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

This idea that mankind's production of CO2 has caused the extreme weather events of this spring and summer is nonsense. You obviously have failed to look into the history books to see that the most extreme rain and flooding ever to strike the midwest came many years earlier. Major flooding of rivers in my home state of Kansas occurred back in the earlier 1900s, the 1950s, and even the mid-1970s. Your lack of historical knowledge coupled with your preconceived opinions regarding the global warming phenomena being caused by mankind yield this kind of thinking and hysteria. Unfortunately, the general public and most elected officals have accepted these unsupported theories leading to poor public policy, scared children, and it is pushing our society toward an unnecessary loss in our quality of life.

Well you have the bully pulpit. You probably are able to convince a lot of people through sheer emotion. If there is anyone out there that can still think for themselves please consider these facts. Midieval Europe enjoyed a warmer climate than today and people prospered because of it. Grapes grew in England, not today. Sea levels were higher as evidenced by castles and port docks of the era. The earth cooled and water was locked up in polar ice. It has warmed again and some say is starting a cool down cycle, evidenced by coldest winter on record in China 2007-2008. Would you agree there have been ice ages where so much ice was locked up at the poles there appeared a land bridge across the Bearing Strait. Then for the love of Pete use your head, we are just dust in the wind compared with the power of nature. Don't let a politically driven, prpagandist news media lead your thinking for someones (Gores) political gain. Remember he is the one who claimed sharks were still patroling the slave ship routes waiting for more to be thrown overboard. Remember Y2K? Please wake up.
bvincent

The sky is falling!!!! Buy this magazine to find out how the world will end!!!! We must slaughter all of the conservatives in order to save mankind!!! We must wipe our *** with leaves!!!

I do not believe that it is global warming as you may all think. Look back threw history the weather and seasons have always changed. I think as a society we are quick to try to find a reason that we can so call prove and make it a fact. Years and years ago we had an ice age and after that the world be came hot and warm again. If you look at the seasons they all start about a month soon or later every year. I don't think you should believe in global warm just because some people went to school way to long and tell you that???s what you should believe. We are only on this earth for maybe the time you are born till about 90 years old. We are going to see a lot of things change. I hate hearing or everything being blamed on global warming by these people who need to justify a pay check usually based on government grants. Have a mind of your own and believe what you want. Maybe I???m wrong but prove it.

I do not believe that it is global warming as you may all think. Look back threw history the weather and seasons have always changed. I think as a society we are quick to try to find a reason that we can so call prove and make it a fact. Years and years ago we had an ice age and after that the world be came hot and warm again. If you look at the seasons they all start about a month soon or later every year. I don't think you should believe in global warm just because some people went to school way to long and tell you that???s what you should believe. We are only on this earth for maybe the time you are born till about 90 years old. We are going to see a lot of things change. I hate hearing or everything being blamed on global warming by these people who need to justify a pay check usually based on government grants. Have a mind of your own and believe what you want. Maybe I???m wrong but prove it.

jath123...my point exactly. Heavily draped sarcasm is difficult to express in type. But you're right. cows are an insignificant contributor o methane production. Just as SUV's are an insignificant contributor to CO2 emmissions. Bottom line...global warming and cooling pattern are cyclical. It blows my mind that PEOPLE are being blamed for the floods in the midwest. I live in Iowa. We have a very low population density compared to the rest of the country, meaning lower carbon emmissions. Our famers have gone to no-till farming for several years, crop rotation and erosion control are huge in the agricultural community. Why did we flood? Because a weather pattern stalled out over the midwest and dumped huge amounts of rain. The only contribution man played is that the Army Corp of Engineers didn't release water from the resevoirs until it was too late.

More powerful Hurricanes? What fantasy world is this writer living in? The past 2 seasons have been complete duds despite GW alarmist???s predictions to the contrary. And even going back to Katrina ??? if SE La had maintained its levee systems Katrina would be a mild footnote in history. As for the massive Midwest floods, once again these are worst than in the past not because the storms or worse but because we have channeled our runoffs into smaller channels. You cannot measure the power of the storm based off the amount of damage it does if we have been foolish enough to allow our infrastructures to decay.

More powerful Hurricanes? What fantasy world is this writer living in? The past 2 seasons have been complete duds despite GW alarmist???s predictions to the contrary. And even going back to Katrina ??? if SE La had maintained its levee systems Katrina would be a mild footnote in history. As for the massive Midwest floods, once again these are worst than in the past not because the storms or worse but because we have channeled our runoffs into smaller channels. You cannot measure the power of the storm based off the amount of damage it does if we have been foolish enough to allow our infrastructures to decay.

It is cooler in Arkansas now, than it has been in the past years. Our government has admitted publicly that they tamper with the weather by weather modification, h.a.a.r.p. Global warming is a fraud! This is another scare tatic to try and control the sheeple!

I am surprised to see a Newsweek article with a complete misunderstanding of 100-year and 500-year weather events. It's simply a layperson's explanation of probability rather than a prediction of the time frame in between occurrences. Even then, the historical data used to create the probabilities are limited in accuracy and scope due to our relatively short scientific recordings of atmospheric weather patterns. And while I agree humans are to blame for the recent floods in the Midwest - improper agricultural and community development planning - I have little faith in the carbon dioxide, global warming "theories" everyone loves to cite. Nice attempt for an office discussion, but don't print this stuff...

HA! They really ARE starting to go after the cows! This should be good. The next war will be between the "Greens" and the PETA people!

Methane vs. Carbon Dioxide
by the GSI Staffposted September 14th, 2007
NPR released an article this week giving caution to the much overlooked greenhouse gas, methane. Professionals in the field of climate change are particularly concerned with global warming because it can be a catalyst for methane emissions. As temperatures rise, melting permafrost and ice create lakes which, in turn, are home to many forms of bacteria that feed off of the once frozen carbon deposits. The byproduct is then ???burped??? out as methane. Methane emissions are at the forefront of concern because ???methane is a greenhouse gas that is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, which means it is much more efficient at trapping heat ??? As a result, methane feeds into a loop of global warming.???

Dear Sharon,

Your Journalism School should rescind your diploma! What a steaming pile of crap! Weather has always been unpredictable and it always will be. In fact, the true weather experts now point to a lack of sunspot activity as a harbinger of GLOBAL COOLING for the next 30 years or so. Better buy a parka.

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