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

Isn't makin a buck what we're all about?
Truth??? What is that? We haven't seen, heard or faced it in this country for the past seven and half years. Let's just stew in our disagreements and apathy..... and of course.....stay tuned to our favorite station.

isn't that what we're all about....... makin a buck? truth???? what is that? we haven't dealt with, spoke or faced it in this country for the last seven and a half years. why start now....

The denier claiming to be a geologist made a very good point: during the Carboniferous period, CO2 levels were over 4000ppm. (We're pushing 500ppm right now... give it a year). Where does all the coal we're burning originate? The Carboniferous Period. We're reintroducing carbon that has been out of the cycle for 500 million years, asap (A period of time in which most extant life has evolved to live, by the way) What happens when we burn ALL the plants and animals whose incompletely decomposed, carbon-based bodies we use for fuel? We reset earth's atmosphere to a level of CO2 that it took hundreds of millions of years of plants and animals being sequestered under layers of sediment to alter... in about 200 years, at this rate. I assure you, bad things will happen.

Is it not true that the artic ice cap was smaller in 1900 than it is now?

They never mention the areas that are colder than normal. Or the May and June snowfalls.

In response to the argument, "There is not enough data to prove a human link to increasing disasters." If there is not enough data to prove this argument, there is also not enough data to disproove it either. Just look at the worse case scenarios of either preparing for global warming, and it turning out to be false, and not preparing for it, and it turning out to be true. I put my seat belt on every time I get in my car, and out of the thousands of miles I've driven I've only needed the seat belt a few times. Just think about how much research and money went into, and still goes into, putting seat belts and air bags in our cars. If someone said to you that you have a 1% chance of dying in a car accident whithin the next 20 years if you didn't wear your seat belt any one time, would you ever take the risk? And about this article being written by a non-scientist, and being accused of using scare tactics, saying that changing the way we live to prepare for global warming will drastically hurt our global economy is also a scare tactic, unless of course you are an economist.

In response to the argument, "There is not enough data to prove a human link to increasing disasters." If there is not enough data to prove this argument, there is also not enough data to disproove it either. Just look at the worse case scenarios of either preparing for global warming, and it turning out to be false, and not preparing for it, and it turning out to be true. I put my seat belt on every time I get in my car, and out of the thousands of miles I've driven I've only needed the seat belt a few times. Just think about how much research and money went into, and still goes into, putting seat belts and air bags in our cars. If someone said to you that you have a 1% chance of dying in a car accident whithin the next 20 years if you didn't wear your seat belt any one time, would you ever take the risk? And about this article being written by a non-scientist, and being accused of using scare tactics, saying that changing the way we live to prepare for global warming will drastically hurt our global economy is also a scare tactic, unless of course you are an economist.

In response to the argument, "There is not enough data to prove a human link to increasing disasters." If there is not enough data to prove this argument, there is also not enough data to disproove it either. Just look at the worse case scenarios of either preparing for global warming, and it turning out to be false, and not preparing for it, and it turning out to be true. I put my seat belt on every time I get in my car, and out of the thousands of miles I've driven I've only needed the seat belt a few times. Just think about how much research and money went into, and still goes into, putting seat belts and air bags in our cars. If someone said to you that you have a 1% chance of dying in a car accident whithin the next 20 years if you didn't wear your seat belt any one time, would you ever take the risk? And about this article being written by a non-scientist, and being accused of using scare tactics, saying that changing the way we live to prepare for global warming will drastically hurt our global economy is also a scare tactic, unless of course you are an economist.

How do you like $4.25 a gallon you ostriches. Keep you heads up your...excuse me down in those holes all you want. But we need alternative energy sources and green technology. Forget about your anti-global warming rants. WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF OIL!

This is an interesting article on a topic that should be getting more attention. People forget that the Earth is actually is a fairly cool state as of recent. If you look way back, like dinosaurs and earlier, Earth was covered with tropical flora and huge deserts. It took a huge event to shift everything and cause the ice age that we are pulling away from. Maybe, mankinds massive release of carbon and other chemicals is shifting things back.

There are a lot of people commenting here who I suspect are making lots of money from poluting enterprises, are just too selfish to alter their poluting life style, or are just too dense to see the facts or too contrarian to admit them.

Good job, Climate Crock... You just hit the nail on the head. Where does all that coal we've been burning originate? The Carboniferous Period. When Co2 was over 4000 ppm. We're pumping it back into the atmosphere asap. All that tropical foliage that ate it up and "sequestered" it in coal beds for the last 500 million years has been reintroduced into the carbon-cycle of a planet that hasn't seen levels that high since. In the meantime; most life extant on the planet evolved. Hope it can retro-evolve to coincide with a reset of the atmosphere.

I hope Newsweek keeps on doing the "Cram Global Warming down Peoples throats' pieces. It's the best evidence that the Liberal Elites don't have a real argument and must keep on with the 'debate is over' approach.

Maybe when all the liberal lemmings go over the edge, serious people can look at whether it is wise for increased populations to live in risky areas... Like, right on the Gulf Coast.

This is no joke or exaggeration people. We are being warned not by global scientists or environmental "wackos" but by Mother Nature herself. You can't keep killing the rain forest and paving over the land which helps take in the CO2 gases and turns out oxygen. NO. There is NO DOUBT this is global warming and timed perfectly with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Those who question or doubt the reality must live in a fantasy world. There are many ways scientists can read the past weather periods. Rings on old trees, layers of rock and soil, core samples of glaciers and other things can link us to the past climate events. Nothing has shown more proof of a world headed for disaster than what we are seeing today. How can you deny the rapid melting of glaciers worldwide that have been around for millions of years? This is not a natural cycle...it is driven by man's use of fossil fuels (creating CO2 gases) and the destruction of forested areas as well. Do some real research. Time for action is now not tomorrow.

Not precisely true. Storms are the results of generated energy in the atmosphere. Basic law of thermodynamics says that the way you get generated energy is because some areas are getting much hotter, and some areas are getting much COLDER. That's how you get storms. You don't get storms if every area in the world is getting uniformly hotter. There have to be areas that are getting much colder to generate these storms.

If the air surrounding a boiling teapot is the same temperature as the water in the pot, you're not going to see any steam, no condensation of water droplets. If the air surrounding that teapot is colder, you will.

That's what happens in the atmosphere. If the air is uniformly getting hotter, you won't be seeing any condensation of air droplets--storm clouds. What's happening is that there are some areas of the world where the air is much colder than usual, and that's hitting air currents that are much warmer. When that happens, you get storms.

So this talk of just global warming making storms happening is not precisely true. There are areas where the climate is getting colder, too. If that isn't mentioned, then it doesn't make sense scientifically. There should be areas where the ice is getting thicker, not thinner. If there isn't, then there's something seriously wrong with the laws of physics.

Even the most hardened critics must now see the problem, and begin to suspect the causes..


Louis Snyder