ITT: If you can't dazzle them with brilliance....

brap: I love global warming threads, they inevitably turn into Open Mic Night

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

/farkin' hate people when they're not polite

James F. Campbell: Nickster79: Even if global warming weren't real, it's probably a good idea to reduce toxic emission into the air that we breathe.

No, better to deny that global warming exists. I'm sick of stupid people and their ignorance. Let's burn this place to the ground.

I hope all of you live long enough to suffer the consequences of it. Think of global warming as your comeuppance for allowing stupid people to participate in democracy.

A lot of the deniers are evangelicals. So they'll get raptured before the planet turns to total shiat.

Do you think Democrats really do fear the weather as much as they claim to or are they just trying to get normal people to fear the weather so that they might give Democrats more power?

cameroncrazy1984: chuckufarlie: FACT # THREE

Even though it has been reported that glaciers are retreating, but a study in nature, based on satellite imagery, has shown that some melting of lower altitude glaciers is taking place but that higher glaciers have been adding ice

What study?

All the studies that he's read but we haven't, so we'll have to take his word for it, but if we read them, we'd see they're true, so you're just stupid for not believing him.

Noam Chimpsky: Do you think Democrats really do fear the weather as much as they claim to or are they just trying to get normal people to fear the weather so that they might give Democrats more power?

Ah yes, the old Machiavellian play of accumulating power through meticulous climate research. Those clever bastards!

ghare: chuckufarlie: Lots of people NO scientists believe in Big Foot.

Lots of people No scientists believe in the Loch Ness Monster.

Lots of people All scientists in the field believe in AGW.

Like all your other posts, someone had to fix this one.

My only problem with that line of reasoning is the relatively low barrier of entry to claim the title of "scientist". Oh you have a bachelor's degree in environmental science with a 2.0 GPA and have been working at Starbucks since you graduated 5 years ago. Tell us all your opinion, oh great scientist!

chuckufarlie: Pharque-it:

FACT # ONE

The increase in average global temperature has increased by less than one degree Celsius since 1850. This is in the data provided by the CRU and included in the IPCC report.

FACT # TWO

Per the information gathered from the Vostok ice core samples, increases in CO2 have always followed an increase in temperature. I suggest you google VOSTOK if you want to look at that information.

FACT # THREE

Even though it has been reported that glaciers are retreating, but a study in nature, based on satellite imagery, has shown that some melting of lower altitude glaciers is taking place but that higher glaciers have been adding ice.

FACT # FOUR

Environmentalists like to tell us that polar bears are dying off but a new Canadian study shows that the polar bear population is on the rise.

Your turn.

1:
Yes, you agree it's getting warmer.
"Averaging the global land and ocean as a whole, the combined land and ocean surface temperature during March 2012 was 0.46°C (0.83°F) above the 20th century average of 12.7°C (54.9°F), resulting in the coolest March temperature since 1999 and ranking as the 16th warmest March since records began in 1880."
Link

2:
"The strong correlation between atmospheric greenhouse-gas concentrations and Antarctic temperature, previously described by Barnola et al. (1987), is confirmed by the extension of the Vostok ice-core record (Petit et al. 1999). From the extended Vostok record, Petit et al. (1999) concluded that present-day atmospheric burdens of carbon dioxide and methane seem to have been unprecedented during the past 420,000 years. Temperature variations estimated from deuterium were similar for the last two glacial periods (Jouzel et al. 1996), and the detailed δDice record confirms the main features of the third and fourth climate cycles described by Petit et al."
Link

3:
"Right now, the glaciers that are currently melting are losing 1 or 2 feet of thickness every year. If they continue at that pace, some of those glaciers could be gone by the end of the century.

But that's too simple a way to look at the problem. That's because our climate is also expected to get wetter as it gets warmer. And professor Michael Bishop of the University of Nebraska in Omaha says that's a critical wild card."
Link

4:
"The polar bear is classified as a vulnerable species, with eight of the nineteen polar bear subpopulations in decline.[6] For decades, large scale hunting raised international concern for the future of the species but populations rebounded after controls and quotas began to take effect."

"The IUCN, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, United States Geological Survey and many leading polar bear biologists have expressed grave concerns about the impact of climate change, including the belief that the current warming trend imperils the survival of the species."
Link

serial_crusher: My only problem with that line of reasoning is the relatively low barrier of entry to claim the title of "scientist". Oh you have a bachelor's degree in environmental science with a 2.0 GPA and have been working at Starbucks since you graduated 5 years ago. Tell us all your opinion, oh great scientist!

If that's your only problem, I have good news! You just made that up five seconds ago, so it's not really a problem!

/here to help

jigger: Soon we'll get some bad weather and it's off to the internment camp.

http://www.infowars.com/yes-the-re-education-camp-manual-does-apply- do mestically-to-u-s-citizens/

Just when are those FEMA camps opening? The Germans killed 6 million Jews in the time it's taken FEMA just to build the damn things.

ordinarysteve: All that this (polar bears, glaciers) shows is that scientists need to realize that climate change is a hot button issue, and they can't be releasing incomplete, half-assed papers and statements to the media.

Right, because the media would never blow a scientific statement it didn't understand completely out of proportion just so it will resonate with their readers who can barely achieve an 8th grade reading level. Why, you'd have to go back an entire five days to find an example of that!

Thank God we don't live in that era anymore, and we can safely blame the scientists themselves for all the media hype, amirite?

Farker Soze: Noam Chimpsky: Do you think Democrats really do fear the weather as much as they claim to or are they just trying to get normal people to fear the weather so that they might give Democrats more power?

I think Democrats fear the weather so that Republicans will be instant-gut-reacted into loving the weather, therefore they won't try to invade it.

Weather's gonna gitcha! Republicans' gonna gitcha!

LouDobbsAwaaaay: Noam Chimpsky: Do you think Democrats really do fear the weather as much as they claim to or are they just trying to get normal people to fear the weather so that they might give Democrats more power?

Ah yes, the old Machiavellian play of accumulating power through meticulous climate research. Those clever bastards!

Were you terrified by the nice early April weather like Obama said he was?

ordinarysteve: Dude, chill. I'm not saying that the media isn't a parade of hyperbole and bullshiat. That is well established. I didn't mean to blame the scientists but I was offering my thoughts on "For instance, The United Nations climate change panel "admitted that the melting Himalayas prediction was not based on science but on a 1999 media interview given by one scientist"

1) This statement:

"All that this (polar bears, glaciers) shows is that scientists need to realize that climate change is a hot button issue, and they can't be releasing incomplete, half-assed papers and statements to the media"

does, in fact, blame the scientists and nobody else.

2) TFA this comes from is a Washington Examiner hatchet-job that is linked to an Examiner opinion piece titled "Cuddly symbols not coooperating (sic) in climate panic", which really just furthers the infinite regress of terrible, agenda-driven journalistic trash that is actually to blame for these issues.

Noam Chimpsky: Were you terrified by the nice early April weather like Obama said he was?

The oath I swore to the reverse vampires of the Illuminati prevents me from answering that question if there is no goblet of blood for us to share while we speak of it. It's step #9855 of "How to Ascend to World Domination Through Fabricating the Dendrochronology Record", originally written by Mephistopheles.

cameroncrazy1984: Noam Chimpsky: LouDobbsAwaaaay: Noam Chimpsky: Do you think Democrats really do fear the weather as much as they claim to or are they just trying to get normal people to fear the weather so that they might give Democrats more power?

Ah yes, the old Machiavellian play of accumulating power through meticulous climate research. Those clever bastards!

Were you terrified by the nice early April weather like Obama said he was?

[citation needed]

You're right, my bad, it was nice weather in March that Obama said made him piss down his pant leg.

Noam Chimpsky: You're right, my bad, it was nice weather in March that Obama said made him piss down his pant leg.

I think what made Obama piss himself in March was his crippling fear for his own job after Mitt Romney made it clear he's giving him a run for his money and making in-roads with everyday Americ - bwahahahaHAHAHAAHAH

Sorry, I couldn't get through that.