sky to fall.

Junk science, voodoo science.....their all "evildoers." :)

Sincerely.

GWB a.k.a. bigwhtpony

[jebediah76]

Everything in the world is pointing you toward the simple fact that we need to change how we live our lives - just a bit - so that we don't screw it up for years and years. Ignoring it is stupid. Fighting against reality is idiotic.

You don't like being called an idiot? Tough. I call em like I see 'em, and you are an Idiot.

[jebediah76]

Grey Ghost:

1. Calling the Unabomber a "Green terrorist" is like calling a Jihadi a messenger of peace. There is always one person who takes their cause so seriously that they do stupid and immoral things - these people are mentally Ill first- NOT environmentalists.
2. My carbon footprint may be slightly increased by my use of a computer - We all have a carbon footprint. I'm not apologizing for mine because I do what I can to keep it under control in other ways. I also support legislators who would like to keep the country's footprint as a whole under control. As opposed to Some, who like yourself, choose to support absolutely untenable arguments about the realities of global warming and pass it off as intellectual acumen. Nice try.

3. As far as my calling you an idiot goes - I do not apologize in the least. With the reams of information we have about Global warming, the incredibly high likelyhood of its human causes, the devastation it will wreak on both the natural environment and on the daily lives of people both here and abroad, and the incredible power non-conservation gives to our enemies in the oil-rich Middle East...With all this the best you can do is gripe about how government wants to change how you live your life?

[olgreyghost]

Oh, neat. Some of you can insult just like most kindergarteners and have as much trouble when it comes to spelling.

What we are observing is the phenomenon of "group think." With an understanding of how it works one can get a jury to convict a man of a crime he didn't commit, a Congress to support the waging of a war that has no justification, and a country to vote for a president.

jeb - try all the victims of the green terrrorist formerly known as the "Unabomber" as a start. You are the one who is selfish and a whining hypocrite. If you really wanted to save the planet, you wouldn't be reading what I write and posting a response because you wouldn't be using your computer, which supposedly increases your "carbon footprint." Want the government to take it away from you in the name of "saving the planet," idiot?