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Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 06:14 am
and more rain is forcast.

I think its an act of God. We have been following the wrong one. We have ignored the Rain Goddess for too long. Her tears remind us of our neglect. Prepare to sacrifice the newborn.
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blatham
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 09:31 am
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Prepare to sacrifice the newborn.


Prepare?! Have I acted hastily?
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 11:42 am
People with no clean water are being advised to "boil water before drinking"- but 350,000 people have got no electricity now. I hope they've got plenty of gas.

Tonight, Gloucester is due to have its highest flood ever, according to forecasts.

National emergency.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 11:50 am
blatham wrote:
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Prepare to sacrifice the newborn.


Prepare?! Have I acted hastily?
mega Laughing

Thats very kind of you blatham. But I'm afraid your sacrifice was in vain. Are you sure you got the right Goddess number? RAIN999

Try again, or leave a message. Use some incense. But thanks all the same. (were you particularly fond of the child?)
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High Seas
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 01:11 pm
Those damn SUVs of 400,000 years ago were obviously to blame, then as now:

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Britain became island in 24 hours

.........Britain and France were "linked by a high ridge of chalk hills, running roughly between Dover and Calais". Between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, the aforementioned monster lake, "hundreds of feet above sea level", breached the chalk ridge and made good its escape towards the Atlantic......

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/island_britain/

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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 01:21 pm
Was that before or after Noah bought his SUV?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 01:24 pm
Ooops, 6,000 years - so your source must be wrong, High Seas.
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High Seas
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 01:24 pm
..........Worse yet - the 700,000 years ago SUV models caused the abundant tropical fauna of Wales to become extinct:

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.........Natural History Museum professor Chris Stringer told the BA Festival of Science: "Britain has suffered some of the most extreme climate changes of any area in the world during the Pleistocene."

"So places in say South Wales would have gone from something that looked like North Africa with hippos, elephants, rhinos and hyenas, to the other extreme: to an extraordinary cold environment like northern Scandinavia."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/06/human_migration_to_britain/

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High Seas
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 01:26 pm
Walter - where did your 6,000 year number come from, Steve's rain goddess?!
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 01:28 pm
You really should know that the earth was created 6,000 years ago.
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High Seas
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 01:32 pm
You, a biblical scholar, should know the flood occurred long after Genesis Smile
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High Seas
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 01:49 pm
blatham wrote:
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Prepare to sacrifice the newborn.


Prepare?! Have I acted hastily?


More biblical faux-pas! Et tu, Blatham?! It was the "firstborn", not the "newborn".

Watch it, gang, if some Christian fundamentalist wanders into the thread y'all gettin' sent back to Bible reeducation bootcamp!
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 01:52 pm
From where else, do you think, are we posting?

(And there's still one hut reserved for you, too!)
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High Seas
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 03:05 pm
http://www.economist.com/images/columns/2007w30/asteroid.jpg

http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/greenview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9533468

Walter - am otherwise engaged currently, but appreciate the hut reservation. Perhaps we can divide the work - you, Steve, Hamburger, can worry about AGW, while George OB, Okie and I can worry about large meteorites on Earth-intersecting orbits, how's that?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 03:31 pm
Well, but lets at first say the Litaniae Sanctorum together ...



Sanctes scientiates naturales
- orate pro nobis,
Sanctes artes mathematicae
- orate pro nobis,
Sancta praevisio prognostica tempestatis
- ora pro nobis,

... ... ...
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georgeob1
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 07:02 pm
Just back from 7 days under the redwoods by the Russian River. A couple of days to catch up on sleep, work out and get my laundry done before going back. Beautiful days here - clear skies midday temperature 75 deg F, down to 60 deg at night. Rains falling in the UK and Texas... It all must be AGW.

Good to see you guys are all still snarling at each other.
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Advocate
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 07:50 pm
The right is ferocious in its rejection of science. Do you recall the recent testimony of the former Surgeon General.
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okie
 
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Reply Mon 23 Jul, 2007 10:14 pm
Advocate wrote:
The right is ferocious in its rejection of science. Do you recall the recent testimony of the former Surgeon General.


Here is real science: "scientists confirm global warming link to increased rain"

Now we all know what causes floods. The cause has been "confirmed." I looked up the meaning, and apparently it means that global warming is now "established with certainty" as the cause of increased rain. I think it is safe to say that greatly increased rain causes floods, and therefore if any flood occurs, the earth is warming up, and so if no floods occur, maybe the earth is cooling down? Does that indeed mean if it cools off, it won't rain? So droughts must be a sign of global cooling? But I thought I have read that droughts are caused by global warming too? What if the earth is cooling down? Does anything happen at all? Hey, I'm just trying to understand these science lessons given us here.
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xingu
 
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Reply Tue 24 Jul, 2007 05:03 am
If your looking for global warming don't look at floods in England or droughts in Wash. DC. Look at the polar icecaps.

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Why are global warming specialists watching the Arctic so closely?

The Arctic is global warming's canary in the coal mine. It's a highly sensitive region, and it's being profoundly affected by the changing climate. Most scientists view what's happening now in the Arctic as a harbinger of things to come.

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/qthinice.asp
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Tue 24 Jul, 2007 05:12 am
okie wrote:
Advocate wrote:
The right is ferocious in its rejection of science. Do you recall the recent testimony of the former Surgeon General.


Here is real science: "scientists confirm global warming link to increased rain"

Now we all know what causes floods. The cause has been "confirmed." I looked up the meaning, and apparently it means that global warming is now "established with certainty" as the cause of increased rain. I think it is safe to say that greatly increased rain causes floods, and therefore if any flood occurs, the earth is warming up, and so if no floods occur, maybe the earth is cooling down? Does that indeed mean if it cools off, it won't rain? So droughts must be a sign of global cooling? But I thought I have read that droughts are caused by global warming too? What if the earth is cooling down? Does anything happen at all? Hey, I'm just trying to understand these science lessons given us here.
Dont try any longer. Its clearly beyond you.
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