Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year’s Extreme Weather

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  • Posted By: Open-Mind Angel @ 07/03/2008 9:25:18 AM

    It's sad how people BELIEVE that Global Warming is an excuse for people to make money, unfortunitly, those peopel are unconsciously trying to avoid the truth. But guess what? You can't move along with life if you can't face a fact or a truth. If people believe that they could keep on making up excuses, they will witness the diasterous consquences.

    Global Warming, indeed is caused by mothernature as well, but those are NATURAL diasters. People need to learn that you can't always blame the causes on someone else, when in fact it's each one of us on earth that is exactly increasing this mess.

    I believe it's time to face the truth, and look about for new ideas.
    Electric Cars is a great example! Not only convient and you don't have to pay for the over-priced gas prices, by saving money, and as well taking a part of trying to save the planet.

    Fossil Fuel is one of the main causes, and let me tell you this: IT'S GONNA RUN OUT!
    And if greedy people believe FOSSIL FUEL is avaible somewhere up in the artic or antartica, they are retarded because those places are part of out MAIN FRESH WATER SUPPLIERS!

    • Posted By: pHilgert @ 07/03/2008 10:00:36 AM

      LOL LOL Electric Cars! Do you even know what most Electric Plants use as fuel to produce electricity? Fossel Fuels!!! Please do some research before you post. And when your looking stuff up try "am biotic oil" you might just learn something instead of being a lemming.

  • Posted By: dpape @ 07/03/2008 9:58:51 AM

    WERE DO THEY GET THIS GLOBAL WARMING IDEA FROM? I HAVE WORKED ALL MY LIFE
    IN THIS FIELD. GLOBAL IS NOT TRUE. YOU PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO AL GORE TO MUCH.
    THE MAN IS SICK
    DPAPE
    GEOLOGIST

  • Posted By: EvolovE @ 07/03/2008 9:55:59 AM

    This whole argument is all about Right & Left, am I a scientist no, nor do I claim to be, did I research the materials no, can I validate any of them no. So will I attempt to, no. But what I will say is this if in I have to talk to my children or my grandchildren about why no one did anything sooner I can say many spoke up loud but there were many more that were lied to and wanted to believe because they thought it was a package deal religion, politics and global warming. If there was no problem, what harm did it cause? We cleaned up the air quality, made the planet a little nicer. On the flip side if we do nothing we risk turning it into a living hell. Choice seems simple to me one has to much risk the other has little.

  • Posted By: rickmick @ 07/03/2008 9:53:47 AM

    For the people that don't know, our government has admitted publicly that they tamper with the weather by weather modification, h.a.a.r.p. Look it up......The h.a.a.r.p. is in Alaska. Sharon Begley is not allowed to talk about this she would be fired

  • Posted By: dpape @ 07/03/2008 9:52:10 AM

    Global Warming, NOT TRUE, Where do you all get your information,
    NASA -- LOL
    D PAPE
    GEOLOGIST

  • Posted By: TheVigil @ 06/28/2008 7:58:25 PM

    We need more than this one article to be covering this - though, props to Newsweek for having the courage to speak up about it.

    There's been severe flooding - disaster-area-level - in eight or more states, as well as areas around the world including Mexico, China, Europe, and Africa. Northern California has more than 1000 lightning-ignited wildfires burning so heavily that the entire region is covered with ash in space.

    Our entire society should be mobilizing to deal with climate change...and we are not. The environmental consequences will look like a World War inside of twenty years...or sooner...

    • Posted By: candler98 @ 07/03/2008 9:50:48 AM

      one word STUPIED this is not the first time that we have had fires and floods and it will not be the last and has nothing to do with GLOBAL warming its called weather cycles we go through all the time look at he past and tell me that this has not happend before like 100 years ago or something like that

  • Posted By: liquidmental@msn.com @ 07/03/2008 9:48:45 AM

    A high risk/high reward endeavor, weather modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns, to complete dominance of global communications and counter-space control, weather modification offers the warfighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary.

  • Posted By: MEGARIFF @ 07/03/2008 9:48:20 AM

    ALL FINE EXCEPT THE AVERAGE TEMP. HAS DECLINED FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS OR SO.

  • Posted By: candler98 @ 07/03/2008 9:47:34 AM

    FALSE global warming is a hoax the High in South Carolina on 7/02/1954 was 102 and the high yeaterday 7/02/2008 same date was 87 looks like cooling not warming

  • Posted By: HedHunter01 @ 07/03/2008 9:46:03 AM

    Are the people who are screaming about global warming the same people that were screaming about Y2K? The rhetoric and "Chicken Little Syndrome" seem almost the same. "The world is going to come to an end!" "It's all mankinds fault"

  • Posted By: liquidmental@msn.com @ 07/03/2008 9:45:15 AM

    Current technologies which will mature over the next thirty years will offer anyone who has the necessary resources the ability to modify weather patterns and their corresponding effects, at least on the local scale. Current demographic, economic, and environmental trends will create global stresses that provide the impetus necessary for many countries or groups to turn this weather modification ability into a capability. In the US, weather modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels. These levels could include: unilateral actions, participation in a security framework such as NATO, membership in an international organization such as the UN, or participation in a coalition.......... our national security strategy includes weather modification, its use in our national military strategy will naturally follow. Besides the significant benefits an operational capability would provide, another motivation to pursue weather modification is to deter and counter potential adversaries.

  • Posted By: HedHunter01 @ 07/03/2008 9:43:02 AM

    logosplus...the photo was taken in IA. According to our local weatherguy, it's not a tornado but a wall cloud with rotation that's been photoshopped.

  • Posted By: mindovrx @ 07/03/2008 9:40:46 AM

    Yes, It has to be Global Warming because apparently (according to some) this has never happened ever before in the history of man. Even the global thawing of the all the ice ages was never this bad.
    Yes, tt's the fault of every pop drinking, walking, talking and breathing human, as well as every organized mass population event such as protests, concerts and public gatherings.
    It's even the fault of brilliant inventors such as Einstein and the light bulb. The light bulb (according to some) is far more the cause of Global warming than that of the mercury filled, plastic (oil) based case, poison gas filled Compact Flourescent bulb. We can't have simple glass, metal and tunsgsten bulb, for even though none of those elements are toxic, they are a bane to our existence.
    Even worse are all the old cars on the road that will soon be disposed of by number of millions to be replaced with all the new cars that are only made of hemp and have these amazing non-polluting batteries - oh, wait - that hasn't happened yet, so there are just going to be millions of cars disposed of (including all that non-biodegradable materials) into our lands to make way for the new cars made of the same materials - and for now, the most highly toxic and polluting super batteries (where the area around the manufacturing cannot produce any living plant or life within 10 miles). But, that's better than those old cars!
    Yes, Climate Change (the new concept that unseats the term "global warming" is only because of man (let's forget about the effects of the sun and the ever changing planet, because it's just not a factor - just like the earth use to be flat).
    Solution - ever person that believes that we are the cause needs to become the first responders and promise with commitment and absolution to never drink pop, run or exercise (it increases CO2 output), let another plant die, allow the leaves to decay on the ground, or let the lakes convert in temperature. Even better is the need to commit to never allow another forest fire, volcano eruption or for any matter to decay. All of which produce tremendous amounts of CO2. However, they need to also understand that cutting off the CO2 levels also starve the required air of the trees and many other plants around the globe. Better yet, since all of these are beyond the control of man (except to starve the trees locally), the best thing to do is take one last breath - and never breath again. Should also cancel all protests too, for this is a tremendous CO2 concentration event - and hypocrisy.
    Yes - it cannot be for any reason but because of Global Warming. At least Big Money will make more Big Money on the fears.

  • Posted By: Bigwes @ 07/03/2008 9:36:33 AM

    This is just an attempt by satan to explain away biblical prophecy! If he can convince people that it can all be explained by science, he thinks that they might not look to God for an answer. This is all foretold in the bible, see the book of revalation! Come quickly Lord Jesus!!!

  • Posted By: ks3288 @ 07/03/2008 9:36:02 AM

    Hey AudieHo, how can cold air come from the south and warm air come from the north. Think you better review your facts before you speak about them. And to everyone else, nobody is saying global warming is the sole cause of all the bad weather. But it is does add alot to natural bad weather. Jhelman if your going to say that we (the over popullated world) have no effect on global warming and your just fooling yourself to make you feel better. Buy the way maybe we have to many cows (lol) to feed off of.

  • Posted By: logosplus @ 07/03/2008 9:35:48 AM

    Is the picture of a tornado looming over the buildings real (at all) or just an artists rendering?

  • Posted By: Bigwes @ 07/03/2008 9:32:43 AM

    This is all just an attempt by Satan to give an excuse for the things that are happening. He doesn't want people to realize that it is all biblical prophecy being fulfilled. Come quickly Lord Jesus!

  • Posted By: logosplus @ 07/03/2008 9:31:29 AM

    Is the photo of a tornado that is looming over the buildings real (at all) or just an artists rendering?

  • Posted By: liquidmental@msn.com @ 07/03/2008 9:30:30 AM

    anyone here know what your country is testing in Alaska?

    In this paper we show that appropriate application of weather-modification can provide battlespace dominance to a degree never before imagined. In the future, such operations will enhance air and space superiority and provide new options for battlespace shaping and battlespace awareness. "The technology is there, waiting for us to pull it all together" [General Gordon R. Sullivan, "Moving into the 21st Century: America's Army and Modernization," Military Review (July 1993) quoted in Mary Ann Seagraves and Richard Szymber, "Weather a Force Multiplier," Military Review, November/December 1995, 75].

    A global, precise, real-time, robust, systematic weather-modification capability would provide war-fighting CINCs [an acronym meaning "Commander IN Chief" of a unified command] with a powerful force multiplier to achieve military objectives. Since weather will be common to all possible futures, a weather-modification capability would be universally applicable and have utility across the entire spectrum of conflict. The capability of influencing the weather even on a small scale could change it from a force degrader to a force multiplier.

    In 1957, the president's advisory committee on weather control explicitly recognized the military potential of weather-modification, warning in their report that it could become a more important weapon than the atom bomb [William B. Meyer, "The Life and Times of US Weather: What Can We Do About It?" American Heritage 37, no. 4 (June/July 1986), 48].

    Today [since 1969], weather-modification is the alteration of weather phenomena over a limited area for a limited period of time. [Herbert S. Appleman, An Introduction to Weather-modification (Scott AFB, Ill.: Air Weather Service/MAC, September 1969), 1].

    In the broadest sense, weather-modification can be divided into two major categories: suppression and intensification of weather patterns. In extreme cases, it might involve the creation of completely new weather patterns, attenuation or control of severe storms, or even alteration of global climate on a far-reaching and/or long-lasting scale.

    Extreme and controversial examples of weather modification-creation of made-to-order weather, large-scale climate modification, creation and/or control (or "steering") of severe storms, etc.-were researched as part of this study... the weather-modification applications proposed in this report range from technically proven to potentially feasible.

  • Posted By: AudieHO @ 07/03/2008 9:30:15 AM

    So very strange. Just the other night I watched a scientist explain how the magnitude of the storms we are seeing was proof that global warming isn't exactly what the alarmist (I like to call them uneducated, dope-smoking hippies) portray it to be. As he explained it, it takes a warm front and a cold front to create a storm. The cold front this year has been pushing up from the equator, which is more evidence that what they say is false. He also cited weather patterns from back in the 1950 which were nearly identical as they are now. He suggested the intensity of the flooding is not due to the weather patterns being unusual, but to the number of dams which had been contructed since the 1950s. He also reference the solar flare activity that will peak in 2012. His were more believable and made more sense than just saying "Hurricanes are more powerful because of glbal warming." This is getting to be borderline public endangerment. People will read this garbage and believe it, then a year or two down the road when it is suggested more dams be built, they will vote for it because they will believe that the dams are not the cause of the flooding but the global warming is. Of course, Newsweek is the same peopel who showed the proof we were headed for an ice age way back in 1974: http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf. You'd think they'd learn. I wish the people pushing this gabage would hurry up and take up residence in Jonestown. It getting that untolerable.

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