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I had the opportunity to tune into the National Geographic Special "6 Degrees" this past weekend.  I believe it was an excellent show that explained what worldwide changes would occur with a 1 degree...2 degree...and up to a 6 degree increase in worldwide tempeartures.  What I liked is that it  was not making a political statement claiming that the world "would" warm by a certain amount...but rather gives us some insight as to what would occur with each warming scenario.  

Many of you know that I do believe that global warming is occuring ....the question now is how much, how fast and what percentage of the warming is mad-made.  If you get a chance to view it....I believe it is very accurate and gives you some things to ponder.

Once again...my favorite web site concerning this issue is:

www.realclimate.org

 

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JVF_Fan06 read my blog view my photos
Feb 18, 2008 | 8:05 PM

Why does global warming occur and for how long?? If you ask me that must be why we are always so hot here in Florida and we always have to run the air, I mean we have not really had a winter this year and the last couple of weeks it's been in the upper 70's to 80.... So my question is will this global warming thing go away or will it just keep getting hotter & hotter??

Michelle

thewizard read my blog view my photos
Feb 19, 2008 | 5:08 AM

And yet - every year since 1998 has been cooler than 1998

How do you justify that, specifically? I mean, if the globe is WARMING, shouldn't at least one of those years show an increase in temperature?

As for 'Six Degrees,' have you ever notice that none of these crackpots who believe in global warming ever include the SUN in the equation?

We move at a variable speed, on an irregular path, around a sun whose temperature varies, and which moves through space at a variable speed on an elipsis

To think that the temperature of the planet WOULDN'T rise and fall is pretty naive.

Abunai read my blog view my photos
Feb 19, 2008 | 5:57 PM

Oh out today is another report on Global Warming that pretty much crushes Gore's ridiculous fleecing of enviromental nuts!

Solar Heating tends to be the cause of most, and the Sun goes through stages too. The Warming hippys of course only want to look at the last 30 years of data collected. (much collected from sites that incorrectly placed the equipment)

Turns out that a rise in temps will solve alot of world hunger too! Keep your Hybrid! I'm going out in my retro modified 79 vette and fill up the tank that feeds the new engine a whopping 8 miles to the gallon!!

thewizard read my blog view my photos
Feb 19, 2008 | 6:04 PM

As for hybrids - do the people who buy these things understand that making the batteries for them is WAY worse for the environment than gas emmission could ever be?

The terrain around the plant in Canada that makes these is a wasteland so desolate that the military and NASA regular lease it to test Mars rovers and the roughest of terrain vehicles. One thousand years from now, nothing will EVER grow there.

You know what's good for the environment? The God that created it - and my faith is in HIM, not Algore

Glenn_Richards read my blog view my photos
Feb 19, 2008 | 8:21 PM

Where do you pull these facts out of the air regarding "cooling"...and that the earth has not been warming? I agree that earth fluctuations are normal...heck we used to have a mile of ice over Chicago at one time. However, everything I've seen over the years indicates warming....maybe not a constant warming every year...but definite warming over the last 200 years. Now our warming is increasing rapidly over the last 100 years. I'd love to see where your info. comes from. Pass along a website or two or three so I can look into it objectively...

Glenn_Richards read my blog view my photos
Feb 19, 2008 | 8:24 PM

JVF Fan....

Everything I've read and heard concerning the warming trend is that it will not be constant every year. We will actually have some cooler years mixed in too. We will have wilder fluctuations in weather...hotter highs...and at times colder lows...and strong storm systems due to the extremes feeding these storms. But in the end....we are expecting it to get warmer in the next few decades and it will be more noticeable in the form of these extremes.

thewizard read my blog view my photos
Feb 19, 2008 | 8:42 PM

And where do you get THAT from?

First of all, we don't have reliable criteria for the last 200 years - not any that anyone agrees on.

As for the last 100 years and the so-called 1 degree increase - you understand that that comes from a computer model for which the creators refuse to give up the software, don't you?

Don't you have a problem with that? Ok - they say that the software is their on proprietary code, however if I don't have to release the algorythms, I'll have a computer model for you that shows you that, the more of your paycheck you give to me, the more likely you are to live over 110 and win Lotto three times.

Antartica is getting colder, not warmer: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0118/p02s01-usgn.html


Scientists Respond to Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth': http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm>
400 Scientists Refute Global Warming: http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/showthread.php?t=36695


Global Warming is the Biggest Scam in History (from the founder of the Weather Channel): http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/07/w
eather-channel-founder-global-warming-greatest-scam-his
tory

Global Warming - Explanation of the Alleged Consensus: http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.h
tml

The hottest years on record: http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1880

You'll notice, these people (unlike Al Gores) name themselves, show how they come by their facts, and can be studied.

I know you love this, because it makes weather interesting, but as I've told you MANY times in the past, in less than five years we're all goi

thewizard read my blog view my photos
Feb 19, 2008 | 8:44 PM

ng to be laughing about this as the biggest scam on the dumbest people ever, while you guys are running around congratulating each other and giving each other medals.

thewizard read my blog view my photos
Feb 19, 2008 | 8:50 PM

"Everything I've read and heard concerning the warming trend is that it will not be constant every year. We will actually have some cooler years mixed in too. We will have wilder fluctuations in weather...hotter highs...and at times colder lows...and strong storm systems due to the extremes feeding these storms."

OK - tell me, when in human history has this NOT been a description of normal weather?

So you're saying normal weather for twenty or so years, and THEN after we've spent TRILLIONS of dollars and given up our economic advantages to the Chinese and Indians and Mexicans (who aren't bound by Kyoto like we are) - what, we're screwed anyway?

Tell you what - I'm going to start selling carbon credits. How many can I sign you up for?

Glenn_Richards read my blog view my photos
Feb 20, 2008 | 7:47 PM

Your first link and its article is from a 2002 article written by the Christian Science Monitor. I'm sorry, but they have their own agenda and I now know why you have your own bias regarding global warming and politics. It's unfortunate, but many "experts" go around with their own agenda's and skew all the info. and data to push this agenda.

That's exactly the reason why I am suspect about what I read. You should be too. It is up to us to get a truely educated and un-biased opinion of our own. There are thousands of articles and research regarding global warming and evolution and other science theories. Most of them are biased....a few of them are not. I believe I found an unbiased entity in NCAR. It is funded by the national science foundation and is many steps removed from political affiliation. Their funding and research is worldwide and filters out most of the bias.

thewizard read my blog view my photos
Feb 20, 2008 | 8:09 PM

If you don't like Christian Science Monitor, here are other links for Antartica getting colder, not warmer:

http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/09/antarctic-sea-ice-at-
record-high.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1363818
.ece

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2002/ja
n/science/ws_antarctic.html

By the way, Glen - I recommend you practice what you preach, especially when you want to turn your nose up at CSM and then try to pass off NCAR as non-partisan because it receives money from the government (NSF). The ACLU receives money from the government - do you think they're non-partisan, too?

The Head of the Climate Analysis Section of NCAR is none other than Kevin E. Trenberth. Trenberth is a firm and specific partisan who's been convinced that fossil fuels cause global warming for years and has been accused of misrepresenting his facts to present his agenda on numerous occaisions.

Chris Landsea actually withdrew her name from one of his reports because it was so severely slanted:

http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/articles/landsea.htm
l

Face it, Glen - you don't care about the facts. You want this to be real and you're going to ignore anything that says otherwise. If you attended an international symposium where the math was actually calculated from beginning to end to demonstrate why carbon emissions have nothing to do with global warming, and afterwards you went to the men's room and saw 'global warming is real' scrawled on the bathroom wall, you'd come back saying you saw the nay-sayers, and their theories were refuted r

Glenn_Richards read my blog view my photos
Feb 20, 2008 | 8:14 PM

Here is a link to a Christian Science Monitor article that is more recent where they have now changed their tune.

http://whrc.org/resources/online_publications/essays/20
06-04-Davidson-CSM-Op-Ed.htm


Accelerated warming is not inevitable, but changing our course requires mindfulness.
(This originally appeared as an op-ed piece in the Christian Science Monitor, April 21, 2006)

"Despite a few vocal holdouts, the debate about whether global warming is actually happening is essentially over. Just as the lingering scientific doubts about the health risks of smoking faded away in the 1970s, the global warming skeptics are fading fast now."

Glenn_Richards read my blog view my photos
Feb 20, 2008 | 8:26 PM

Well I guess we'll agree to disagree on this one. I agree that there is a bias with everyone! It's up to each of us to sift through all the information and decide how much of it is truth. I know what I've read and heard and learned over the years....so I'll still side with the warming scenario, and that we can possibly still minimize the impact. In the end it'll bring about new industries, new science and hopefully a cleaner planet.

thewizard read my blog view my photos
Feb 20, 2008 | 8:27 PM

So, let me get this straight:

You turn your nose up at the CSM and claim that "now you know why I have my own bias regarding global warming and politics" when I quote them. In fact, because I quote them, you completely ignore four other references from respected and non-partisan sources.

Then you think you see an article FROM CSM that says what you want to hear, and you quote it.

Forget the fact (and you see - this is how you mark yourself as a typical liberal media member) that this comes from the Commentary/ Opinion section of the CSM (meaning this isn't some scientific fact that they support, this is someone's opinion and they printed it).

And by the way, because you didn't learn this while getting your Meteorologist degree, that blurb you quoted isn't a proof, its called 'begging the point.'

As I said, you can have it all layed out before you, and you'll still believe what you want.

And people wonder why weather forecasters have a credibility much lower than politicians, the rest of the liberal media and, yes, used car salesmen?

Tell you what - predict the weather correctly three times in a row, and THEN we can discuss how you think you can predict it twenty years in the future.

thewizard read my blog view my photos
Feb 20, 2008 | 8:42 PM

"Well I guess we'll agree to disagree on this one. I agree that there is a bias with everyone! It's up to each of us to sift through all the information and decide how much of it is truth. "

Oh my God.

You know, without introspection, your personal growth is stalled. You should really embrace that philosophy before you call yourself a part of an industry labelled as 'news.'

I mean - look how you've run this discourse.

1. You present an opinion without facts to back it, and I call you on it.

2. You demand that I back myself up, because you disagree with me, and I provide you with six factual articles

3. You look at one of them, disagree with the source without reading it, and then believe you've invalidated my point.

4. THEN you misquote the same source and try to pass off an op-ed piece as evidence that the CSM now supports your opinion

5. Meanwhile you present your own position as superior because it comes from an unbiased source and, when you find out that that source is specifically biased, your argument is "well, everyone's biased."

And you believe that your whole position is valid because YOU DO YOUR RESEARCH? If there is ANYTHING that this discourse proves, it is that you have no interest what-so-ever with research and, in fact, research just gets in your way.

If you DID research, you'd have the same opinion as I do, which is of course why you refuse to do it, because in fact you want YOUR opinion.

When the guy who used to run the Weather Channel calls Man-Made Global Warming 'the biggest scam in history', and people who REPORT the

thewizard read my blog view my photos
Feb 20, 2008 | 8:43 PM

weather don't even flicker, you know that they've left science far behind.

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Don't mess with my forecasts!! It's been an excting ride here in Central Florida in our wild world of weather. It's started with the storm of the century in 1993 and continues today.....

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