Comic: Baked Alaska

Methane hydrates also in Gulf of Mexico. Without too much trouble and no new technology needed methane can be converted to gasoline.

The only real objection--the idea that fossil fuel combustion is "changing the climate." Well, if you can contort your brain to believe that global warming actually causes global cooling, glaciers growing everywhere there is more snowfall and more snowfall a lot of places, including Mt. Blanc., etc

I believe the idea that carbon dioxide is the 800lb gorilla when it comes to climate change is seriously flawed. It is more like the 8 lb chimpanzee. The sun is the 800 lb gorilla.

To Mike Cook, You...are regurgitating right-wing propaganda; I would imagine that an ORIGINAL thought might cause you pain. OF COURSE, things fall up, not down! How do I know this? Because, they said so on FOX News channel! Note: the previous three sentences were sarcasm.

"smarterthanyou" is not so smart, nor are his/her thoughts original. Since you bring up "FOX News", consider NBC's and CNBC's left-wing propaganda. Are you regurgitating theirs?

"smarterthanyou" is not so smart, nor are his/her thoughts original. Since you bring up "FOX News", consider NBC's and CNBC's left-wing propaganda. Are you regurgitating theirs?

I am so sick and tired of this "GLOBAL WARMING" balogna. Wake up people - we are talking about an eleven percent increase (over 100 years - maybe actually only 5 percent) in a non toxic gas which is only 4/100's of one percent of the atmosphere. Our thieves in government want to tax tax tax to make the problem better. I personally don't believe there is a problem, but if there is, I'm sure there are a billion cheap solutions to it, like increasing biomass in the oceans, or producing paper and sequestering it in abandoned mines, or maybe planting a bunch of trees and harvesting the wood. What I do know is the government solution if far far worse than the disease.

Well, "smarterthanyou", guess what? Everyone is intitled to their own opinion. Mike is allowed to say what he thinks, as are you. You can bash and degrade him all you want, but just remember, what you said sounded extremely conceited, stuck-up, arrogant, and egotistical. Sounding like a pompous ass hurts your image more than his.

Hahaha, "Baked Alaska"... Doesn't Alaska have the largest population of pot smokers per state in America?

"smarterthanyou" is not so smart, nor are his/her thoughts original. Since you bring up "FOX News", consider NBC's and CNBC's left-wing propaganda. Are you regurgitating theirs?

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Get real people. Lose the "left-wing - right wing" stuff. Talk SCIENCE. What do the experts say? NASA, the Stanford Solar Research Center, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, American Geophysiocal Union, American Meteorlogical Soceity, National Academy of Science, N.O.A.A., the American Association for the Advancement of Science and others have all issued statements pointing the finger directly at man's burning of fossil fuels, leading to the increase in greenhouse gasses, leading to global climate change. I don't care what the politicians say - they are politicians and say whatever their backers tell them to say. These organizations are the premier SCIENTIFIC groups in the world. That is who I listen to in matters of science.
If you question the validity of my statements - great. You are thinking. Do a google search on "global warming" and each of these organizations.
To quote the National Academy of Science: "Earth is warming. Every possible cause has been looked at. Every one has been eliminated except one. Humans are the cause."
Sounds rather clear to me.

I'm not saying I'm a believer in the global warming and human involvment just yet, but thanks to roxforjox for the information. I checked some of those organizational websites, and found they were pretty usefull.

You can look to whatever news agency you want but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that by taking carbon that took millions of years to grow, break down, and get converted to hydrocarbons (or coal) that has been stored under the soil for millions of years and suddenly throw all of that into the air in a matter of centuries is a bad thing. If you look at if from a geological perspective (i mean in 4 billion years our existence is pretty insignificant) this is the equivalent to an explosion. You can not tell me that by throwing billions of tons of CO2 into the air in that short a time frame isn't going to come with consequences. I realize the atmosphere is huge and it can absorb a lot but everything has its limits. Nature works on a system of balances. Everything is cyclic (think the "circle of life" talk from the Lion King) and the carbon cycle is really at the base of that circle so by messing with it you send a ripple effect through many other systems. For example due to higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere there is more CO2 dissolving into the ocean. That excess CO2 turns into carbonic acid raising the pH of the ocean. If it gets too high the ocean will actually dissolve the shells right off of shellfish and entire coral reef's will dissolve. Now granted it will be a while before we reach that point but why do we have to have such large scale problems before we try to change anything? it doesn't make sense. we know its going to cause a problem how bout we fix it now.