Please tell me the Republicans didn't make their convention in a hurricane-prone city during the late summer

[Dan Druff]

They did?

Shit.

[gut]

[DirtyB]

But since Global Climate Change is a fake liberal conspiracy, it shouldn't be a problem.

[PLOL]

Suspending the RNC for 1 day was totally unnecessary. I'm in Tampa right now, and it's literally bright and sunny out.

[Rollo Tomasi]

Suspending the RNC for 1 day was totally unnecessary. I'm in Tampa right now, and it's literally bright and sunny out.

just a big rainmaker

[gut]

But since Global Climate Change is a fake liberal conspiracy, it shouldn't be a problem.

[Belly Buster]

But since Global Climate Change is a fake liberal conspiracy, it shouldn't be a problem.

Governments like to keep their pubic in a permanent state of mild peril. Let's face it most healthy people can look after themselves pretty well most of the time. For politicians to remain relevant, it pays them to maintain the threat of something "big" that requires them to act in a way the general citizen can't. In the last decade we have had the global financial crisis and the post-9/11 al queda terrorist threat.

After the cold war and gulf war finished in the early 90s, the world was a relatively stable place. No big crises, global wars, no imminent fear of major catastrophe. Of course this is not great for those politicians that need to feel relevant.

So around this time a bunch of scientists were starting to talk more about "Global Warming". This became a vogue for governments to give us something else to worry about. In the UK a weather forecaster famously said the temperatures in 20 years (i.e. now) would be the same as Spain at the time.

It didn't come to pass, in fact average temperatures have remained the same. But the governments need to keep the public interest but they don't talk about "Global Warming" it is now "Climate Change". Scientists have been firmly on the bandwagon collecting research money, their results have been manufactured along the way. Any climate event is now "proof" of major global climate change, even though these events were not originally predicted by the scientists, and some were the exact opposite of the predictions.

With the world in the brink of financial collapse, funnily enough climate change is now no longer in the news. We, apparently, have more important things to worry about.

[DirtyB]

Governments like to keep their pubic in a permanent state of mild peril. Let's face it most healthy people can look after themselves pretty well most of the time. For politicians to remain relevant, it pays them to maintain the threat of something "big" that requires them to act in a way the general citizen can't. In the last decade we have had the global financial crisis and the post-9/11 al queda terrorist threat.

After the cold war and gulf war finished in the early 90s, the world was a relatively stable place. No big crises, global wars, no imminent fear of major catastrophe. Of course this is not great for those politicians that need to feel relevant.

So around this time a bunch of scientists were starting to talk more about "Global Warming". This became a vogue for governments to give us something else to worry about. In the UK a weather forecaster famously said the temperatures in 20 years (i.e. now) would be the same as Spain at the time.

It didn't come to pass, in fact average temperatures have remained the same. But the governments need to keep the public interest but they don't talk about "Global Warming" it is now "Climate Change". Scientists have been firmly on the bandwagon collecting research money, their results have been manufactured along the way. Any climate event is now "proof" of major global climate change, even though these events were not originally predicted by the scientists, and some were the exact opposite of the predictions.

With the world in the brink of financial collapse, funnily enough climate change is now no longer in the news. We, apparently, have more important things to worry about.

That's a great theory.

Except for the scientists in the 1890s that realized that burning fossil fuels would increase CO2 levels, and thus average temperatures.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...climate-change

Al Gore was talking about climate change in the 80s and all of the idiot conservatives said he was nuts.

Contrary to your statement, global temperature has been going up steadily.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.gif

People have been keeping accurate temperate records for 130 years. Let's take a look at the warmest ones of those 130.



Notice anything?

[gut]

a gradual uprise in temps DirtyB. sweet. I bet 50 years from now they will slowly go down.

[limitles]

Governments like to keep their pubic in a permanent state of mild peril. Let's face it most healthy people can look after themselves pretty well most of the time. For politicians to remain relevant, it pays them to maintain the threat of something "big" that requires them to act in a way the general citizen can't. In the last decade we have had the global financial crisis and the post-9/11 al queda terrorist threat.

After the cold war and gulf war finished in the early 90s, the world was a relatively stable place. No big crises, global wars, no imminent fear of major catastrophe. Of course this is not great for those politicians that need to feel relevant.

So around this time a bunch of scientists were starting to talk more about "Global Warming". This became a vogue for governments to give us something else to worry about. In the UK a weather forecaster famously said the temperatures in 20 years (i.e. now) would be the same as Spain at the time.

It didn't come to pass, in fact average temperatures have remained the same. But the governments need to keep the public interest but they don't talk about "Global Warming" it is now "Climate Change". Scientists have been firmly on the bandwagon collecting research money, their results have been manufactured along the way. Any climate event is now "proof" of major global climate change, even though these events were not originally predicted by the scientists, and some were the exact opposite of the predictions.

With the world in the brink of financial collapse, funnily enough climate change is now no longer in the news. We, apparently, have more important things to worry about.

That's a great theory.

Except for the scientists in the 1890s that realized that burning fossil fuels would increase CO2 levels, and thus average temperatures.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...climate-change

Al Gore was talking about climate change in the 80s and all of the idiot conservatives said he was nuts.

Contrary to your statement, global temperature has been going up steadily.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.gif

People have been keeping accurate temperate records for 130 years. Let's take a look at the warmest ones of those 130.



Notice anything?

Not fact......just the opposite....CO2 is not the cause of global warming.......solar activity or lack thereof is the main cause of temperature fluctuation proven by scientific records. In that movie it's explained how CO2 levels respond to warmer temperatures caused by solar activity. CO2 rises or falls after the temperatures change. They follow.

[donkdowndonedied]

Governments like to keep their pubic in a permanent state of mild peril. Let's face it most healthy people can look after themselves pretty well most of the time. For politicians to remain relevant, it pays them to maintain the threat of something "big" that requires them to act in a way the general citizen can't. In the last decade we have had the global financial crisis and the post-9/11 al queda terrorist threat.

After the cold war and gulf war finished in the early 90s, the world was a relatively stable place. No big crises, global wars, no imminent fear of major catastrophe. Of course this is not great for those politicians that need to feel relevant.

So around this time a bunch of scientists were starting to talk more about "Global Warming". This became a vogue for governments to give us something else to worry about. In the UK a weather forecaster famously said the temperatures in 20 years (i.e. now) would be the same as Spain at the time.

It didn't come to pass, in fact average temperatures have remained the same. But the governments need to keep the public interest but they don't talk about "Global Warming" it is now "Climate Change". Scientists have been firmly on the bandwagon collecting research money, their results have been manufactured along the way. Any climate event is now "proof" of major global climate change, even though these events were not originally predicted by the scientists, and some were the exact opposite of the predictions.

With the world in the brink of financial collapse, funnily enough climate change is now no longer in the news. We, apparently, have more important things to worry about.

Yea, climate change was made-up so that politicians can feel relevant. Scientists who always live life in the chase of money have manufactured the whole thing.

Where do you people get this shit ? Why do you believe it ? Is it so you can see yourself as some sort of sophisticated person, who can see through all the bullshit? Is it salve for your brain ?

[Belly Buster]

Governments like to keep their pubic in a permanent state of mild peril. Let's face it most healthy people can look after themselves pretty well most of the time. For politicians to remain relevant, it pays them to maintain the threat of something "big" that requires them to act in a way the general citizen can't. In the last decade we have had the global financial crisis and the post-9/11 al queda terrorist threat.

After the cold war and gulf war finished in the early 90s, the world was a relatively stable place. No big crises, global wars, no imminent fear of major catastrophe. Of course this is not great for those politicians that need to feel relevant.

So around this time a bunch of scientists were starting to talk more about "Global Warming". This became a vogue for governments to give us something else to worry about. In the UK a weather forecaster famously said the temperatures in 20 years (i.e. now) would be the same as Spain at the time.

It didn't come to pass, in fact average temperatures have remained the same. But the governments need to keep the public interest but they don't talk about "Global Warming" it is now "Climate Change". Scientists have been firmly on the bandwagon collecting research money, their results have been manufactured along the way. Any climate event is now "proof" of major global climate change, even though these events were not originally predicted by the scientists, and some were the exact opposite of the predictions.

With the world in the brink of financial collapse, funnily enough climate change is now no longer in the news. We, apparently, have more important things to worry about.

Yea, climate change was made-up so that politicians can feel relevant. Scientists who always live life in the chase of money have manufactured the whole thing.

Where do you people get this shit ? Why do you believe it ? Is it so you can see yourself as some sort of sophisticated person, who can see through all the bullshit? Is it salve for your brain ?

I think you (and DirtyB for that matter) have read too much into what I was saying.

I didn't say climate change or global warming was made up. It was more that we were told a bunch of stuff by government, scientists and meteorologists in the 1990s - huge increases in temperatures within 20 years - which, with the benefit of it now being 20 years later, we know now were wrong.

Politicians and scientists 100% had a vested interest in spinning this. Is it so wrong to be skeptical of what we're being told now?

Released without fanfare, an interesting article here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ing-again.html

[shortbuspoker]

But since Global Climate Change is a fake liberal conspiracy, it shouldn't be a problem.

He has a point. There were no recorded hurricanes before the invention of the internal combustion engine and coal burning power plants.

[Pooh]

They did?

Shit.

Yeah, real fucking hurricane prone considering the last direct strike was 1921.