In article <
KJSdnccsltn-KzjN...@giganews.com>,
linuxgal <
linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
> Way Back Jack wrote:
> > Thirty-years ago, we entered the "new ice age." Do you remember that scary
> > cover of Time magazine and all the horrors predicted by the mainstream
> > media?
>
> Sure, right here.
>
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aIMCxrhb91c/T3N9flvVBAI/AAAAAAAABdU/zsW892nGOtM/s640
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> What's funny also, is the 1977 cover has a blurb for a story that goes
> "Why We Can't Beat The Soviets". Great track record there, Time. Morons.
So, you use journalism, who want to sell advertising, as the basis of
your information? You proudly declare victory, and ignore the FACTS.
Fact:
CO2 increases atmospheric temperatures, which lead to warmer oceans, and
melting ice, which leads to an increase in atmospheric water vapor.
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_vapor#Water_vapor_in_Earth.27s_atmos
phere>
Gaseous water represents a small but environmentally significant
constituent of the atmosphere. The percentage water vapor in surface air
varies from a trace in desert regions to about 4% over oceans.[13]
Approximately 99.13% of it is contained in the troposphere. The
condensation of water vapor to the liquid or ice phase is responsible
for clouds, rain, snow, and other precipitation, all of which count
among the most significant elements of what we experience as weather.
Less obviously, the latent heat of vaporization, which is released to
the atmosphere whenever condensation occurs, is one of the most
important terms in the atmospheric energy budget on both local and
global scales. For example, latent heat release in atmospheric
convection is directly responsible for powering destructive storms such
as tropical cyclones and severe thunderstorms.
Fact:
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-climate-weather-idUSTRE8112
0K20120202>
Most U.S. meteorologists (radio & TV) -- 82 percent in a 2011 survey --
are convinced that climate is changing, but many say it's changing
because of natural causes, or human and natural causes combined.
That contrasts with about 95 percent of climate "scientists" (no
advertising money) who are convinced that climate change is occurring
and that human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, are
a key driver of it. This tallies with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, which reported with 90 percent certainty in 2007 on
the causes and effects of climate change.
Fact:
<
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/08/koch-brot
hers-lobbying>
Across a range of activities  from the birth of the Tea Party to
undermining unions in Wisconsin, to opposing efforts to curb global
warming  they have been believed by many Democrats to be forever
lurking behind the headlines. Now, a brilliant piece of investigative
reporting by the Washington-based watchdog Centre for Public Integrity
has detailed the Kochs' vast political and lobbying operations. It makes
sobering and deeply disturbing reading. After all, it is one thing to
believe that out there somewhere the devil exists, but reading the CPI
report feels a little like being given his phone number.
The sums of money spent in furthering Koch (pronounced like the drink
coke, no matter how tempting it is to rhyme it with rock) interests and
power are staggering. But what is most disturbing is how rapidly they
are growing. In 2004, the CPI found, the Kochs spent a "mere" $857,000
on lobbying. In 2008, that had grown to $20m dollars. Over the next two
years, they then spent a further $20.5m.
The causes are varied but self-centred around the vital interests of
Koch Industries such as oil, energy, chemicals and financial products.
Employing no less than 30 lobbyists in Washington, Koch Industries has
lobbied to change more than 100 pieces of federal legislation. They
included trying to loosen regulations on potentially poisonous
substances like dioxins, benzene and asbestos. They have pushed back
against restrictions on carbon emissions and funded thinktanks and
groups that promote efforts to discredit climate change science. They
tried to soften attempts at financial reform where the Kochs operate in
the derivatives market. Wherever a law touched on a Koch corporate
interests, there were the company's lobbyists trying to gut, deaden or
defeat any attempt at regulation.
Fact:
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http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/112781/top-climate-change-denying-scient
ist-found-to-be-on-exxon-koch-brothers-payroll/>
Top Climate Change-Denying Scientist Found to Be on Exxon, Koch
BrothersÄ… Payroll
Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for
Astrophysics, was paid $1 million over 10 years to express the view that
CO2 emissions are not the cause of global warming.
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As with the tobacco companies, as long as fossil fuel extractors can
disseminate confusion, they can keep making money on tomorrows misery.
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Welcome to the New America.
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or
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