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Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
Thanks for the link Gary. NASA is mainly in the business of observations of the earth from space, they have had satellites monitoring our planet collecting copious amounts of data since 1979. These are observations, and they show that are planet warming very fast and melting glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, causing more and more extreme weather events like floods, droughts, fires, etc. etc. These are observations.
I have great respect and admiration for our astronauts and their past successes in space. However, they have been fooled by some very vocal members in their associations that are getting huge pots of money to put together petitions like the one on the link. They have climate change completely wrong. Absolutely and utterly wrong.
Climate change model are UNDER-PREDICTING the rapid rate of climate change that the observations are showing. Of course this is not mentioned in the link you provide.
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
Well, I am convinced, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the earth is not flat, man did walk on the moon, cigarettes do cause cancer, turnips taste really bad, and climate change is real. Skepticism is healthy, but some moderation please....this guys sums it up well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rj1QcdEqU0
On a lighter note, one theory has it that dinosaurs caused their own extinction by farting too much methane gas into the atmosphere. This clip would indicate something else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vOP_...eature=related
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Thursday, 26th July, 2012, 01:08 PM.
NASA says they put men on the moon, which is a complete lie, it never happened, so why should we believe them any time they say anything else?
In 1965 I was working for a large, well known U.S. based company which made tubes for TV, radio and military use. I worked at a Canadian subsidiary just north of the CNE site in Toronto. I was wiring the boards for life testing of the tubes. There was some talk about transistors taking the place of tubes and I left that job that year. A mere 4 years later they did the moon landing. Which makes one wonder if they had the technology to land on the moon as they claim.
Then they came back to earth and landed in the ocean. They were not capable of making a pin point landing on earth. It looked like this.
Well, I am convinced, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the earth is not flat, man did walk on the moon, cigarettes do cause cancer, turnips taste really bad, and climate change is real. Skepticism is healthy, but some moderation please....this guys sums it up well.
Great stuff! What are you convinced about regarding he JFK assassination? :)
Great stuff! What are you convinced about regarding he JFK assassination? :)
LBJ was the mastermind, this is as obvious as the fact that man never went to the moon. As far as climate change, our original topic, of course it is real, the only question is the extent to which it is natural and/or man-made.
LBJ was the mastermind, this is as obvious as the fact that man never went to the moon.
I don't know. Russia was upset over the Cuban Missile crisis. Cuba was upset over things like the Bay of Pigs invasion. There were those who thought, and this is as I recall, given enough time he would start WW III which not many wanted. There was also the slight possibility it happened the way they said.
It's interesting the U.S. hasn't tried to invade Cuba since then. At least not that I recall.
Regarding the climate, it always changes. In fact, we have 4 seasons. :)
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