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

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  • Posted By: jmmalueg @ 07/03/2008 7:56:40 AM

    Bingo this is supposed to be a theory not dead fact that Newsweek should be calling true based off poor research and what type of weather we are having this year. The fact is the Earth has always had some very intense weather and that isn't going to change in the furture. But I always thought Newsweek was better than this, but it's clear that no media outlet is credible anymore.

  • Posted By: everettdiggles @ 06/30/2008 11:26:03 AM

    Interesting isn't it? Al Gore's "carbon-footprint". Since newsweek only presents half the facts, I may a suggest people read the following article as well;

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm\

    Here's some quotes for you leftist lemmings;

    "For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)"

    "Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself".

    "But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths".

    Oh it get's better still. Hey, Newsweek are you reading this?
    "Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas".

    Of course Newsweek fails to report any of these things. Hmmmm?.

    • Posted By: bpellis @ 07/03/2008 7:53:08 AM

      You idiot.

      The guy who wrote the article is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Republican public policy research center (think tank). The article is clearly marked "Editorial/Opinion".

      In your post, you fail to disclose either of these relevant facts--one must always consider the source, right?

      These are classic Repugnican conservative tactics--take some right-wing screed, present it as "fact", then claim the "biased" media aren't reporting on it. This tactic has led to the "dumbing down" of Americans, to the point that a significant percentage of the population believed Saddam had WMD's, and continuing today to the point that 10% of our population believes that Obama is Muslim. The Pew Reseach Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism did a study a couple years ago that showed that people who watched "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" were better-informed about current events than people who watched Fox "News".

      Wake up people--your time of propaganda and media manipulation is coming to an end. America is wising up.

  • Posted By: jmmalueg @ 07/03/2008 7:51:51 AM

    Ugh, congratulations, the theory of global warming is now fact! It can be proven without facts that we are experiencing global warming. Please do everyone a favor and go do research instead of speculating with the weather patterns, cause we all know how well that worked in the 70's when global cooling was going to kill off the human race! God and the sad thing is, is that I always thought Newsweek was halfway credible until today.

  • Posted By: MeLizzard2 @ 07/03/2008 7:46:19 AM

    Global Warming? Bunk. It's a THEORY based not on actual weather and climate data, but on computer models. Scientists on both sides of the debate (yes, there are plenty of scientists that believe global warming is a money-making hoax) have admitted that the computer models are quite flawed. Just last year, six climate data reporting agencies reported that Earth's average temperature had DROPPED three degrees last year. That's dropped, not increased.

  • Posted By: bmaroot @ 07/03/2008 7:44:01 AM

    Well I'm sure that if we all poop on the floor and compost it, stop using petroleum in any way shape or form, convert everything to solar and wind. The all powerful HUMAN will be able to change NATURE. I think we are suposed to adapt to nature not the other way around. To actually think that we can control, stop, or change something that, in all reality, we know very little about seems very errogant to me. This is all driven by peoples need to be in charge,the smart one, the rich one whatever the motivation. Just do your part to take care of the earth we live on dont litter, try to recycle, plant things take care of the natural enviroments we still have. Remember from grade school plants need carbon dioxide to live? So lets come back to reality and calm down about "GLOBAL WARMING"

  • Posted By: fshifty07 @ 07/03/2008 7:42:52 AM

    Right on Txgurl_77 .

  • Posted By: DG-24 @ 07/03/2008 7:41:48 AM

    Is there anything else we can blame on Global Warming?
    My kids aren't behaving... must be Global Warming...
    My job stinks... must be Global Warming...
    Enough is enough.
    For those of you who think Global Warming is such a major problem, what have you done about it besides complain that we are all to blame? Have you started to recycle cardboard, metal, plastic and aluminum? Have you turned off your air conditioners? Anyone cut their fuel usage? What have you done to change YOUR impact?

  • Posted By: billvlahos @ 07/03/2008 7:34:32 AM

    What is also disgusting : our government suggesting increased fossil fuel production on our own soil to help alleviate our current energy woes. Sure, keep the greedy oil companies happy while conveniently ignoring the repercussions. ANSWER: we need to get OFF the oil!!! Add all fossil fuels for that matter. We need to champion electric / battery powered vehicles faster than we currently are, and poise ourselves to sell the technology globally as well. HELLO, GM at less than $10 / share??? I'm buying! Solar power - YES, Hydro / Wind, YES, Nuclear, YES! Getting OFF the fossil fuels will not only help solve our energy dependency issues, but also cease the irreparable damage we've done to earth's atmosphere.

  • Posted By: fshifty07 @ 07/03/2008 7:34:21 AM

    Can I please go just one day without hearing this propoganda?

  • Posted By: Peanut34 @ 07/03/2008 7:15:34 AM

    It's amazing that we base all of our global warming "facts" on what is just a hairs thickness of time.
    Did the dinosaurs use fossil fuels too?

    • Posted By: mackieml @ 07/03/2008 7:19:07 AM

      does peanut refer to your brain

  • Posted By: TheantiObama @ 06/30/2008 12:25:35 PM

    I could not agree more with Justthefacts. The people that support this global warming BS are the same sheep that have been lead to believe by the liberal media that OBAMA is the next Jesus Christ. Oh wait, can I still say Jesus Christ or has that right been taken away from too? Wouldn't want to offend the 15% minority in this country that does not claim Christianity as their religion. When did the media abandon the unbiased part of their responsibility to report the facts. How is it that factual droughts of the 30s and 50s can be mentioned in the same breath as the mythological global warming effects of current day and no one is alarmed by this. The droughts took place then as they do today and will probably happen again in another 50 days. Weather is cyclic and no matter how much the dirty libs want to jump on a cause and save the planet that will never change. The planet doesn't need saving granola heads. It fixes itself just fine. It is this interweaving of fact and myth that eventually results in the general publics belief in pseudo facts. The media has a responsibility to inform people. Not lead them. It is about time they got back to doing that before we become the global idiots the rest of the world is hoping that we are.

    • Posted By: bpellis @ 07/03/2008 7:18:30 AM

      Oh, the irony of hearing a conservative talk about unbiased media! :)

  • Posted By: TrishWil @ 07/03/2008 7:17:10 AM

    Nowadays the news are overwhelming us with atrocious natural catastrophies linked to Global warming but not everyone is understanding the message! It is our duty to stand up and make a change! Just as we have had the power to destroy our planet, so do we possess the abilities to alleviate the damage. Ecoswitch.com, a green comparison website for green products helps us become green.
    Let us not remain seated selfishly on our sofa and count the deads but we should at least start by changing our light bulbs for eco ones, recycle plastic artefacts, being aware that solar products exist and are at our disposition.
    It is not hard to make a change. Let's befriend our environment. trishagukhool@hotmail.com

  • Posted By: Txgurl_77 @ 07/03/2008 7:16:25 AM

    I suppose next you are going to say the sky is falling..... right! Sophisticated studies of weather patterns have only been possible since our technology has allowed it (last 50 or so years give or take). How arrogant and presumptive to assume that we are the only factor in what is happening to our weather and that we have so much influence. How many billion tons of gas and small particles are belched out globally by volcanoes every day? If people really did their research and not get blown around by political winds, the fear factor would be diminished exponentially. Oh... thats right... fear as a controlling factor... what a concept.

  • Posted By: keharbaugh @ 06/30/2008 1:06:17 PM

    Basic laws of thermodynamics says that it's not that there's overall temperature rise that's causing the storms, it's that some areas are getting hotter and some are getting colder. So, it can't be "global" warming that is causing extreme weather if some areas are getting colder, hmm?

    That said, what's causing much of the flooding in pretty much all the areas that have been affected is POOR INFRASTRUCTURE. When you have seawalls and levees that are over 80 years old and barely maintained (I can point to the Alaskan Way seawall in Seattle as an example), and at the same time accommodating far, far more traffic and burden than they were ever built for, yes, you will have flooding, breakdowns, bridges collapse, and so on. Yet, instead of raising money to fix these things, we're taxed to build sports stadiums.

    Where are our priorities? If we don't get a new sports stadium, nobody's going to die. But if we don't get our levees, bridges, and seawalls fixed, then yeah, people will die and a hell of a lot of property and businesses will be destroyed, and people will be out of jobs. Did you know that a few years ago, Congress deemed 30% (was 40%) of our bridges were "structurally deficient"? This means the bridges are barely of handling the amount of traffic on them. Just think, every time you cross a bridge, you have a 30% chance of it breaking and you falling into a river or canyon.

    Same thing holds for the levees and such. Regardless of the cause of global warming or the storms, we need to prepare for it. Just cutting back on carbon emissions isn't going to do it. It's judged now that we have about a 11% effect on the weather. Well, it's fine if we cut back, but that means we can't do anything about a good 89% of the effect of global warming. Seems to me we should focus on SURVIVING global warming, rather than preventing it, because it's going to happen regardless of whether we cut back or not.

    • Posted By: bpellis @ 07/03/2008 7:14:08 AM

      keharbaugh, let's go back past the high school physics class you took to be able to talk about thermodynamics, back to Algebra I, and discuss the concept of "average". You see, if some areas get warmer, and some cooler, but there are more areas that get warmer, OR the changes in warmer areas are greater than the changes in cooler areas, or both, then the AVERAGE temperature goes up. See how that works?

      See you in study hall.

  • Posted By: CliffClimber @ 07/03/2008 7:06:45 AM

    i have been doing some study in the past 2 years on climat change, and i have a point of veiw that both sides of the argument may like.
    Since the beginging of time our planet has been changing, From a hot time period during the prehistoric times, to the glacaciers and ice age in our history, This is a FACT
    If you were to look at the global heating and cooling graph you would notice that the earth heats and cools it self. FACT
    You can feel the earth warming and people will tell you this. FACT
    Poulution and emision from varius industrys and personaly vehicles do warm the planet, as well as mass amounts of people. FACT
    In the past two years i have noticed that the winters of the upper northwest have actuly been colder than the several years befor that.
    Here is the hypothosis: the planet is on its cooling streak, perhaps on its way to what should be an ice age, altho mankind has influence its planet so much that this will not happen the way it is suposed to.
    i would love to hear a debate on this idea, and will atemp to find/ pruduce graphs and cited research if requested.

  • Posted By: TrishWil @ 07/03/2008 6:55:26 AM

    Nowadays the news are overwhelming us with atrocious natural catastrophies linked to Global warming but not everyone is understanding the message! It is our duty to stand up and make a change! Just as we have had the power to destroy our planet, so do we possess the abilities to alleviate the damage. Ecoswitch.com, a green comparison website for green products helps us become green.
    Let us not remain seated selfishly on our sofa and count the deads but we should at least start by changing our light bulbs for eco ones, recycle plastic artefacts, being aware that solar products exist and are at our disposition.
    It is not hard to make a change. Let's befriend our environment. trishagukhool@hotmail.com

  • Posted By: jane.simpson.wilson @ 07/01/2008 5:53:26 PM

    Lots of snow is the problem with this year's flooding. Last time I checked, Extreme and record snow packs don't really jive with Global Warming. DURP.. The other extreme weather is a natural cycle that has existed for tens of thousands of years. Remember, we have only been keeping weather records in the US since the beginning of the twentieth century. Given the age of our planet , this seems like a very, very small data pool to draw from to reach alarmist conclusions. When I grew up in Florida in the 1960's we had great and furious hurricanes every season. It was considered normal. Then there was a lull in the 70's and 80's....suddenly Andrew and then the cycle started ramping up again. Got look a a little history and there are Hurricanes that match and even surpass the fury of Andrew and Katrina. The Great Hurricane in FLA in 1927 that contributed tot the great depression. The Hurricane that leveled Galvaston at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the Hurricane that leveled Long Island and Providence in the 30's. Oh, and let's not forget the great Dustbowl of the 30's. The myopic hysteria of global warming needs a new pair of glasses and a fresh perspective.

    • Posted By: bpellis @ 07/03/2008 6:55:14 AM

      Jane, the snow pack had nothing to do with the flooding--it was due to the 3 straight weeks of hard, steady rain, most of which fortunately stayed south of us here in Sioux Falls. Iowa was not so lucky.

      This happened back in '93 as well, and in the early 1900's--you could do well to read a history book yourself. And some of the rest of you would do well to read an archaeological book or two. Great floods leave a geological and archaeological mark, and scientists can pretty accurately pinpoint when floos occurred--nobody had to be around to record it.

    • Posted By: denmill @ 07/02/2008 11:29:57 AM

      You are so right! Global warming is a HOAX. Extreme weather is a natural cycle!

  • Posted By: jo'el @ 07/03/2008 6:54:48 AM

    how about we start with something like say,... quit dumping military nerve gas waste, bags of blood and syringes and other corporate filth into the world's water supply. we ALL know who is responsable for that, we can agree on that much. but the corporate controlled governments with their puppets like al gore want to make money BIG money from a carbon tax. they want to make us buy the air to breathe it, just like they did with drinking water. remember when water was free?

  • Posted By: duvalst99 @ 07/03/2008 6:48:20 AM

    Left wingers have it all figured out. EVERYTHING bad that happens in the world is blamed on either President Bush or global warming. Thats simplistic and dangerously misguided thinking.

  • Posted By: jrobeck1959@hotmail.com @ 07/03/2008 6:26:36 AM

    Answer: FALSE! It may be true that population, industries, poor planning, greedy people, and some idiots out there, that we may have a very slight assist in planet changes, but come on and really think about this one! Scientists have not been around for thousands of years! So how can we even think that we might remotely know what is going to happen with this planet? You just have to read the Bible to know our planets future!

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