The article says if the average temperature rises by 2º it will be the same as when the sea level as rising 5 feet per century, 100,000 years ago or so. So it’s not actually rising at that pace right now, nor will it until the average temperature actually rises by that much.

Nonetheless, I am alarmed, and I would really like if we could turn to green energy as soon as possible.

My car does 45+ mpg. How much does yours do?

I refer back to your January 1st 2008 posting at 12:07.

You hit the nail firmly on the head.

Emperor’s New clothes. Just so.

During Roman times the Governer of Britain was castigated by the Senate in Rome for not ordering enough wine from central stocks. The reason? Because we were growing too many of our own grapes ! Not something we’ve been able to do of late.

We are in an Inter-Glacial Period. It is SUPPOSED to be getting warmer. One might consider our previous climate to have been abnormal and that we are now starting to experience ‘normality’.

Because we can’t ’see’ what the doom-mongers see we must all be stupid?

Good point. But in “technicalities” with “juries” and all, global warming still hasn’t been proven as anything more than a theory, either.

Advertising? I’m not sure I get that.

December 31st, 2007 at 5:49 pm
So this has all happened before without human intervention? What’s up with that?

Yes, many things happened before without human intervention. That doesn’t mean we want them to happen BECAUSE of human intervention. We’ve had an almost completely ice-bound earth, we’ve had an almost zero oxygen atmosphere earth, we’ve had all kinds of things happen naturally on earth that would be bad for people.

Are there no windmills to attack?

Ron,
You are giving up to easily. This is all begging the question.

Here’s whats happening. When these Climatologists go to Greenland for measurements of the ice, and all good Climatologists have to go to Greenland sometime, they get zapped by something like that thing in the “Men in Black” movies where it erases their brains. And we all know what happens when someone gets their brain erased. Yah, that’s right, liberals. Socialists actually. And that’s why they come out of Greenland all one world government and all. So they got to make up this global warming thing so they can take over the world. Ain’t nobody left Greenland a non socialist.

See, its much better than black helicopters in Mexico. There are a few Climatologists who never make it to Greenland and those are the ones who read the data correctly, and they get called the deniers. For some reason those that don’t go to Greenland can do alternative service like getting money from fossil fuel companies. Don’t really know how that works.

More seriously, my recommendation of a book about Global Warming and what we need to do about it is ‘Hell and High Water.’ It does explain some of the science, but it is best on the politics.

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.html

I think you should make Michael and Abhijeet regular, paid contributors to this blog.

Their insight would be invaluable.

If you are planning to go to the beach and the weatherman says, there will be a 90% chance of rain that day, do you go another day? Or do you attack the weatherman’s and NOAA’s scientific credentials? With GW and AGW we now have a symphony of weathermen giving us about a 90% or greater probability. But what do you do? You ignore what they say!! Or you attack their credentials.

And who are you? Some guy on the Internet who doesn’t like taxes and government regulation of the economy.