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

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  • Posted By: electrojoerandom @ 07/03/2008 11:21:16 AM

    Such total bunk from an untrustable source such as Newsweek which wants only to sell more sensationalism. Even if there's not a link, we can speculate on one and it becomes real. I guess earthquakes and tsunamis are being caused by global warming too. I can make a better case that high gasoline prices are being created by global warming than bad weather being caused by global warming.

  • Posted By: jeanne32 @ 07/03/2008 11:20:46 AM

    i meant to finish my comment, people in plants that make this vinyl have died. Imagine the children that chew on these toys, sure long term effects might not be seen already. Who knows what this products will reveal in 20-30 years from now. See the documentary BLUE VINYL. Perhaps it is not immediately considered global warning, but we should start taking into consideration the environment. I work at a sustainable architecture firm and we do everything, from placing faucet aerators, to solar panels. To anything that will help create communities that are that much more sustainable./ I started riding my bike 5 miles down the road, and taking the bus for an hour to get to work. Ssure i have the convenienece of driving and it is not about affordability, it ius about the environment to me. We should all recycle, we should all be careful with what we eat and consume. This is what all these wake up calls should tell us.

  • Posted By: opethslayer01 @ 07/03/2008 11:19:53 AM

    ......Oh, so a new light bulb (full of mercury) and a hybrid will bring less rain to the midwest? Humans are so cruel, especially those damn Americans. Boo F'n Hoo. Give me a jet and a 20,000 sq ft house like the hypricritical liberal liar Gore. If there were a democrat in office none of this garbage would be printed, and your elitest butt would be out of a job.

  • Posted By: fuzzpuss @ 07/03/2008 11:19:40 AM

    Its a sad day when Al gore can put more pollution in the air with his private jet in one trip than all the car and suv's can in one YEAR,and yet its always about what YOU can do.Gee,Mr. Gore Why don't YOU cut back??

  • Posted By: lunatic84x @ 07/03/2008 11:19:07 AM

    Well the climate is indeed changing because of our pollution and because we are so selfcenter to think about it , who cares about Al Gore, who cares about politics( they always change) , we are a race that fights over stuff we have created. We fight over religion, money , power and because we do not respect any other's beliefs. WHO CARES ABOUT MONEY, what is it good for if your planet gets messed up , hope to use it in space to attract a couple of asteroids. The only thing I agree with you is that I do not support whinning, but man do humans whine for everything!! , Global Warming????? , it's good that big tv corporatioons are soooo socially conscious that they do not even mention it , they rather post about how somebody getting divorced ...

  • Posted By: panther_jak@hotmail.com @ 07/03/2008 11:18:26 AM

    The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine in May announced that 31,072 U.S. scientists signed a petition stating that "??? There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing, or will cause in the future, catastrophic heating of the Earth???s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth???s climate..." Global Warming is a hoax and We are all going to pay for the supposed "benefits" that are more than likely not going to materialize either. GDP will fall as we fall futher into recession due to restraints placed by these Econuts and the only ones profiting will be these climate alamrists that are really just trying to make their investsments in "green" good of course only for the sole "benefit" of the planet although there will be none as Global Warming is a load of hypocritical Al Gore derived crap. The leading anti global warming scientists have been trying to get the global warming liars to go on a national debate for months and yet the alarmists cower in corner hiding behind propaganda spewing leftist media outlets such as Newsweek. They even used doctored photos to spew their filth if that's any indication of the validity of anything else they are saying. DOWN with global "warming" although this years extemely cool winter threw off all their already unsound and unconvincing data.

  • Posted By: dmiller3:16 @ 07/03/2008 11:16:47 AM

    He didn't die to give us choices..we had that before He died. He died to give us joy knowing that these things can't hurt us and that He is with us. He died so we can inherit everlasting life instead of eternity in hell. We should vote the right people in and pray that they make the right decisions instead of being manipulated by greed and self-interest.

  • Posted By: jeanne32 @ 07/03/2008 11:16:41 AM

    I am glad you believe in religion. However, religion is irrelevant. Things to dont have to get worse, it is our choice how we live our lives, if you really know the bible then you would recall the fact that he died in order to give us choices. It is our choice to get upset at political figures for not drilling oil offshore, when in reality this is a pivoting point in our lifetime in which we need to change the way we live. Not the sake for reigion or politics but for the sake of humanity. Global warming is occurring, it is due to the fact that we have plants that make vinyl, which causes horrible types of cancer. However it is in childrens toys, people who work at the plants have died

  • Posted By: eclipx @ 07/03/2008 10:58:23 AM

    Everyone knows carbon dioxide keeps heat contained on the surface it surrounds quite efficiently. If anyone thinks that our massive carbon dioxide emissions are not making an obvious impact on our climate then they are lacking some serious education. It's obviously not just hype. Though the media likes an audience and of course they'll play off of whatever they can get their hands on that draws attention. That is not to say though that all of the news they broadcast is exaggerated. We all know the media DOES exaggerate, but if you know anything about chemistry or our environment then you know that this particular broadcast is not exagerrated. Global warming will eventually have a runaway effect when the ice that has kept tons of methane contained for millions of years melts. Methane is an even worse greenhouse gas. If you don't believe me then you may reference Scientific American's website (http://www.sciam.com) which gives detailed explanations and doesn't give in to too much hype.

    • Posted By: vanwich @ 07/03/2008 11:03:45 AM

      Yes, there are lots of gases that are worse than carbon dioxide and the sum of them all makes the human CO2 input look like a drop in the bucket. That is one of the reasons many scientists, who I must know nothing about chemistry, have doubts about the mechanisms that drive global temperature change.

      • Posted By: tiny280 @ 07/03/2008 11:16:40 AM

        If methane and carbon dioxide are the bogey-man the neo-religionists wich them to be, then mankind should be lauded from every pulpit for our impressive efforts in draining swamps, er, "wet lands", which produce vastly more emmisions of greenhouse gases every year then man can ever hope to achieve.

        By the way, all thosee areas of the Mississippi basin which flooded last month were called "swamps" before Man built levees. How many 'carbon offset credits" do we get from the neo-religionists for draining all those stinkin' swamps? (BTW, swamps "stink" mostly due to their impressive methane production.)

    • Posted By: jwmello @ 07/03/2008 11:08:30 AM

      The problem is the hype, the use of fear to control mankind. Perhaps there may be something to this Global Warming. I am aware of the effects of excess CO2 in the atmosphere; however, I am not convinced that we are at a point (yet) where it is to blame for all of the weather. Where I am from, the average temperatures have actually been lower this past year then they have been in years past. Not to mention what has already been stated, that 20 years ago many groups were trying to scare us with the idea of another ice age. The problem is that some take this information to the extreme. Would it be a good idea to decrease pollution and find more environmentally friendly means of transportation and manufacturing? Yes. However, people like Al Gore who have set up such a strong agenda and are making a ton of money off of peoples fears, make others skeptical of the nature of the potential problem.

  • Posted By: Mr.boo @ 07/03/2008 11:14:56 AM

    Give me a break. It is WAY to early to start blaming all of this on Global Warming. That is why many scientist and Meterologist have not directly blamned Global Warming for the rise in extreme weather. But don't worry, thats why we have journalist for: to play the blame game with the least amount of information as possible all the while pandering to the opinion that is "in" at the time.

  • Posted By: chipperspet @ 07/03/2008 11:14:03 AM

    HARRP and ELF are ionospheric heaters, if there is a problem with global warming the use of these ionosperic heaters are causing it. Its no coincident to me that these ionospheric heaters are designed to manipulate the atmosphere and potentially control the weather. I also believe that any investigative journalist would do some research before spewing forth the same mindless rambling as Al Gore. A few thousand scientist have signed a petition attesting to the fact that the global warming theory is based on incomplete science. In order to decide that the problem is global warming, you really would have to look and see what the other educated idiots are doing with the technology they have no business using. They don???t see beyond today and the problems they are creating are probably coming tomorrow, figuratively. The first ionospheric heater was built in Platteville Colorado in 1961, and then decided Alaska was a better place to have an ionospheric heater in 1984, considering that they have been using those heaters that long and weather manipulation is their aim personally I think they know how and are manipulating the weather.
    In case you wonder I know that Washington,DC is made up of liars and thieves that will never serve any real purpose to anyone. Congress and the Senate are in breach of their contracts and should be removed from office to make way for folks that might actually base decisions on something other than money, like whats best for people and the environment.

  • Posted By: chipperspet @ 07/03/2008 11:13:47 AM

    HARRP and ELF are ionospheric heaters, if there is a problem with global warming the use of these ionosperic heaters are causing it. Its no coincident to me that these ionospheric heaters are designed to manipulate the atmosphere and potentially control the weather. I also believe that any investigative journalist would do some research before spewing forth the same mindless rambling as Al Gore. A few thousand scientist have signed a petition attesting to the fact that the global warming theory is based on incomplete science. In order to decide that the problem is global warming, you really would have to look and see what the other educated idiots are doing with the technology they have no business using. They don???t see beyond today and the problems they are creating are probably coming tomorrow, figuratively. The first ionospheric heater was built in Platteville Colorado in 1961, and then decided Alaska was a better place to have an ionospheric heater in 1984, considering that they have been using those heaters that long and weather manipulation is their aim personally I think they know how and are manipulating the weather.
    In case you wonder I know that Washington,DC is made up of liars and thieves that will never serve any real purpose to anyone. Congress and the Senate are in breach of their contracts and should be removed from office to make way for folks that might actually base decisions on something other than money, like whats best for people and the environment.

  • Posted By: four29scj @ 07/03/2008 11:05:03 AM

    Answer: Man-made global warming is a lie and you people prop up the propaganda because you???re paid to do so. The Globalist pigs like Al Gore have one agenda, and that is to control each and every one of us into oblivion, by taxing for carbon emissions, pricing us out of transportation, and drowning us in a cesspool of mis-information that they call ???Global Warming??? or ???Climate Change???. Why would you preach this garbage? I hope someone at the Ministry of News wakes up and realizes that they too will be affected by the lies that they print. You are not exempt from the Globalists??? plan and you will suffer the same fate as the rest of us ???commoners???. I do not support GLOBAL WHINING!

  • Posted By: jenc23 @ 07/03/2008 11:03:14 AM

    You people need to get your facts right from the start. Otherwise, you're just going to make yourselves look stupid. As stated above, "The frequency of downpours and heat waves, as well as the power of hurricanes, has increased so dramatically that "100-year storms" are striking some areas once every 15 years." If you actually did some research, you would know that a 100-year storm event does not mean that a storm of 100-year magnitude has the chance of happening once every 100 years. This is called statistics people!! The term 100-year storm means that a storm of that magnitude has a 1 in 100 chance of ocurring EVERY YEAR! Whoever you are, you obviously need to take some Civil Engineering Hydrology classes, that way you would know that these types of storms just happen, it's all probability.

  • Posted By: eclipx @ 07/03/2008 11:03:01 AM

    Stupid biblical... everyone also knows things always get worse as population increases, resources decrease. It doesn't take some kind of prophet to foretell that kind of information. Woooowwww... someone said things will get worse. Give me a break. Stop grasping onto cavemen stories where any explanation they can think of MUST be the truth. ..."I see a bright light in the sky... hey... that must be heaven... it's bright... and pretty... or maybe the sky is like a big sheet with holes poked into it and the brightness coming through the holes is heaven. Hey let's build tower to it. That way we get crawl through the hole and get to heaven."

  • Posted By: rsigler @ 07/03/2008 10:59:16 AM

    The dumbing of America is the only disaster going on here. Wake up America!

  • Posted By: vanwich @ 07/03/2008 10:58:03 AM

    Wow, you are really some kind of scientist!

  • Posted By: dmiller3:16 @ 07/03/2008 10:57:25 AM

    Actually it is biblical. Things will continue to get worse until Jesus Christ returns for His church.

  • Posted By: dmiller3:16 @ 07/03/2008 10:56:31 AM

    Actually it is biblical. Things will continue to get worse until Jesus Christ returns for His church.

  • Posted By: Chiflow @ 07/03/2008 9:52:06 AM

    Ok the subscribers to the Bush school of thought need to let go of denial thing, even his own well paid scientists cannot keep up the charade but tossed a couple stragglers in for good measure to keep up the image of a slow transition. I found this funny; I have to admit seeing the right wing nut jobs that think voting for religion so they can be robbed by the rich have to embrace fully the load being shoveled down their throat gargling more please. But fear not there is a reason why the right is leaning towards global warming, MONEY! There is going to be money in it, from inspectors, to clean exhaust filters and tons of new products that they can make mandatory later on while holding the patents to it all! Do not worry I am sure they will share their wealth with those of you that voted for them because, Um Gays are Bad, Mkay, republicans are good. If it were not for the illusion of religion and values they pretend to have for votes they would never win an elections, there just is not enough people with the kind of money for their tax free loopholes to be effective. I should not forget their investments in Raytheon, Halliburton and weapons manufacturers that makes military spending advantageous to them so there is those of you that are military families and I commend you for your service but do not lose sight of who is making the money of you and your families sacrifice. The reason they want more bases and more toys is because it makes them more money on the sidelines they just need to use it every now and then or the stockpiles look fishy so make up a reason heck perhaps create one clear up some of the old stuff so you can buy the new stuff! The sad thing is it is not like back in the day when leaders led the charge into battle, now they scratch a name on a page and the youth of America pay the price $$.

    • Posted By: jwmello @ 07/03/2008 10:54:27 AM

      Ok, so who is the nut-job? Are you serious blaming conservatives for the Global Warming hype? Are you an educated individual? Are you also saying that only rich Republicans use loop holes to keep from paying taxes? You my friend need to go out and educate yourself on reality. Lesson #1, it is the Liberals who are pushing the Global Warming agenda. Al Gore is leading the charge making a ton of money and gaining notoriety off of peoples fears. Conservatives tend to be ???less??? environmentally conscious and tend not to take the hype as seriously as Liberals. Lessons #2, Republicans are not the only rich people in America. If you look hard enough you will find that some of the wealthiest people in this country are Democrats, prominent ones at that. Look into how much John Kerry pays in taxes or for that matter look into Mr. Tax the country Ted Kennedy. They are both very wealthy and have their money tucked away in tax sheltered accounts. Both parties are guilty when it comes to tax evasion. Lessons #3, if you want to mock those that believe in Faith, don???t scoff at the idea that they may scoff at homosexuality. You cannot have it both ways. How is it fine to condemn someone because you think their beliefs are foolish yet it is wrong for them condemn someone who lives a lifestyle they think is wrong. Who is the hypocrite here? Finally, labeling someone because they have a different opinion to that of yours is foolish and very childish. My guess is that you are a very young person with a lot of growing up to do. Bottom line, there are some good as well as misguided people in both Democratic and Republican party. Their opinions may be different but that does not make them bad. Global Warming appears to me to be another political agenda to scare people into subservience. The sad thing is that it is working. Fear is a powerful motivator.

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