• The Environment

    Human Cause, Global Effect

    By Posted on 5.14.2008 29 Comments

    Retreating glaciers. Melting permafrost. Off-kilter bird migrations. Few of these reports are news to anyone following the global warming beat. Yet the first effort to gather thousands of scientific findings into a cohesive narrative of cause and effect has been published in the journal Nature.

    5.19.2008 at 05:32pm - Comment by kopperhead

    The hottest year on record was not 1998 .A canadian mathematician checked all of the figures and proved (and NASA AGREED)that 1934 was the hottest year recorded ,by part of a degree. This is very inconvenient for thr world renowned climatologist (of absolutely no credentials)al Bore.I noticed lately that the term "global Warming "has become inconvenient and is being replaced by the nebulus term"climate Change" .As the famous tv detective Columbo would have said ...one more question please Did global temperature not drop ever so slightly this past year? Dont be naive PopSci-Follow the money

  • The Environment

    Polar Bear Listed as Threatened Species

    By Posted on 5.14.2008 7 Comments

    It's official: polar bears are in trouble. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has announced that he is accepting the recommendation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the polar bear as a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act. That means the bear is just one step from becoming "endangered," a category reserved for species on the brink of extinction.

    5.17.2008 at 11:25am - Comment by kopperhead

    In alberta and british columbia the pine beetle has destroyed about 2million hectares of lodgepole pine trees they are decaying and -latest report giving off 5 times the amount of co2 that all of the cars and industry in Canada including the tar sands oil recovery programs.Why has global temp not increased proportionally?Recent volcanoes and forest fires are spewing millions of tons of co2 so2 etc -Why has the global temp not risen?How did Amundsen sail through the North West passage in 1904 and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ship The St. Roch do it again in 1934? Where was the Arctic ice then? As for polar bears -they number 24-25000 the highest number on record some are lean because of the numbers and available food.Furthermore if there is no ice, the seals will have their pups on land.Polar bears can easily swim 50+miles so the wont drown they love water.The enviro whakos will use the polar bear to prevent oil exploration. polar bears have been here for 1000's of years they wont be gone in 50 years .the world renowned CLIMATOLOGIST AL GORE--(OF ABSOLUTELY NO CREDENTIALS)WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE THE CRAPOLA HE HAS BEEN SPREADING HISTERICALLY.I am astounded that the suits who publish pop sci are so naive and gulliuble. What is popular Science mag's carbon footprint-using trees and trucks to publish and distribute your magazine.P.S. why is solar activity always left out of the discussions on climate,in spite of the fact it has such profound effects on climate? FOLLOW AL GORE AND THE MONEY.

  • The Environment

    Collapse of an Ice Shelf

    By Posted on 3.25.2008 2 Comments

    4.8.2008 at 10:37pm - Comment by kopperhead

    the northwest passage was traversed by sail in 1905 by amundson and again in 1940 by the royal canadian mounted police ship the Saint roch.why did the arctic ice melt then.? the renowned climatologist al gore wasn't around to cash in on these events.these facts seem to indicate that climate change is cyclical, and not caused by man.also we are now whipping ourselves over greenhouse gas emissions causing "global warming"--sorry, the phenom now seems to have a new name - "climate change" because there is negligible warming . if so much co2 has gone into the atmosphere since 1934 the warmest year on record -(not 1998 as conveniently stated by climate expert al gore'backed by the other climate expert leo dicapprio)why has the world temperature not risen proportionately? in fact it has only risen a part of one degree.follow the money!!!!!climatoligst al gore ,and in canada fruit fly geneticist david suzuki come expert climatologist also with al gore's climate credentials-"none "stand to make fortunes on investments in carbon credits----follow the money!!!!!



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