Re: OT: Earth Hour Morons

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:50:47 -0800, "Abbey Johnsson"
<ac68dc0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 28 2009 7:41 AM, Paul Popinjay wrote:

Yesterday, I didn't even know what "Earth Hour" was. I never heard of this
*** before. I guess tonight, at 8:30, everyone's supposed to dim their
lights for an hour? To bring attention to "climate change"?

What a bunch of sheep! People are really fucking stupid. And whoever
thought this one up really picked a winner. They get an A+ in people
control when they came up with this idea. There's always going to be
something to bitch about the weather. This ain't never going to get old.
It's a ready-made con game for the next century, and people will be falling
for this crap for ages to come.

Any RGPer who dims his or her lights tonight, for Earth Hour, is really a
fucking idiot. And be sure to get your children involved in this insanity
too. Help them make a report that they can take to school on Monday, so
they can show the class what morons their mommy and daddy are.

-Paul Popinjay

this is why the planet and mankind are doomed. there are too many
people like you and alim and irish mike and brewmaster and pdsusan who
refuse to see the writing on the wall. i'm not going to argue about it
because there is nothing that can be done with so many who refuse to see
the seriousness of the problem. all other problems mankind faces pale in
comparison the the coming ecological/environmental disasters. it truly is
hopeless.

You can add me to the list of people who don't fall in line with the
"conventional wisdom" accepted by the AGW priests and their sycophants
in the MSM.

Scientists are still looking at newer data coming in all the time.
In Science, nothing is ever completely settled.

Looking at global temperatures, you find that the rising temperatures
shown in the later years of the 20th Century has now given way to
stable and even lower temperatures for the last decade.

This, at the same time that atmospheric CO2 has still been steadily
rising.

Add the fact that the sun is now showing zero sunspots on its surface,
and the casual observer might just stop and say; Hmmm.

But then, as you accurately note above.
Once people have made their minds up, no further evidence can persuade
them otherwise.

there will be much suffering while the human population is weeded down ,
but in the long run, it will be beneficial for the planet and hopefully
mankind will learn and keep its population at a more sensable,
eclologicallly sustainable number.


Even better, the earth would be a really wonderful place without any
humans at all.

Not that I would want to disturb you own personal complacency on the
subject (I'm lying), but here is some more data that has recently come
in.

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog

Saturday, March 21, 2009
MIT Scientists Ask: Is Global Warming Part of a Natural Cycle?
By Casey Kazan

A team of MIT scientists recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide
increase in methane levels -the first increase in ten years. What
baffles the team is that this data contradicts theories stating humans
are the primary source of increase in greenhouse gas. It takes about
one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern
hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere. Since
all worldwide levels rose simultaneously throughout the same year,
however, it is probable that this may be part of a natural cycle - and
not the direct result of man?s contributions.

MIT?s Matthew Rigby and Ronald Prinn, the TEPCO Professor of
Atmospheric Chemistry in MIT?s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and
Planetary Science, state that this imbalance has resulted in several
million metric tons of additional methane in the atmosphere. Methane
is produced by wetlands, rice paddies, cattle, and the gas and coal
industries, and is destroyed by reaction with the hydroxyl free
radical (OH), often referred to as the atmosphere?s ?cleanser.?

Methane accounts for roughly one-fifth of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere, though its effect is 25x greater than that of carbon
dioxide. Its impact on global warming comes from the reflection of the
sun?s light back to the Earth. Methane is broken down in the
atmosphere by the free radical hydroxyl (OH), a naturally occuring
process. This atmospheric cleanser has been shown to adjust itself up
and down periodically, and is believed to account for the lack of
increases in methane levels in Earth?s atmosphere over the past ten
years despite notable simultaneous increases by man.

One thing does seem very clear, however; science is only beginning to
get a focus on the big picture of global warming. Findings like these
tell us it?s too early to know for sure if man?s impact is affecting
things at ?alarming rates.? We may simply be going through another
natural cycle of warmer and colder times - one that?s been observed
through a scientific analysis of the Earth to be naturally occurring
for hundreds of thousands of years. See the full study here.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/methane-tt1029.html
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