The other day I happened upon an interesting article from The Daily Telegraph about global warming. Apparently, when you pay attention to stories that the New York times prints, global warming has been occurring for over 128 years now. 128 years seems like a long time for the polar ice caps to be melting. Especially considering how Al Gore was just telling us during the Copenhagen conference that unless immediate action was taken RIGHT NOW! the ice caps would be completely gone in 5 years… and they would take entire countries along with them.
When you take a step back from the situation, in lite of the climate gate email scandals that still have not been answered for, global warming really does just seem like another scam to make the uninformed scared and the rich richer. Anyway, the Telegraph provides links to a handful of global warming related stories over the past 128 years as well as a blurb about each that I’ve posted here:
From their article, 128 Year Of Global Warming:
1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting …”
1932: “NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE; Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents”
1934: “New Evidence Supports Geology’s View That the Arctic Is Growing Warmer”
1937: “Continued warm weather at the Pole, melting snow and ice.”
1954: “The particular point of inquiry concerns whether the ice is melting at such a rate as to imperil low-lying coastal areas through raising the level of the sea in the near future.”
1957: “U.S. Arctic Station Melting”
1958: “At present, the Arctic ice pack is melting away fast. Some estimates say that it is 40 per cent thinner and 12 per cent smaller than it was fifteen years [ago].”
1959: “Will the Arctic Ocean soon be free of ice?”
1971: “STUDY SAYS MAN ALTERS CLIMATE; U.N. Report Links Melting of Polar Ice to His Activities”
1979: “A puzzling haze over the Arctic ice packs has been identified as a byproduct of air pollution, a finding that may support predictions of a disastrous melting of the earth’s ice caps.”
1982: “Because of global heating attributed to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fuel burning, about 20,000 cubic miles of polar ice has melted in the past 40 years, apparently contributing to a rise in sea levels …”
1999: “Evidence continues to accumulate that the frozen world of the Arctic and sub-Arctic is thawing.”
2000: “The North Pole is melting. The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday.”
2002: “The melting of Greenland glaciers and Arctic Ocean sea ice this past summer reached levels not seen in decades, scientists reported today.”
2004: “There is an awful lot of Arctic and glacial ice melting.”
2005: “Another melancholy gathering of climate scientists presented evidence this month that the Antarctic ice shelf is melting – a prospect difficult to imagine a decade ago.”
However; Al Gore has managed to talk himself into a corner. By saying that we’re going to begin seeing dastardly results within 5 years, people are going to be expecting that. What happens if nothing happens? Do we still keep funding “green” jobs and policies? If nothing ends up happening can we get some of the billions of tax payer dollars that have been spent to research this supposed “settled science” back? I doubt it. If you’re feeling just as ticked off as I am at this point… why not relieve some of that frustration by throwing snow balls at Al Gore? There’s an app for that:
December 30, 2009
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