Kurtr, wind was the only type of power that was running during Texas freeze up a few years back.
The people that live there have a different story but it was a good try.
Kurtr, wind was the only type of power that was running during Texas freeze up a few years back.
Cow farts and clean coal need to go. We can go back to the little house on the prairie times and live gooder.
While I agree with much of your post here's where my common sense doesn't coincide with the idea that man has this huge impact that every environmentalist seems to want to claim. Something set this current warming trend into motion since the last ice age correct? Clearly that was not human caused. Now once you start melting snow and ice from something what happens? It heats up more and melting speeds up as well. That's just common sense to me. Unless you can figure out how to add ice to the polar caps again you will not stop this trend. Glaciers have been receding since the last ice age, tree lines have been climbing since then as well this is not a new phenomenon that's only started the last 1000 years! Is it increasing faster every 100 years? Again common sense would tell me yes even if every human on earth disappeared today.I'm sure several will have a meltdown, but I tend to follow what's laid out by the IPCC. My views are actually pretty much in alignment with the majority of conservative law makers and commentators, they just mostly keep to themselves on the topic. By looking hard at the data including the known effects of greenhouse gasses and how much humans produce, it's hard to argue that humans aren't altering the climate or at least will not in the long term. It's important to remember we're talking about climate. We're not talking about a cold snap in March, a rain event in the southeast, or a drier/wetter than average summer. Climate. It's important to stay the course if we want to have meaningful conversation. The fact someone had the coldest winter in their 60 year life on their farm last winter is as irrelevant as AK having the warmest and driest summer ever on record this year.
Watching the glaciers retreating at the pace they are where I live is extremely eye opening. I'm not sure what the cause is, but it's very well documented annually over the last millennium with photos. I don't know if it's because there's that much less snow or if it's just warmer, but it's evident that the glaciers are melting and quick. That isn't an Alaska-specific event. Even if you don't believe in human-caused climate change, the ocean will be rising. Ocean rise is calculated from ice caps and glaciers, not existing sea ice. In relation to the glacier thought, treeline in the Chugach and Kenai Mtns is moving up at about 4-5 feet per year because of how the mountains are changing. That's insane.
What kind of cameras were they using 1000 years ago?documented annually over the last millennium with photos.
Kurtr, wind was the only type of power that was running during Texas freeze up a few years back.
Cow farts and clean coal need to go. We can go back to the little house on the prairie times and live gooder.
Yeah but my dog has bad gas,so bad that my "fart sniffer" gizmo plugged in to the wall in my living room kicks on on a regular basis,poor pupper get's blamed everytime the sniffer fires-up,that's what I tell my gal pal....
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So all this climate change talk....daily weather and local temps always show local high temps from years ago since temp data were recorded,seems over 90% of over all triple digit national temps came from the mid 1930's,all the residential and city commercial water wells I drilled back in the 70's here in minnsewta all started setting up.drilling thru several feet of glacial drift,1000's of years of receding glaciers,now it's a problem,forget about our world over populating,it's all on cow farts and coal.
How do the environmental wackos explain this?[FONT="]The present Ice Age, known as the Wisconsonian, began about 2.7 million years ago. Since then, Earth has undergone a sequence of glacial advances and interglacial warm periods. Approximately 1 million years ago, the frequency switched from about every 40,000 years to about every 100,000 years, during which time the cold periods became colder.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The present interglacial began about 12,000 years ago and is known as the Holocene Epoch. The previous glacial period had lasted about 112,000 years. The coldest point is thought to have been about 20,000 years ago when the global average temperature was about 8-10 degrees colder than today. The level of the sea was about 400 feet lower than today due to there being so much water locked in ice. The previous interglacial is known as the Eemian and featured peak temperatures several degrees warmer and sea levels 20-30 feet higher than today. There are at least four other known glacial periods in Earth’s past.[/FONT]