Glenn_Richards's Blog

And yet, I am shocked that people are still unwilling to debate Global Warming from an objective position an allow evidence from both sides to be heard!

Global climate argument expects us to look at numbers from NOAA that can't even follow guidelines for position and collection of data, and we are expected to understand the climate and history of it from a 30 year window? Anyone that dismisses evidence as far back as we can obtain it is disingeneous and IMO suspect of pandering for selfish purposes.

Only a tiny bit further than 30 years, many of the same "experts" were warning us of the comming ice age!!

If you can even get past the domestic policy mandated by global enviromental nuts, they don't have a problem with China and India pumping it out with the antiquated technology that is cheap, and no regulation of industry. Then we complain about China's cheaper goods comming her?

Want to debate this topic? Lets just do that from ALL the facts, ALL the evidence then.

The problem is that people turn this issue into a political debate and false truths are thrown left or right to get votes and get money.

I think most Christians believe in preserving the earth, to do otherwise would be sacrilegious. God gave us the earth to live on and as such it's our responsibility to keep it in the best condition possible. No one wants something returned to them in worse condition than it was when it was loaned out.

As for the arguments for global cooling and warming, the people pumping out fact's about global cooling need to release where they get their funding. Because I know quite a few scientists and engineers and none can even see where these crackpots are coming from. Their theory's when put into practice are unsubstantiated.

Well, let me see.... I'll first have to change that picture of me and the gun. I thought it was appropriate for the internet and blogging....I usually only wear that thing on a cold winters day down here. It has a good smell of autumn in it...so I'll keep it hanging in my closet for awhile.

The hard data that is used for climate research is solid for the last 100 years...after that it gets a little shaky. The nws folks and world wide weather depts. all use strict guielines for thermometer locations and height etc etc to keep the data "true". I agree that someone who has an agenda can manipulate the end result by changing the data sites used from year to year to skew the end result. That is why I question what I read and hear.

I believe the temp. increase is due to normal fluctuations in solar energy cycles....which I'm still learning about...and an enhancement due to the greenhouse effect. Since the early 1900's we've been pumping tons of emmissions into the atmosphere which trap the suns energy and cause the warming. Its not that humans are creating more heat...we are trapping more of the suns heat. Here is a brief overview from wikipedia (I don't think Al Gore funds that website)

Anthropogenic greenhouse effect
Main article: Global warming
CO2 production from increased industrial activity (fossil fuel burning) and other human activities such as cement production and tropical deforestation has increased the CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Measurements of carbon dioxide amounts from Mauna Loa observatory show that CO2 has increased from about 313

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/08/
30/50-analyzed-weather-stations-don-t-meet-federal-guid
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Now lets be honest here!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_I
D=58586

This one is for some good "balance."

I want to clarify the "warming not ending"

The Earth could very well be warming now and it will eventually cool off. There is no evidence supporting a continious warming trend.

I wanted to clarify what I meant.

Yep.. Isn't it interesting that NOAA now shows the coolest year since 2001-2002 AFTER they were exposed for ridiculous readings from equipment all over the nation improperly stationed.....

We have Ice melting away and exposing mine enterances with equipment stacked at the opening... SOMEONE was working that mine before it covered with Ice long ago...

But some basic questions: What is the Earth's "normal" temp? and how do we derive it?

Polar caps on Mars increase and decrease... is that our fault too?

I certainly think, whether you are supporting global warming claims or not, that if you are on television you should potray both sides of the issue. It is not right to just cut out passages from PRO Global Warming blogs.

But since fairness does not always happen and it takes others to bring fairness to the table, here are some...

"Count northern Vermont’s sugar maples among those wallowing in the winter blahs. Sugaring season across the state is dawdling, because continuous cold temperatures are keeping the sap from flowing out of maple trees and into the evaporators Vermont’s sugar makers use to create syrup."

“None of the models used by IPCC is initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models corresponds even remotely to the current observed climate”.

Time to refute more of these ridiculous claims...

The full Wilkins 6,000 square mile ice shelf is just 0.39% of the current Antarctic ice cover (just 0.1% of the extent last September). A very small piece broke off as an iceberg (37 square miles). Then only a small portion of it around 160 square miles partially disintegrated late this February into early March. That represents just 2.67% of the full Wilkins ice sheet and 0.01% of the total Antarctic icecover (0.003% of its level last September), a little like an icicle falling from a snow and ice cover roof. No big deal (unless you are standing beneath it).

I think I temporarily put this raging inferno out by cooling it off with a good amout of icing.