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Good explanation as to why Europe is so cold now and eastern North America is warm; in a nutshell it is related to sea-ice. This is only the start of massive extreme climate changes that we will all (including Gary and Vlad) see now and onwards in time...
For all you space lovers and engineer types, here is a link to the best space shuttle launch footage and discussion that you have ever seen (money back guarantee)...
Good explanation as to why Europe is so cold now and eastern North America is warm; in a nutshell it is related to sea-ice. This is only the start of massive extreme climate changes that we will all (including Gary and Vlad) see now and onwards in time...
In a nutshell, they forgot to mention the volcano which spewed enough ash to shut down air flights for many days. Nasa isn't the final word.
One thing the ever increasing hydro rates in Ontario will do. It will ensure the auto makers won't sell as many electric cars as hoped. More expensive to recharge and who knows how much higher it will be in 5 years.
I have struggled for a while on what to call "them". I agree that "skeptic: is the wrong term; and that "deniers" is much more accurate a term. After all, language descriptions are very important, for example "climate change" is much more accurate than "global warming" in talking about the changes. I will henceforth try to remember to call them "deniers" who are intent on "obfuscating", trying to befog or becloud or muddle the issues with their fibs, falsifications, falacies, and falsehoods, and mendacities, prevarications, and taradiddles (tarradiddles), also known as pretentious nonsense.
These terms are all apt descriptions of the denial movement thinking.
By the way Tom, my wife and I both bike into work each day. I converted my house from an energy audit rating of 35 up to 69 which is great for an old house, my hydro bill varies between $35-45 per month as opposed to a household average of $120 per month; I installed a superefficient (92.7%) boiler to both heat the house and domestic water (via a heat exchanger), all the toilets are dual flush (3/6 liters), the house has 0.2 air changes per hour (ACH) which is better than code of 0.3 for new houses and improvements are still ongoing (just limited by my time); solar panels and rain collection feeding directly into toilets are hopes for the near future...
I know that you also do very well yourself on these items.
The problem with climate science is that the leading experts have been caught lying and bullying. Before 'climategate' I supported what I believed the science showed. I certainly didn't believe the chicken little 'the sky is falling' environmentalists such as Greenpeace + Al Gore.
Climategate changed all that. They were caught lying. They were caught bullying people by threatening their PhD's and the peer review process. Face it, climate scientists have zero credibility because of their own activist behavior. You can call the skeptics 'deniers' all you want... they can just respond that climate scientists aren't actual scientists... they are activists.
The problem with climate science is that the leading experts have been caught lying and bullying. Before 'climategate' I supported what I believed the science showed. I certainly didn't believe the chicken little 'the sky is falling' environmentalists such as Greenpeace + Al Gore.
Climategate changed all that. They were caught lying. They were caught bullying people by threatening their PhD's and the peer review process. Face it, climate scientists have zero credibility because of their own activist behavior. You can call the skeptics 'deniers' all you want... they can just respond that climate scientists aren't actual scientists... they are activists.
Way to go Jason, you making this post completely crashed the posts portion of the database that runs this forum :p
Hey Paul, I loved your rant! I think my favourite is "humbuggery malarkey piffle". I think that says it all! :D For anyone who doesn't know Paul, he really does walk the walk. He is very proud of his home energy improvements and volunteer work. Thanks Paul.
Adam, thanks for that link to TVO. Some very interesting video. There is one with Jeff Rubin talking about the future of oil prices. He is predicting rapid oil prices, hitting $200/barrel soon. Transportation costs will rise, this will offset low labour costs in the far east, and manufacturing jobs will begin returning to North American. Interesting!
The problem with climate science is that the leading experts have been caught lying and bullying.
The problem is that this statement by you has been proven to be wrong.
Climategate changed all that. They were caught lying. They were caught bullying people by threatening their PhD's and the peer review process.
No actually, they weren't. But even if they were, so what? Facts are facts, and the facts are in from multiple sources that all agree on them.
Face it, climate scientists have zero credibility because of their own activist behavior. You can call the skeptics 'deniers' all you want... they can just respond that climate scientists aren't actual scientists... they are activists.
That response, of course, is just a lie. You can "disprove" anything you like as long as you feel free to repeat lies freely.
Jason, Climategate is nowhere near as devastating as you seem to feel it is. Also if you use to *believe* in Climate Science you obviously have not studied it enough(you should accept science because of facts and evidence not just believe in it).
he has a lot of good videos on climate change, and a couple about Climategate and why the media blew it way out of proportion by making it a conspiracy theory. This is one of his videos on the topic.
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