In 1998, President Clinton denounced Republicans for opposing his environmental policies, citing Florida’s inordinately warm weather: “June was the hottest month they had ever had – hotter than any July or August they had ever had.” This, after the Senate rejected the Kyoto Treaty by the slender margin of 95-0. In fact, all the world’s major industrial powers initially rejected the treaty, including Japan. That’s right: Even Kyoto rejected Kyoto.
That same year, CNN’s Margaret Carlson remarked that when her neighbors experienced temperate weather at Christmas, global warming was the word on everyone’s lips. Adding to the world’s supply of hot air, she said global warming was the big sleeper issue.
Well, this year, Washington, D.C., had the coldest February in a quarter-century. What are the scientific conclusions of Ms. Carlson’s neighbors now? In a single day in February, New York got its fourth-deepest snowfall since 1869. Baltimore got more snow in February than in any other month in recorded history. I wish there were global warming.
In 1995, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produced a computer model purportedly proving “a discernible human influence on global climate.” According to the U.N., there was not enough evidence to determine if Saddam Hussein was a threat, but the evidence is in on global warming.
The key to the U.N.’s global warming study was man’s use of aerosol spray. You have to know the French were involved in a study concluding that Arrid Extra Dry is destroying the Earth. In a world in which everyone smelled, the French would be at no disadvantage. Aerosol spray. How convenient.
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I would love to see some Caribou mating near the warm shelter of petroleum pipes in ANWR.
I am a nature conservationist.
Oh, did I mention I am sick of depending on the Saudi’s for our energy needs?
YES!!! Thank you so much for posting this, Reilly — I knew there was proof somewhere that the earth was actually getting cooler rather than warmer!!!
You certainly couldn’t prove global warming by me here in Missouri, known for hot, humid summers. We’re still waiting for that heat, though humidity is far easier to come by, especially considering all the rain we’ve been getting for the past two months.
Rather unfortunately, environmentalists aren’t scientists, and they have a tendency to point to science that supports them but ignore other stuff that doesn’t. One person will be ranting about global warming while another portends the onset of a new ice age. From what I know of environmental science the biosphere is good at replenishing itself. We need to watch ourselves because it is fragile and we do have the potential to destroy it, but if we catch the problems the environment will rebound.
A “discernible human influence on the environment?” Well duh. You can’t have a planet full of life without affecting the biosphere. It’s well-known among astrobiologists that the best way to search for extrasolar life is to look at atmospheric evidence. Traces of things like methane (I hope we all know where that comes from) and oxygen are big clues. Oxygen is highly reactive and won’t be present in an atmosphere without respiration from living things. Our environment may be threatened by us, but it’s also a product of life itself over millions of years of evolution.
Environmentalists put the junk in ‘junk science’. I stopped listening to any of their dire claims years ago. They have predicted so many disasters that just flat didn’t happen, and they are NEVER held accountable for their misinforamtion by the media – they just lap up the sound bites and put them out there on the air. The media isn’t held accountable either – they do zero research – an Enviro can say any stupid thing and they will report it. According to Ted Danson, the oceans shouldn’t be here anymore – he made some wacko prediction – stated it as scientific fact – that if this or that didn’t change, the ocean would be dead in 10 years or some such nonsense. Well more than 10 years later, the oceans are still here, last I looked. But no one will ever throw it back at him. If anything is warming the planet itt’s the hot air coming out of Enviros.
It’s been kinda cool in Colorado Springs lately, I think it was 2 wks ago, the temperature dropped into the 40′s during the day…and I haven’t been running the air conditioner in my car yet…
It has actually been found out recently that the Ozone is self perpetuating, it rebuilds itself, so much for the ‘hole’ theory. If anyone can find the study that says this, please post it here. I’m having trouble with some of my web connections so I can only go to the sites I have visited in the last few days (this being one of them) any help would be appreciated and the truth will be told. (imagine that, kyoto rejected kyoto. Hmmmm!!) PEACE, God bless America.
The ozone holes are unfortunately real, and may pose a threat, but they are currently confined to the poles by the earth’s magnetic field. Ozone is self-perpetuating, because it’s the result of reactions between oxygen and the high-energy UV radiation from the sun, and that isn’t scheduled to run dry for several billion years yet. I’m a little short on time right now (delaying that 3 1/2 hr drive as much as possible
but if I remember I’ll look through some archives and see what I can find.
Thanks lee,
I was being a little tongue-in-cheek about the holes, I wish that they were not a reality, but I know that some thing can’t be undone. I appreciate your help in educating the masses (those who care anyway) about the, strangly, unknown facts about the O-zone. I’m always persuing new facts and information about anything, love to learn. thanks again.
No problem; I always try to do my part to educate the masses
Don’t take me on my word completely though; I posted completely from memory but I’m admittedly no atmospheric scientist. I’ve been informed by email from a colleague 
that I may not be totally correct (how presumptuous! heh heh), but I think I’m right at least on how ozone is created. I’ll look around and if I find I’m wrong I’ll correct myself; the truly good scientists are used to being wrong most of the time. If they didn’t we’d probably still be afraid of walking off the edge of the earth!
And I do NOT own a pocket protector! Hmmphh (arms crossed against manly chest, pouting
lee
come on…star trek..x-files…sci fi channel…ringing a bell? Dude I bet you do own a slide ruler..haha..don’t pout…go have some salmon
lee
okay to be honest, I only emailed and picked on you because my husband just came home for lunch and called me a “loser’ because I was jamming out to Loverboy…he left the house before I could get him back, so I’m taking it out on you..haha..
Nope; don’t watch those. Don’t even get sci-fi channel (costs extra). Like Star Wars series, Highlander and Lord of the Rings. Xmen. Did once own a hand-me-down slide rule but never knew how to use it. Wonder where that thing went? Hee hee, ok, one last look through the posts then I’m on the road… Make-believe tantrum over
Loverboy?? Loser
It’s ok, I understand. Just warming up for the man-bashing party, heh heh. OK, I really gotta go!!! Mom’s gonna KILL me! 34 years old and she can still make me feel like a teenager 
Love her to death!
Throwing facts and hard science at environmentalists is like trying to teach a pig to sing, it’s wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Besides it’s 102 F here today, coolest day this week, I’d like to blame global warming for this but I suspect that it has more to do with the fact that I live in the middle of a &%$# desert.
Throwing facts and hard science at environmentalists is like trying to teach a pig to sing, it’s wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Besides it’s 102 F here today, coolest day this week, I’d like to blame global warming for this but I suspect that it has more to do with the fact that I live in the middle of a &%$# desert.
Sorry about the double post, the system paused and my finger spazed out.
David — not to worry. I’ve done that, especially since my comments take awhile to load.
I hope I’m not getting personal, but you wouldn’t happen to live in Texas, by any chance, would you? I lived there for awhile, and I recall how warm it would get there.
It was hot as hell today out on the Ramp. Just us fools out here guarding some assets. 106F. Luckily, the A/C worked in the “Spoogemobile” our 92 Security Police Dodge. Supposed to cool off tomorrow here. High of 84! Eight liters of water.
This is hot but good grief!, we are smack dab in the middle of the great plains.
Ozone, we have alerts here when the ozone level gets too high. You know…smog.
What global warming are they talking about??? Month of May is over and June is coming and still cold! We can’t even go to the beach on Memorial Day. We thought we have only 3-4 months winter in New York! We got almost 24 inches of snow this year. Attention: Environmentalists, please stop predicting and inventing false scientific study. You are giving false information to the public.
Hey Sandy…
“Everybody’s working for the Weekend”
*acts out the routine on the video*
Now if I can just find my Night Ranger and Journey albums.
Someone requested info on the ozone hole misinformation:
http://blackroses.textfiles.com/politics/envhoax.txt
here’s another one on global warming:
http://www.stanford.edu/~moore/Boon_To_Man.html
and finally some more good news from the sahara:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2267652.stm
(evidence that perhaps perceived global warming is merely poor land management practices)
Hey Sandy, you’ll be happy to hear that one of the stations I listened to during my drive played Loverboy. I left it on in your honor
Hey are you able to talk to men today??
Gotta go; people getting married today. May be lonely bridesmaids (just giving you a little fodder for man-bashing
I can’t find the link any more. I saw it as a story on slashdot. It was about the sun that this planet has been circling around for a few years. Some scientists have been checking out the temp of the sun for the past few years and it has been spitting out about 1 degree more heat every year for what they suspect has been at least the last 100 years. Think that might contribute to the global warming they are talking about?
Nah; the sun goes through cycles already (sunspots go through an 11 year cycle because of the way the sun’s non-uniform rotation drags its magnetic field), and the corona (outer part of the sun) is already in the millions of degrees so it’s doubtful that slight temperature variations there will have any effect on us here. The causes of global warming would be due more to increases in the levels of greenhouse gases (methane and carbon dioxide primarily), which prevent the earth from radiating some of its heat back into space, and also chemicals (like the flourine that was the problem with aerosols) that deplete ozone, which protects us from the sun’s UV radiation.
Weren’t the EPA’s policies, during the Clinton era, not based on science but whatever the director felt was correct. Isn’t it normal to have holes in the ozone? If anyone, Lee will know. Hopefully, we’ll get him back after the wedding (and the bridesmaids). Just joking Lee.
My father is a geologist and he said the ozone thing (is normal) and there is no such thing as global warming. Just curious.
Bridesmaids were all taken, darn it
I don’t know if the holes in the ozone are normal; I don’t really think so but I don’t exactly have anything to base that on. As a geologist, your father would have more clout in this area than I do, and I would tend to agree with him, although the dangers of global warming are real. The ozone layer is fragile (just look up how the chemical reaction of ozone with flourine works; one flourine molecule can destroy many ozone molecules!) and we do have to watch the levels of greenhouse gasses. Our domination of this planet has put us in a position where we could easily threaten our own existence through pollution if we’re not careful. I don’t believe there’s really any global warming currently, but a severe enough shift in carbon dioxide levels could cause a runaway effect that would eventually leave earth a hothouse, much like our sister planet Venus, whose surface temperature is around a balmy 900 degrees.
lee- thanks, does make sense. Don’t think I’d want to go out water skiing in 900 degree weather. INteresting topic- going to do some research on this one. Glad you made it back ok! Take care- Jeni
Glad to be back, although I had no opportunities to misbehave all weekend. My 9 and 5 year old niece and nephew (along with an 11 year old friend of my niece who decided to adopt me as her uncle too) wore me out to the point of exhaustion! There’s no better form of birth control!
Hey, I thought of you last week; went to a karoake contest my friend was in (I don’t sing – NO ONE wants to hear that!) and a guy sang Tommy Tu-Tone’s “Jenny” completely in German. It was really funny!
Lee- I just saw this post. Made me chuckle. Yeh- my kids give me a hard time about that song. I used to change the phone number, because my phone number was close to what they sang, when I sang along with it. Must have been something else in German- would’ve like to hear that.