What happened to global warming?

yup, better get out the flashlights and candles...or make sure you know where your light switches are

 

The planet is going to do what the planet is going to do, and we can do some fuckall about it.

Carbon taxes/credits/caps/etc. is one of the worst ideas since bank deregulation.

 

This is sure refreshing... facts, logic, common sense! The 'chicken littles' on another site I frequent all believe in the doom and gloom of algore and say sea levels rising is a fact. I can go to the same sea level places I went to over 40 years ago, as a kid... and the sea level is still the same. As it turns out, data did show the sea level has risen ... less than the length of a cigarette! LOL

 

Don't know about global warming, but we are experiencing one of the hottest & driest August's I can ever remember in Southern Indiana. Man I wish it would rain this is ridiculous.

 

Global warming is absolutely happening, what's unlikely is that we are the cause.

 

the sea levels do change, daily...its called high and low tide

 

I heard that the airport in SF would soon be under water and ppl would have to go up to the airport in santa rosa. where did I hear this? trying to remember

 

the earth goes in cycles, plain and simple-- remember the ice age??

i can only help but wonder if in another couple thousand years, whether or not they will be talking about "global freezing"....

 

hah of course, how could i forget-- i'm sure it will go down EXACTLY as it did in the movie...

 

Just put my truck, 3 cars and my diesel generator on WOT!

 

It's too bad this stuff doesn't make the "Headline News" being a victim and promoting victims is so much more entertaining to the 'folks!' I have a brother who's good friend is the "Good News Guy" - very well educated radio guy but the "Good News" just doesn't get people compelled to listen.

Back from the dead: One third of 'extinct' animals turn up again
By DAVID DERBYSHIRE ENVIRONMENT EDITOR
Last updated at 9:10 AM on 29th September 2010
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An okapi: Tracks were seen by researchers five years ago for the first time since 1959
Conservationists are overestimating the number of species that have been driven to extinction, scientists have said.
A study has found that a third of all mammal species declared extinct in the past few centuries have turned up alive and well.
Some of the more reclusive creatures managed to hide from sight for 80 years only to reappear within four years of being officially named extinct in the wild.
The shy okapi – which resembles a cross between a zebra and a giraffe – was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1901.
After increasingly rarer sightings, it vanished from the wildlife radar for decades from 1959, prompting fears that it had died out.
But five years ago researchers working for the WWF found okapi tracks in the wild.
Other mammals ‘back from the dead’ include the rat-like Cuban solenodon, the Christmas Island shrew, the Vanikoro Flying Fox of the Solomon Islands, the Australian central rock rat and the Talaud Flying Fox of Indonesia.
The revelations come as the world’s leading conservationists prepare for a major United Nations summit on biodiversity in Nagoya, Japan, next month.

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Many scientists believe the world is going through a new ‘mass extinction’ fuelled by mankind – and that more species are disappearing now than at any time since the dinosaurs vanished 65million years ago.
BACK FROM THE DEAD

The Australian central rock rat (pictured)
The rat-like Cuban solenodon
The Christmas Island shrew
The Vanikoro Flying Fox of the Solomon Islands
The Talaud Flying Fox of Indonesia
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, 22 per cent of the world’s mammals are at risk of extinction. In Britain, more than two plant and animal species are being wiped out each year.
But while the report does not play down the threat from deforestation, overfishing or habitat destruction, it raises questions about the way species are classified as extinct.
Dr Diana Fisher, of the University of Queensland, Australia, compiled a list of all mammals declared extinct since the 16th century or which were flagged up as missing in scientific papers.
‘We identified 187 mammal species that have been missing since 1500,’ she wrote in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
‘In the complete data-set, 67 species that were once missing have been rediscovered.
More than a third of mammal species that have been classified as extinct or possibly extinct, or flagged as missing, have been rediscovered.’
Mammals that suffered from loss of habitat were the most likely to have been declared extinct and then rediscovered, she said.
Species spread out over larger areas were also more likely to be wrongly classified as extinct.
The mistakes cannot be blamed on primitive technology or old fashioned scientific methods.
‘Mammals missing in the 20th century were nearly three times as likely to be rediscovered as those that disappeared in the 19th century,’ Dr Fisher added.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW0RX02SeQw

i like this song. it belongs here

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGe3yUtyJww

 

All I heard is "protecting the salary I receive from this elaborate sham"

 

Vote Megan Fox for president.

 

Yeah saw this on DR, it's only about 2 people or so. Nothing I would really consider to being called out on.

But I tell ya, listening to that speech made me feel like I was listening to some cult leader or something.

 

He's done that all right! I think I am going to start the 'stop the balding kitty' campaign! On second thought, I kinda like bald kittys - I don't know what I'll start, but, I'll start something!!!

 

How the hell are we going to be able to tax that!!?