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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (740599)	9/20/2013 4:21:05 AM
From: Bilow	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575183

Hi J_F_Shepard; Re: "Hurricane Sandy that did major damage to NJ is being attributed to climate change. ... Many other severe weather events are also" No, not by scientists in peer reviewed journals. Sure a lot of liberals send tweets to each other claiming that the latest weather is due to hydrocarbons but that's not what the science says. Read the most recent IPCC. You'll find that there's little evidence that global warming is causing more extreme weather. In fact, the "extreme weather" crap was invented by people desperate to keep the global warming gravy train going even though temperatures quit rising. It's not a matter of conservatives denying science. It's a matter of extreme ecologists making stuff up and calling it "science" as justification. And it's not the first time they've done this. They did the same thing back in the 1970s when they told us that science proved that mankind would be starving by the 1980s. They're doing it now with various things like stirring the public up in fear of GMO foods. -- Carl

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (740599)	9/21/2013 6:14:33 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575183

I accept that CO2 emissions have a net positive (meaning higher, I'm not claiming better) effect on world temperatures. our problem then, as I see it, is that you don't appreciate what your calling disaster scenarios.....Hurricane Sandy that did major damage to NJ is being attributed to climate change 1 - Not by real science, just by people tossing out speculation as if it was fact. 2 - There doesn't seem to be any such increase when you look at the real statistics. See Message 29118555 and coyoteblog.com 3 - Those aren't the type of disaster scenarios I was talking about. I'm talking about ideas and claims like " “Because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades … up to 60 percent of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated”, from Al Gore. The more extreme "After 40 years, I'm part of a huge community of scientists who have become alarmed with our discovery, that we know from our knowledge of the ancient past, that if we continue our present growth path, we are facing extinction," Barrett said. "Not in millions of years, or even millennia, but by the end of this century" from Peter Barret, and Tejek's still more extreme "the earth may end up sharing the fate of Venus".