Comments on: Katie: Getting Chills Over Climate Change

[davidcbr600]

I love the all-encompassing statements about global warming. Yes there is evidence that the world is warming up. NO there is not a consensus that it is all due to man-made activity. How about CBS doing a special or series of specials with opinions from both sides of the issue and even have a debate on live TV. Yes many scientists state that global warming is due to man-made activity. It is also true that many scientists who say so are funded by organizations which believe global warming is due to us therefore to get funded they had better 'find' evidence this is true. BTW this is the same argument that is used against scientists that don't believe GB (tired of spelling it) is man-made except in their case it is 'the oil companies' funding them. I suggest ALL of you read the 'Skeptical Environmentalist' so that you can look objectively at both sides of the issue. Come on CBS be a leader and let's have a live debate.

[lars008-2009]

Harper's letter dismisses Kyoto as 'socialist scheme'
Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called the Kyoto accord a "socialist scheme" designed to suck money out of rich countries, according to a letter leaked Tuesday by the Liberals.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/30/harper-kyoto.html

[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 (Paperback)
by Henrik Svensmark (Author), Nigel Calder (Author)
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/Chilling-Stars-Theory-Climate-Change/dp/1840468157

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 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/

[crusadex]

mush brained=liberal logic,well thought out response from the left?
or a 5 year old

[one_american]

Henry Waxman sez: "Climate scientists at seven government agencies say they have been subjected to political pressure aimed at downplaying the threat of global warming."

If Henry Waxman were objective about this in the least, he would look into the political pressure placed on our government aimed at PLAYING UP the threat of global warming.

But the fact is Henry Waxman is NOT objective, instead he's merely a Democrat Partisan attacking the Bush Administration.

By the way, did anyone know that Henry Waxman was the inspriration for the Seinfeld character "Pig-Man"?

[cbshearin]

I find it interesting that as soon as anyone mentions global warming or climate change, they are immediately dubbed a "liberal" (as though that's a bad word) and dismissed as such. Who has perpetuated this association and why do we, as the supposedly free-thinking American public, allow it to continue. The idea that a scientific debate exists over global warming is enough proof that, if anything, the conservative media dominates. There is NO DEBATE in the scientific community over the existance of global warming. Unless you count the "scientists" paid by oil companies to deny its existance. I appreciate public figures like Katie Couric making a decisive statement about global warming because unfortunately, as we've seen, it will often subject them to ridicule.

[noloyalisti]

Please do not confuse weather with climate as the mush brained conservatives are wont to do. Weather is fleeting, it is the long term climate issues that will cause us much pain and suffering.

Anyone who calls the media liberal, tries to discredit the scientific data or start talking about left wing conspiracies is either a much brain, an executive with an major oil company or worst of all, an editorialist with the Wall Street Journal.

[mklthrkngl]

Katie,

interesting article,although i was more interested in some of the reactions to it. I'd think that this issue would rise above wether you're a liberal or conservative. We all live here and it's all our necks in the noose.

[natedmyers]

Katie makes a solid point that isn't earth-shattering at all.

Humankind is killing our planet through brutal disregard for the secondary results of our selfish actions.

I don't have to be convinced by the arguments about global warming to care about the way I live my life and hold others (including companies) accountable for how they live theirs. In that vein, the ignorance of the present administration regarding this issue, as well as the blatant disregard of environment-related issues in Bush's presidency as a whole, is disgusting and they should be held accountable. Money talks for both parties at this point, but it's speaking loud and clear for Mr. Bush. He has little integrity in my eyes, and I lament the fact that so many around me give him a blank check for his actions.

And I say this as a Christian.