It is important, in our ongoing debate about what to do about global warming, to appreciate how widespread the problem really is. There is global warming occurring on Mars, on Neptune, on Pluto, on Triton, and other as well.
It would be marvelous to discover out that we are causing those planets to heat up as well. It would mean that we have the means with which to transport large amounts of our pollution to all these bodies at the same time. Such technology would significantly enable mining and colonization efforts within our solar system. But that is not what is happening.
What is happening is the sun is heating up. Increasingly scientists are saying that solar output drives climate change. There are sunspot cycles that we have known about for quite a while now and they account for the warming our planet has undergone in the past couple of decades. We cannot do anything to counteract the behavior of the sun and it is hubris to think that man can have more affect upon the temperature of the Earth then the sun.
Keep this in mind the next time the presidential candidates say they can do something about climate change.
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It is important, in our ongoing debate
Charles Lee (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 1:06PM EST (link)As you said, You have to look at where this issue came from the United Nation. Then look past the truth and look to peak oil and global energy wars. The under lining truth On this issue.
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The underlying truth has nothing to do with the temperature,
phred (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 2:02PM EST (link)it is a religion for the abolition of free market capitalism presented as altruistically saving the planet.
Remarkably, the Sun’s natural and overwhelming production of life sustaining heat has remained inconsequential to those hellbent on stomping on what little pleasure there is left in life.
Liberalism: Equally shared misery.
Does this mean there is life on Mars?
ksondere Thursday, October 9th at 2:37PM EST (link)How else can we explain the Global Warming?
“What is rational will be” – Georg Hegel
It is a 'war with no end'.
John Brill (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 2:56PM EST (link)I am not sure how many people subscribe to the global warming theory because they believe it and how many people subscribe to it because they can use it to push their agenda. I would prefer to give the benefit of the doubt to any given individual on the matter.
That said, it is a ‘war with no end’, a continual crisis that can be used to push any given social engineering policy. It appeals to those who would like to think the worst of man as well as those who want to think the best of man. It appeals to those who want to ‘do their part’, as well as those who think we should all feel guilty for the ‘sin’ we’ve done against the Earth. It appeals to those who want to leave a better world for their children, and those who want to tell others what to do. It appeals to those who want a cause that ‘all of humanity’ could get behind, something for us all to ‘unite’ about, and in doing so achieve a better state of man.
It is the ‘flat earth’ theory of our time. The sooner it is killed, the better we will all be.
It is a 'war with no end'.
John Brill (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 3:02PM EST (link)I am not sure how many people subscribe to the global warming theory because they believe it and how many people subscribe to it because they can use it to push their agenda. I would prefer to give the benefit of the doubt to any given individual on the matter.
That said, it is a ‘war with no end’, a continual crisis that can be used to push any given social engineering policy. It appeals to those who would like to think the worst of man as well as those who want to think the best of man. It appeals to those who want to ‘do their part’, as well as those who think we should all feel guilty for the ‘sin’ we’ve done against the Earth. It appeals to those who want to leave a better world for their children, and those who want to tell others what to do. It appeals to those who want a cause that ‘all of humanity’ could get behind, something for us all to ‘unite’ about, and in doing so achieve a better state of man.
It is the ‘flat earth’ theory of our time. The sooner it is killed, the better we will all be.
A feature length documentary which shows how extreme environmentalism
izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 3:16PM EST (link)A feature length documentary which shows how extreme environmentalism
is damaging the lives of vulnerable people from the ban on DDT to the
campaigns on Global Warming.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
It is the Sun - you cannot control that Al Gore
izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 3:23PM EST (link)The Great Lies that are in Global Warming. This startling documentary debunks the myth that CO2 is causing climate change. Rather, it is an effect of Climate change.
We are ignoring the largest factor to climate change: THE SUN!
It is not always constant! it changes, it fluctuates! GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS HAVE A POLITICAL AGENDA
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Less of a Political Agenda. More of a Religion.
Xasteius (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 3:37PM EST (link)<>
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
I'm sure it's Bush's Fault
Steph C (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 3:43PM EST (link)somehow.
/end sarcasm.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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The Aztecs
Charles Lee (Diary) Thursday, October 9th at 4:05PM EST (link)The Aztecs, Every time there was a earth quake, volcano or crops failed the priests would tell the people the gods are mad we must have a sacrifice .Well we haven’t changed much except the priests are now called environmentalist’s.
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