Two stories caught my eye yesterday:
Riding your little scooter isn't as responsible as you might think it is:
With temperatures rising like gas prices, scooters may seem the perfect mode of transportation.
You get up to 100 miles per gallon, on top of the hipster factor and the feel of the wind in your hair. But there's one imperfection to these sassy little two-wheeled machines: A March 2005 study by the Environmental Protection Agency shows most scooters on the road pollute more than SUVs.
And a study of Anarctic snowfall reveals a surprise:
U.S. researchers say the most precise record of Antarctic snowfall ever generated shows no real increase in precipitation during the past 50 years.
The study's results from the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University show the snowfall was nearly static, although most computer models assessing global climate change call for an increase in Antarctic precipitation as atmospheric temperatures rise.
Ah, love those computer models. Now, go recycle your plastic and save the world.
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The world doesn't need saving. We're just its way of generating plastic. Once we've made enough of it, it'll kill all us humans off and be just fine.
So, ... since there is (obviously) no such thing as global warming, and, there is still a suspicious annual increase in global sea levels, I guess we'll just have to keep looking for that leak. Must be there somewhere, ...
Larry,
The data demonstrates that the Earth is warming or has warmed over a given period of time. Disagreement remains as to the cause of global warming, whether human activity is driving the process appreciably, or whether this global warming epoch is simply one of the Earth's natural warming & cooling cycles.
No kidding, Barry, ... my comment was put to the people amoung us that don't think global warming is even happening, ...
Somebody better get ahold of Al Gore and bring him up to speed, I think he's in Colorado looking for "manbearpig".......
I'm serial..
Sorry Barry,
There's not a single scientific paper from a refereed journal that argues that climate change isn't likely being affected by humans - not one.