Comments on: Sarah Palin is a global warming denier (or worse, an agnostic)

By: Griffin

Griffin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:46:40 +0000

Mick, if temperature was the only indicator of man’s effect on the environment, you might have an argument. But the level of carbon in our atmosphere has skyrocketed off the charts. And we can compare the carbon levels today to carbon levels millions of years ago through ice samples, so it’s not just a matter of a “tiny occilation.”

But regardless of whether the enormously higher concentration of carbon is raising global temperatures (and we know for a fact that it is), there’s a million other reasons why changing the chemical makeup of our atmosphere is a really, really bad idea. Reason number one is it’s what we breathe. I’ll let you do your own research and figure out the other 999,999 reasons.

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:29:51 +0000

The record you are referring to is from circa 1880. Say thats 128 years.

That is .64% of the 20,000 year period you were referring to.

So yes, recent years may be the hottest in the last .64% of the current tiny occilation, but that proves jack for the other 99.36% of massive warming and cooling trends.

By: warner

warner — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:00:06 +0000

I figured out why McCain chose Palin, and I am being 100% serious with this, she makes him look competent, makes him feel competent. This guy has many similarities to my own father (including the underachieving son of a West Point family). Seeing him in such a long unbroken setting brings so much to light. This country should be _petrified_ at the _possibility_ that this man could become president.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080930/NEWS09/80930049&GID=i8zUaHxXbruWzZQEZd3PdT6rfdbeVdWy6rqd25cGgIo%3D