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By: Of Tea Party Terrorists and Cognitive Dissonance « The American Catholic

Of Tea Party Terrorists and Cognitive Dissonance « The American Catholic — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:27:33 +0000

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By: lynnvinc

lynnvinc — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:32:03 +0000

I was also wondering why it was so cold in South Texas this winter. So I asked the climate scientists over on http://www.RealClimate.org . They explained it was due to a strongly negative arctic oscillation — a shift from the weather pattern going from west to east to a north to south patterns. They gave me links to data showing that the average temp for the entire world was still above normal warmer, and that it was much warming in the West Arctic, some 7C warmer.

As Jesus said, “Ask and it shall be given unto you.” Or something like that.

Those with good and sincere hearts will not be dissuaded from mitigating climate change.

By: Don the Kiwi

Don the Kiwi — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:31:17 +0000

I don’t think anyone denies that Global Warming is a reality. After all, modern temperature taking only started around 1850, when it is acknowledged that that was the end of the Mini Ice Age.

The dispute is the extent to which MAN has caused, or influenced global warming. My personal view after reading a lot of evidence from both sides; MANKIND MAY have influenced warming to a small extent, but the body of evidence appears to support a natural cycle. The bullshit surrounding Co2 as a “Toxic Substance” is simple lunacy – we need Co2 in our lungs to prompt our next breath; and the acidifying of the oceans by the absorption of Co2 has been debunked as patently false. The politicisation of the topic has cast much doubt on the veracity and credibility of those scientists involved. Indeed, last week we had one of the top IPCC scientists stating that in view of current climate events, we may be in for a 30 year or so “Mini Ice Age.” So who can you believe?

The above link to Climate Change in Australia is interesting; there wer similar droughts and fires there in the late 80′s/early 90′s when I had lived ther for 10 years and returned to NZ in 1988. The ElNino effect does to Oz what they have stated in the loink, but that does not apply to all the South Pacific. El Nino gives us here in NZ strong and wet sth,westerlies, which cause flooding on our west coast, and droughts on the east coast- and generally cooller that normal temperatures.
This past winter, we had our coldest May on record.
We had our coldest October since 1945.
2008 we had more snowfall than for 30 years.
2009 (last winter) we had more snowfall for 60years – in some areas, the most in living memory.
Last summer was wetter than usual, and cool.
This summer is much cooler than usual.
So what does this mean – I dunno.

I think God is sitting there in heaven having a chuckle about this conceited creation – humanity – who think they are a prime cause – smarter than Him.

I think I’ll chuckle along with Him.

By: Gabriel Austin

Gabriel Austin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:23:26 +0000

Would I be considered too impossibly retrograde to wonder if there is much truth in the theories of global cooling so fashionable four decades ago. These scientific fads are rather tiresome, constantly changing as they do. Sounds like phlogiston.

Curiously global cooling and global warming seem to have the same solution – prevent babies. Might it be that the solution is the driving force behind both theories.

By: Gabriel Austin

Gabriel Austin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:09:56 +0000

Eric Brown writes:
“But here is a thought for the skeptics: when Galileo wanted to propose the heliocentric model of Copernicus to replace the geocentric model which had been the status quo consensus for quite some time, he had to propose a new theory and account for all the data and phenomenon that was thought to be explained best by the previous working hypothesis and demonstrate that the case for the new hypothesis was indeed stronger–that is how science works”.

As matter of fact, Galileo did not account for the majority of the data. This was done by Kepler, not relying on a heliocentric theory. [NB: Galileo did not "like" gravity; he also opted for the planetary orbits as perfect circles].

Galileo’s was a mathematical theory. This is why Card. Borromeo suggested that he propose it as such.

By: Gabriel Austin

Gabriel Austin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:01:30 +0000

Blackadder writes January 12, 2010 A.D. at 3:01 pm:
“While the U.S. has been unusually cold of late, this hasn’t been true of most of the world”.

Those caught in the largest snowfall of the decade in England and France and much of Europe might take this statement as a shining example of U.S. provincialism.

Of course, it has not been “unusually cold of late” below the Equator.