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To: ManyMoose who wrote (23982)	11/6/2007 11:08:14 AM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 71588

Many, The only thing he has to cling to is the fabrication of global warming. He had a chance to be a hero in Nam but he had a few pictures made of himself and put his tail between his legs and got the hell out of there. As the vice president he was a nobody and still is.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (23982)	11/19/2007 9:37:56 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

Debunking UN Climate propaganda ROSSPUTIN.COM BLOG The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC") released on Saturday their most recent report on the perils of global warming. As has been the trend with prior reports, the level of hysteria is increasing. I'll take on the subject in more detail over time, but there are just a couple of important points I'd like to ask you to keep in mind as you hear all this anti-capitalist anti-Western claptrap. First: One of the main issues which alarmists bring up is sea level changes, and they love to talk about the Maldives, a chain of many low-lying islands in the Indian Ocean quite a few of which have resorts or hotels on them. (The islands are mostly very small and would otherwise be uninhabited.) The Maldives is a spectacular place; Kristen and I went there (among other places) on our honeymoon in 2003. Before getting back to the topic of the day, I offer you this travel note I wrote about the Maldives, including some nice photos: rossputin.com It's fascinating to me that every article I can find about the Maldives talks about the potential damage to them from rising sea levels rather than any actual damage even though many climate alarmists claim that global sea levels have already risen. Indeed, the most in-depth study I've been able to find argues that the sea levels at the Maldives have been dropping for 30 years: New perspectives for the future of the Maldives by Nils-Axel Morner, Michael Tooley, and Goran Possnert Published in "Global and Planetary Change" in 2003 stephenschneider.stanford.edu Dr. Morner also participated in making a documentary, which you can see here: video.google.com To focus on the issue I'm discussing at the moment, I recommend you watch from 24:20 to about 33:30. (Of course, I recommend you watch all 44 minutes when you can.) So, despite years or decades of claims that global warming would submerge islands like the Maldives, not only hasn't it happened, but the opposite has happened. Whether or not you believe that planet-wide sea levels have generally risen, it's clear that it is not happening at the poster boy location for the alarmists. If you continue on in the video, you learn that Dr. Morner and colleagues believe that the sea level has dropped about a foot and a half in the past 30 years in large part because of rapid evaporation....which can be caused by warmer temperatures. And that brings me to my next point of the day: When the gullible UN chief Ban Ki-moon recently visited Antarctica, he said that it represented a message that we need to take immediate action because he saw some melting glaciers. The problem with using that one data point as a reason to implement (economy-destroying) policies is that he missed a completely different story elsewhere in Antarctica where the ice has been thickening and increasing for years. The explanation is that a warming climate causes more evaporation which then causes more snow over Antarctica where it remains because the climate is not warming nearly enough to allow melting there. And even the uppermost predictions of temperature increase would not put the heart of Antarctica at risk of melting. Like most organic things the earth encounters, the planet's own feedback cycles find a way to deal with it. If the climate were to warm, the planet's response would automatically cause the impact to be far less than the alarmists want us to believe. So, despite increasing global temperatures in recent years the Maldives are not going under and Antarctic ice is thickening. Yet you'll never hear any of those things from the UN and other organizations whose primary mission is to attack capitalism and the West. Furthermore, given the long-term cyclical nature of climate (and its primary change causes, such as the sun), it's as likely that we'll be cooling 25 years from now as warming. People on both sides of the debate must refrain from talking about very short-term data as representative of a macro trend, but here's a more medium-term story which offers yet another example of why I believe Al Gore will end up looking like as bad a choice for the Nobel Prize as Jimmy Carter or Yasser Arafat do today: my.telegraph.co.uk And this story about NASA finding a change in Arctic Ocean circulation is even more important, and therefore more conspicuous for its absence in mainstream media: NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face , JPL, 11/13/07 jpl.nasa.gov The attack on free markets and free people in the cloak of defending us against the chimera of "global warming" will not soon stop. Scaring the public is particularly easy to do with pseudo-science because so few people have the time, the intellect, or the resources to do their own homework on the subject. It's up to those of us who recognize this movement for what it is, namely a huge money-and-power-grab, to give it that name, to educate our friends and readers and ask them to help intellectually vaccinate as many people as they can against this UN-Gore virus. rossputin.com From: LindyBill of 17478