🚀 go-pugleaf

Grumpy AuContraire wrote:

> Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:51:23 GMT, Peter Boyd <pbyd16@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >In 2001, after the release of a
> > >National Academy of Sciences
> > >report on global warming, Bush
> > >said the concentration of greenhouse
> > >gases has increased, in large part,
> > >because of human activity,
> >
> > Ummm... No he didn't. What he stated is easily found. Why didn't you
> > find it? What he stated was:
> >
> > "There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming.
> > Greenhouse gases trap heat, and thus warm the earth because they
> > prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping
> > into space. Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have
> > increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial
> > revolution.  And the National Academy of Sciences indicate that the
> > increase is due in large part to human activity."
> > http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010611-2.html
> >
> > Note that last sentence and who stated what....
> >
> > >but he
> > >emphasized that other factors could
> > >have influenced warming. Referring to the
> > >NAS report, he said, "We do not
> > >know how much effect natural fluctuations
> > >may have had on warming."
> > >
> > Here's exactly what he stated:
> >
> > "Yet, the Academy's report tells us that we do not know how much
> > effect natural fluctuations in climate may have had on warming.  We do
> > not know how much our climate could, or will change in the future.  We
> > do not know how fast change will occur, or even how some of our
> > actions could impact it."
> >
> > Were you being intentionally deceptive or just sloppy in the first
> > part of your post?
> >
> > Mike Smith
>
> The fact is that global warming/cooling are cyclical and the results are
> beyond the means of humans to control it just as major natural
> disasters.  Hurrican Katrina is a pimple when compared to the overall
> scheme of natural progression.
>
> Here's a few things to gnaw on that humans would have absolutely no
> control over and which will occur sooner or later.
>
> � Yellowstone park contains (perhaps the most) violent potential for a
> volcanic event that would significantly change world climate for years.
>
> � Deep Atlantic seismic activity could produce a tidal wave that would
> strike the east coast of the US and make that little Indonesian thang
> look like chump change.
>
> * Then of course is the "big one" (Andreas Fault adjustment) which is
> already twenty years overdue and will occur during most everyone's life time.

And Asteroid 2004 MN4.  The asteroid
not only has the potential of minimizing
the effect of a cat 5 hurricane but may
eliminate the social security crisis.

> There is nothing like bad science that feeds multiple
> industries/bureaucracies to become the lifeblood of liberals being
> generally ignorant and reality challenged.

I don't like bad science either.  What are your
thoughts on evolution and intelligent design?

> Liberals...  Ya gotta luv 'em..
>
> JT