What's an election projector to do in his off-time? - Scott Elliott breaks from politics to write a long post about the current trends in global warming: "The Kyoto treaty, if fully enacted, will produce only a 0.07 degree Celsius reduction in the projected temperature increase by 2050 at the estimated cost of 100 to 400 billion dollars to the United States each year."
Extra - From Wizbang: "Global warming - it ain't happening"
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If we can't drop global temperature 25 degrees in six months or less, then f*ck it.
"American Idol" just picked its two dozen contestants, woooo!!!
I don't understand why you can't make your point without being profane.
The counter-argument to the global warming scare is that any Kyoto-type "fix" would cost billions for a negligible effect. But since the environmentalists' religion is saving Gaia, there's no cost so high.
P.S. - Good luck getting India and China to sign on. They're only a third of the world's population.
Gee, well, that's a deal-breaker. Efforts might only be 66% effective, instead of 0%. Forget it, then.
(Does this "good luck with India and China!" rebuttal also apply to things like the war on terror and tariffs? Or only to items that make CEOs happy?)
Exactly when did conservatives start laughing at conservation?
Report: January hottest on record
February 15, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It may be cold comfort during a frigid February, but last month was by far the hottest January ever.
The broken record was fueled by a waning El Nino and a gradually warming world, according to U.S. scientists who reported the data Thursday.
Records on the planet's temperature have been kept since 1880.
Spurred on by unusually warm Siberia, Canada, northern Asia and Europe, the world's land areas were 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) warmer than a normal January, according to the U.S. National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
That didn't just nudge past the old record set in 2002, but broke that mark by 0.81 degrees Fahrenheit (0.56C), which meteorologists said is a lot, since such records often are broken by hundredths of a degree at a time.
"That's pretty unusual for a record to be broken by that much," said the data center's scientific services chief, David Easterling. "I was very surprised."
The scientists went beyond their normal double checking and took the unusual step of running computer climate models "just to make sure that what we're seeing was real," Easterling said.
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It is what climate scientists predict happens and will happen more frequently with global warming, according to an authoritative report by hundreds of climate scientists issued this month.
Meteorologists aren't blaming the warmer January on global warming alone, but they said the higher temperature was consistent with climate change.
Meteorologists can't get a ten day forecast right, but lets go ahead and spend the billions on the off chance they might be right. After all, with less than a century of data, we can obviously predict half a century into the future. So lets spend the GDP of half the world to cause an effect that will equate to less than the statistical noise of the sample. Brilliant. It would be cheaper to buy everyone an air conditioner, but lets not think about alternatives. And I agree that it is warming, why just a few thousand years ago where I'm sitting was covered under 100 ft of ice. ergo Global Warming.
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