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Old Apr 14, 2008, 10:01 am   #1278 (permalink) (top)
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You and Xyzer are like a pair of 4 yr-olds. Why? Why? Why? Why? Round and round. Showing you scientific data is like painting lips on a donkey. I swear, I give up.
If the graphs you posted are supposed to be meaningful to even a 4 year old we are in trouble. They are meaningless to an adult!
The first thing I would like to know is who established the mean(0.0) and then upon what was it based? We didn't have satellites or proper(accurate) ways of measuring GLOBAL temps back past the last quarter of the last century? You make me giggle like a 4 year old by relying on such unrelated and inaccurate data! We are looking at an estimated less tha 1% increase in average temps over a century?
Are you and Gore suggesting that is an accurate estimate? Are you using it to predict an ever increasing warmth in the future , a prediction that features an increase in human energy use? Surely you jest?

The real answer is we just don't know yet which of the variable influences will drive climate at any one time. There is still honest scientificdifference between recent studies Here is one example..
AccuWeather.com - Weather Blogs - Weather News
Which conclusions do you beleive in?

Does it make sense to spend resources and possibly create hardship and expense for energy dependent countries by depending on a forecast that says the sun isn't the change culprit and anthropogenic CO2 is? I don't think so!

It makes more sense to us, post 4 year olds, to study the problem further before we jump off the cliff. I have indicated that I agree with cleaning up our use of carbon fuels or increasingly replacing them with nuclear or cleaner sources. However I don't think it makes sense to try a change tactic that is uncertain and would be based on humans changing their fractional CO2 input to a gas which constitutes less than 1% of the earths atmospheric gases? Just obtaining the cooperation of the biggest energy consuming nations would be a problem.
Will gets the problem? We are currently guessing at what will help, some even assuming that its human energy use that is the major climate driver others that it is the sun, others cosmic particles, others, the oceans currents , etc? Is it wise to invest your resources in an unproven cause?


Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
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